Youtube comments of Vaska Tumir (@vaska1999).

  1. Stay strong, Major Ritter. There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people around the world and in the US itself who stand with you. Respect!
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  2. The policeman talked so kindly and reasonably with her. Imagine getting to be 65 without maturing even a little?!
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  3. A Sarplaninac was the first dog I had, growing up in Belgrade! We grew up together, taking the same calcium supplements and enjoying our romps on the banks of the Danube. They're an amazing, highly intelligent, intuitive, utterly loyal breed.
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  4. It's frightening how all the experts and authorities involved in this case were taken in by Anissa. Especially as it's obvious that she was skewing things to exonerate herself. The woman detective interrogating Anissa reoeatedly poses questions that can clearly be used by Anissa and her attorney to claim she committed the crime in a state of delusion. Morgan's detachment and her ever-so-innocent voice are creepy, as is her illness itself, but chilling as Morgan is, Anissa strikes me as the more dangerous, sly personality. She'll probably get only more manipulative and more successful at it as an adult. God help anyone who crosses paths with her.
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  5. It's no flattery, Clare. You and your Irish colleague are the only decent members of the EU parliament, the only two MPs with real integrity and courage to speak the truth.
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  6. Immigration policy based in shared values. What an excellent idea!
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  7. We need to start sending letters and emails to the Chilean embassy in Kiev, the US embassy in Kiev, the US State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch demanding that they intervene without delay with the authorities in Ukraine to demand the immediate release of Gonzalo Lira
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  8. Scholz's problem is not that he lacks courage but that he has zero integrity.
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  9. What strikes me about all of the women in this video is how utterly genuine and emotionally honest they are, how comfortable in themselves. There's also a true spark of joy in them; their very smiles are different, as if deeper and truer than the smiles of most of the people we come across in our daily lives. I'm not Catholic but was educated for four years in Catholic boarding schools run by nuns and know from personal experience that some nuns are true Christians in the best sense of the word.
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  10. Everything that Alex said, plus this: a massive distraction from the West's utter failure in Ukraine.
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  11. The German minister of defense stated today that Ukraine's current gains in territory will have NO effect on the outcome of this conflict.
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  12. I'm glad for the people of North Korea, who will now finally have a reliable source of food and consumer goods, and whose standard of living is about to start rising. I'm very glad for that.
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  13. Kudos to the Bulgarian people! Well done! ❤
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  14. I'm from Serbia. It would be the height of stupidity for us to join the EU in the face of a clear, economically much more powerful alternative such as BRICS, that respects the sovereignty of its members. The EU is in rapid and irreversible decline, having shot itself in the head in ganging up on Russia, whose inexpensive energy products and whose market it can't hope to replace.
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  15. We're so fortunate to have such brilliant independent analysts and reporters as Ben Norton.
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  16. The US used depleted uranium in Serbia, too, which has since experienced an explosion of cancer and the highest cancer rates in Europe.
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  17. How many secret biolabs does the US run all over the world?
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  18. What a horrific culture. Just hearing about the amount of abuse, deliberate deception and betrayal by her own family, manipulation, and pain this young woman has gone through is distressing. Living through it all must have been hell. Her resilience is incredible!
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  19. Maddow's totally shameless. She literally disgusts me. But what gets me beyond anything Maddow can say are the people who actually watch her show, for whom she represents something intelligent and real.
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  20. If you need armed police or armed guards to guard your schools, you're in deep, deep trouble as a society.
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  21. Winter greyness sounds a lot like Scandinavia. Btw, Moscow was voted the safest large city in the world just some 2-3 years ago.
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  22. Those 800+ military bases in fireign countries sure cost a lot....
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  23. About 20 years ago here in Ontario, Canada, we briefly had an initiative started by a liberal Anglo-Canadian woman to make sharia law equal in standing with our secular legal system. This was being pushed on us in the name of multiculturalism and tolerance. It was only due to the very firm and courageous stand an association of Muslim women took in opposition to recognizing sharia in Canada that this dangerous "liberal" nonsense of tolerating the intolerant and the oppressive was eventually rejected.
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  24. Redacted, you're doing a stellar job connecting the dots for us. Much appreciated!
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  25. Very few Ukrainian soldiers seem to be able to surrender at this point (judging by some Telegram videos posted by the Ukrainian side, they get taken out to a thicket and executed on the spot for attempting to surrender or even just talking about it), but many more are simply refusing to carry out the orders they are given. It's this second category that Zaluzhny's new regulations/military laws are meant to address.
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  26. Yesterday, I watched the latest interview with Dejan Beric (in Serbian), a Serbian sniper who's been living and fighting in Donbass since 2014. He's well known in Russia and is a guest on their TV programs from time to time. The most important points I took away from this interview are: 1. Putin still wants to force Ukraine to capitulate (rather than take it over and occupy it). 2. The morale both in Russia and in the new regions is high. People would prefer a quick end to the war but fully support their political and military leadership. 3. The SMO has churned things up in Russia, bringing up all sorts of scum to the surface, where it's now visible and can be removed. The traitors inside the Russian elite are quietly being dealt with judicially. He mentioned that a number of top generals are under arrest, for example. This process, he believes, will only strengthen Russia, going forward. 4. The war is likely to go on until at least next autumn. The war will end once the West is no longer able to sustain the level of support without which Ukraine will have to fold and capitulate. 5. Gen. Surovikin's new, centralised, troops-sparing approach is already bearing fruit, and Donbass hospitals are seeing fewer and fewer newly wounded militia and RF soldiers. The casualty rate is now minimal. 6. Kherson city is almost completely in the hands of NATO contract forces, with very few Ukrainian soldiers left. From the safety of the east bank of the Dnieper, the Russian army is destroying 2-3 battalions of 300 "Ukrainian" troops each a day.
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  27. With all due respect for your guest, the reference to Amalek was definitely genocidal -- and understood as such in Israel itself.
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  28. Competent and truthful independent analysts like Major Scott Ritter, former marine Brian Berletic, and Col. Douglas Macgregor have been pointing this out for months now.
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  29. I've never had a tiny dog so I'm not speaking from first-hand knowledge, but I wonder what quality of life they can really have with even the most dedicated owners. I think we should just agree to discontinue breeding certain breeds due to their high health risks and consequently poor quality of life. You were marvellous with Gracie!
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  30. Russians are much friendlier than I thought: I'm not sure I'd want to bump fists with a perfect stranger. Nice people.
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  31. For people who find it interesting or telling that she chose law as her profession: research shows that sociopaths and psychopaths gravitate to careers in 1. the police 2. medicine 3. law in that order.
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  32. So you're Hagrid the Adorable's human! 🙂 Congratulations!
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  33. ​ @CountScarlioni  There's zero difference in substance between the Labour Party and the Conservatives.
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  34. It's enough to make you think they're testing this nonsense out on us to see just how much BS we're prepared to accept.
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  35. Remember Gonzalo Lira! RIP
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  36. How can Thailand tolerate such violence and thuggery?! The sooner it kicks all NGOs out, the better. I hope the Thai monarchy acts without further delay to preserve the country's sovereignty from this "democracy" promoting opposition. Please take good care of yourself and your family, Brian. ❤️
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  37. Kudos and respect for Alexander for producing these news updates and analyses day, after day, after day!
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  38. Roseanne Barr was amazing here! Kudos to her for taking that interview as an opportunity to bring some truths to the attention of Piers's viewers.
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  39. Ukraine lost 4,800 of its forces in the past week alone. The US+EU interference in Ukraine since 2013 has been absolutely disastrous for it.
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  40. Nima's without question the best interviewer on YouTube.
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  41. Thank you for covering the effect of these illegal sanctions on Syria.
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  42. Max's fierce insightfulness and uncompromising political integrity are a joy to behold.
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  43. After 6 months of fighting a force only about 1/3rd its size, and fully supported by the whole of NATO, Ukraine's managed to recapture 1.2% of the territory it's lost since February 24. This is the factual basis of what some are calling a change in "the perception of the capability of the Ukrainian army." Enough said.
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  44. I'm not at all surprised by the mindless arrogance of these Western leaders. On a 24-hr stop-over in Shanghai I had the opportunity to witness an appalling display of just such arrogance by a French tourist or small-time businessman at the Shanghai airport. For those 5 minutes or so, it felt as though we were back in the 19th century. I'll never forget the outright effrontery and the breathtaking sense of entitlement shown by that Frenchman.
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  45. The fusion of big business and government is the essential characteristic of fascism. Everything else is optional.
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  46. Norman's integrity fills me with awe.
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  47. ​ @frogfrog8130 A lot of Ukrainian men were left to die on the battlefield by their own officers. Telegram is full of videos and outrage about that. At one point, the Russian army was rescuing more wounded Ukrainian soldiers than the Ukrainian army did. The outcry in Ukraine was so fierce that Kiev had to reverse that policy to an extent.
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  48. Even in his apology, he's lying. Stapel wasn't obsessed with finding an explanation for certain phenomena: he was obsessed with obtaining academic status and research funds. The guy's a typical sociopath.
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  49.  @asmith8947  Of course you can. It's usually the only way to stop the bullying.
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  50. Pure unnaloyed egotism and callousness, that's what it is. I can't imagine anything more narcissistic and self-deluded than to think you're an exceptional, indespensable country.
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  51. And nobody booed her, nobody broke out in guffaws at Ursula's barefaced lie about "cheaper" LNG from the US.
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  52. I've never had the sort of visions these psychics get, but I've experienced telepathy, knowledge of things happening thousands of miles away, pre-cognition (knowing a future event before it happened), and have had two pre-cognitive ("prophetic") dreams, many years apart. It's just a natural gift, like a talent for music or for drawing: some people (like me) have a small talent for these things and some people have it in abundance.
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  53. I do follow the Duran guys, but as time passes, I find Brian's analysis less speculative and more straightforward, which I greatly appreciate.
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  54. For the algorithm. Let's push back against YT censorship.
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  55. I believe you. But that doesn't mean that boy's testimony is sound. Unlike you, who have a single version of that incident, he told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. Finally, doctors who assessed him before trial said that at 6 years old, he was developmentally at the stage of a 4 and a half year old, an age at which children confabulate a lot.
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  56. This young woman's claim (she's 26) that she was told the statuette contained a listening device doesn't square with the fact that she had a plane ticket to Uzbekistan and was about to flee there. What bugs me about this is that the café security had actually asked her what was in the gift she had brought, if it contained a bomb, and made her leave the package at the front door until the point at which she presented it to Maxim Fomin. Given that she's known to be Navalny's follower and was arrested 7 times for her opposition to the SMO, she was ideologically an excellent candidate for a rather naive assassin. I haven't seen the video of the event but I understand that she can be seen being visibly nervous when he touched this item right next to her and refused to sit near him.
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  57. In Canada, democracy requires absolute uniformity of thought and opinion.
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  58. Merry Christmas to Brian and the guests! Thank you all for the fantastic work you're doing. ❤️👏
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  59. Nothing will change. The French "left" is no Left at all.
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  60. The insane NATOsphere. 😅
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  61. A great reply by Nebenzya.
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  62. This is very concerning, not to say scary. Reuters is a well-known conduit for MI6.
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  63. Just electing Trump will not be enough.
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  64. The beautiful Moscow! 😍❤️
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  65. ​ @tellyboy17  Yeah, sure. Which is why NATO doesn't dare engage in a direct war with Russia. 😂
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  66. Nice to see Sara Wagenknecht's party do so remarkably well in its first elections.
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  67. The indomitable Claire Daly! A national treasure of Ireland, its gift to the world. ❤️
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  68. I remember Prof. Michael Hudson estimating at the start of Russia's SMO in Ukraine that Russian real (as distinct from the nominal GDP) economy is roughly 3 and a half times that of Germany.
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  69. Strictly (and legally) speaking, the acceptance of these 4 regions -- and any other regions that decide to secede from Ukraine and (re-)join Russia -- into the Russian Federation is not an annexation, which is a unilateral proclamation of sovereignty over a territory made effective by actual possession. Had the regions not held their referenda first, one could speak of an annexation, but as it is, the term simply doesn't apply. I suspect that the real reason Alexander is using a term he knows has no legal application to the case is to placate YouTube and its censors. As for that command centre in Germany, I think all it will do is replace Ramstein Air Base as the meeting venue for NATO and its allies, who've until now used Ramstein for their monthly confabs about what and how much of what to give Ukraine from month to month.
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  70. ​ @oatdilemma6395  When was the last time China held those territories and what percentage of ethnically Chinese population still live there? Because all of the regions that voted in referendums to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia were annexed to Russia's borderlands by Lenin in the 1920s to create Ukraine.
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  71. Rayne's a beauty! So glad you've given her a good home and lots of love.
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  72. I'm from former Yugoslavia. Four of my family members took part in partisan and anti-fascist activity. I'm planning to attend the Victory Parade and the March of the Immortal Regiment in Moscow in 2025.
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  73. A bare taste of it.
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  74. Love and support for Donbass from Serbia! ❤
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  75. Just once. No one should be given a second chance after that first betrayal.
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  76. He should be running as an independent.
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  77. I love her clothes, the colours in her kitchen, her sense of style! 😍
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  78. Congratulations to Wagner, Prigozhin and the RF army on their victory in liberating Bakhmut) Artyomovsk! ❤ Videos are already emerging of local civilians testifying about Ukrainian army snipers who shot at anyone trying to leave their homes and apartments, let alone leave the town. These are war crimes, as is the use of civilians as human shields. I don't know if anyone will ever answer for these war crimes, but they should, and we, the world, should hold Kiev accountable for a practice first publicly revealed in the West in last year's Amnesty International's report on this topic. As for Ben Wallace, I literally burst into laughter on reading his statement about the UK fighting Russia or China.
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  79. ​ @agffans5725 Almost all Ukrainians speak Russian, and without an accent either. In any case, is everyone's memory so shot nobody remembers Ukrainian soldiers crucifying, beheading, setting ablaze their Russian counterparts? Also, eating their organs on camera and laughing about it. Has everyone already forgotten all that?!
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  80. Alexander, several other people and I already pointed out in our comments yesterday that the weather in Donbass and Kherson has been unusually dry and warm for this time of year. They're having an Indian Summer as it's been sunny and dry for days now and will remain so until Friday, when the first rains are expected to come. In other words, the Ukrainian offensive is NOT being hindered by weather conditions. P.S. Elon Musk HAS indeed deleted some of his recent tweets about/on Ukraine.
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  81. Love and respect to all the defenders of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson! May God bless and protect you! Truth and justice must prevail! ❤
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  82. Greetings, gratitude, and best wishes from Canada!
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  83. ​ @reubenmcmurray4377 Russia went into Ukraine to defend the people who'd been shelled by Kiev for 8 years straight AND to ensure its own security. Both actions are legal in international law.
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  84. I hope never to hear of those dysmal Russian poseurs again.
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  85. NATObots are swarming this comments section today. Btw, boys, how's that meeting in Ramstein going? 😜
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  86. I couldn't believe my ears when you read out that absolute absurdity from a NATO 2019 meet at which the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea to the Russian mainland was described as preventing NATO vessels from entering the Black Sea. We're governed and our militaries are run by total nincompoops, absolute ninnies! It's simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
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  87. ​ @jmasel2789 That needs to change!
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  88. I'm Canadian, and I hope the Republicans do what Rand Paul is threatening or promising they would. I only wish we had a party in Canada that would do the same here, too. I'm a doctor's daughter and what's happened in the last 2 years is a disgrace for the medical profession in North America.
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  89. As Prof. Michael Hudson keeps on pointing out, economics departments all across the West and most importantly in the US don't teach real-world economics. What they teach instead is ideology. The West talked itself into seeing only Marxism as an ideology to the extent that it became incapable of recognizing any other ideological model as such and, consequently, incapable of guarding itself against the blindness that ideologies can have about the world of real, material stuff. 40-odd years of rampant neoliberalism combined with the unprecedented hubris of the American neocon worldview and American "Masters of the Universe" arrogance, and no wonder the West literally can't perceive reality as it is any more. The consequences are obvious.
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  90. The pipelines were blown up: Sweden registered two undersea explosions in that area.
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  91. ​​​ @sacredgeometry  You underestimate the difference in prices, but more than that, you forget all the services that are free for Russians while Americans have to pay exorbitant fees for them. Medical care is just one such service. Btw, Russia has just joined the club of high-income countries, something not reported in the West. I learned about this, and the fact that the median income in Russia is $1,230 a month, from Indian media.
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  92. There's more to it than that. NATO got too greedy and wanted to gobble up Ukraine, too, going all the way to Russia's westernmost border.
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  93. He immediately suspected her of foul play when he went to check if she'd really left her car at school. So, yes, he was obviously aware of her hostility to the boy.
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  94. Russia really is the hope of the world. No other nation has the sheer courage and the technological-military-economic ability to stand up to the Euro-American Empire of Lies. Without the sacrifices Russia is making today, the whole world would be subjected to domination by the rank fascism of the collective West. God bless you, Mr Artyanov, and God bless Russia and all patriotic Russians.
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  95. Once again: Russia never blocked the shipping lanes for grain export from Ukraine. It was the Ukrainians who had mined their own ports and shipping lanes, causing problems as far west as Turkey, who made the export by sea of both their and Russian grain impossible for a while. Please stop misrepresenting these facts.
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  96. Why have the Russians not destroyed all of those centres by now?! Why let them operate all this time?! What possible rationale is there for that?
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  97. Always a pleasure to hear Dmitry Orlov.
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  98. ABC News has a troubling article about this case called "What A.J. Saw: Mother's Fate Hinged on 7-Year-Old's Testimony" The boy changed his story so many times and so wildly that I don't understand how the court was able to accept his testimony. Furthermore, a 6 year old, he was assessed to have the mental and emotional maturity of a child of four and a half. Finally, his step-grandfather, who hated the mother, was on the scene 30 minutes before the police arrived and may have coached the boy to incriminate the woman he hated. The grandmother has since divorced him. But for me, the most troubling thing is the fact that the boy told so many wildly divergent versions of what had happened, I was shocked when I read the article just now.
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  99. I hope the Chinese will have enough self-respect to reject any possibility of a Xi-Biden summit this year, or the next.
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  100. Victoria Nuland's leaving her post at the State Department! 🎉😅
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  101. I agree with Scott Ritter that Russia needs to win conclusively as a stalemate would actually be a defeat. Russia can mobilise 25 million troops. 300,000 represents 1.1% of that.
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  102. ​ @rajkobjelica4905 A long tradition of shameful, despicable behaviour, yes. Very little real remorse, though. They're ashamed of having lost WW2 and being exposed for what they are, but that's exactly the sort of shame criminals feel, too.
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  103. ​ @Face30001  So he didn't have his own house: he lived in one of his mother's houses.
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  104. It's not as though you, the Swedes, have been very vocal protesting a decision that by right should never have been taken without a referendum on it.
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  105. ​ @twinnish He's breaking the Hippocratic Oath, committing a crime, and mutilating girls. He always had other options, options which would have protected his patients from mutilation.
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  106. Nothing wrong with dual citizenship as such, but I agree that all candidates for any office and everyone who works for any branch of government should renounce their second citizenship to qualify.
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  107. Iran warned Assad 3 months ago that an offensive was being prepared and urged him to action. What could Iranians do when Assad chose to ignore their warnings?
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  108. And it's not even the first time she said it. Btw, there's a 2019 TV interview with Alexei Arestovich in which he says that a war with Russia was the West's precondition for Ukraine's entry into NATO. He also specified that the war would start any time between 2020 and 2022. The whole thing was planned for years.
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  109. I'm disgusted to find South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Brazil, and India among the countries who sent their representatives to that "peace" summit in Malta. China had the decency to boycott it.
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  110. Richard Medhurst is an extraordinary young man. Respect!
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  111. May I note how stylish and debonaire Brian is today. 😍 A pleasure to watch as well as to listen to for the unrivalled quality of his analysis.
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  112. What a tragedy for Ukraine this war has been. May Russia's victory be complete and total! God bless you Patrick and all Russian troops, too! ❤️
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  113. 41, not 10. The defence ministers of 41 NATO and Western-satellite countries meet monthly at a US military base in Germany to plot their ongoing participation in this war. Mother Russia will NOT be beaten. ❤️
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  114. May God protect Russia and grant it success at everything it undertakes.
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  115. God bless Russia!
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  116. A superb overview of the currently known situation in Syria, complete with a masterful backgrounder of the conflict there. Brian is simply brilliant!
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  117. Condolences and love to Russia from Canada. 😢❤
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  118. Same with Croatia. We have cables sent by the SS to Berlin expressing dismay and disgust with the cruelty of the Croatian Ustasha regime.
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  119. ​​ @cretumarius9616  Actually, no. The Russian Empire never exterminated any of the indigenous populations or suppressed their languages and cultures. Moreover, it made sure to share the benefits of technological and economic development with the native populations, which is why the latter now see themselves as Russians while maintaining their cultural ways and continuing to speak their own languages.
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  120. My whole family, my parents' and grandparents' generations, lived through thise events. They knew perfectly well, because they were there, that it was the Russians who had helped in the liberation of Belgrade.
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  121. I feel so sorry for all the Ukrainian men forcibly dragged into this and used as mere canon fodder by Zelensky and the West.
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  122. A day after he announced that Ukraine was not invited to the NATO summit in July, Jens Stoltenberg flew to Washington DC to plead with Biden to allow Ukraine a special, expedited process (such as given to Finland) to join NATO. Biden heard him out and firmly rejected the idea: Ukraine will have to go through the full membership application process. The conjunction of these two developments, Stoltenberg's having to announce to the world public that NATO doesn't want Ukrainians at its forthcoming summit, and his failure to talk Biden into offering Ukraine an expedited membership application process tells us that the US in particular is visibly edging away from any commitment to bring Ukraine into NATO. I won't be surprised is Biden decides to drop Ukraine as the hot potato it now is for him (and for the West) and if he does it by the end of this year.
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  123. Immense gratitude to and respect for Brian for producing these first-rate analyses for us!
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  124. The Duran guys are good, but the one is way too verbose and seemingly enamoured of his own voice and the other too much like infotainment, so I'm always overjoyed when I see you have a new video out Reliable, calm, objective, and to the point: a low bow to you, Brian, as Russians say to express the deepest of respects. 👏
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  125. The Swiss newspaper Le Temps reports that Kiev is now refusing Western journalists access to the the battlefront. Not a move made by a winning side in a war.
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  126. When did the US not act as a bully? And if you tell me, WW2, go and ask some South Americans just what the US was like towards them throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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  127.  @sacredgeometry  Yes, if we are to believe the stats coming out of the US, who also claim a 2% inflation rate while food alone's gone up by 40% in the past 24 months.
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  128. Finally! Another dose of Mark Sleboda! 🎉
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  129. Beautiful, beautiful Russia! Happy New Year to all Russians! May God bless and protect you for ever! 🎉❤
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  130. There are lithium deposits in the Czech Republic, Portugal, France, Germany, and Austria.
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  131. A group of German historians writing about 15-20 years ago discovered that post-WW2 Germany never de-Nazified these three institutions of state: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Justice (the judiciary system) The Ministry of the Interior (the police) I came across this information in a London Review of Books review some 15 years ago. For some reason, that review does not appear in their online archives. In short, I'm not at all surprised to learn that much of the American anti-Soviet and anti-Russia foreign policy has been shaped and driven by the German Ministry of Foreign Relations. Let me just add that a poll carried out in Germany in the 2000s found that a little over 20% of German high school students believe Hitler was a champion of human rights.
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  132. I remember it very well: within 24hrs of being elected president of France (the first time), Macron declared "There's no French culture." His post-modernist political correctness disgusted me, but what left me aghast was the fact that such a statement provoked no uproar in France. Instead, the French eventually re-elected him.
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  133. ​ @calebfranks3903  Don't be silly. Those are the countries the US strong-armed or literally forced, without so much as by your leave, into allowing them to have one or more military bases on their territory. The persuasion used often included a threat of a bombing campaign.
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  134. ​ @bengale9977  It wasn't supposed to be a war, just a military incursion to bring Kiev to its senses and agree, in essence, to finally implement the Minsk Accords (the agreement negotiated in Turkey would have left Donbass in Ukraine). The Russians even withdrew their troops from around Kiev in a good-will gesture urged on them by France and Germany.
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  135. The BBC and The Guardian are offering their journalists special psychological support and therapy as they deal with the shock of the Trump win. I kid you not.
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  136. Russia's clearly omnipotent. Not only is it winning against the 41 countries that are fighting a proxy war against it but has the time and resources to meddle in US elections ("again")! 😉
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  137. ​ @kingsbrace3736  This is just the beginning of it. The US could still do a 180 degree turn and resolve to treat others as it would like to be treated and take its proper place in the community of nations, but I doubt your ruling class, the establishment, has enough sense in them to take that road. Most Americans don't even know or realize that life's so much better in many other countries in the world -- for the majority of the population, I mean. A beautiful country, the USA, but its ruling class and its corporations have been leading it astray with their greed and lust for limitless power they call exceptionalism. What terrible hubris.
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  138. I doubt the Ukrainian side's ready. Nobody in his right mind holds back his troops at the moment of their peak readiness for battle as both preparedness and morale decline with every day the battle is deferred.
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  139. The Soviet Union intervened in Hungary and Czechoslovakia for security reasons, first and foremost, knowing that with a change of political orientation these countries would become easy prey for NATO. And that's exactly what happened with the dissolution of the USSR. The Russian Federation was then left to deal with subsequent encirclement by a hostile NATO, culminating in the 2014 US+EU engineered coup d'état in Ukraine and the war on the people of Donbass, who opposed the coup.
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  140. ​ @marlomirre161  I was pleasantly surprised when a pulmonary specialist here in Canada advised me against getting the vaccine.
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  141. What horrifies me the most about present-day Canada is that over 41% of us think the homeless and the unemployed should be encouraged to avail themselves of the humane services of our health care system and get themselves offed the assisted suicide way.
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  142. What punishment?! The girl had forgotten to make herself lunch, that's all.
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  143. Khazars are by no means the only ones. There are many other dynasties and kingdoms we never study about in school for the simple reason that it's impossible to cover even a quarter of them.
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  144. It will take a Second American Revolution to do that.
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  145. Remarkably restrained and humane, yes.
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  146. China's booming, Russia's incredibly clean, safe, and beautiful, and most of South East Asia's visibly prospering.
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  147. ​ @reubenmcmurray4377  Russia is the defender this time 'round, too. It went into Ukraine to defend and protect the people Kiev had been shelling for 8 years straight AND to ensure its own security. Both are perfectly legal in international law l.
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  148. What a pleasure to hear these three honourable men discuss geopolitics.
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  149. All of this killing is horrible, and I blame the West and the Zelensky regime for it all. For the war itself, for the rejection of the extremely generous peace terms Russia had offered Ukraine in March 2022), for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men (and the tens of thousands of Russias) who've lost their lives to satisfy the vanity of one and the venality of the other.
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  150. Mino and the Seagulls sounds like a great name for a rock band!
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  151. In yesterday's round table held by Gonzalo Lira, Pepe Escobar explained that the new Italian leadership has already sold out to the Atlanticists and the EU and will prove to be no significant change whatsoever.
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  152. Everyone in that parliament clapped enthusiastically for someone who fought Russians in WW2. Every single one of them gave that SS POS a standing ovation. And even children know who fought Russians in WW2.
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  153. Not just in the US. They found covid-19 in Madrid's (Spain) sewerage from the Spring of 2019.
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  154. Thank you, Brian, for your stellar, indefatigable work!
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  155. ​ @peterkilby1497  If that's what he wanted, he would have implemented the Minsk Accords. No, he's not saving his country. He's destroying it.
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  156. While Klaus claims that the Czechs reject nationalism, the Czech Republic is actively supporting a virulent form of nationalism in Ukraine.
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  157. As do ethnic Serbs.
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  158. Hersh underestimates the real amount of support Russia has. All of Africa, most of South and Latin America, the entire Arab world, and most of Asia (barring Japan and South Korea): at least 80% of humanity, in fact. In its customary arrogance, the collective West, which makes up only 14% of humanity, imagines itself to be "the international community". 😅
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  159. Yes, it was a superb speech! 😍❤️
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  160. That was his biggest mistake, going to the UK instead of Russia.
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  161. Exactly what Scott Ritter pointed out back in late April/May.
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  162. The West has turned into a circus.
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  163. Russia's currently hosting a scientific summit attended in Moscow by scientists and researchers from over 100 countries, including the US.
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  164. At the end, when his humans came to pick him, he knew exactly what he was being showered with compliments for! Such a smart dog!
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  165. I'm so glad you were able to find refuge in Russia and have since obtained Russian citizenship. I can't imagine how stressful those last years in Georgia must have been for you and your family. Best wishes on your return to journalism! You're doing a great job with these videos.
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  166. A reality check and a stiff dose of sanity from Mr. Matryonov! Much appreciated, as always. ❤
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  167. Dmitry Orlov never disappoints.
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  168. Wonderful! So glad Tut's got himself a forever home! 🙂
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  169. Milanovic is getting a lot of flak in Croatia for the stand he's taking. All the more respect to him!
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  170. Durov's 6-year-old son and the boy's mother live in Switzerland, not France. She first accused Durov of mistreating their son only after he stopped paying her €165,000 a month for child payments a few years ago...
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  171. Totally. Not to mention underestimating its economy and productive power.
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  172. Because the young follow fashions.
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  173. Consider also that before the war, there were already 4-5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia to support their families back home. This is not counting the 2+ million refugees who fled to Russia since February 2022 or the millions who live in the four regions that have seceded from Ukraine and joined (or rejoined, since they were parts of Russia until Lenin gave them away) Russia.
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  174. Augustine was already a Christian when the so-called conversion event took place. What took place in that garden was his conversion from a lay Christian (come to Rome with his mother Monica, a devout Christian herself and a saint in the Catholic church, to look for a socially acceptable wife) to complete celibacy and the pursuit of priesthood.
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  175. Is this how a civilized people wage war?
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  176. One of the key problems. But not the only one.
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  177. Yes, Baerbock is truly evil.
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  178. God bless Russian forces and all of Russia herself! Truth and justice are with them!
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  179. Beautiful and moving. May God keep and protect Russia for ever and ever!
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  180. The EU, especially Germany and France, as well as the UK have their own share in this appalling tragedy.
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  181. I think Zelensky wants the forces currently in Bakhmut destroyed because their survival is the greatest direct threat to himself. I've seen a video in which Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut threaten Zelensky and the Kiev gang with the promise that they'll survive and make it back to Kiev to deal with them. The video ends with them advising Zelensky to pray the Russians get to him first.
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  182. Yes, you can. Six year olds are fully capable of carrying out violent crimes, as that notorious case in the UK demonstrated some 20+ years ago.
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  183. Scott Ritter posted that not minutes before your show started but 8-9 hours ago. He's since clarified that he has NO confirmation of Gonzalo Lira's fate one way or another.
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  184. ​ @Gipsi711 I don't know what the scandal with his wife is, but I've seen videos of Macron dancing in French discos 20 years ago and he's blatantly, ostentatiously gay.
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  185. ​ @Must_not_say_that Palestinians have the LEGAL right to resist Israeli occupation. Gueteres knows international law and the relevant UN resolutions on Israel and Palestine.
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  186. ​ @Manvisitpivot  The only "delusional" thing about Zachary is that he occasionally hears his father's voice -- something that would indicate a dissociative disorder. Schizophrenics usually exhibit several to numerous delusions and various behavioural abnormalities. I may be wrong, of course, but I also wouldn't put much faith in the diagnosis of a psychiatrist who also thought that Zachary was mentally incompetent to stand trial. The latter is most certainly not the case.
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  187. Given that Russia's using only about 15% of its military capability in Ukraine, it doesn't need general mobilization or anything even close to that. It had 30,000 troops in those Fast East military exercises the other week and must have several times that number ready and waiting to be deployed wherever the need arises.
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  188. And the Polish-Lithuanian one, too.
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  189. Because they'd get bombed in retaliation. A far better option would be not to allow the likes of Samantha Powers and Victoria Nuland in in the first place.
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  190. This instant claim from the West that the missile which fell on that market and killed 18 civilians reminds me of the false flags the Bosniak side staged during the war in Bosnia, invariably and immediately attributed to the Serbs. An old and tried NATO MO.
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  191. ​ @Peter-MH And before that, Poland and Lithuania, too.
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  192. Thank you for your helpful work!
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  193. Vyacheslav Volodin, Russia's most senior law maker and speaker of the State Duma: "On Sunday, Volodin took to Telegram to point out that should the weapons provided by the US and fellow NATO member states be used to “strike civilian cities and to attempt to seize our territories, as they threaten [to do],” Moscow would respond with “more powerful weapons.” The Russian lawmaker went on to argue that Western officials should be aware of their responsibility to avert such a scenario. “Taking into consideration the technological superiority of Russian weapons, foreign politicians making such decisions need to understand: this could end up being a global tragedy that would destroy their countries,” Volodin warned." RT, Jan. 22, 2023
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  194. 100%.
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  195. Or just a very violent religion.
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  196. They're waiting for their victory! How delusional can a whole nation be?!!! Just like the Germans in 1945. 🤣
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  197. ​​ @paulstrouth  Tennessee. Passed it into law just a few months ago.
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  198. All Ukraine had to do if it really wanted to avoid war was to implement the Minsk Accords.
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  199. ​ @jesan733 The US never had access to Russian SMO plans! 😂
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  200. Piketty talks a lot and says pretty much nothing.
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  201. Yes, indeed. We owe Russia an unpayable debt of gratitude for first defeating the Nazis and now standing up to Western domination.
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  202. Russia was provoked throughout the 8 years preceding the SMO.
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  203. Germany as a whole has made a fool of itself by electing these arrogant mediocrities.
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  204. Excellent idea!
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  205. Most? Show me a single MSM that can rival this.
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  206. ​ @DomAtaGlance If you're an American, truth hurts.
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  207. Urrraaaa! 🙂
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  208. Ben Norton's doing terrific work in keeping us abreast of what's what and what's really going on both economically and geopolitically.
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  209. Bravo 👏, Nigerian MPs!
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  210. What are the Dutch doing about it? One has to wonder what the Europeans think democracy is.
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  211. ​ @KyleAMaineView And you believe that?!
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  212. A spacious apartment with a very nice layout and gorgeous views. I'd happily live in one.
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  213. True, all of it
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  214. Liberated, not fallen.
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  215. The beginning of the end.
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  216. ​ @henrikf9015  Well, you can now enjoy being free of your dependence on cheap and plentiful Russian oil and gas. 😜
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  217. Col. Wilkerson seems to have missed the fact that the international court ended up exonerating Slobodan Milosevic and clearing him of ALL the charges that had been brought against him. It did so after first killing Milosevic by refusing him proper medical care.
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  218. Can't emphise enough how delighted I am to hear that Russia has formally got rid of the dumbing-down Bologna system! 🎉
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  219. It's obvious from the video that Fetterman had given that guy a go-ahead nod to remove Dan from the bar.
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  220. Thank you for all your hard work, Prof. Diesen. Col. Douglas Macgregor is always worth listening to.
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  221. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074  Use baking soda instead.
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  222. Putin's right, as usual. Except that one is left wondering what prevailed upon Putin and his advisors to go along with Minsk 1 and 2.
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  223. Assange was forced to accept that plea deal under extreme duress and should challenge it in court as soon as he's recovered from the 12 year ordeal the US and the UK in-justice systems have put him through! Love to Julian, Stella and the rest if his family from Serbia!
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  224. This was a master move by Putin. He knew the proposal would be summarily reject, which gives him a free reign now to bring Odessa back home too.
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  225. ​ @MrRohanThomas  They should definitely never be released, not even in their old age.
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  226. 40+ years as a Serb in Canada. Soon to bid it goodbye. 🙂
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  227. ​ @dominicvioli7098  Ridiculous denial. Ukraine's been shelling civilians for over 8 years now.
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  228. Brilliant discussion! Garland, Danny and Margaret are an awesome trio. Happy New Year to us all!
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  229. That's a toxic girlfriend, alright. Run.
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  230. ​ @markkelly9621 I don't give the benefit of the doubt to known liars.
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  231. Brian, thank you for your superbly clear explanation of the real situation on the ground. I can now accept a temporary loss of Kherson, if it happens, with equanimity.
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  232. Givi was something else. A beautiful soul.
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  233. He and Slovakia's Fico.
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  234. Yes, indeed. Scott Ritter went into the details of what makes the SMO legal and in accord with international law in a couple of articles he published last Spring.
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  235. A 52-page police record at 7?! A budding sociopath.
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  236. ​​ @nykareem2001  They're incurable romantics about the States.
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  237. ​ @wilburmcbride8096  So don't insult them. It's not as though you have democracy in the US, where you need to have at least a billion dollars behind you to run for president! 😅
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  238. I'm not able to asses the validity of the analysis presented in this video, but I know that independent military analysts like Brian Berletic, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Scott Ritter, and Larry Johnson are all of the opinion that the delivery of additional Western weapons will make no difference to the outcome of this conflict. Btw, last summer, I was visited in my home by two agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS) about factually correct "pro-Russian" information on the SMO I was posting on Facebook. This guy is in Montreal, I believe, so it wouldn't surprise me if he's recently had some CSIS guests himself.
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  239. Thank you for your regular updates!
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  240. This is what fascism looks like.
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  241. The current weather forecast for Kherson: they're now expecting a few showers on Saturday, some more serious rain on Sunday, and then dry weather again till Wednesday or Thursday, followed by more dry weather once more. This is the ideal time for Ukrainian forces to resume their offensive, and the fact that the Russians have now announced they've evacuated the city indicates they fully expect a major military clash there soon.
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  242. What Borrell said is what a great many Europeans -- not European politicians, as Alexander put it, but the Europeans themselves -- actually think. Most of them have just learned NOT to say it out aloud, that's all. (And yes, I'm from the same subcontinent as Borrell, so this isn't Europe-bashing but simply the truth.)
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  243. ​ @leeuniverse Russia won't sign any peace agreement that doesn't include Ukraine's permanent neutrality. I hope the Russians will also demand a mechanism (such as its own military bases scattered across Ukraine) to ensure Kiev adheres to the terms of an eventual peace agreement.
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  244. UkroNazi terror.
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  245.  @emitizmo7456  Name me one MSM analyst who's had it just half as many times right as Scott Ritter's been.
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  246. ​ @31mAyMgaYanga  Strong?! Your fantasies and the Ukrainian reality don't even connect let alone intersect at any point.
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  247. Yes.
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  248. And the cities are beautiful, as are large parts of the immensity that makes the Russian Federation.
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  249. Thank you. ❤
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  250. You have so much more support around the world, even in the West, than you can imagine! You're defeating all of NATO in Ukraine, and the sacrifices you're making will have world-historical repercussions, for which most of the world is already grateful to you. A low bow to you, as you say in Russia. With love from Canada!
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  251. They've already evacuated 115,000 civilians, out of 180,000, and Shoigu has given the order to evacuate EVERYONE who wants to leave.
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  252. And imagine an alliance of 28 states, including the most technologically advanced ones plus all of the members of G7, needing Ukraine to protect them from one country alone, Russia. These people take us all for idiots.
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  253. Our legacy media will never report on it.
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  254. ​ @kwethew8562 And Russian energy.
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  255. ​ @hg6996 You do realize that they'll have to transport those tanks BACK to Poland to get them repaired there and then transport them BACK to the battlefront once again when they've been fixed? And the many opportunities this will give to the Russian forces to destroy the tanks in the process?
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  256. Liberated. Selidovo has been liberated. 🙂
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  257. So looking forward to your reporting from Kazan! 🙂👍
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  258.  @ikeybertso  I no longer pay any attention to what the collective West is saying about Russia.
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  259. That would mean no more Crimea only. The 2022 borders he now wants would leave Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporozhye oblasts in Ukraine, as per March 2022 peace negotiations in Turkey, but that train left the station in September 2022 when the residents of those four regions voted to (re-)join Russia. What an unconscionable idiot he was when he chose to reject that peace agreement and fight Russia instead.
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  260. I feel sorry for the men, on both sides, who died (and died horrible deaths) because of Zelensky's and his puppet masters' greed.
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  261. So this is what Blinken went to Kiev for: just a couple of days after his visit, the US announces it's to give ATACMS to Ukraine.
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  262. Lots of love and deep, deep respect to you two from Serbia. ❤
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  263. They've never done it and, as you say, will not lower themselves to it.
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  264. An eye-opening discussion. Thank you Prof. Diesen and Col. Macgregor.
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  265. ​ @diogenesegarden5152  Don't play the political naive. You've been paying your own military industrial complex, where 90% of all the moneys "given" to Ukraine went, to keep causing those losses
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  266. Way past time, too.
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  267. Zaluzhny is an ardent Banderite. I don't think Russia would want to negotiate anything with him or allow him to play any official role in a post-war Ukraine.
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  268. Kosovo is extremely rich in metal ores. That's what it's about.
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  269. I'm out as soon as I sell my house.
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  270. Come on! They ran out of missiles in May 2022.
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  271. I didn't know this. Respect for Belarus!
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  272. I'm surprised Ambassador Freeman didn't even mention Zelensky's astonishing arrogance and rudeness, not to forget the many lies he told, which is what finally set Trump and Vince off. Chas Freeman is usually an excellent analyst, so I can only conclude that he simply dislikes Trump and can't be objective about anything he does.
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  273. ​ @disband_thebbc5933  It's still available on his YT channel. I've just checked. Mike's also uploaded, separately, the English-language translation of the full transcript of the speech, too.
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  274. ​ @johngilmore697  He us, but that was a good move.
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  275. Apsolutno se slazem iz trule Kanade, gde parlament daje ordenje SS-ovcima. Fuj!
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  276. This is what fascism looks like, folks.
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  277. Not even then. The last time Jews lived in the area of Golan Heights before Israel occupied it in 1967 was 2000 years ago. Russians have a history of continuous residence in the area called Novorossiya (the 4 regions that voted to rejoin Russia, plus the Odessa and Kharkov regions) for the simple reason that they were parts of Russia until just ten decades ago when Lenin annexed them to Russia's easternmost borderlands (the Ukraine) in order to create a new proletarian Soviet republic, thereby creating Ukraine as a country.
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  278. It's an American affliction. They call it exceptionalism.
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  279. ​​ @jennypratt5345  Yugoslavia was the brainchild of a group of late 29th century Slovenian and Croatian intellectuals. It most certainly wasn't created by force.
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  280. The EU leaders.
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  281. It was in the very first speech he gave on becoming president for the first time. I remember it well because it was such a ludicrous (and culturally treasonous) thing to say.
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  282.  @jordanslingluff287 And fertilizers. And grain. And organic food produce. And aluminium. And weapons systems. And nuclear power stations. And space technology. And various rare earths. Etc.
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  283. I'm still struggling with just how criminally corrupt the Filipino leadership is to turn down the Chine offer of 60:40 in favour of the Philippines for the US offer of 20:80 in favour of the IS! The politicians and civil servants who did this should be charged with treason.
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  284. With a little help from the UK, yes.
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  285. Putin trolling Ukraine and the West. Ukraine's already rejected this proposal, which now gives Russia a free hand to bring Odessa back home. 🙂
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  286. God bless you and protect you all! This looks a bit shambolic, but pobeda budet za vami! ❤️
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  287. Two more states refused to sign thst declaration: Jordan and Iraq. 14 of the countries that sent their representatives to Zelensky's peace summit in Switzerland refused to sign its final communiqué.
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  288. Annexation of Crimea?! Very disappointed to hear Aaron Mate mouth NATO-sphere lies about Crimea's reunification with Russia, following an internationally observed referendum at which over 80% of its population chose to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia.
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  289. ​ @slobodankopanja2506  Exhausted? Yeah, the same way they ran out of missiles months ago. 😂
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  290. There are plenty of other Zelenskys among the Ukrainian political class.
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  291. We used to think divorce was bad for the kids. Not so. If it makes any difference, we now know that most children would rather their parents divorced than stay in unhappy marriages because unhappy marriages are a psychological hell to grow up in.
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  292.  @Donna-vh5ym  All of the things you've listed are his claims. Mere claims. His professed ignorance of Ruby's sadism conflicts with how they both treated the children before that third person joined them.
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  293. That and the sanctions the Europeans chose to slam Russia with, without realizing just how much their economies depend on having good, cooperative relations with Russia.
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  294.  @noukoukino  They didn't come from Germany alone the last time either. They came from Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium, Finland, and the Baltics, too. As well as Germany and Austria, of course.
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  295. ​ @alanalycan3986  Yes, some people are into collecting crosses, but they're NEVER a part of normal bedroom decor.
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  296. Let's hope his election results in something real.
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  297. 40+ years here and will be leaving as soon as I sell my house. It's not just the violence. It's also the homelessness (unknown when I first moved here), the grooming of children in schools and public libraries, the criminalisation of parents who don't along with the trans mutilation and reproductive debilitation of their children.
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  298. A country of barely 150 million, and an economy ranked 6th in the world, is proving to be more than a match for a military alliance of roughly 800 million that accounts for 25%-30% of the global economic output. This may be impossible for the collective West to acknowledge let alone grasp, but the rest of the world is sniggering at it increasingly to its face. Witness the BRICS expansion and the developments in Africa.
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  299. Jesus was a Jew himself. ❤
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  300. The UK government supports this.
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  301. Good for them.
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  302. And so does China's Xi.
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  303. US, who's committed most war crimes in the last 80 years.
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  304. What's happened is that they're showing themselves incapable of basic objectivity.
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  305. ​ @markduncan8227  It's just you. Have your eyes checked.
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  306. Forgive me for my bluntness, but what a stupid question! BRICS is the future. It's already economically more powerful than the G7 bloc.
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  307. Italy, Germany, Croatia, the Baltics -- all the old fascist states.
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  308. Kurti can't become the new Zelensky not because NATO doesn't want it, but because the analogy doesn't hold. Over the past 20 years, Serbia has effectively de-militarized itself and now has a minuscule army that can't even defend it from any outside aggression, let alone one capable of fighting against a NATO proxy. On top of which, NATO has its military representatives inside the Serbian MOD, while just last Fall, Vucic rejected Russia's offer to open a military base in Serbia. His stated reason was that Serbia will never host a foreign military base on its soil, a piece of risible nonsense since the US has its largest military base in the world in Serbia itself, in Kosovo. It is Serbia's tragedy that its entire political and media class are stooges for the West, a comprador elite that's sold Serbia out for their own personal gain.
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  309. An occupier has no right, in international law, to fight back against the resisting occupied people.
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  310. ​ @arimoff In what way are Muslims disrespectful towards the Temple Mount?
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  311. I remember statements that they'd run out of missiles in May 2022. 😅
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  312. As usual. 😅
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  313. ​ @vadimsegida2320  From the Kiev regime, trying to get them deported back to Ukraine to serve as cannon fodder.
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  314.  @GypsyGirl317  You missed the crucial point here. Of course it's possible to learn not one of two but even three or four foreign languages in adolescence/teenage years, BUT ONLY if one had had normal human language development during childhood and as a preteen. This is a well known fact in psycho-linguistics, not open to discussion any more than the Law of Gravity is open for discussion on any supra-atomic level. If you spend 5 years of your childhood deprived of human society and of normal language development, you will never be able to acquire/learn even one human language with anything close to fluency. The very few children unfortunate enough to have been raised in total isolation from others (a form of child abuse) were never able to learn to speak more than one language, and that very badly, too. That said, this woman believes she was about 4 when she was dropped in the jungle (why anybody would bother abducting a 4-year old only to leave her in the middle of a jungle is a question all by itself) and about 8 when she ended up with a whip-wielding brothel keeper (sounds like a story by Marquis de Sade, doesn't it?). If any of that is true, it would put her back in human society and starting to acquire language all over again as a pre-teen, at roughly the age of 8, a circumstance that would make it just possible for her to acquire a first language (with some difficulty, at first, as she recollects it) to more or less full fluency. Given that, learning a second language as a teen would have been possible. Btw, I have a degree in linguistics.
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  315. They won't. The rest of us need to organize to boycott all trading and cooperation with them. We don't need the West.
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  316. Thisvis disgraceful. I've lost all sympathy for Armenia.
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  317. ​ @marcusc5170  She and Scholtz, too. Odd thing that, about Germans....
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  318. Intelligently. What's the point of getting slaughtered in a fight you know you can't win?
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  319. ​ @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  They're about to retake Mariupol and Crimea, right? 😜
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  320. I no longer recognize the country I immigrated to 40 years ago. It's time to move on.
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  321. There was NO hate speech involved. Nor is there anything hurtful or insulting in insisting that woman = adult human female. That's what a woman is. Men cannot metamorphose into women, and women cannot metamorphose into men. That's how nature has it, period!
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  322. ​​ @svenhanson398  Muslim nations sent a fact checking delegation to China a few years ago. They subsequently published their findings, diametrically opposed to the sort of thing the West has been claiming about the treatment of Uyghurs.
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  323. Go East, young man (and especially woman). That's where the future lies.
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  324. No surprise there. I no longer bother with them, frankly. Life's too short to waste it on being lied to 24/7.
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  325. Letting Ukrainian forces retake Bakhmut would look very, very bad for Russia, especially coming after the aborted Prigozhin/Wagner coup. It's way past time the Russians began paying at least some attention to PR and soft power matters. Wagner sacrificed at least 20,000 men to take Bakhmut (possibly as many as 30,000), so letting slip back into Ukrainian hands would create a scandal inside Russia itself. There are plenty of other places along the battlefront where Surovikin can set traps, draw Ukrainian forces in and decimate them.
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  326. True. Russia will never attack a NATO country first but is ready to tango with the entire alliance. Some people in the Pentagon understand this.
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  327. I'm glad that Poles are seeing through all the propaganda.
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  328. I saw a still of that in a History Legends video on Avdeevka. You can see a Stars and Stripes badge plainly
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  329. It's grotesque.
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  330. As usual, Anne Applebaum starts off with nonsense and ends up in total incoherence.
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  331. Urrraaaaa! Go, Russia, go! ❤
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  332. They embezzled the billions earmarked for that.
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  333. We've become a country here in Canada that celebrates Nazis. Explains why during the previous decade we regularly voted against the UN resolution to condemn the glorification of Nazism and fascism. And why we have a Deputy Prime Minister who's an ardent fan of Stepan Bandera, a truly phychopathic Ukrainian Nazi collaborator. Both to absolutely no protest from the Canadian public.
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  334. I really like the respect Prigozhin shows his adversaries. The Russian forces are showing themselves a real class act, as well as uncommonly humane. It's one of the ways Russia's earning the respect of the entire world (the Empire of Narcissism excepted). P.S. Russia needs to have someone in Kiev who will sign capitulation papers and/or a subsequent peace agreement -- I expect that's one of the reasons Kremlin's decided not to take out Zelensky et al. The other obvious reason would be to differentiate Russia from the banditry practiced by the US and its satellites.
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  335.  @jpnewman1688  Let's hope it doesn't come to that. What puzzles me is the suicidal passivity shown by the public in Europe.
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  336. Russia HAS to take care of this militarily. There's no other way of ensuring its own security.
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  337. "One-cell organisms" does describe German journalists to a T. 😂
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  338. ​ @jodiekohut9443 Scott Ritter.
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  339. He's despicable.
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  340. ​​ @redeyexxx1841  I studied Anglo-Saxon as a postgraduate. It's a perfectly neutral, descriptive term.
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  341. That State Department advisory urging all Americans to leave and/or not to travel to Russia is very concerning. The same happened just a week before Turkey was hit with a series of catastrophic earthquakes. I hope the Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut will be able to surrender to the Russians, who treat them much more humanely than their own government does.
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  342. He has to. Russia has a fairly large Jewish population, 20,000 of whom have left to fight for Israel. There are public debates in Russia now about stripping people of Russian citizenship for choosing to fight for an enemy or enemy-aligned country.
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  343. They can't fall back from the Kursk region because they're trapped there.
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  344. What a nice young man Alex is! Polite, smart, handsome, serious about his studies. 😍 Btw, cultural studies and history for your humanities requirement doesn't sound bad or boring at all. As you probably know, you'd also have to take several humanities courses in a US science degree program, too.
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  345. ​ @soeppoes8949  Russia also blew up Nord Streams 1 and 2, bombed the Kerch Bridge, shelled the refugee shelters from the flood the blowing up of that dam caused, etc. 😅
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  346. ​ @nikolamilicevic1040 The US had reliable intelligence that Japan was preparing to surrender in the weeks before it dropped nuclear bombs on two civilian cities.
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  347. Lena deserves a million subscribers and more. Excellent guests and first-class financial and economic analysis by Ms Petrova herself.
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  348. Not yet. These are just some warning missile messages.
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  349. How can that be legal?! It's clearly discrimination based on one's ethnicity.
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  350. Ukraine's down to about 24 million at this point. It's lost the entire population of the 4 regions that voted to rejoin Russia, plus some 10 million or more of the people who fled at the start of the SMO to various parts of (mostly) Europe.
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  351. Glad that you're a little better now, and many thanks for this update.
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  352. I understand from the digging done by the Redacted, that Charles is the real originator of the Great Reset idea (something Klaus Schwab got from him, and not the other way around). If that's true, and I jave no reason to doubt the research the Redacted did on it, Charles is anything but "anti-establishment". In any case, calling someone who's heavily into depopulation "anti-establishment" makes no sense at all.
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  353. I think a depression is all but certain and inevitable in the UK as it is in continental Europe.
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  354. Meanwhile, Russia's completely insulated from this crap! 😂
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  355. She's a liar. We shouldn't shy away from saying it.
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  356. She's monster a la Madeleine Albright.
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  357. All the while replacing the used up stores with new supplies being manufactured as we speak.
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  358.  @Ohwowsotrendy  He's hardly likely to admit to having been manipulated into putting his own mother in prison, is he?!
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  359. The residents of Zaporozhye are trying to leave for Russian-held territory and are being prevented by the Ukrainian security services. Just the other day, Ukraine shelled a column of refugees trying to reach Russian-held areas, killing 30 civilians in that war crime.
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  360. You're not banned in Russia. Americans can travel and even move to Russia if they want to. There's nothing from the Russian side to prevent it.
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  361. Col. Macgregor estimates 157,000 killed and another 300,000-400,000 severely wounded and incapable of returning to the front.
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  362. 4. Did not cry out "Allah Akbar!" even once. 5. Contracted to commit the massacre for money.
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  363. ​ @soniavadnjal7553 Evidently not. The Empire's client states aren't allowed an inch of independence. Just look at what the US did to Germany's energy infrastructure -- and how utterly spineless the Germans, not only the government but also the people, have been about it.
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  364.  @benbenek9717  They need to be out in the streets in their millions about it, then.
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  365. Go to the nearest Syrian embassy or consulate -- or phone them, if they're too far from where you live -- and ask how you can help. They're accepting donations in goods and money from private citizens, too.
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  366. 🎯
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  367. The US has lost Turkey, Egypt, the Arab world in general, Africa, and has brought about unprecedentedly close relations between Russia and China (alliance in all but name).
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  368. Even in the 19th century, Russia was never an adversary of the UK. The opposite, however, is very much true: the UK has taken a hostile, adversial stance towards Russia for the past 200 years.
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  369. ❤❤❤
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  370. Abusive, for sure.
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  371. So beautiful! Architecture as it should be. I'll be visiting Moscow for the first time next summer. Can't wait! 🙂
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  372. Congratulations to Prof. Diesen on getting to interview Putin! Such an excellent intervention at the start of the video, too.
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  373. ​ @leipersgreen6763  Aristotle told us 2,500 years ago that the problem with democracy is that it invariably morphs into an oligarchy. Our form of oligarchy is corpocracy.
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  374. Bullies will be bullies. Until they're faced with and put in their place by someone stronger, a process that's just begun.
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  375. You do realize NATO has an office inside ALL of our ministries? That we've allowed that to happen? That we've destroyed our own army, which is now less than 1/10th the size it was in 2000?
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  376. Not just the Israeli leadership. Those attitudes are fully shared by over 90% of the public in Israel. That's the real horror.
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  377. 😂
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  378. Thank you! Spasibo bolyshe! We're deeply grateful to Russia for its understanding. ❤️
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  379. This was going on under the previous government.
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  380. This is hard baked into the US foreign policy establishment, so no, we're not naive enough to expect any serious improvement under a different administration.
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  381. 100%.
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  382. Mearsheimer has never addressed the empirical weaknesses of his theory. He doesn't even acknowledge them, in fact.
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  383. I bet Zelensky and his crew all got a cut from the resale of "stolen" weapons.
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  384. The only reason the drivel published by Daily Mail (as well as by "reputable" UK papers) worries me is the very real possibility that it reflects a deliberate policy of recent British governments to antagonize the British public against Russia in preparation for a direct war against it. The UK knows perfectly well that it can't even contemplate waging a war against Russia on its lonesome, but given the animosity the British ruling class has had towards Russia for at least the past two centuries, I suspect that the perfidious Albion is itching to push its big brother USA (and the European NATO idiots, too) into a final showdown with Russia. The combination of outright stupidity and overweening arrogance that characterizes the collective West makes it unhinged enough to try it. Populations reduced to fear-induced hysteria by articles such as the one in the Daily Mail (and by the media in general) can't think straight enough to demand peace policies from their own governments. For all the anti-Soviet rhetoric of the Cold War era, I don't think we've ever been so close to WW3 as we are today. 😢
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  385. It's insane. Not the first time Europe's lost its freaking little mind in recent history.
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  386. In the meantime, Saudi Arabia has formally gone off the petrodollar, dealing it the final mortal blow.
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  387. Shameless.
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  388. ​ @wullahblack6452 Only for a very short time. But not even that now. As someone else said, he's a monster.
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  389. Unfortunately true.
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  390. Hoping is not enough. What Europe needs right now are general strikes for peace: general strikes against NATO and for peace with Russia. Street protests can and will be ignored or quelled; not so with general strikes.
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  391. I knew they were lying straight away.
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  392. They all (all of the collective West) still imagine they're invulnerable and no harm can come to them from the Americans. By the time reality compels them to face facts it'll be either too late or extremely hard and costly to get out of the mess they're creating for themselves.
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  393. That's the aim.
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  394. ​ @piotrproszewski3977 Occupied nations have the right to armed resistance. Legal right recognized in international law. Occupiers have the right to leave, and none other.
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  395. Yes, the one her grandpa also sported.
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  396.  @butmunchass  It was because the UK and France had already done their deals with the Nazis AND had refused to join the USSR in a defense alliance against them that Stalin had to buy himself rearmament time with that non-aggression pact. The UK and France, like now, could have prevented WW2, in fact, but they were too keen on having the Nazis attack (and, as they hoped, defeat) the USSR/Russia.
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  397. But Zelensky promised that this year's Eurovision contest would be held in Mariupol! 😉
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  398.  @Francois15031967  What on Earth are you on?! There's never been an Odessa battle as yet! Not even a battle for Karkhov either.
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  399. I'm sure he's playing us.
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  400. A very apt analogy.
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  401. You need a system change, as do we in the rest of the West.
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  402. ​ @dominiqfreeman9312  The facts are not on your side. Russia's using less than 20% of its military resources and single-handedly defeating a proxy force backed by the combined might of a consortium of some 40 countries whose defense ministers meet monthly at Rammstein to plan how to jointly defeat it in Ukraine.
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  403. You know the answer to that. It's obvious. In any case, NATO and other Western officials have stated repeatedly that Ukraine is fighting Russia for them, for NATO.
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  404. It's happened many, many times by now.
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  405. Deterrent to what? Are you suggesting that the Warsaw Pact, which was formed in reaction to NATO, would have invaded Western Europe?! Or that Russia ever had any such intentions and needed to be deterred?!
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  406. It definitely deserves a second and a third viewing. Ben is simply unbeatable with his clarity, his ability to organise material into an organic flow, and his wealth of knowledge, too.
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  407. Those who call others barbaric are too often no better themselves.
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  408. 😅
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  409. ​ @pilgrimwings1295 No: he's sarcastically describing the Israelis.
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  410. Russia. Russia has by far the largest amounts of mineral reserves.
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  411.  @momokui  Indonesia has never really recovered from the genocide of its brightest and best the US directly supported. Obama's mother and stepfather took part in that atrocity.
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  412.  @themuckler8176  Scotland didn't have its funds seized or any sanctions placed on it. Venezuela would be doing just fine where it not for those hostile acts by the US.
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  413. Keep telling yourself that.
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  414. Amazing. Germany's growing a bit of a backbone?
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  415. Energy costs in the EU have not doubled. According to Ursula Von Der Leyen's statement today, they've tripled (risen by 300%).
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  416. She claims she was told the statuette contained a listening device. I'm not sure I believe her.
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  417. The EU is having conniptions about Vance, which in my book means he's a good guy.
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  418.  @dennisreed6345  We can only hope because the bully just won't reform.
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  419. Excellent choice of guests.
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  420. Awful! And frightening.
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  421. I'm a Serbian Canadian, here for most of my life (almost 45 years) and now that I'm retired, I'm moving back to Belgrade. Serbia has an excellent health care system, a much more affordable cost of living, nicer quality of life, and is close to everything else in Europe. I'll be moving there as soon as I sell my townhouse here in Ontario.
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  422. ​ @frogfrog8130 You do realize that even those who are lucky enough to get a month's worth of training are woefully unprepared for battle, do you? It takes 10 months for the US to train its troops for basic tasks!
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  423.  @fv5855  Russia is having the biggest budget surplus ever this year. It's laughing all the way to the bank.
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  424. 100%.
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  425. You're still very young. Men who marry later in life, in their 40s and even 50s, tend to make better relationship choices and have more stable marriages.
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  426. True. Thailand's been terribly complacent for decades.
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  427. Predictably so.
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  428. The Duran, the New Atlas (Brian Berletic), Col. Douglas Macgregor and Major Scott Ritter have been doing stellar work of analysis from the start of the SMO. I've also followed Gen. Bakshi's analyses and he's been utterly reliable, too. India should be very proud of him.
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  429. Nobody stood up to shout her down. Nobody booed her.
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  430. Except that Russians aren't shelling civilians.
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  431. Don't go losing credibility with that nonsense about Russian army numbers, etc
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  432. Scott Ritter needs to tour the US, endlessly, talking to American audiences. They're the ones who need to hear his message.
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  433. ​ @thomasjensen6243  Be patient. It won't be long now, and we all have Israel to thank for what's coming.
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  434. The changes we're witnessing today will reshape the world for the next millennium.
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  435. ​ @zainali-lm4zr Same thing. The Russians helped Africans free themselves from the French, and Macron's furious.
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  436. 😢
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  437. ​ @nicolasjuandecardenas7921  The thing is, the monster can keep on gasping for the rest of this century, God help us. At least for another 30-40 years. OR, Americans may sober up from their intoxication with exceptionalism and other narcissistic delusions and choose to become decent members of the global community in which they're just one set of people among many.
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  438. Vechnaya pamyat! ❤
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  439. I'd say a large majority of Ukrainians speak Russian. Zelensky became fluent in Ukrainian only after he was elected president.
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  440. ​  Even if they do that, which would be psychopathicly callous, they won't have trained soldiers, just younger cannon fodder.
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  441. This is hilarious. The Exceptionalists are still under the illusion that their laws have any jurisdictional weight or relevance outside the US! 😅
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  442. And now Rwanda's also asked that its signature be removed from that Swiss conference communiqué.
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  443. ​ @computerworks1075  Global temperatures were 2C higher than today some 6,000-7,500 years ago, a period during which civilization took root. Europe went through a mini Ice Age during the medieval period, so climate did not "stabilise" 12,000 years ago.
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  444. ​ @jackneuman5108  Russia fully qualified in all respects and under all those criteria. From its inception, however, NATO's purpose has been "to keep Russia out, Germany down, and America in".
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  445. I hope Georgia will manage to protect itself from its own fifth column. These people are a real danger to the country as a whole.
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  446. I'm a Serbian Canadian and sympathize with you fully. It's very rare in history that the good prevail and live to prosper, but this is one of those rare moments when Heaven itself seems to be taking part in the events. Your enemies are destroying themselves from within, while the rest of the world looks on you with admiration and approval, and support. Just make sure not to fall for the pretty words of those who have, time and again, proven themselves to wish you nothing but harm, and you will be fine. Vpered, Rossiya! ❤
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  447. Good for SA! 👍
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  448. I'm sure that most of atheist Serbs also support Russia. Our feelings for Russia go way deeper than religious denominations. And that's as it should be. (Btw, I'm a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church.)
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  449. Nor has it ever apologized.
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  450. ​​ @PeriferijaPeriferije  I suspect such ideas are fast fading out of his mind now.
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  451. To further support Brian's meticulous analysis of the Ukrainian counter-offensive: Germany's minister of defence stated yesterday that Ukraine's current territorial gains will make no difference to the final outcome of this conflict.
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  452.  @s_shaleh  It's a source of shame and is covered by most families.
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  453. Or open military bases in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba...
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  454. Max is amazing! He keeps getting smarter and funnier and more courageous every passing year. He's an absolute treasure.
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  455. Concerning Putin's statement: politeness and diplomatic subtlety only make Russian statements apt to be misrepresented to the audiences in the West. Instead of referring to some unnamed Western politicians who've threatened to use nukes on Russia, Putin should have called out Liz Truss by name and reminded the world how Zelensky spoke of Ukraine using nuclear weapons against Russia. He should have addressed himself, in a couple of those sentences, to Liz Truss and her like directly, so that Western MSM could not quite so easily get around the fact that it's only the West that's been threatening Russia with nukes, and not the other way 'round. As a now retired professor of communications, I suggest that Kremlin get some professional communications/PR specialists to advise Putin and the rest of Kremlin on how to speak on these and other related issues so as to minimise the West's ability to twist their words.
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  456. ​ @bigoodis Exactly!
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  457. ​ @serz1885  Shame on you for even saying that. Russia was on its knees throughout the 1990s!
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  458. Greetings and support from Canada. ❤
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  459. Stephen F Cohen, her late husband and unarguably the best Russia Studies expert the US ever had, is sorely missed. He spent the 2010s tirelessly warning about the folly of cornering Russia and forcing it to respond militarily to NATO provocations in Ukraine. For his efforts, Steve Cohen, a major pillar of the policy of detente in the 1960s and 1970s, was completely sidelined by all American MSM. Check out his talks and interviews on NATO and Ukraine still accessible online. His and her views diverged markedly during the last ten years of his life.
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  460. ​ @sisaket33  That's mixing up continents, too. And no, they don't speak Spanish in Brazil. Portuguese.
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  461. The problem was Germany chose to deprive itself of that which had underwritten its economic success: reliable, cheap and plentiful Russian gas for its industries and its consumer energy needs. It knew perfectly well that it had relied on it for the past 60 years and that without it, there would never have been the German economic miracle that took off once it began buying oil and gas from the Soviets. Instead of charting its own foreign and geopolitical policy as a sovereign state, it let itself be led by its nose by the US (and Brussels, also subservient to Washington).
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  462. Yes, the system is definitely to blame here. That woman needed continued observation in a psychiatric institution until she recovered from her postpartum psychosis. It was a crime to just send her away with a prescription for anti-psychotics.
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  463.  @ЛюдмилаКолесова-и8ю  Only this time, please don't ever leave! ♥
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  464. Sixteen year olds are not children. They're adolescents.
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  465. ​ @vesakaitera2831  That's exactly what joining NATO guarantees. The Finns and the Swedes are deluding themselves when they think the US would go to war with Russia over either of them.
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  466. I'm only sorry you didn't report them. They meant you harm, alright.
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  467. ​ @PrincessCarrieGraham  China's been around for the past 5,000, during which time it was THE most powerful and most prosperous country several times without succumbing to the imperialist temptation. At one point, it even had by far the largest and most powerful navy. Cognizant of the temptation it constituted to pursue imperialism across the oceans, the Chinese chose to burn down their entire navy and focus on internal growth alone. The Chinese are different -- and in many ways morally better than us Westerners.
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  468. ​​ @freemanreed5228 Ukraine lost its sovereignty with the coup of 2014. It has absolutely zero independence and is controlled from Washington, London and Brussels, but mainly from Washington.
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  469. And we never saw any mass protests in Finland about it.
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  470. ​ @killman369547  Zelensky's protected by British special forces and surrounded by Ukrainian Nazis. Ukraine's a brutal police state now -- I can't fault Ukrainians for failing to remove him.
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  471. Clare, we in Serbia are ashamed of our government for having voted as it did in the UN.
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  472. 😂
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  473. ​ @davidlazarus67  And Victoria Nuland, Blinken, Biden et al.
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  474. I'm amazed by the unthinking? brainwashed? suicidal complacency of the European populations.
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  475. I hope Putin realizes that.
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  476. ​ @patinka816 He's a liberal hegemonist. Has a whole book advocating liberal (Western/US) hegemony, i.e. Western imperialism.
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  477. There were massacres committed by all three sides in the war but no genocide. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a land occupied by NATO/EU.
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  478. ​ @stuarthaskell6988  You need to educate yourself a bit better.
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  479. Don't exaggerate. About 1300 years. And yes, you're right: there are NO Albanian toponyms or cultural monuments anywhere in Kosovo and Metohija, an unmistakable sign of their very recent arrival in that region.
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  480. The truth, or however much they are finally allowed to know of it, will come as a shock to most people in the political West, i.e. NATO and Australia.
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  481. She was hoping for big (nasty) surprises for Russia, and was absolutely explicit about it.
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  482. Alex, 83% of Swedes trust Zelensky and think he's doing a great job.
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  483. Thank you, Mother Russia, for saving the world from fascism then -- and now. May God bless and protect you for all time! ❤
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  484. He's not only marvellously intelligent and articulate but also so well brought up! Notice how he covering his mouth with his hand when he coughed a little? Precious child, and huge kudos to his outstanding parents. ❤
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  485. ​​​ @wizard6547  Ukraine should already have surrendered and saved at least a hundred thousand of its men. Better yet, it should have signed the peace deal it had negotiated with Russia with the help of Turkey back in March 2022. All talk of Ukraine standing a chance against the Russian Federation was and remains enemy action against Ukraine itself.
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  486. I had a one-day stop over in Shanghai about 7-8 years ago and loved what I saw there. I'm now retired and am in the process of moving back from Canada to Europe (Serbia). Once that's done, I look forward to travelling to both Russia and China, and, in preparation, plan to start learning Mandarin soon.
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  487.  @shane7103  Ah, yes, the famous Holodomor. Russia lost far more people in that "intentional genocide" Ukraine wants the world to believe in. The worst affected was Kazakhstan, with Ukraine a distant third in terms of human losses. Btw, famines were frequent in that part of the world (the enormous spread of territory Russia held under the tsars) until the communists figured out how to prevent them. The one Ukrainian nationalists claim was directed at them -- paranoid narcissists that they are -- was the LAST ever famine in the the USSR.
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  488. Much love and support to Mother Russia from this Serbian Canadian! ❤
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  489. ​​ @Whatifsomate  I didn't know that. 😮 Nasty.
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  490. ​ @boyd21  You must be looking in the mirror, sweetie.
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  491. So do I. I also note that Alexander couldn't explain or justify his decision to discount Zakharova's rebuttal of WaPo claims.
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  492. Lots of people are talking about it, just not in the MSM.
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  493. Russia offered to open a military base in Serbia last fall. Vucic rejected the offer, saying that Serbia doesn't need and will not host foreign military bases in its territory, pretending to forget that the US has its largest military base in Europe on Serbian soil, in Kosovo and Metohija.
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  494. ​ @buttercuptaylor7135  To be recognized/valid in international law, borders have to be formally registered with the UN. Ukraine never bothered to do so.
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  495. 😂
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  496.  @dar7230  Pointing out racism is racist? 😅
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  497. Those statistics mean nothing as the savings are very unevenly distributed. Most Germans don't have anywhere close to that amount in savings, so the situation is a lot more precarious for many. A cold winter could be disastrous for a big chunk of the population.
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  498. ​​ @letsgorandom1380 The taxpayers should be giving this a bit more attention than they are.
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  499. Russia made itself great again. America's having hysterical fits about it.
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  500.  @scottwatrous7649  The truth is the exact opposite. Most of the Serbian population is opposed to joining the EU and there's practically no support for Serbia joining NATO.
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  501. Disappointed by Matlock's deceitful "even-handedness" in discussing both the events of 2014 and since.
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  502. Nobody does sarcasm as well as Andrei! 👋❤️
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  503.  @yo-61  Oh dear. I hope the kids will turn out better than she did.
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  504. I've never seen a village in either the US or Canada, or Europe for that matter, with a Cultural Center! This place looks beautiful!
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  505. ​ @vumba1331 I think he's totally exasperated by the self-deluded lunatics he has to work with in the EU.
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  506. What's your beef with Russia? They were the first European country to help Americans in their war of independence, in the American Revolution! They sent you material aid!
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  507. The US is now urging Kiev to pull out of Bakhmut to preserve what can be preserved of its forces. A White House advisor spoke about this to a select group of journalists on Friday (yesterday). Let's see if Zelensky pays heed or continues with this suicidal madness.
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  508. It's over only in the sense that Ukraine, no matter the amount of financial and military assistance by the West, stands no chance against Russia. But then again, it never did.
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  509. ​ AndreKristoffersen71 😂😂😂
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  510. Yes, he does and is in record that, in his opinion, the US army should not try to take in Russia because it would lose.
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  511. Psychosis can make people insufferably nasty and violent.
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  512. ​ @FrancesG12 Dogs do fall in love and pine for each other.
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  513. Implicitly, not blindly. A couple of evolutionary biologists have been saying from almost the very start of the epidemic that the mutations seen in covid-19 could not have occurred so swiftly in nature, that the virus was lab engineered.
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  514. Nice to know that Elon Musk follows The Duran!
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  515. Is that what bare-faced lying about one's own war crimes and crimes against humanity is called these days?
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  516. Those numbers are absolutely shocking! I really wish Russia would step up its pace and finish this whole thing by the end of this year or sooner, i.e. before the idiots decide to turn the conflict into a pan-European war. I'm sure Russia would win that, too, but the cost would be unnecessarily steep. The fewer Russians have to sacrifice themselves defeating these fascists, the better.
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  517. Most psychopaths (and sociopaths) are NOT physically violent. They damage and destroy in other ways
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  518. Brilliantly explained. Even a woman with no military background can understand it. Well done!
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  519. I don't see this extending deep into Russia for the simple reason that Russia would quickly put a stop to any such incursions. Taiwan is their more realistic option for further trouble making, though they'll lose there, too.
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  520. YouTube now consistently fails to alert me to when you've posted a new video. I first noticed this concerning your channel, specifically, a few weeks ago.
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  521. You obviously know next to nothing about postpartum psychosis. She shouldn't have been sent to prison at all, in fact. This is one of the relatively rare cases of the culprit really not being guilty due to genuine (though temporary) psychosis. That woman should never have been left to her own devices -- she should have been given at least 4-8 weeks round the clock care in a psychiatric ward or a hospital, but the US is too bloody callous and uncaring to provide necessary medical help to its people.
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  522. ​ @dianebonneau2350  Russia was not a part of the Minsk Accords. The two signatories were Kiev and Donbass, with France and Germany serving as guarantors, something they never lived up to.
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  523. ​ @krischanlive  I follow a channel that takes us to smaller towns in Russia, and even the ones built entirely during the communist era are remarkably clean, filled with city parks, and spacious.
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  524. How utterly obscene, going on shopping sprees in Paris while your husband orders thousands more Ukrainian men to their certain death in a war that's making him into a billionaire.
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  525. The problem with the death penalty is that, invariably, innocent people wrongly convicted also get executed. The death sentence is incompatible with justice, no matter how much sense it might seem to make in some cases.
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  526. As President Vucic of Serbia reiterated yesterday, he remains convinced that the bombing of Yugoslavia would not have taken place had Putin been in power in 1999.
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  527. ​ @lowersaxon  I don't think the US will have a choice.
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  528. ​​ @vlodkopawluk9203  On these two grounds recognized in international law: 1. The Responsibility to Protect the people of Donbass who had been shelled for 8 years by Kiev and who were experiencing genocide (you the international law definition of this concept online) 2. Pre-emptive self-defence
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  529. It's absolutely disgraceful.
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  530. He doesn't care about Ukraine.
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  531. Check out the UN Security Council Resolution 1244: it states that Kosovo is a part of Serbia and not an independent state. UNSC resolutions are legally binding, btw (they're a part of what constitutes international law). As of now, and under pressure of the USA, about 50% of the UN members do recognise Kosovo as an independent state. The other 50% of the world honour international law and consider it a part of Serbia.
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  532. Unbelievable! Those people are off their rocker and have been for a century now!
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  533.  @janeshepherdson5116  Given the figures Norman cited in this clip, there are no moderate Jews left in Israel any more.
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  534. Not funny at all. Ukraine's a headcase, alright.
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  535. Every month, 10,000 Russian men are accepted into the army as volunteers. I can't even imagine how many are volunteering when many are rejected for service.
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  536. You aren't just interfering: you engineered the whole thing.
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  537. ​ @poliziagrammaticale9430 They were misled: Zelensky had campaigned on promises to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish good relations with Russia.
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  538. Odessa was founded by the Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great. I pray that Odessa returns home to Russia.
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  539. The West doesn't have to go down: it needs to learn to co-operate with others in good faith, that's all. If it does that, the West too will benefit long term. What it cannot any longer do is lord it over and exploit the rest of humanity.
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  540. You're such a generous man, Sam, to be featuring all these other YouTube channels from Russia that could be considered your competitors. I'm really moved by your kindness. ❤
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  541. Brilliant observations and analysis.
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  542. The system failed the child first and foremost!
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  543. Yeah!!! Davai, davai, davai! ❤
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  544. How disgusting!
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  545. EU and NATO are joined at the hip. To characterize them as fundamentally different and separate is to obfuscate and mislead.
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  546. If it's been discredited, it's not a factual statement but either an error or a lie.
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  547.  @butmunchass  You know perfectly well that Stalin had offered to protect Poland and aid it in resisting the Nazis! It was only when Poland, irrational as always, rejected that offer that the Soviets figured their best defense from the Nazi hordes was to go into Poland and stop them there. None of which would have happened first place (1) had the Poles not invaded Czechoslovakia together with the Nazis, de facto allying themselves with Hitler; and, even more importantly, had the UK and France joined the USSR in a defense alliance against Nazi Germany instead of making their deals with Hitler in the hope the Nazis would spare them and destroy the USSR.
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  548. Your memory is playing tricks on you. Almost 2 million refugees and migrants went to Germany and were welcomed there. Only a few thousand tried to enter Hungary.
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  549.  @stevewilkins5004  Yes, it means borderlands, which is why it used to be known in English as THE Ukraine. Until Lenin chopped off and annexed several regions of Russia to it in order to create a new state out of them (a new Soviet republic, actually), Ukraine was never a country but simply Russia's own westernmost borderlands.
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  550. The 100,000 is a woeful under-estimate, to boot.
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  551. Greetings from Ontario, Canada.
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  552.  @СтаниславГрознов  In terms of moral support, Russia has the support of 75% of the world. Militarily, Russia is fighting the collective West pretty much on its own and WINNING. ❤️
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  553. Certain forms of Judaism lend themselves to and provide the religious basis for ethno-fascism, alas. It's the responsibility of all Jews to denounce and reject these forms of Judaism. Unambiguously.
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  554. 👏
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  555. ​ @peterrisbergs7156 Dima's married to a Ukrainian nationalist and is often given to outright fantasies about how Ukraine may/will defeat Russia.
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  556. Just yesterday, I saw on a Telegram channel social worker in Canada claiming that she's now seeing unemployed people coming in to ask for assisted suicide for themselves.
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  557. The US State Department flies suitcases full of money to assorted EU capitals every month. As per Paul Craig Roberts and his insider contact at the State.
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  558. I hope some of those Ukrainian troops who threatened to survive Bakhmut 6-8 weeks ago and return to Kiev to deal with Zelensky do manage it. Kiev's been sending Western-gifted missiles onto the Ukrainian troops who've tried to surrender. The inhumanity of this regime really does match the original Nazis.
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  559. A great discussion and interview. This channel deserves a much larger audience!
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  560. The rest of the world figured it out decades ago.
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  561. ​ @drmodestoesq  😂
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  562. ​ @WeOutlawsTV88 Because we're stupid. The whole world recognizes that, economically, the future is in the East and South.
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  563. That must be so hard for your family.
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  564. ​ @ramrod9556 ?
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  565.  @TheDAT9  Clearly and obviously.
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  566. Wasn't the Iranian attack itself a RESPONSE to Israeli acts of aggression? And shouldn't Mercouris take 2-3 seconds to make that clear?
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  567. And he was fully exonerated, after the Hague first killed him by denying him adequate medical treatment. But yes, that's an excellent point: EU and US officials could and should be tried as non-direct participants in the wars in Ukraine and Palestine.
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  568. Moving to Russia's not such a bad idea. There's a whole village purpose built for American immigrants just outside Moscow.
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  569. This is the sort of situation and eventuality Scott Ritter was warning about back in April and May, when everyone jumped on him in outrage, etc. Am beginning to think that he may have been right, after all.
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  570. Yes, they're being horribly mislead by Kiev and by their own officers.
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  571. Truth.
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  572. Same in Canada.
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  573. Surely that should be "Long live Russia" for its humanity and generosity to Africa!
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  574. That would certainly be a first. Madeline Albright's fate suggests otherwise. 😕
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  575. China is THE world's oldest continuing civilizational state, with nothing to compare with. Not Italy, not Egypt, not Greece, not Iraq/Mesopotamia, not Iran/Persia. Italy is the successor to Rome, but China remains China.
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  576. The madness is restricted to less than half the population of the collective West (which is itself good news). The rest of humanity -- 86% of all human beings -- are absolutely not interested in this craziness.
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  577. As if the US can be trusted to honour any agreement and any promises it makes.
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  578. Yes, it is! Huge respect and appreciation of the sacrifices Russia is making to make a Fair World Order possible for us all.
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  579. ​ @BUBBLESPOGO  Only if he's childish. He can always break up decently and go his way.
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  580. That goes without saying.
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  581. Her husband is way worse and even more dangerous.
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  582. Except that it's the population of the USA that puts into power the people who work for the military industrial complex. Btw, that same military industrial complex includes all Americans who work in it.
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  583. Not just the government of the day but the entire political class in the US.
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  584. Most Christians don't believe in Biblical literalism. It's something peculiar to certain Protestant denominations and in particular to the Evangelicals. Te Orthodox and Catholics do not believe that the Bible is inerrant or that every word in it is divinely inspired.
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  585. What do you think this is? Placing US soldiers on an island just 6 km from the Chinese mainland!
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  586. Glenn's in a hurry to get to 2024. 😉 Please do more of these interviews on your on channel -- you have great interviewing skills!
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  587. What an excellent idea!
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  588. Mearsheimer isn't wrong "per se" only if you support the double standards that allow him to say the US is right not to want China to dominate the Eastern Hemisphere the way the US dominates the Western.
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  589. I'll be "stealing" this.
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  590. If that latest poll from Ukraine is to be believed, Zelensky still enjoys the full or partial approval of 82% of Ukrainians. Boggles my mind, that.
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  591. The UN has called on Ukraine to launch an investigation into this. In other words, it's letting Kiev do a cover-up.
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  592. Go, Russia, go! ❤
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  593. So, the father walked out on his family and left his 6 children in the care of their mother, a woman with whose parenting style he didn't agree! Not bothering to see his 6 children in a year! How on Earth did he not get charged with child neglect?!
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  594. Btw, I've just realized that you don't even have to be a US citizen to join the army! Anyone with a green card (legal immigrant status) who feels like getting a free college degree, say, can apply to join.
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  595. ​ @bobbydee1187 Russia doesn't want Ukraine. It would have been perfectly happy with Kiev retaining the historically Russian lands in eastern Ukraine had Kiev implemented the Minsk Accords and agreed to neutrality.
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  596. True. He's made mistakes, but he's without doubt a world historical figure of far, far greater influence on the course of human affairs than Napoleon or Peter the Great was.
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  597. She knew. She just pretended not to know. She stayed with the swine even after he was found guilty of rape and sentenced to mere 18 months for that! Austria's disgusting.
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  598. Why is this called "the invasion of Ukraine"?!
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  599. So sorry for your loss and for what happened to your son.
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  600. They're not stupid. They're selfish, uncaring, evil even.
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  601. Nobody's safe from mafia bosses and their enforcers.
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  602. ​ @shannonberger4689  Wouldn't it be better if all of you siblings could get together to talk openly about what happened and how each of you felt? You were all your mother's victims. 😢
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  603. ​​ @besovereign2032  The Russian economy, which has NOT been placed on a war footing, is growing at such a rate that it surpassed Germany's last year to become the #1 in economy in Europe and #4 globally. Unemployment doesn't exist in Russia now -- the only problem, in fact, is finding enough workers for all the jobs that are being opened up by this economic boom. Their inflation rate is a fraction of what we in the collective West are experiencing, while their standing in the world is higher today than at any other time in Russia's history. Not that you'd ever know that if you depend on your news on our MSM. No wonder Russians are united and fully behind their leadership.
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  604. Consult a lawyer ASAP as to how to protect yourself.
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  605. This channel delivers such exceptionally high quality content, it should have at least quarter of a million subscribers!
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  606. ​ @kralevic3297  It's the same in all Slavic languages. Mute = German.
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  607. Jordan Peterson is totally ignorant about both Marxism and the October Revolution. His ignorance, coupled with his conceited readiness to pontificate on both, is embarrassing to see.
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  608. ​ @AndyFromBeaverton  Crimea has NEVER had even 30% Ukrainian population.
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  609. Dima, of the Military Summary channel, and he's definitely pro-Ukrainian, showed yesterday an excerpt from the recent video purportedly of Zaluzhny, showing clearly that the man in the video has brown eyes. Zaluzhny's eyes are baby blue. It is true that a person's eye colour can change as a result of severe physical trauma, such as being put in induced coma, but that change goes only from dark to light, from brown to blue. In this case, we have the obverse, blue to brown, something that's impossible in nature. I don't see how the man Kiev trotted out the other day can be Zaluzhny and wonder how long Kiev will continue with this pretense.
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  610. Yeah, that was morally disgusting of him.
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  611. ​ @anna-mariedupreez542  Russia. There are still lots of Germans there, and as long as you're a decent human being who will respect the country and its culture, Russia will welcome you.
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  612. I wouldn't mind the US being a great nation (no bully is a great man) if it just minded its own business, closed down the 800+ military bases it has around the world, and began practicing fair trading relations with the rest of the world. Since the American public shows absolutely no inclination to force their ruling class to adopt these policies, I can only pray the end of US power comes sooner rather than later.
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  613. She needs psychiatric help and should be institutionalized at least for sone weeks.
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  614. ​ @prosper5489  Not in this case. Lev Gumilev's work, he was a historian, ethnographer and anthropologist who died in 1992, is well known in Russia as are his views on the West.
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  615. Unacceptable. Russia has already left the WHO and will not be ruled by outside forces.
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  616. You think things would change if Klaus died tomorrow?
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  617. ​ @palnagok1720  85% according to the pro-Western Levada Center. Up from 80% last August.
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  618. Wish Canadians deserved a leader like Orban.
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  619.  @dancroitoru364  You mean, unlike in the US or France, Germany, or the UK? 😘
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  620. Washington needs a system, not just a regime, change.
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  621. It's the reign of viscerally, irrationally Russia-hating mediocrities and neocons, so the sensible, highly knowledgeable people are deliberately ignored. The US had Stephen F Cohen (he died a year and a half ago), its greatest Russia Studies expert and one of the key drafters of the policy of détente of the 1960s and 1970s, and the media marginalized him the whole last decade of his life, during which he spoke so eloquently on the inherent dangers and the folly of Washington's policy in Ukraine.
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  622. Exactly.
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  623. I hope you're right.
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  624. Made in the image of Madeline Albright.
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  625. People have had such premonitions for the past 2000 years, invariably to be proven wrong. I think the Lord wants us to be much more active in combatting evils than we are.
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  626. Same in Serbia.
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  627. ​ @thomsonmaclean2041  There aren't enough Pakistanis and Indians and all other ethnic minorities in the UK to elect a government. The English voted him in.
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  628.  @zhangruyi3153  As soon as de-dollarization is complete.
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  629. Correct. Whenever Putin refers to the Istanbul deal, he means Ukrainian neutrality and no joining NATO.
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  630. Yup. The US is occupying all of Europe except Belarus and Serbia and has over 800 military bases around the world.
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  631. I hate the Zelensky government for what it's doing to Ukraine. All of this, but all of it, could and would have been avoided if only Kiev and its Western sponsors had implemented the Minsk Accords!
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  632. Cui bono? P.S. You really do take us for idiots, don't you.
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  633. If you really were rational and pragmatic, you'd never have allowed your foreign and your energy policy to be as demented (and dishonourable) as they are.
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  634. A step in the right direction. Make it a couple of million out in the streets, next.
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  635. Brilliant comment! Thank you for this key information.
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  636. ​​ @loftir-koftir  That's some serious projection. It's Ukraine, not Russia, that's banned all opposition parties and all free/opposition media.
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  637. They don't seem to care.
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  638. ​ @lacomtesse7  BS. I was an only child until the age of 11, and I never felt that way. That girl wanted her mother dead because she didn't want to share her father with her mother -- nothing to do with the baby the mother was carrying. The girl's a sociopath.
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  639. ​ @daleweiss9507 I'm a white immigrant from Europe, a retired college professor who's worked in a number of universities in Ontario. Canada's unrecognisable from what it was as 40 years ago, when I first moved here.
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  640. ​​ @jawadad73  The people in power who want to prevent him from reaching the Oval Office again. But you know that.
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  641. Amen.
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  642.  @Sandyhendry  You need to sober up before it's too late. Russia's using about 15% of its military capacity in Ukraine. And that includes the newly mobilized reservists.
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  643. ​ @Mslindyrose No other country has been as psychopathic and callous.
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  644. And Obama let her.
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  645. There are a few thousand North Korean construction workers in Russia, yes, but they've been there for quite a number of years. Soldiers, though? No. NATO itself has already issued a statement that it can't confirm Ukrainian claims, i.e. a polite way of saying Kiev's lying.
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  646. I don't know about Putin, but there's no question that most Russians want Odessa brought back home.
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  647. Psychopaths aren't delusional or in any other out of touch with reality. It is most unlikely that you see many or even any psychopaths in a hospital setting as they tend to be above-average intelligent, highly organized, and superbly practised at deception. Very few of them are actually violent, and most are to be found heading the corporations, the military, the government, and in high positions in the professions.
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  648. ​ @juicybear7696  Like the US lost all rights when it invaded Iraq? Etc. Grow up and get serious.
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  649. I didn't know this. Thank you!
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  650. ​ @Ianbib1  You wish.
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  651. ​ @codaalive5076  He signed an agreement and has now violated it. The man's untrustworthy.
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  652. ​ @qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890  I think Ben ignores it because, in reality, there's no Left left in Europe.
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  653. I'm seriously baffled by Alexander's skepticism about Russian claims regarding the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP. He doesn't even mention the fact that it's been the Russians all along who've asked for an IAEA investigation on the ground and the Ukrainians who've obstructed that investigation for weeks now!
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  654. ​ @FUAlexander2028 Just Ukraine?! 😅 Russia's doing remarkably well against a consortium of 50 countries that include the US, all of the rest of NATO lands, plus a handful of satellites.
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  655. Thank you for clarifying some of the key differences between the AfD and BSW.
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  656. ​ @grodental11  You're confusing him with the gang in Washington DC.
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  657. ​ @Kamadev888 Toponyms are remarkably stable all across the world and especially in Europe and the Middle East. They are universally recognized in both archeology and anthropology as clear signs of settlement patterns and of the ethnic history of a region. The absence of any Albanian Toponyms (combined with equal absence of any Albanian cultural monuments or remnants thereof) in Kosovo and Metohija constitute indisputable evidence that Albanians are very recent newcomers to the region.
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  658. Russia's still liberating the four regions that voted in September 2022 to re-join it. Once that's done, I hope they'll also bring Odessa (and Kharkov) back home before they offer peace terms to Ukraine: accept our terms or get ready to lose Kiev, too.
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  659. ​@louisetaylor6952 The likelihood of a plane crashing is nothing compared to the quite high probability that a partner will be unfaithful to you.
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  660. The sooner the world ditches the dollar, the better for world peace. Btw, Brian's Buy Me a Coffee membership options start at $5 a month. Even people on a fixed income can afford that much.
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  661. I've never seen an intertogation, let alone an interview, on YouTube with handcuffs placed on the table. These police officers were obviously trying to intimidate Cassandra, who as it turned out was innocent of any wrongdoing.
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  662. ​ @michaelkatz275  Yes, a Chechen SWAT team member did cut off the top part of a terrorist's right ear.
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  663. She's wonderful. I follow her interviews on the Judging Freedom channel.
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  664. Shattering.
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  665. The Brits are a peep squeak, no question, but they can still harass and cause minor damage. I understand that they were behind last year's attack on the Kerch Bridge in Crimea and have seen speculations that their special services may be involved in the recent Ukrainian incursions into Russia. They're playing with fire precisely because they bank on Russia doing nothing in response. Extremely reckless, irresponsible nonsense.
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  666. How despicable of them. A racism they learned from their colonial masters, first Spain and then the US?
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  667. My sister sent me a link to his Requiem 10 minutes ago, and I'm still recovering from the devastating power of that song. Indescribably moving. 😢
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  668. There's something deeply rotten in Austrian society. We all know about Nazi Germany, but that horror came from Austria, which was left off the hook post-1945.
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  669. In a nutshell.
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  670. That's not what she said. She said "You can save a child's life even if you can't rescue them.". There's a big difference. And yes, you can save another's life, whether it's a child or an adult, by being kind and gentle.
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  671. Telling your age, and mine. 😉
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  672. When partial mobilization was declared, I remember Shoigu saying that MOST of the 300,000 reservists will be positioned so far from the contact line that they won't be able to see it with binoculars. This to me suggests that Kremlin isn't, or at a minimum wasn't at that point, preparing a massive offensive of any kind. If so, I find it heart-breaking for Odessa, a city that needs and deserves liberating from those who've been terrorizing it for the past 8 years. I also think that the decision to leave Ukraine access to the Black Sea, if such a decision has indeed been made, goes directly against Russia's own defense needs and interests. If Russia leaves Odessa in Ukraine's hands, I can guarantee that it will be used, sooner or later, to attack Crimea and create yet another war for Russia. This is so obvious that it's inconceivable Kremlin isn't aware of it.
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  673. The heated rocks are there to keep the water boiling so the fish can cook in it. This suggests the custom dates from a period before the indigenous people had any cooking utensils that could withstand high heat.
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  674. This will go on for a little longer, a decade or two perhaps, but not beyond that. For the simple reason that the US and its European satellites are being eclipsed economically by BRICS+ countries, whose combined economic production already exceeds that of the collective West. As the West continues its descent to proportionality, its influence in the UN will also decline. By the end of this century, the West will be economically as well as population-wise a marginal part of the world, as it should be. After all, it represents only 14% of humanity.
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  675. And it was just one of several oil depots. Btw, Russia's been very, very gentle with Ukraine. Most of it remains untouched by this war.
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  676. ​ @claudesledge5545 Yes, really. This is from some years ago.
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  677. ​ @vladcraioveanu233 No. Russia never did anything even remotely similar to the natives of the areas it incorporated into its tzarist empire. In that respect, it's been the single exception among all European powers as well as the Anglo-Saxon settler colonies in North America and Australia.
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  678. He doesn't care. Why is that so hard to understand?
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  679. ​ @chrismifsud3414  They should have opposed NATO expansionism, then. They had the last 30 years to do so, and the previous 8 years to demand that Kiev stop shelling Donbass. They did neither. What's coming to them is just deserts.
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  680. The Poles and Swedes and Lithuanians before them.
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  681.  @BoleDaPole  Quite a lot, actually. Which is why his behaviour equals treason.
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  682. ​ @hengng4414  Why any timeline at all? Other countries are joining as soon as they're approved for membership, which has never taken more than a year. Also, why should these particular countries hold referendums, when no country in Europe held a referendum on joining either NATO or the EU? I agree that they should have, but they didn't.
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  683. Thanks!
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  684. Possibly, but the annexation of Gaza has been a long-time part of the Greater Israel project.
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  685. It's unwise not to fear them as they will have NO qualms about destroying you if you happen to cross them in some way.
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  686. European culture, you say? There's really no such thing. It's an Americanism that was completely alien to Europe even just 30 years ago. Europe has national cultures: the French, the English, the Italian, the Greek, the German, the Spanish etc. cultures, yes, but the last time there was such a thing as a European culture was during the High Middle Ages. Today's EU represents a political culture of hypocrisy, authoritarianism, and the denial of the right to free speech. It's a culture that tolerates Nazi-like torchlight marches in the Baltics, all of which were Nazi Germany allies. It's a culture that absolutely tolerates (enables, tacitly supports) the denial of basic human rights to ethnic minorities in those same Baltics, too. It's a political culture in which a German minister of finance can tell his Greek counterpart that elections must not influence or affect economic policy, a position diametrically opposed to any notion of democracy. It's a culture that tacitly supports (and is enabling, together with the USA) a genocide in the Middle East as it supported and enabled (we know this from Angela Merkel and François Hollande) 8-year-long shelling of an ethnic group in Ukraine and the cultural genocide of the same. That's the true face and culture of today's Europe, especially of the EU.
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  687. ​ @uselesstable2058 You're watching it unfold and you're still in denial. A completely self-inflicted downfall, too, similar to the downfall of all other previous empires. Overextended abroad and massively corrupt at home.
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  688. For those wondering why EU officials are behaving as they do: The US State Department flies suitcases full of money to assorted EU capitals every month. Source: Paul Craig Roberts and his insider contact at the State.
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  689. Akexander, you've attracted an army of trolls! They're quite amusing.
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  690. A very fine interview: without any posturing or "distortions of reality" as he put it so  diplomatically. 
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  691. Criminally insane, yes.
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  692. I really like this new format you've been using lately of short, single-topic videos. Btw, it was the SPD who poneyed Hitler and his Nazis up to power in the 1930s.
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  693. ​ @m.rebman7221  Toronto was fine until about the mid-1990s, when Harper Conservatives wrecked it. By now, even cities like Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, London, etc. are seeing an epidemic of poverty-driven crime and homelessness. Hard times all over Canada.
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  694. This, ladies and gentlemen, is creeping fascism.
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  695. It'd be wrong not to rejoice at it!
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  696. ​​ @fralanasko2900  I won't be emotionally manipulated into supporting a firm of child abuse you're proselytising. The fact is the over 80% of children who experience unease and discomfort with their bodies (gender dysphoria) grow out of it by the time they hit 18 or so. It's also a fact that transitioning doesn't help with suicide prevention. Suicide rates for transitioned people are as high and in some countries higher than for those who do not transition. This is why Sweden's changed its approach and no longer allows the use of puberty lockers or early transitioning.
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  697. What an excellent interview with Ambassador Varma! I can't commend the Duran enough for inviting him on their show and Prof. Glenn Diesen for his always productive, thoughtful questions. A key geopolitical clarification that emerged from Ambassador Varma's exposition here, at least for me, is that multipolarity is NOT anti-American but anti-hegemonic. It is the democratisation of geopolitics and of international relations among all countries of the world. India plays a key role in ensuring that multipolarity remains true to itself and true to its anti-hegemonic ethos.
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  698.  @michaelkatz275  The Western-dominated World Bank tells me that since the start of the SMO the Russian economy has moved up to #1 in Europe and #4 globally.
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  699. Was just checking my subscriptions in case Andrei had a new video out! 🙂
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  700. 😅❤
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  701.  @Must_not_say_that  Sorry, but that's not enough.
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  702. The sooner, the better.
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  703. Why sad?! Thank goodness for Russia!
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  704. ​​ @arthurtane1557  Why would he bother to honour them with his presence? The world now comes to Moscow instead.
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  705. 😅
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  706. ​ @Amaling I think it's both. We pay higher taxes in Canada, which results in more public funds to keep our streets clean and the infrastructure in good repair.
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  707. ​ @prosvet123  I understand your sentiment, but I trust that Putin will choose a way to react that will not serve as an excuse for the West to plunge us into WW3.
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  708. Serbia's already received the invite to the next BRICS+ summit in Kazan. Vucic is thinking about it ...
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  709. He wasn't always such a good guy. He did a lot of harm in both South America and Russia back in the 1990s, but he's had a serious change of heart since.
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  710. Finkelstein's one of the handful of the sanest, most honest, accurate and reliable critical voices in the US of the last 40 years. Prof. Michael Hudson is a prominent critic of the war on the left.
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  711. We're not allowed to say that we're normal.
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  712. This is huge. Well done, India, for rising above your petty quarrels with China!
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  713. And his many more lies about Ukraine.
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  714.  @Bronson37848  Illegal immigrants -- which is what the majority of Kosovo Albanians actually are -- don't get to annex someone else's territory just because they entered it illegally in the first place. The ethnic Russians in Donbas and elsewhere in Novorossiya are there because they're the natives there: all of that part of Ukraine are Russian lands Lenin annexed to the Borderlands in order to create a new proletarian country, Ukraine. A five year old would understand the difference.
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  715. Your life will probably improve, actually.
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  716. ​ @bojohannesen4352  Clearly not.
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  717. The Empire of Lies.
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  718. Not much dragging needed: I don't see Australians out in their hundreds of thousands protesting their government's foreign policy.
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  719. James Joyce, her father, was a terrible narcissist.
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  720. ​ @jimmytimmy3680  They had the military. They were just criminally naive.
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  721. ​​ @joelturley4847  #4 in the world, according to US-dominated World Bank. And #1 in Europe, having decisively displaced Germany economy from both positions.
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  722. Well said.
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  723. I feel sorry for the recruits who never wanted to be there in the first place. 😢
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  724. 👍💯
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  725. Same here. I bought a small duplex twenty years ago and have been using my rental income to pay off the mortgage. I'll be selling my house soon to finance a move to Europe (I'm retired), where I'll buy an apartment from the proceeds of my house sale. My heirs will inherit the apartment, and in the meantime, I'll be living rent and mortgage free for the rest of my life.
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  726. And his bank accounts abroad are bursting at the seams.
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  727. When, in the last 600 years, did we have one NOT driven by greed, aggression and hypocrisy?
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  728.  @johngillon6969  Surely you're joking.
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  729. They tend to go unaccountably stupid at election time, though.
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  730. At first, when I started seeing your comments on other channels I follow, I found them a bit annoying (because self-promotional). But their quality has won me over and I've now subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work!
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  731. ​ @sualoe1768 The power of Western propaganda is still strong.
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  732. This is what integrity looks like.
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  733. I find it disturbing that the police let her off the hook. Totally. They did not even investigate her.
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  734. ​ @notsogreen  I've been watching a channel with videos of various provincial cities and towns in Russia, and they all look like this: clean, graffiti free, full of parks and wide, tree lined streets, highly liveable.
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  735.  @charlesmartel6103  They were invited in by the Afghans themselves.
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  736. I've just managed to get a second hand copy. Amazon Kindle wants $76.50 Canadian for it, and $80 for a paperback. They do this when they want to suppress a book but avoid the charge of censorship: they jack up the book price so it's beyond most people's reach.
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  737. ​ @cazza6944  A white nationalist.
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  738. Germany's just clarified that the 14 Leopard 2s it's sending to Ukraine will be delivered in 3-4 months.
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  739. ​​ @Astuga Even in a just war, if you reach a point at which it becomes clear that you can only keep losing men to your ultimate defeat, fighting to the last man standing is self-evidently stupid rather than heroic. In this case, Ukraine knew from Day 1 that it could never defeat Russia, which is why Zelensky et al spent so much time and energy last year trying to drag NATO directly into the fight. Once they realized this would be a proxy war, they should have had the decency and humanity towards their own people and signed a peace treaty with Russia. Instead, they passed a law making peace negotiations a crime!
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  740. Why should it bother if we in Canada can't be arsed to clean up our own house?!
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  741. Something's not adding up here. If Zelensky invited or even just consulted with Nuland before her trip to Kiev, why did Nuland not meet with Zelensky or do any shoto-ops with him while there?
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  742. Thank you! We should have embraced the offer to open a Russian military base in Serbia you made a few months ago. Unfortunately, Vucic thought otherwise. He even had the cheek or the idiocy to say that Serbia doesn't need foreign military bases on its territory, forgetting or pretending to forget the enormous US military base in Kosovo, a part of Serbia. Please forgive us: we have a political class of traitors and are currently unable to get rid of them.
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  743. What times we live in when a country's decision to work in the interest of its own people is considered bold and all but heroic. That said, good on the Modi government -- India's interests must come before those of the West!
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  744. As he himself said a couple of years ago, Russia has thousands of Putins for when he is no longer.
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  745. Finally! This should have been done 20 years ago.
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  746. It's a Kagan-Nuland family concern.
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  747. Mercouris is awfully long winded and still somewhat naive about the West, but his analysis of this proxy war and the effect of the sanctions on the sanctioners themselves has been remarkably sound from the very start of the Russian SMO.
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  748. ​ @G-hart-d9g  Dream on.
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  749. The new BRICS+ intra-bank payment system offers an alternative, and a very much needed one, too. It wouldn't be necessary if the West played fair, but it's in the business of domination and exploitation rather than mutually beneficial cooperation.
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  750. There are about 5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia, not counting the 2.5 million refugees. Your ignorance and arrogance speaks for themselves.
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  751. ​ @sylviam6535 The faster, the better, but I'm afraid there's still some life left in the beast.
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  752. For the media: the Western media, that is.
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  753. ​ @jester886 I understand your position as an American. You also need to understand that the rest of the world is totally fed up with US bullying, perpetual aggression, greed and exploitation of others. Since you will never change your mentality, we can only hope that the US will implode economically and due to its own arrogance and rapacity. Only when bullying others becomes far too costly for you, will we in the rest of the world have peace and security.
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  754. And more the fools the Greeks! Macedonians were their Hellenic relatives, while Rome was a true enemy!
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  755. ​ @lauchlanguddy1004  Actually, they do have that right: in international law it's called pre-emptive defense.
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  756. That's what de-dollarization is all about.
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  757. I bet Ukrainians have modified and added to the original layout over the past 9 years, though.
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  758. Love and support from Canada!
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  759. He'd be in their debt, then. And easy to compel him to start another war somewhere to pad their pockets.
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  760. I'm not Russian either, and I also love Russians and their president. But that's normal: I'm a Serb in Canada. 😊
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  761. Wow! Xi's got real class. Respect for them both. ❤
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  762. Clare Daily telling it as it is.
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  763. Exactly!
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  764.  Purpleemp  Yes. The war started in 2014, with Kiev attacking Donbas.
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  765. In ancient Greece, a doctor got paid for keeping you healthy.
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  766. 😂
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  767. The Russian military is defeating a military alliance of 40+ countries, including all of NATO, and without breaking a sweat.
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  768. So do many of us in different parts of the world. Canada, for example.
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  769. 🎯
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  770. ​ @ericpts6811  You telling us Mexico and Canada can just go their own way? 😅
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  771. This is all down to the EU. Exclusively.
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  772. ​ @JosephBisio  Calling people who speak truth to and about power Russian assets is so cute.
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  773. Brilliant, as usual!
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  774. Let's hope not. The Chinese people have NEVER known the level of prosperity and security they're enjoying these days.
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  775. Stay strong! ❤
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  776. She definitely needs at least some weeks in a mental ward or an institution.
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  777. It's not. Israeli Jews, Zionists, were appallingly cruel towards Holocaust survivors themselves. I was shocked and perturbed to learn this from the biographies of Holocaust survivors who settled in Israel and who report being mocked, derided, and humiliated as "weak" by Zionists, a group that have been victimizers from the very start. Victimising first Palestinians and then Holocaust survivors, their own fellow Jews, too. Zionists were never anybody's victim.
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  778. Nothing selfish about that. And if any people deserve a good future, it's the Russians. After a long history of suffering, it's finally their turn to enjoy a comfortable and prosperous life. I, for one, am delighted for them! ❤
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  779. ​@@ianx2458I'm just a news and geopolitics obsessive (a retired college prof).
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  780.  borabora9304  Armed, trained and financed by the USA, yes.
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  781. I don't know about that, but he's for sure the worst enemy of the Ukrainian people.
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  782. The chihuahua states, as iEarlyGrey calls them.
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  783. To no one's surprise.
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  784. ​ @pensatoreseneca  The 80,000 volunteers are in addition to the 300,000 reservists. So are the Chechen forces and the Wagner Group guys. Col. Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter, separately, estimate the actual size of the newly arriving RF reinforcements to be well over 500,000 men.
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  785. Congratulations on hitting the 3,000 mark! 👍 Your English is excellent. I'm sorry you had to flee Georgia and political repression by the Saakashvili regime.
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  786. She's now got the face she deserves.
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  787. ​​ @TessTearoe-zp5xv  The latest research suggests that the true figure of Soviet (mainly Russian) losses is well over 30 million.
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  788. Which government? Which nation? The Russian and Chinese ones are doing a very fine job running their respective nations.
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  789. Durov has a French citizenship, plus another 2-3 besides his Russian one.
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  790. Depends where in Italy the houses are.
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  791. The EU is trying to put together a huge fund to use to try to procure ammo for Ukraine from all over the world. I don't know how realistic that plan is, but if it succeeds, Russia may end up facing something a lot more difficult than up till now. The decision to go slow in Ukraine could end up costing Russia a hell of a lot more than the alternative it chose not to take. I suspect that the people in Kremlin are still woefully hobbled by their own sentimental delusions about Ukraine as a brotherly nation.
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  792. ​ @sjustus7  And the Poles before them.
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  793. True. Admired and at least tacitly supported by 86% of the world, i.e. everyone but the collective West.
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  794. Still?! Russia never controlled Kharkov.
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  795. Exactly! If he'd only do the same re. Israel, too....
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  796. What a little fantasist Melania is! 😂 Yugoslavia was never a part of the Warsaw Pact and never had any Soviet military on its soil.
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  797. The West claims all sorts of nonsense.
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  798. I had no idea! Thank you for this information.
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  799. 🎯👍
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  800. All of Ukraine's grain went to Europe, actually.
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  801. The Soviets took plenty of German prisoners.
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  802. Pulling such figures out of thin air is great fun for haters, but it doesn't affect reality one bit.
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  803. I was so over Cornell West anyway. This was just the last straw.
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  804. I literally let off a gaffaw! 😂
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  805. 9/11 was nothing compared with what you've been doing around the world for decades and decades now.
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  806. ​ @des_smith7658 And Germany's still denying it!
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  807. Voices are extremely easy to recognize, which makes this all the more bizarre.
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  808. As will those who don't hate Zelensky, an exceedingly small number by now.
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  809. What Russian propaganda would that be?
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  810. What are the good Germans going to do about it?
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  811. Nothing to do with fear (of Russia), and everything to do with revanchism and the seemingly irradicable German chauvinism.
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  812. How about the rest of the population helping them?
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  813. Oh, they know. They know perfectly well what they're up to. Putin's way too kind.
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  814. Friendly outgoing German? 😂
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  815. Has everybody forgotten Zelensky's promise that this year's Eurovision contest would be held in Mariupol? 😜
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  816. But 33% thought Biden won the debate.
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  817. 😅
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  818. You need a system change at this point.
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  819. 😅
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  820. Yeah, shame on Hungary for that. Very disappointing.
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  821. I confess: pure schadenfreude here. 😂
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  822. ​ @KM2558-o1y  And Scott Ritter, and Col. Douglas Macgregor, and Brian Berletic, etc.
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  823. India is shackled and perpetually held back by its religious culture, its caste system and the mental landscape it imposes. Nobody wants to address this not only because it may be undiplomatic to mention it, but because it would take a massive revolutionary program to change it. For the time being, such a thing is practically unimaginable.
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  824. ​ user-wu1ry5jz7t They're losing it anyway, except that thanks to Boris, they've also lost at least a couple of hundred thousand men.
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  825. 50% of American voters polled by Ipsos on July 1-2 would vote for Michelle Obama if she ran for president. At this point, and in the event she runs, only 39% would vote for Trump. That 55% "approve" of Michelle Obama, who's never held any office, leaves me flabbergasted by the strange ways of the American psyche.
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  826.  @rettro6578  And fascism.
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  827. @@zygwigs. The war started in 2014, by Kiev. Cute of you to pretend not too now that.
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  828. Bono a socialist?! You need to look up the definition of "socialist", mate! LOL
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  829. Thank God there are still people in the West, like George Galloway and Mark Jones, Major Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor, Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Bealey, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté, Patrick Lancaster and Brian Berletic, who speak the truth and do so courageously and tirelessly. ❤
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  830. Avdeyevka has been liberated. 🙂
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  831. ​ @constentthonking936 You really don't understand what a full-scale invasion looks like.
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  832. Alex is a Greek who lived quite a few years in the States, as his accent indicates.
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  833. ​ @andreyansimov_diy  It's called a hyperbole.
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  834. ​ @clayton56tube As Biden assures us... 😅
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  835. Nothing on Earth is eternal. Russia needs to wake up and get serious.
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  836. It should be universally condemned for even thinking about it!
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  837.  @poli_glota  Possibly. It's also possible that the Russians have learned from the plight of Donetsk and are making sure the same doesn't happen to the residents of Kherson. Time will tell.
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  838. So, what are the Slovenians doing about that?
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  839.  @hungrymikepencetd5686  The tanks in question are in Poland's possession as is, but it would indeed be exceedingly foolish of the Poles to give them to Ukraine without Germany's express permission. Of course, the Poles have been behaving irrationally for a while now, so everything's possible.
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  840. Yep.
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  841. ​ @youareliedtobythemedia The EU doesn't have an army. The UK army, ALL of it, can fit inside an American football stadium and leave 30,000 seats empty. NATO has been fighting this proxy war against Russia for a year, using THE best trained and equipped NATO forces in Europe (for that's what the Ukrainian army was at the start of this war), has put together a coalition of 41 countries whose defense ministers meet monthly to plan how to continue fighting this proxy war, and NATO can't even supply Ukraine with mere 30% of the ammunition the Russian Federation forces are using (Ukrainians are getting 10% of that, in fact)! The US is reduced to begging South Korea to "lend" it 500,000 shells which it can then pass on to Ukraine because the might military industrial complex can't produce more than 15,000 shells a month, tops! And the whole world knows all this, everyone but the hugely manipulated, utterly deceived public in the collective West.
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  842. It most certainly does matter whether the missile strike on Poland was deliberate or accidental (and for that sort of a missile to explode on the ground, as it did, it had to have purposely programmed to do so). It matters because if it was a false flag attempt -- and I think it's well beyond time we stopped saying if -- then Gen. Zaluzhny and who knows who else in the Ukrainian army and government had to have known about it, which makes replacing Zelensky that much more difficult since there's for all intents and purposes no difference in recklessness between him and Zaluzhny, or anyone else involved in the failed false flag.
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  843. Very helpful. Thanks!
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  844. Exactly. I hope it won't work anymore.
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  845. Putin's being strategic. He knew Ukraine would have to reject this proposal, as it did a few hours ago. This now gives Russia a free hand to go ahead and bring Odessa back home, too.
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  846. ​ @DesertStateInEU  Total projection, as that's exactly the fate that's befallen Ukraine, except that even its surviving officers seem to have learned zilch over the past two years and continue to make the same mistakes over and over, and over, again.
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  847. The US in a nutshell.
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  848. ​ @joelturley4847  And still the "orcs" are kicking NATO butt every which way in Ukraine! 😅
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  849.  @Bolverine  I don't know of any biolabs run by other countries outside their own borders. The US seems to be the only country with such a program.
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  850. Ukraine lost the moment it chose to fight Russia.
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  851. Time for us the people to stop waiting for someone else to sort this out for us!
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  852. ​ @otgunz  Nice try. Some of us know what the Turks were up to in the Balkans and in southern Russia for centuries.
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  853. Thank you. I hope so too.
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  854. If it fails? Are there any realistic grounds for believing another Ukrainian offensive, launched with a force that's hardly had any training at all and is in every respect inferior to the force they had in June 2023, might succeed? 🙄
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  855. Happy Victory Day to Russia and all those who celebrate the defeat of German Nazism with her. My greataunt and an uncle were in the Yugoslav partisans. My grandparents supported the resistance to the Nazis by harbouring a Jewish family and a Macedonian communist in Belgrade. It's my hope that a year from now I will be able to join the march of the Immortal Regiment in Moscow in memory of them, too. God bless and protect Russia for all time.
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  856. Well said.
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  857. Zelensky needs this for PR purposes. Retreating from Bakhmut would alert his public at home just how badly this is going for Ukraine. And, just as importantly, the nationalists in Bakhmut have been threatening him in publicly available videos, promising to stay alive and return to Kiev to deal with him and his clique there. "Pray that the Russians get to you first," ends a video I've seen.
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  858.  @rutherfordbhayes423  Organize a general strike and see if they don't start listening to you sharpish.
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  859. Just as it never intended to honour the Minsk Accords. Russians are very patient, long-suffering people, but it's fatal to mistake that forbearance for weakness.
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  860. ​ @BroonParker  They'll go for the command centres, not for civilians.
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  861. No point in listening to a German who won't even talk about the destruction of Nordstream 2.
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  862. ​ @haroldjayhoover5370  The problem is hiring people on ideological basis -- it's created a delusional echo chamber in Washington.
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  863. 100%.
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  864. A NATO apologist, basically.
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  865. They should, but I don't see them doing it.
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  866.  @filipeareias3265  What are Turkish invaders doing in Cyprus in the first place? In contrast to them, the Russians in Ukraine are in their ancestral lands, lands Lenin broke off from Russia in order to create Ukraine.
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  867. I was surprised that Le Figaro ran that interview at all. EU media must have been given the order to start preparing the populace for a Russian victory.
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  868. It's shocking, really.
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  869. Evidently not.
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  870. ​ @DudeNoEdge  Dream on. When they tried to hold a vote on that in Quebec, Trudeau's father Pierre Trudeau brought the army into the streets, declaring a state of emergency.
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  871. Honourable and debonair! Thank you for all the work you do to keep us properly informed.
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  872. Well spotted.
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  873. ​ @leonardoferrari4852  Gaslighting AND touchy at the same time. Poor you. 😂
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  874. Because there are at least two factions inside the FBI, at loggerheads with each other.
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  875. ​ @a.randomjack6661  Something they started way back during the 1950s, when Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union.
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  876. The US is going the way of Rome. And it's entirely self-inflicted. The Democrats and their FBI stooges are making themselves above the law, essentially. Such behaviour in front of a House of Representatives committee shows total contempt for both the constitution and the people of the USA. I'm not an American, and I'm shocked by this.
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  877. Canadians, too. Most still adhere to what their TVs told them.
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  878. Come on, call them as they are: Western imperialists.
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  879. ​ @dragonknightleader1 They'll offer to leave Odessa to Ukraine, actually. Should Kiev and its Western masters continue to refuse a peace agreement acceptable to Russia, Ukraine will then lose access to the Black Sea for good. If Zelensky cared for Ukraine, he'd have signed the peace deal Turkey had helped hammer out between Ukraine and Russia last April. I hope Ukrainians deal with him and his clique appropriately once this is over. Mussolini's fate comes to mind.
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  880. Maybe Germany shouldn't just follow orders. They have really bad record with doing that.
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  881. Thank you.
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  882. It's also #1 by far in production. It out-produces the US and the EU combined!
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  883. They were never a bastion of freedom. They just claimed that title for themselves.
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  884. How did you then miss Modi saying in the next breath that India fully supports Russia in its pursuit of its security interests?!
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  885. ​ @shenzhong2942 None are so blind as those who won't see.
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  886. ​ @jorugarushia9167  Do not judge what you know and understand so little about. The system failed both this mother and her infant daughter. Not guilty by reason of insanity is real, and in this case it was absolutely genuine.
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  887. She's just a spokeswoman for the real powers that be.
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  888. I'm seriously disappointed by its vote.
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  889. I wish and I hope.
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  890. Oh, it's 100% arrogance blended with 100% desperation. They're too self-enamoured to realize that in such situations, arrogance avails one for nought.
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  891. 😂
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  892. That was a history-recording and history-making speech by Lavrov!
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  893. ​@mariov1347 A combination of Ukraine's "elite" Notsee forces (who've been spared most of the fighting the past two years) and a scattering of NATO "advisors", I think.
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  894. More informative and more accurate by far.
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  895. They'll do it later, approaching it the land route via Mikolaev.
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  896. It can't, but what the Global South and the Global East can do is suspend all trading and other relations with the West for the remainder of this century. This would weaken the West to the point at which it would no longer be able to threaten, exploit and harm others.
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  897. Good point.
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  898. They underestimated Russians. It's all down to a subtle (or not so subtle) form of Western racism towards Slavs, Russians foremost precisely because Russia alone is their equal, or, perish the thought, their better!
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  899. You're on the wrong channel. Most of the people here know the real history (and purpose) of this conflict.
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  900. Not only innocuous but actually humanitarian in both spirit and effect.
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  901. I fear that Putin may drag his heels yet again, wasting both time and men on some futile (and frankly dangerous) negotiations with Kiev. Russia needs this to end with Ukraine's unconditional surrender if Putin and his team are at all serious about Russia's security interests and the need to have Ukraine neutral, if not friendly to Moscow. You need to force Kiev to capitulate and accept Russia's own peace terms, which must include the placing of Russian military bases all across what remains of Ukraine. The US is still in Germany, 77 years after the end of WW2, and Russia will need to be in Ukraine for at least the next 100 years.
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  902. Almost anything? No way. Without the French and Latin derived words, you're left with just 1/3 of your vocabulary.
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  903. I've bought things from them. Never knew Shein was a Chinese company. Nice.
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  904. That's awful! And this winter Europe's experiencing uncommonly mild weather, too. I dread to think what will happen next winter, when most of Europe will have run out of the Russian gas reserves they're using up now.
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  905.  @moreranch9174  If the State Department admits to such a ratio, it must be a lot more horrific in reality.
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  906. ​ @billfargo9616  So, they should just wait and see? 😂
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  907. It's heart breaking even for those of us who aren't Arabs or Muslims.
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  908. That master race delusion dies hard.
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  909. Not a single police unit, national guard unit, or Russian army unit joined or so much as verbally supported Prigozhin in his "rebellion". And he's lost the support he once had among civilians.
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  910. And why would Russia now come to Germany's aid economically?
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  911. ​​ @bekeneel  If you believe that, you're in for a very rude awakening. The Russian economy is growing, has overtaken Germany's, while the situation in the UK and France is so dire, that the IMF brought out a report yesterday showing that France will drop out of the Top 10 economies in the world in the next five years
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  912. ​ @joelturley4847  Let's talk AFTER you've spent a month in China. (Please don't try to lie: it's obvious that you've not been to China even in transit!)
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  913. In many cases, one of the brothers fought for the Nazis.
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  914. Priceless! 😂
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  915. It may be relevant to know that Ursula von der Leyen's husband has a biotech that specializes in genetic analysis.
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  916. 🎯
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  917. Go play your video games.
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  918. Russia has a staunch ally in the people, but not in our political class, alas.
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  919. Most of the Western European countries. Eastern Europeans never went in for any of that.
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  920. Good point.
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  921. ​ @codeforce5556 And the EU violated it in 2013. It's Article 3, to be precise.
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  922. I've just seen a video of the Russian security council meeting at which Gerasimov reported to Putin the situation in Kursk. I've never seen Putin look so furious.
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  923. Plus the president of Croatia, who, unfortunately, has no support from the Prime Minister, though.
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  924. Nothing peculiar in that. We're territorial, as most other mammals are. But in this case, it's not a fight for territory as such; it's about Russian security interests and about protecting the people of the regions Lenin annexed to the Borderlands in the 1920s to create Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists had been shelling them and terrorising them for 8 long years before Putin finally responded to their pleas for help.
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  925. Germany and the Netherlands have also lost a lot due to Norway's perfidy and American thuggery.
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  926. Absurd?! It's a very common thing -- all of Europe's doing just that!
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  927. ​ @TheDbaru  I bet you can't list even just 5 such incidents. More to the point, though, is the fact that women in men's locker rooms pose no threat to anyone. In contrast, a man in a woman's location locker room is simply by virtue of his upper body strength a risk to women's safety.
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  928. ​​ @WhyteVintageWine  If he were just explaining it, he would have said "Australians believe" or "Australians have fully bought the US narrative about the need to contain China". Instead, he said that they understand it, i.e. that it's a valid and reasonable thing to do. Mearsheimer agrees with it.
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  929. I wonder. They don't seem to realize just what a laughing stock they've made of themselves in the eyes of the rest of the world.
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  930.  @sjent  One is called Russia and the other Ukraine because Ukraine means The Borderlands in Russian. Ukraine is Russia's western borderlands.
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  931. They were always (proud) sheep with a cringeworthy, feudal deference to authority.
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  932. ​ @belladonna6624  I plan to visit Moscow next summer. The SMO should be over some time in 2025.
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  933.  @888ssss  Not according to the Swedes.
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  934. Russia's bleeding NATO dry, in fact.
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  935. ​ @svenhanson398  Correct. The hardest hit were Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, in that order. We now have documentary proof that all the
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  936. A general strike. All of the EU zone needs general strikes because governments (that claim to be democratic) routinely ignore street protests, regardless of how massive they may be.
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  937.  @michaelkatz275  🤣
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  938. Totally overhauled.
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  939. I've been saying the same thing for the past two days. Ritter was right back in May and people need to apologize to him.
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  940. @user-rk9it9hz6g US corporations helped develop China, there's no question about it, but they wouldn't have moved their production to China if the physical as well financial infrastructure had not been there. In the last analysis, it's the CPC that has made China great. Today, it outproduces both the US and EU combined.
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  941. ​​ @timb350 Why would they? Just to show they can?! Unlike us, they aren't childish. 😂
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  942. They've already rejected it.
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  943. That's been going on for months. I remember reading about it on a number of Telegram channels last summer.
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  944. Ditto.
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  945. Amnesty International had a whole report last Fall on how Ukraine's been using civilian structures for military purposes and civilians as human shields. Zelensky was most annoyed by it.
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  946. Indeed. Just read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and you'll find that spirit already there. ❤
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  947. ​​ @2710daisy  But mostly drones. Which overwhelmed the famed Iron Dome to the extent that Israel needed 4 other countries, besides itself, to deal with Iran's barrage. The US, France, Jordan and the UK, plus Israel. Five countries against one, and barely coping! ? ?
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  948.  @imnotnarcian  A baby can survive outside the mother's womb; a fetus cannot. Every baby was once a fetus, but not every fetus will develop to be a baby. A huge number of them are miscarried by an act of God or nature.
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  949. Why is Sweden making a laughing stock of itself?
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  950. A very impressive young woman!
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  951. What a lovely video! 👋😍
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  952. 😅
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  953. There are several YT channels by Westerners living in Russia where one can see videos of Russian supermarkets, streets, shopping malls, etc. It's simply flourishing.
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  954. ​ @arostwocents  Before any potential peace talks, Russia needs to establish such facts on the ground as are essential for her own security. At a minimum, this means taking Kharkov and Odessa and all the land east of the Dnieper.
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  955. Nice to see your channel growing day by day. 👍
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  956.  @niblet112  No point in having air defense at your border with a country at war?!
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  957. Russia's way ahead of the West in things military.
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  958. Ukraine lost 2,500 men to take a city Russian forces have withdrawn from. Go and talk to the families of those 2,500 men about what a glorious, let alone sensible, thing that was.
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  959. Well, he's right. Russia hasn't once threatened to use nuclear weapons, while the West can't stop bringing them up.
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  960. Indeed. And very many of us are deeply grateful to Russia for it. Always remember: 84% of the world is tacitly with Russia, not with the collective West. ❤️
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  961. ​ @vadskar64  Chechnya was at the time and remains a part of the Russian Federation. Georgia attacked a Russian enclave, and the Russians never stepped a foot outside it. If the Russians ever meant to invade Ukraine (as distinct from launching a special military operation to force it to implement the Minsk Accords at last), they'd have done so. This war happened only because the West forced Ukraine to fight a war instead of negotiating a just peace.
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  962. ​ @FriedrichBarb You don't know much, do you. Wagner was set up to provide institutional means of properly remunerating the most experienced and combat distinguished RF army veterans, who make up the overwhelming majority of its forces. It's a mercenary outfit in name only
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  963. Thank you, Brian, for your tireless work of first-class geopolitical analysis.
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  964. ​​ @AlexDrastico380  Two years ago, in the summer of 2022, 30% of Brits were reporting they had started skipping meals because they couldn't afford 3 square meals a day. Since then, things have only got worse. If you're a Brit, you should know that, and if you don't, it's because it suits you not to.
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  965. You should get Prof. Michael Hudson on the show to talk about the financial crisis and the future of the dollar.
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  966. ​ @Matruchus  And that we believe in helping one another.
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  967. Two more states refused to sign that declaration: Jordan and Iraq. 14 of the countries that sent their representatives to Zelensky's peace summit in Switzerland refused to sign its final communiqué.
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  968. Also Turkey. And soon Thailand, too.
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  969. *Kiev
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  970. ​​ @Samuel-hd3cp Losing 9,000 of your best trained and equipped forces for a PR stunt may be a tactical success but it's a strategic idiocy of mega proportions.
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  971. In relation to the US, Canada's no different from the UK.
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  972. With 60 years in prison, he won't get the chance to commit crimes again. He'll die in prison.
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  973. You did not want this war but NATO did. You had to act to protect your own security interests, and it may be best for you in the long term to re-absord Ukraine into the Russian Federation. At a minimum, you should be urging your government to take Odessa and drive Ukraine to unconditional surrender, whose terms must include at least 5-10 Russian military bases scattered all across the territory of a rump Ukraine, with some 100,000 Russian soldiers permanently stationed in them. If you fail to do this, you will have to fight another war with Ukraine 10-20-30 years from now.
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  974. And they're still trying to lure me back into paying for their Premium program. They really do take us for utter fools.
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  975. ​ @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  Since when does the lion bother with chipmunks?! 😂
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  976. ​ @KassandraFuria13  France threw out the Americans back in the early 1960s. All it takes is a political leadership with courage and integrity.
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  977.  @LVArturs  Ukraine's lost most of its aircraft by now.
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  978. He should have picked her for his VP, in fact.
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  979. Novorossiya includes the Odessa region, too. With his pointed, repeated use of that term, Putin's just told us Odessa too will be coming home soon. Don't know how soon, but my conservative, cautious guess is within a year.
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  980. Lots of editing, commercial breaks, and some super-drugs the rest of the population has no access to.
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  981. I remember him saying a few years ago that "Russia has many Putins" -- I'm sure he's already planning his succession with the usual care he brings to all his tasks.
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  982. Uncle Sam's been at it for decades, and all over the world.
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  983. ​ @Perfinn It does actually happen. My father was a medical doctor, and his professor of psychiatry died of head wounds he sustained from a suddenly homicidal inmate he'd known and worked with for a long time, someone who'd never until that day had any violent episodes. He was so trusted by my father's professor that he was allowed to work as one of the gardeners -- the ax he'd been using to cut some wood became his weapon of murder that day. Tragic and utterly unpredictable.
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  984. The first thing it needs is to dissolve the EU and revert to a common market format.
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  985. I second that. I'm an old-fashioned, 2nd gen feminist and I'm not triggered. 😗
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  986. He does, but the Nobel Prize committee will never have either the guts or the integrity to award it to him.
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  987. There are two occasions on which silence is a must: during the minute of silence we observe in honour of the deceased and during the playing of a national anthem. From Putin's gesture -- he was so sweet towards this somewhat clueless lady -- I conclude that he's a wonderful grandpa, too. 🙂
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  988. Kiev's been lying, and spectacularly, from Day 1.
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  989. “Avdeevka is at risk of falling into Russian control.” John Kirby
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  990. ​​ @comingviking It's about using civilians as human shields. Ukraine's been doing it from day 1. A war crime.
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  991. It's absolutely NOT normal for an infant to refuse food (milk) for 3 days straight, preferring to bite the mother's breast instead.
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  992. He's simply wonderful, yes. Norway should be proud of him, but I understand that he's shunned by their MSM
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  993. ​ @HuskyTheDog2202  Definitely could have. The boy told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated.
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  994. Try again. Sy Hersh is incontestably THE premier investigative journalist the US has had in the past 50 years. His track record is 100%.
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  995. Russia has always been open to negotiating. It was Ukraine that broke off the negotiations in April 2022 and walked away. And it's Ukraine that's since brought in a law that makes it a criminal offense for a Ukrainian leader to negotiate with Russia.
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  996. It's even more incredible that, by and large, their populations at home are supinely accepting it.
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  997. That's so sad. I was born in Belgrade, and I didn't know about it!
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  998.  @Moomin360  If that were a good enough reason to hate an entire nation, many of us should be consumed with intense hatred of Germany, or Ukraine, or Croatia, or the Baltics.
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  999.  @x_mau9355  It was the Soviets, most of them Russians, who defeated Nazi Germany. So yes, Russia's saving the world from evil once again.
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  1000. You have to give it to the Ukrainians: they're a very imaginative people.
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  1001. Total media blackout.
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  1002. She's an expert in her own mind only.
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  1003. Saudis were helped in that by the US. And they still lost!
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  1004. ​​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Sorry to hear that. Their presence certainly does complicate things. I'm praying that Odessa be liberated and brought back home to Russia.
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  1005. It started a civil war, yes.
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  1006. They'll just replace him with a clone. They have hundreds of those on hand.
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  1007. 🎯
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  1008. We Canadians are the joke of the century.
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  1009. ​ @robertoleary9391  Breaking their own commitments, yes
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  1010. ​​ @AnaG-pd3ym  I'm sure there are Americans of that caliber around but they're prevented from coming up to the top by the very system you have. You have to get rid of the lobby system and the current way political campaigns are funded if you want really competent, effective patriots to come forth and have a chance of being elected. And that may well take a Second American Revolution.
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  1011. ​@@blackjock953 Is that a serious question⁉️
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  1012. Canadian Natives used to make and use the exact same type of wicker basket for fishing.
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  1013. Brilliant timing.
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  1014. ​ @MatthaiKurian  Even if you could, what would be the point since the world your children would inherit would remain uninhabitable and hostile to human life?.
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  1015. Not really. It would be like having the EU in the Security Council. We should stick to having only individual countries on the UNSC, not organizations.
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  1016. ​​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Ever heard of autodidacts? You can still educate yourself, independently of institutions, but it's naturally rare for people to find the energy and determination to do so. Btw, I'm a recently retired college professor and can personally testify to the extremely low standards neoliberalism has brought about in Western education systems not only in the US and Canada but also all across Europe.
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  1017. Ukraine used Avdeevka to shell the residents of Donetsk city for 9 years.
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  1018. ​​ @ericpts6811  I refer you to the testimonies of Ukrainian citizens in Mariupol, all of whom report that it was the Ukrainian forces who shelled all those destroyed buildings, using civilians in some as human shields and then shelling others. Their testimonies are further corroborated in Amnesty International's report detailing Ukraine's use of civilians as human shields.
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  1019.  @redscope897  There were settlements there before Catherine the Great ordered the construction of a city there. Odessa was founded by her, though.
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  1020. Economically, China is already the strongest world power, but militarily there's no doubt that Russia is #1.
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  1021. ​​ @hot2trut625  Absolutely irrelevant now as the Russian economy has decoupled from the USD. According to the World Bank, it has now overtaken both Germany and Japan and stands #4 globally. 1. China 2. USA 3. India 4. China
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  1022. There's no such thing as over-capacity.
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  1023. The Muslim population of Europe was 50.3 million in 2023.
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  1024. The same happened in every country that adopted the euro.
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  1025. What was a Pole doing in Odessa in the first place?!
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  1026. OMG!
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  1027. Exactly. And Russia is fighting (and will win) against NATO in Ukraine -- single handedly.
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  1028. Arrogance.
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  1029. Nah. They're just bare faced liars.
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  1030. I bet they had little to say about Gonzalo Lira, right?
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  1031. Am praying for the liberation of Odessa! From Canada with love! ❤️
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  1032. Serbia's President Vucic has also pointed in the direction of MI6.
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  1033. Some (quite a few) people deliberately choose NOT to take their meds. The side effects can be unpleasant, sometimes seriously so.
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  1034. Luis Sanchez The US has thousands upon thousands of troops in various European countries (whose populations don't want those American bases and soldiers there), yet we don't call that an invasion.  [Perhaps we should.]  But that's exactly how the Russian soldiers in Ukraine happen to be there: Ukraine and Russia have a military treaty that entitles Russia to post up to 25,000 troops anywhere in Ukraine.  For some reason, our MSM (but also Vice News, apparently) don't want us to know that.
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  1035.  @tahambanew  It's true. Morroco's furious about it.
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  1036. ​ @ideally6849 The same holds true for Canada and the rest of the collective West. We live in oligarchies masquerading as democracies.
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  1037. Demilitarizing Ukraine is a key. SMO objective.
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  1038. Are you saying there are no political forces in Bulgaria to lead it out of NATO, for example? If not, why not?
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  1039. I doubt they could compete with Chinese students or keep up with them.
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  1040. ​ @ГалинаДжиоева-х3ъ  The Russian government announced a year or two ago the return to Soviet-era educational standards. 🙂
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  1041. Two sexes. Genders are irrelevant.
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  1042. It would be a tragedy if he cared for his fellow Ukrainians one little bit.
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  1043. India can justly be proud of Ambassador Varma and the rest of your international relations team.
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  1044. It's disgusting.
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  1045. Einstein was a secular universalist, who hapoened to be ethnically Jewish. Despite what Susan Neiman might imply, universalism emerges out of Judaism in Christianity. Judaism resisted universalism for another 1700 years.
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  1046. Greetings and support from Canada!
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  1047. No, BRICS countries are not leaving the UN. On the contrary, one of their aims is to restore the rule of law in international relations.
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  1048. ​​ @GreenIsland38  How ignorant/brainwashed can you be?! The Soviets were going to put nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to the Yanks putting nuclear missiles in Turkey. Kennedy begged the Soviets not to publicize the fact that the US had to withdraw its nukes from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets agreeing not to proceed with stationing their nukes in Cuba.
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  1049.  @Vedioviswritingservice  Wagner consists mostly (about 85%) of Russian veteran troops, including veteran Spetznaz.
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  1050. I'm 66, retired, and feel the same.
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  1051. ​ @liuj88 True, but it probably is a fact.
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  1052. Diplomacy usually comes in to hammer out the terms of defeat and surrender for one party. It very rarely ends wars as such. The Russians tried the diplomatic route for 8 long years precisely to avoid this war and, again, at the start of the SMO. Ukraine, pressured by the West, chose war instead of a negotiated peace. These are the consequences of that choice.
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  1053. 14 countries refused to sign the final communiqué of that fake peace summit in Switzerland.
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  1054. ​ @jimmytimmy3680  Varoufakis is the economist who failed to save the Greek economy when he had the chance to do it. Instead, he presided over Germany's destruction and economic colonization of Greece.
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  1055. Larry has a very pleasant singing vouce and can certainly carry a tune. A man of many talents! 🙂
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  1056. Why are Americans letting their representatives fund and provide military support for this genocide?
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  1057. Incredible! The crap these people will say with a straight face! 😅
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  1058. The most thoughtful, insightful comment I've seen in a long while.
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  1059. Treat others as you'd like them to treat you, eh, America? 😅
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  1060. YouTube algorithms are weighted against truth-bringing channels.
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  1061. I'd also like to hear Andrei's view of Solzhenitsyn. I was shocked a few years ago to learn from a Russian acquaintance that Solzhenitsyn already hated the Bolsheviks so intensely that he had hoped for Hitler's victory in WW2, writing this from the frontlines to his family back home.
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  1062. 😂
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  1063. For many, it's herd behaviour. People are a hell of a lot more conformist than their vanity allows them to acknowledge, and most have an irrational faith in what the media tells them.
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  1064. We'll have to fight the fight and not just depend on the farmers to do it for us.
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  1065. ​ @waldemarStrzesak  You seem to have missed the little fact that Russia offered Köningsburg back to Germany at the time of its re-unification but the latter wasn't interested. Perhaps you were in your nappies at the time.
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  1066. Much appreciated!
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  1067. Moving closer to the USA means moving away from, abandoning Russia. Is that really in India's long-term interest?
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  1068. The Mariupol fantasy cracked me up. 😅. Btw, Armenia looks very appealing.
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  1069. ​ @DimitarBerberu  That was the ranking a few years ago. Russia overtook Germany last year and is edging closer and closer to overtaking Japan in a few years, too.
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  1070. Exactly. Evil through and through.
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  1071. Good for the soldiers who fled and those who surrendered! I'm glad at least some Ukrainian men have nanaged to save their lives.
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  1072. ​ @TheTaoofEternalWar  😂
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  1073. I hope Georgia will stay strong and refuse to be turned into another Ukraine.
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  1074. Awful. And despicable. 😠
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  1075. I thought Putin met with the Security Council last night. The Russians definitely need to examine hard and fast what led to this debacle -- for that's what it is -- and who exactly bears the responsibility for allowing it to happen. The LEAST Russia ought to have done before holding all those signing ceremonies accepting the 4 regions into the federation was to secure all four of them so fully that Ukraine could not take back a single village, let alone whole towns as has already happened and seems to be still happening.
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  1076. What a great idea, product, and company! Really impressive. I particularly like that the founder actually cares about agricultural labour, too.
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  1077. Well said. 👏
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  1078.  @ziggys.  B.S. Waters doesn't have an imperialist bone in his body and I bet you know it, too.
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  1079.  @filthyterrible  There are no such laws in the books, but what the police are doing amounts to enforcing de facto compelled speech rules.
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  1080. I've never seen a lion do that with another lion. Nayla's astonishing gesture reminds me of the relationship Kevin Richards had with one of his lionesses, who let him see and touch her newborns weeks before she'd have introduced the cubs to her pride.
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  1081. I don't know about Putin, but I certainly would.
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  1082. Best of luck with the root canal surgery! When you can, and unless it's too annoying to bother with, could you briefly comment on Scott Ritter's latest remarks about the Russian SMO on Richard Medhurst's channel?
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  1083. ​ @robertbradbury7921 Exactly. I don't understand why people keep skipping over Putin's very clear statements on this. As he put it 11 months ago in response to all that toppling of Lenin statues in Ukraine, Russia will now help Ukraine de-communize itself. I.e. it will help it return to its pre-communist size.
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  1084. ​ @craiggodard6419 There's none so blind as those who will not see.
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  1085. OMG! This is going to be brainwashing to the power of 10!
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  1086. And the Brits, MI6.
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  1087. Thank you for another informative report!
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  1088. 41, not 30.
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  1089. Get well soon!
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  1090. The real question is why. And how did they manage to do that?!
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  1091. ​​ @aminmalik4086  That's what we can expect from Blinken. Note the inverted commas around the statement.
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  1092. Most of the online comments I've read by Indians express strong support for Russia. The government itself, however, needs to play the diplomatic game with finesse, and is doing so with great success. I note also that India has (quite rightly) rejected Zelensky's (arrogantly impertinent) demand that he be allowed to join the G20 meeting India is hosting this year.
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  1093. Ukraine lost at least 50,000 in losing Bakhmut.
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  1094. Cui bono? Navalny was an obscure, negligible figure in Russia who, at the height of his popularity, managed to get no more than 2% of the vote in presidential elections. He was in prison for fraud, for fanning the flames of racism and race intolerance (the Russians call that extremism), and for violating the terms of his parole. Even the party he had founded expelled him for the inflammatory white nationalist/racist speeches that eventually landed him his second, and longer prison term. In Russia, he was a nonentity. So ask yourself: who stood to gain from his curiously timed death, occurring just days after Tucker Carlson's history Putin interview?
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  1095. She's a member of the tribe, steeped in its ways.
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  1096. ​ @derrickwoods4929 It no doubt could. But have you heard of the dead hand system Russia has?
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  1097. 👍👏 From Kitchener, Ontario.
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  1098. 👍❤️
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  1099. 🎯
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  1100. Why? Ukraine's getting nicely demilitarised day by day and NATO's running out of weapons why their economies are entering recession and worse. Russia's economy, in contrast, continues to grow and the world goes on de-dollarizing itself. Things are playing out very nicely indeed, for Russia. 🙂
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  1101. Russia has just launched a huge artillery attack on Ugledar. The Hindustani Times channel has a video of this truly spectacular attack.
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  1102. 😅
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  1103. Brilliant: please keep sending us these reports from Venezuela!
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  1104. The rot set in during the 1990s. This is what it's produced.
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  1105. Privet from Serbia! ❤️
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  1106.  @DenisE-mz7kr  That's awful. 😟
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  1107.  @pupssss6  Many, very many of us love and deeply respect President Putin. Deal with it! 🙂
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  1108. She's read about it and has gone through years of therapy, too.
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  1109. Except that the nuclear weapons stationed in Ukraine were never Ukraine's property to keep or give away. They were Soviet weapons, and in international law only the successor state to the USSR had the right to them. That state is Russia. These are some of the relevant details Mearsheimer never mentions.
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  1110. ​​ @aneurindavies5943  His brother, the mathematical genius behind both VK and Telegram, lives in Russia as a university professor of mathematics. The younger Durov was fool to leave Russia in the first place.
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  1111. Nice music. Go, Russia, go! ❤️
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  1112. I'm sorry for everyone in your particular predicament, but I don't have much compassion for the Europeans themselves. They voted their politicians into power and they've supinely accepted being ruled by an un-elected committee in Brussels while twittering self-righteously (and delusionally) about democracy and freedom. Nor have they taken to the streets in their tens of millions to demand the lifting of sanctions on Russia -- sanctions which they themselves know full well are the cause of their suffering -- and immediate peace talks between Kiev and Moscow.
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  1113. For many of them, it was a matter of survival as both navigation and agriculture depend on astronomical observation and knowledge.
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  1114. Love and support from Canada! ❤️
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  1115. Albertans don't seem to understand what it means to be a part of a federation.
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  1116. 👍 I'm now telling my young, recently graduated friends here in Canada to look into moving to either Russia or China. It's clear where the future lies.
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  1117. Or not.
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  1118. Scott Ritter is possibly even more astute and was certainly the only independent analyst to point out the weaknesses in Russia's initial approach last Spring.
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  1119. Before extending me a line of credit, my bank made its own determination about the value of my house. It most certainly didn't take my word for it.
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  1120. ​​​ @Andrey_Bodrey75  Stay strong, dear Russians, and walk with your heads held high. 86% of the world supports and admires you. ❤
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  1121. Russia's winning in Ukraine, so no, there was no trade.
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  1122. Why aren't there hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians out in the streets expressing their outrage, then?
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  1123. ​ @mni1260  I don't mean to be rude, but you sound incredibly naïve.
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  1124. ​ @phils4634  How many? One. To the 800+ the US has.
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  1125. I think Alexander is referring to the incident in which one of the SWAT team cut off a terrorist's right ear and stuffed it into the latter's mouth. Brutal, yes. Understandable, ditto. Btw, the guy who did that, as the rest if the team, is a Chechen, not a Russian. Apparently, the cutting off of the tip of the right ear signifies that the person cannot enter paradise as in Islam God is said to drag Muslims to paradise by the ear.
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  1126. Ukrainians and US personnel.
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  1127. You have to rely on independent media and analysts for a glimmer of truth in all this. The same goes for the proxy war in Ukraine. The Grayzone guys, the Duran, and The New Atlas Brian Berletic are my go-tos for all things geopolitical
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  1128. I agree.
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  1129. ​ @SF-qm2rv It's exactly the other way around, and you know it.
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  1130. ​ @justsilas37  It may surprise you to learn that outside the collective West (a mere 14% of humanity), it's NATO that's seen as a paper tiger and Russia as the #1 military superpower today.
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  1131. From your lips to God's ear, as we say in Serbia.
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  1132. He did nothing substantive. No backbone and no integrity.
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  1133. The ability to launch an attack of this sort is a victory in itself. These people are extremely brave in the face of overwhelming odds against them and deserve our support because justice and truth are on their side.
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  1134.  @wayne8153  He seems remorseful about it now
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  1135. ​ @jamesmorrow1646 😂
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  1136. They disgust me.
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  1137. And Putin has a Ph.D. in economics (for real).
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  1138. Many thanks!
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  1139. What's the EU doing to you?! It's exactly the other way round, with the US destroying Europe, with a little help of Europe's own comprador elite. 😂
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  1140. That money legally belongs to the Russian Federation and its people.
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  1141. Thanks!
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  1142. The problem is their arrogance combined with a genuine depth of ignorance (our academe is in a mess).
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  1143. I certainly hope so.
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  1144. ​ @litlnote-wu6yv  Sodo please cite just a couple of agreements Putin's broken.
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  1145. Goid morning, Mariupol! Your future looks very bright indeed. Love and support from Canada! ❤
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  1146.  @RainerMichelle  I watched the whole press conference. At no point did Lavrov "whine". My only criticism is that he's still far too polite about the pirate nations.
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  1147. Without a question, alas.
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  1148. ​ @meyes1098  We shouldn't let the EU off the hook either. The Europeans also encouraged Ukraine NOT to implement the Minsk Accords but to go to war with Russia instead. We know this from François Hollande, ex-president of France, and Angela Merkel, his German counterpart. The Europeans bear a lot of responsibility for what's happened to Ukraine.
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  1149. And you believe that? Why?
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  1150. Except that this is the EU Parliament insulting Hungary and branding it anti-democracy. I hope Hungarians realize just how malicious the EU is towards them.
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  1151. Because they get shot by their Nazis when they try to surrender.
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  1152. Most people can't afford to have one parent stay home to home school the children. Moms also need to work to help pay the bills.
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  1153. Zelensky should have implemented the Minsk Accords and avoided war altogether.
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  1154.  @mikehair5651  What's the point of a long life that's so bereft of real human contact and genuine intimacy?
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  1155. ​ @rufanuf1  No, it can't. These missiles change their flight path to dodge anything aimed at them. Only Russia has the technology to make them.
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  1156. ​ @captainamericaamerica8090 Dima's married to a Ukrainian*nationalist' and it shows. He tries to be objective, but he frequently indulges in fantasies about Ukraine.
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  1157. I agree. I hope someone will work on it o make it happen.
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  1158. Sophie's fine. It's the Canadian voters who keep returning her ex-husband to power.
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  1159. I'm still to find something believable in Western coverage of NATO's proxy war in Ukraine, but I agree that there's a kind of willful blindness on the part of these two gentlemen when it comes to assessing Russia's conduct of its military operations so far.
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  1160. They worked long and hard to bring it about.
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  1161. Germany harboured Croatian fascists as it had sheltered Bandera. The terrorist acts committed in Yugoslavia in the 1970s were the work of Croatian fascists who'd been sheltered by the German state.
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  1162. They'll leave once the West can no longer afford the cost of occupying Kosovo and Metohija. It might take a few more decades, but they will leave one day. We Serbs just have patiently bide our time.
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  1163. It's very much an act, and you've fallen for it.
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  1164. Excellent. I hope China can achieve something real for Palestinians.
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  1165. ​ @nelidabeatrizcapuano4520  These spellings won't make a difference, though. If anything, they'll just make even more Russians rally around Putin and his team.
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  1166. ​ @melittafilter I do sympathize with the relatively small number of (honourable) Germans who, like you, support Sahra Wagenknecht.
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  1167. ​ @noneofyourbusiness-c7h  He's right.
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  1168. Canadian, too.
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  1169. I'd never heard of that murderous action by a German officer. Horrifyingly callous. Such people, and those who justify and condone their actions, are sociopaths.
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  1170. Brilliant point!
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  1171. The judge asks questions the answers to which are intended to enlighten his audience, not himself. He often asks questions that clearly don't reflect his own knowledge of the actual situation.
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  1172. ​ @Dragases6894 But Macron is no better. Is there anyone in the French political class with proven integrity?
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  1173. Although he mentioned only one source, I bet Hersh had several. He's never, ever gone out on a limb on the basis of what just one source could tell him.
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  1174. What a brilliant teacher you are!
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  1175. ​ @Ghredle  Sadly, that's probably true.
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  1176. Yeah, now he wants to back to the 2022 borders! 😂 That train left the station a long time ago.
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  1177. Many thanks!
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  1178. Switzerland is way too expensive.
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  1179. The best analysis here.
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  1180.  @areh4159  Muslims are free to practice their faith in all Christian-majority countries and are NOT required to concert in order to get scholarships or government jobs, etc. Do no lie about such things and remember that God sees everything you're doing.
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  1181. ​ @conflictclips  US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. The Anglos.
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  1182. So now he's managed to come up with another justification for his disastrous adventure in Kursk. smh
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  1183. ​ @bobbyhill6193  Your language?! 😅 It's *English*, you know. From England. You don't even have your own language. 😂
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  1184. Cannot? How can they not see what everyone is seeing?
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  1185. False reporting: Ukraine itself had mined its own ports and sea routes, which is why it had to export its grain to Europe overland. The demining was subsequently done by Turkish, Russian, and Ukrainian specialists and under a special UN-brokered agreement, Ukraine and Russia have been shipping their grain out for many months now. The grain was supposed to go to the poorest, most food-insecure countries, but the EU grabbed most of it. Russia has formally complained about this and is now reluctant to agree to an extension of that deal.
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  1186. Awful. And utterly, utterly inhumane. It reminds me of that poor fellow who was press ganged and sent to the front despite missing both of his hands! Ukraine's lost all legitimacy as a state.
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  1187. Sure. Keep telling yourself that.
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  1188. Not without a massive show of support from the rest of us. Without that, these protests will peter out without accomplishing much.
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  1189. Go, Russia, go! Urrrraaaaa! ❤
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  1190. Like Russia. An amazing feeling!
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  1191. Digging their own grave.
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  1192. Too arrogant. Their overweening vanity made them underestimate Russia all along.
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  1193. Try living in reality.
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  1194. You should address that to the leaders and the populations of the collective West.
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  1195. Not in French. In French, it's putain.
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  1196. ​ @toddjohnson271 They're mechanically gifted, yes. Not necessarily intelligent, though.
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  1197. ​ @STASHYNSKYI Daj Boze.
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  1198. Yeah, unforgivable.
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  1199. ​​ @mattivirta  Huh?! Which planet are you on, because it's certainly not Earth, where Russia's kicking NATO's butt in this proxy war in Ukraine. And for Russia, this is still only a Special Military Operation, not a real war.
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  1200. Don't worry. In his most recent speech, Putin referred time and again to Novorossiya, not to Donbass, and Novorossiya includes both Odessa land Karkhov regions. If the Russian forces manage to liberate them by December 31, great. If not, they'll just carry on until all of Novorossiya is back home.
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  1201. Is Russia running out of artillery ammunition?
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  1202. ​​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Well, he's certainly no oligarch or corrupt official, as that sum would be peanuts for any of them.
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  1203. ​ @johng8837 Which security agreements did Russia supposedly violate? Please name just one.
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  1204. And Poland's now banned the import of Ukrainian grain.
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  1205. Sam is a treasure in himself! ❤️
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  1206. That's insane, people telling her she should have been friendlier with an absolute stranger! Stark barking mad!
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  1207. 🎯
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  1208. Alistair Crooke's first rate, too.
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  1209. Me, too. First thing I noticed (in Canada).
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  1210. ​​​ @sylviam6535  Isaac Newton lived in the 18th century. Except for Michael Faraday, England produced no notable mathematicians or physicists in the 19th century.
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  1211. Greeks celebrate Christmas on Dec 25.
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  1212. You mean that you were never a friend to Ukraine in the first place.
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  1213. A superb analyst!
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  1214. Go back and listen to him again. Around the 18.30 mark.
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  1215. Yes. I expect that, barring something unforeseen, Russia will continue to degrade the Ukrainian military capability and destroy the Nazi units. The only one we hear about is the Azov group, but there are at least 15 such military groups in Ukraine absorbed into the Ukrainian armed forces.
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  1216. ​ @LetsEndHumanity You saying the IMF is lying about this? Because according to the IMF, the Russian is set to grow 2.4% this year, while the economies of both Germany and the UK continue to shrink.
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  1217. ​ @一个说话大声的中国人 Hitler was morally and spiritually obscene, but his paintings were just mediocre, in themselves not in the least obscene. As an actor, Zelensky, on the other hand, is both mediocre and given to obscenity.
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  1218. Love and support for Russia from Canada! ❤
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  1219. Amen!
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  1220.  @petrsindler1525  In the early 1930s.
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  1221. ​ @no-bodymr6419  They don't need to, but why not.
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  1222. It needs people with integrity
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  1223. ​ @TeaLaTeQuiL I disagree and I've read up on this case. The boy told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated.
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  1224. Get angry and do something about it!
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  1225. So they're getting ready for Chadov Yar to fall.
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  1226. 😅
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  1227. At its highest, it stood at 3%.
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  1228. ​ @chronos2157 This spake ignorance.
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  1229. Exactly.
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  1230. The issue is that they won't make the effort to use their heads, to think. "What year was the War of 1812 in" requires no comprehension effort whatsoever.
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  1231. ​ @rhetorical1488 Undoubtedly some, in the short term. Beyond that, it would actually improve matters for the rest of the world.
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  1232. 💯
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  1233. The mind truly and really boggles that someone whose only qualification on matters pertaining to the former USSR is a first degree in English from a Moscow school of education (pedagogical university) not only offers her professional assessment of anything to do with matters of defense but is allowed to get anywhere close to the people in the US she claims to have advised! I mean, never mind her bs -- but what on earth's happened to the American government institutions that she'd be invited to participate in devising a plan of defense against a possible Russian nuclear attack on the US?!!!
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  1234. What else do you need to make it official?
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  1235. 😂
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  1236. Brian, you're an international treasure! People from all around the world watch your videos and look forward to each new one. I don't think I can emphasize enough how valuable your painstakingly researched analyses are. Thank you for the work you do. Much appreciated!
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  1237. ​ @dustinhessel9605  I knew that Russia did; wasn't aware Poland had done so too.
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  1238. You know perfectly well the Jews were NOT there first. Even their mythology testifies to that.
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  1239. Great news about Blagodatnoye. 👋🙂 I agree with your call for Russia to stop selling uranium, titanium, etc. to the USA. These statements make Russia appear pathetic, helpless.
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  1240. They never had any apart from lying and hypocrisy.
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  1241. He's got the moolah to pay for treatments that result in such longevity.
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  1242. Why? They've been lying about Ukraine from before Day 1, so why would they suddenly become honest and decent about Gaza?!
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  1243. Exactly. 🫤
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  1244. The family may have pushed her back to him.
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  1245. You do realize that the bulk of Wagner forces are former spetznaz and other veterans of the RF armed forces? Wagner was formed in order to be able to remunerate these top-notch soldiers far more than the salary structure of the RF army allows. Wagner is partially funded by the Russian state and works in full co-ordination with the RF armed forces.
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  1246. Their collective roar was their confirmation they're a pride (again). Amazing to behold.
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  1247. Violent action? Violent deed? 😂 It's called terrorism, Mr Mercouris.
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  1248. The US also has the highest percentage of psychopaths of any society on earth: 4% in contrast to 1-2% in Europe, Japan, Russia.
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  1249. ​ @AgentDoubleOSeven77  Just keep telling such stories to yourself.
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  1250. I don't see how the breakup of the US could possibly lead to any instability. On the contrary, the dissolution of the US would result in a massive increase in global security and stability.
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  1251. 🎯
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  1252. I wish. From Southern Ontario. 😉
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  1253.  @cupidok2768  Basic human psychology. Think about it for a moment or two. All over the world, mothers (and by extension women as a class) are associated with materiality, the Earth, nature, etc. Fathers, in contrast, being the more distant patent, are associated with abstract rules, distancing, separation, and abstraction in general. If you want observe infants closely, babies of 10-18 months of age, you will also notice that when conceptualising the difference between mother and father, they will often "explain" the male parent as the "outside" mother (the parent that is physically more distant, as is indeed the case since men cannot bear children or nurse them). What at a first glance appears as sexism turns out to be rooted in something deeper in our psychology as embodies creatures, as mammals. Conceptualising God as Mother is of course possible, as many religions around the world attest, and the maternal metaphor can even be found in the Hebrew Bible, although its main metaphor for God is the paternal one. One of the early Christian gospels that did not get into the canon also portrays the Creator as a woman/female, although there the metaphor of a divine mother is not present.
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  1254. Because we're the most cowardly, conformist, self-congratulating lot around.
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  1255. ​​ @cjr-en4wr  Who's going to compel American corporations to bring their production back home? The problem is that US administrations all work for the corporations and oligarchs. Changing that would take a serious change in American hyper-individualism and a Second American Revolution. I don't see that happening for as long as most people have enough to eat.
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  1256. Double it for 60%.
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  1257. Still. I hope this persuades Putin to bring Odessa back home, too.
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  1258. I don't know why the people in Kiev think lying will help.
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  1259. You don't want to know. It's awful what they do to their own children, even maiming them so they'd make more pitiful beggars. More frequent in Europe than in the US.
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  1260. No connection between the cases means the surgery was done by different surgeons.
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  1261. Love and support from Canada! ❤️
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  1262. I doubt it. It'll take another couple of decades or so before that starts to happen.
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  1263. Just as Latin was after the fall of the Roman Empire, so is English the lingua franca of the contemporary world, regardless of the geopolitical future of the Anglo world itself.
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  1264. ​ @michaelkatz275  In the real world, the IMF and World Bank are telling me the Russian economy has outstripped Germany's to become PPP largest economy in Europe and 5th largest in the world, with an annual growth they're projecting to be anywhere between 3.2% and 5%. Germany, in contrast, is in a recession and has just announced that it won't be able to find Ukraine from now on. The US economy's rate of growth for this year is projected at 1.3% (keep your fingers crossed).
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  1265. It's such a pleasure to see the reconstruction of Mariupol and its resudents' return to normal life. My deepest respect and support for Russia and all Russians. ❤
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  1266. Nah. They'd blame Russia. Let it be as his plane entered Kazakhstan's air space. 😉
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  1267. Homelessness in the West is an exclusively American and Canadian phenomenon. It's practically unknown in continental Europe. You won't come across a single homeless tent camp even in its poorest countries!
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  1268. Against the dollar, which Russia doesn't care about. In short, so what? 😅
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  1269. This is tragic. I'm so sorry for all the victims of these floods and landslides, anf for their families. I hope India can aassist the survivors in setting up new homes and renewing their lives elsewhere. With sympathy and prayers from Serbia.
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  1270. I can: Poles and Romanians.
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  1271. I agree with the Russians who view Putin as being too slow and too soft.
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  1272. ​ @mochamadeffendi6590  I'm a retired college professor and those figures look spot on to me.
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  1273. After watching several of your (marvellous!) Tibet video travelogues, I'm struck by the easy, relaxed, mutually tolerant and friendly relations among the different ethnicities who now live there. The Tibetans you've met are invariably friendly, hospitable and above all at ease with you.
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  1274. ​​ @user-ow1bn6qv8q  You need to be realistic about these things. Each of the Russian defence lines is stronger than the previous. And while the Ukrainian side claims to have reached the first of them in one or two spots along a 1000 km line, they haven't managed to make a dent to it in 3 months.
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  1275. ​ @JD-kk6cl The laughter of fools never bothered the wise man.
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  1276. I'm ignoring our MSM altogether. Instead, and apart from these guys, I also regularly follow Brian Berletic (The New Atlas channel), Andrei Matryonov, Redacted, Grayzone, Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor (both of whom are frequently interviewed at the Judging Freedom channel).
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  1277. Good.
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  1278. It doesn't matter what it means in Latin; House knows what it means in medicine, and that's all that counts.
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  1279. This is nuts! What exactly are they protesting?! She took out a knife and threatened the people there! She'd have been immediately restrained, no matter her race or skin colour.
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  1280. They have to learn to respect Russia and its legitimate interests.
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  1281. Happy travels in Russia! 🎉❤ Your voice is so much more relaxed in the Motherland. 🙂
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  1282. Tell that to NATO.
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  1283. Don't forget Ursula von der Leyen, Joseph Borrell, and Jans Stoltenberg.
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  1284. ​ nasumaa83  Kiev is well outside Galicia. Ukraine's a nation that's been rotting from within for at least the past 30 years.
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  1285. Unless Europe reins in the Poles, Poland stands poised to drag the entire subcontinent into a war Russia will definitely win, but at a huge cost to itself and an even greater cost to Europe itself. Very dangerous times indeed.
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  1286. ​ @jacobjorgenson9285  I wouldn't bet on that. Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland's husband wrote an article some 20+ years ago arguing that a nuclear war with Russia is winnable -- at the expense of some 20 million US deaths. He didn't bother to estimate the number of European victims of his bright idea. Kagan's never renounced his desire to see the US start a nuclear war with Russia.
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  1287. Yay! Such wonderful good news for Donetsk civilians, who've been shelled from Adiivka for the past 9 years! Well done, Russia! ❤
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  1288. Andrei, what a handsome young officer you were (and still are, allowing for age)! 😍
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  1289. Yes, they're of the same ethnicity as Einstein.
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  1290.  @valeriehancotte-galan4790  We're probably the most conformist group of people on Earth.
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  1291. Thank you, braca Hrvati!
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  1292. This is all about preserving the Empire, and it won't work. I wouldn't mind the US being a great nation (no bully is a great man) if it just minded its own business, closed down the 800+ military bases it has around the world, and began practicing fair trading relations with the rest of the world. Since the American public shows absolutely no inclination to force their ruling class to adopt these policies, I can only pray the end of US power comes sooner rather than later.
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  1293. It wasn't always thus. The Labour Party used to stand for something before Tony Blair turned it into Conservatives Lite.
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  1294. I agree with Alexander that Russia needs military victory out of this. An economic victory will be the icing on the cake, but Russia needs to eliminate every possibility of a military threat from/via Ukraine.
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  1295. Lavrov's an optimist.
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  1296. My thinking, too.
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  1297. One request for the Duran: please provide a link to the video the Q&A is in response to.
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  1298. And science.
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  1299. Those numbers need to grow into hundreds of thousands at each venue, and then into millions.
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  1300. ​ @williamtell6750  What exactly are you accusing Greek communists of?
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  1301. They've already retrieved it
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  1302. I saw the video recording of that moment. Priceless! 🙂
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  1303. It's pathetic. Americans can always be manipulated with induced paranoia.
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  1304. In this case, Germany too.
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  1305. ​ @kruger7796  Bandera, is that you? 😅
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  1306. ​ @niblet112  I think you're the one who'll eventually discover just how badly you're being fooled. I wish it weren't so.
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  1307.  @BorntoYeet  You do realize that Russia is using less than 20% of its military capacity in Ukraine?
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  1308. Thank you. ❤ We know that you weren't able to help us then.
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  1309. ​ @davidcritchley3509  Romanians were never consulted or asked if they wanted to join NATO. The same is true for all the other post-Soviet, post-Warsaw Pact East European countries. Not a single referendum anywhere, and not even any public debate about it. And not because the people of those countries were so keen on joining NATO that no discussion was needed. Quite the contrary, in fact.
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  1310. Patrick Lancaster is now shooting videos of the newly mobilized forces training in Donbass.
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  1311. Nobody attacked or was occupying Germany in 1940. The occupation began in 1945.
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  1312. Have some compassion for those fleeing California decay.
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  1313. Oh, how I wish!
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  1314. Nice! 🎉
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  1315. Realism is not negativity or pessimism.
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  1316. ​ @jihigh482 Exactly!
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  1317. ​ @ianhills8980 Every time people dismissed Hersh's work as you've just done, lo and behold, he was eventually vindicated. Every single time. And so it will be again. There's a reason the man's a legend and you a nobody.
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  1318. Brilliant! 🎉🙂👏
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  1319. Zizek isn't a progressive or even a Leftist, although he likes to posture as one. Always keep in mind that he used to be the speech writer for the Slovenian president, himself a card-carrying member of the Liberal Party. In the end, he'll support whatever NATO does in the Balkans.
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  1320. ​ @torment4723  The World Bank now ranks Russia's economy as #1 in Europe and #4 in the world: 1. China 2. The US 3. India 4. Russia 5. Japan 6. Germany
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  1321. Thanks!
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  1322. ​ @AizenSosuke_3d  The richest in natural resources and industrial capacity, both.
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  1323. ​ @Xenthoid  None. The Kiev regime banned all independent media back in 2022.
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  1324. There were no panhandlers and homeless in Prague before 1991.
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  1325. A tiny correction: Leptis Magna is in modern Libya (not in Tunisia). The best preserved Roman-era city whose remains we still have. Once Libya recovers from all the destruction caused by the NATO bombing and the near destruction of the Libyan state as such, it will be able to develop its own tourist industry with its gorgeous sandy beaches that go for miles and miles and the historical-cultural attractions like Sabratha and Leptis Magna.
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  1326.  @anna_m59  You're of course entitled to call me a liar, but that doesn't change the facts. I'm travelling at present and don't have access to my bookmarks at home or I'd be glad to provide you with the URL of the source of this information. Unless, of course, the article's been pulled off the Internet in the meantime, as the West can't cope with Russian trees and cats, let alone with a poll that singles Moscow out for the safest large city in the world.
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  1327. Exactly! 🎯
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  1328. ​ @davidlazarus67 They learned that from Russia, as a matter of fact.
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  1329. Well spotted, that.
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  1330. They took 20 years to pull out of Afghanistan, so I'm afraid the US might try to drag this one out, too, especially as the longer it lasts, the more it damages European economies into irrelevance.
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  1331. ​ @robkane3137 100%.
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  1332. ​ @mcata3625  Russia has not closed its borders. You can visit it any time you like. I'm planning a month-long visit, my first, next summer.
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  1333. ​ @auldfouter8661  I thought Russia was done and Ukraine's winning. Has the narrative changed now? 😂
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  1334. You're giving up your neutrality -- the absolute key to your security -- so as to serve as a first-time country in a future US war against Russia. You must have a very strong self-destruction drive not to be out in the streets, toppling this government and all the MPs who voted in favour of joining NATO.
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  1335. The sooner it ends, the better.
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  1336. Ever heard of a slip of the tongue?
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  1337. ​ @williamwayne4043  A mystery objective, eh? 😅
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  1338. ?!!!!????!!!!
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  1339. ​ @sookibeulah9331 He probably is -- a sociopath. A lot of them end up in high positions in the professions, in business, in medicine, politics and the army. There's research on that, and we really need to work out a way to weed them out all positions of decision-making and responsibility.
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  1340. Thank you for that reality check.
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  1341. And South Korea.
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  1342. The first one might not have intended to kill her husband, but going to sleep while she knows he's downstairs trapped inside a suitcase is the action of a sociopath. The second made me think of a venomous snake lashing out. And the third is a clear case of some sort of a personality disorder (which is not a mental illness, as popularly thought, but a character flaw).
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  1343. China's already helping. It's constructing the railway line that will link Belgrade with Budapest to the north and Athens to the south. The EU is, naturally, doing its best/worst to obstruct the completion of this project.
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  1344. ​@ytsertd333 Just ask them if they want to end up like Ukraine.
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  1345. 🤮
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  1346. They won't need to. Russia can handle NATO by itself, just as China can handle the US on its own.
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  1347. 🎯
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  1348. Read up international law on pre-emptive defense. Yes, Russia has every right to be in Ukraine.
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  1349. The West has always (since the Renaissance) looked down on the poor(er) nations. Even in the full knowledge of the huge disadvantages of their history (being victims of imperialism and colonialism, for example). And even those on the Left, expected to have more humanism than the Right. I was shocked to learn from Simone de Beauvoir's travel diaries just how snotty and arrogant towards the parts of Europe that had suffered 5 centuries of Ottoman colonialism she and Sartre were. No trace of any historical consciousness; just condescension, to this day typical of West Europeans.
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  1350. Except that they aren't.
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  1351. ​ @Ijusthopeitsquick  Short of a nuclear war provoked by the West, Russia will, at least to begin with, refrain from hitting civilian areas. They'll confine themselves to military targets alone, so unless you have friends and family in the British army and navy, you don't need to worry very much. If the West corners Russia into using its tactical nukes, though, all bets will be off. I'm praying it doesn't come to that.
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  1352. And the Poles have never got over the fact they failed.
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  1353. Whether the elections in the US are fair and their results legitimate, the US has NO right to judge other countries' elections or their political systems. That's what sovereignty means, and the world is totally fed up with the arrogance of American governments (and its people, who seem to think they're entitled to meddle in other people's affairs).
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  1354. ​ @IgorMuravyov-o5r  France deserves utmost derision for its chest-beating attempt at claiming the status of a military power. Culturally and intellectually, all it's produced since WW2 are slightly different forms of banality and nihilism, reaching their peak in Derridean post-modernism. I don't know what Germany has to do with this, why you're mentioning it in this context, but again, culturally and intellectually it's in an ever more bankrupt state than France. You can get a taste of that decadence from the article Jürgen Habermas, Germany's leading living philosopher, wrote about the Russian SMO in 2022, filled with NATO talking points and banal Western mass media propaganda. It's impossible to have any respect for a nation whose top echelons of intelligentsia have sunk that low.
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  1355. Danny, there's a photo of Xi, Macron and Ursula all seated equi-distant from one another at a round table, so there does seem to have been a meeting of all three together and a little photo-op to mark it. You can see it in Politico's April 11 article "EU: Macron and von der Leyen were united in the room with China’s Xi".
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  1356. ​ @tomrobbins5242 Send them to the EU? 😜
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  1357. One can only hope. And pray.
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  1358. ​@shuathe2nd Posted a loss for the first time in 20 years. Despite which it's the Russian economy that's growing, while Germany's continues to shrink. To the point that the head of the German Bourse, its stock market, just yesterday stated Germany's now becoming a developing country! 😅
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  1359. ​ @FrankiePo89 They're greedy, no question about that, but I think you overestimate their competence. They really did believe the stories about Russia they told themselves: arrogance and self-delusion often go hand in hand.
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  1360. To be critical of Israel's ethno-fascism has nothing -- but nothing -- in common with anti-Semitisim. Too bad you can't understand that. God does.
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  1361. ​​ @bassmanjr100  No other country in the world comes close to the US level of indebtedness. Contrary to your belief, the US doesn't have the assets to repay its debts, and de-dollarization will hit it harder than anyone in the States cares to face, let alone admit.
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  1362. Indeed.
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  1363. ​ @eddale5557 Stop lying. Nobody kidnapped any children! Under the laws of war, both parties to a conflict are responsible for removing civilians from harm's way. Ukraine's been using civilians as human shields, which is a war crime (and no, this is not "Russian propaganda" but an Amnesty International report on the issue), while Russia has given shelter to over 2 million Ukrainian citizens and has evacuated orphans and other children from the zone of conflict.
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  1364. Another way of looking at this is that they're making sure housing prices don't inflate as they've done in the US and Canada.
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  1365. Bulgaria and Romania, Slovenia, and Poland too.
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  1366. It's a rout.
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  1367. My deepest condolences to the friends and families of all victims of this massacre. May those responsible pay for what has been done.
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  1368. BlackRock and its ilk, that's who.
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  1369. ​ @SophiaWafa-kv8kr  What a terrible thing to happen, especially to a child! How could your mother not believe you when she had endured sexual abuse by a family member herself?! I'm so sorry what you went through. 😢
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  1370. Cope harder.
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  1371. If only.
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  1372. Ukraine never intended to implement the Minsk agreements. We've learned this from its former president (Poroshenko), from Angela Merkel, and from France's Hollande too.
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  1373. Read between the lines. When you no longer respect the other, when your society produces "diplomats" incapable of so much as good manners, the rot has set in deep, deep down. It's a decline into barbarism, which is what every exceptionalism always is.
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  1374. Fascinating information. Thanks!
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  1375. They, too?! What idiots! 😂
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  1376. You think Biden's making any decisions?
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  1377. The western-most peninsula of Asia, in fact. Geographically, that's what Europe is. It's not a continent at all, no more than India is a one.
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  1378. I found it riveting. The two hours flew by!
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  1379. For your own safety, I'd advise against giving people a second chance. Seriously.
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  1380. Inefficiency is grounds enough.
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  1381. As you should be. The only wonder are the European masses who're happily ingesting all the bs we get served by our MSM.
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  1382. I didn't know he's a member of the Trilateral Commission. That says it all.
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  1383. 😅
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  1384. ​ @matthewbaumann630  Amazing how nobody's ever been able to provide any visual evidence of those mythical 75 divisions of the Russian Army in Donbass prior to February 24, 2022.
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  1385. Don't forget the sociopaths at the State Department, too.
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  1386. Of course it's in the right. All you have to do is to be properly, i.e. fairly, informed and free of bias to understand that. The thing is that most people have been primed with decades of anti-Russia media squawking and with criminally skewed reporting by our MSM to be able to accept facts and drop the anti-Russia conditioning we've all been subjected to.
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  1387. ​ @Ibogaman  😂 The dish comes from Persia/Iran, and language never lies: the word for this dish came to the Balkans via the Ottomans, not the other way round.
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  1388. Ukrainians would be lucky if that were true, but, as you probably do know, it's not. By now, there' a large body of Ukrainian soldier testimonies available online about how their officers shoot them in the back when they try to what happened to surrender. The ones who talk about it were the lucky ones who got away.
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  1389. This is really big! The first time Russia and China will conduct joint military exercises anywhere in Africa. Great news!
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  1390. On my way: next summer! ❤️
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  1391. Their actions tell us otherwise.
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  1392. ​ @victorswiercz8203  But does he care about reality? And can he actually do anything about it? Time will tell.
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  1393. I'm praying for the liberation and repatriation of Odessa. ❤
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  1394. They'll be annihilated.
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  1395.  @natalya793  Thankfully, Russia's jettisoning the idiotic Bologna agreement on education (the dimming down of the European education systems) and re-introducing its own previous approach.
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  1396. Their own size? NATO-sphere has a population of roughly 800 million, Russia 148. Its members' combined economies are many times that of Russia. And NATO's getting humiliated (again -- even Afghani Taliban managed to beat NATO in the end).
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  1397.  @danielbwest  You mean, like the US cannot dictate any choice for Cuba. Cuba is not a province of the US? Like that, right?
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  1398. Exactly. And yes, it's strategically essential for the Ukrainians. The multiple, continual denials of that tell their own story, as does the loss of tens of thousands of men Kiev and its masters in Washington have sent to their deaths there.
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  1399. A phenomenon that presages or accompanies serious social breakdown.
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  1400. Well said. The collective West needs to be put in its place at last.
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  1401. Yes. And all the people in these comments who think she's just remarkably immature don't realize, because they don't know, that psychopaths are stunted in their emotional and moral development. She will never mature in those respects.
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  1402. Bingo!
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  1403. 83% of Swedes profess to have high confidence in him. And I used to think Swedes were intelligent people.
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  1404. 😮
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  1405. The specialist who saved my mobility yelled at me in disbelief at the state my hips were in. He was a wonderful doctor, and I remain grateful to him for the rest of my life.
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  1406. I hope it does liberate Odessa and bring it back home, but you never know with Putin and his advisors.
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  1407. ​​ @PogacaSlana  Stop yelling. Governments can change. Without Odessa, all of this will have been for nought.
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  1408.  @homeguardster  Come back and tell us all about it when Ukraine retakes Mariupol.
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  1409. Propaganda is never merely subjective. It's there for a reason, it has an end goal in mind.
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  1410. 🎯
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  1411. I've just left Canada for the same reason.
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  1412. Well, they could have voted him out of office several times over by now.
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  1413. ​ @jaysummers9396 Wake up! As occupied people, Palestinians -- and that includes Hamas -- have the legal right to armed resistance! In international law.
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  1414. Jill Stein.
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  1415. Stupified with too much junk food and junk TV.
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  1416. Exactly! The global South is fully aware of this, which is why 84% of humanity supports Russia either explicitly or silently. More countries need to voice their support openly now.
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  1417. Because anyone who touts the lizard people theory has forfeited all credibility from the start.
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  1418. It's now the #4 economy in the world, according to the World Bank.
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  1419. It's an age-old practise of the Russian army: generals and other high officers lead from the front.
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  1420. What, Russia's supposed to just let NATO surround it with nukes without taking countermeasures itself? And that's what you call warmongering?!
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  1421. Backed, armed, financed and advised by "mighty" US, NATO, and the EU -- by the entire collective West, in short -- Ukraine's lost over 20% of its former territory (not counting Crimea, that is), at least 100,000 of its soldiers, and the part of the country that accounted for 40-60% of its GDP.
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  1422. The phrase "banality of evil" was suggested to Hannah Arendt by Karl Jaspers -- you can find its genesis in their correspondence. Both she and Jaspers, who'd been her Ph.D. advisor and later life-long personal friend, were afraid that unless the evil of Nazism was minimized and banalized, we would not be able to deal with it. It was a product of their own need to deny the actuality of evil in all its horror. No human system of justice, they argued, could handle such evil and not be overwhelmed by it -- hence, it would be better to reduce it to a matter of banality, to something merely contemptible. For Arendt, this also allowed her to maintain her adherence and her life-long idealization (idolization) of German culture.
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  1423. Me too.
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  1424. Some people in the Kremlin think this will go on beyond 2024.
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  1425. ​ @KarlFredrik  Not entirely stupid. But irredeemably corrupt. A sociopath, in short.
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  1426. ​ @NikolaiShabunin  I hope Russia takes its sweet time over it. Given what it has done, the EU will need to beg Russia on its knees for any renewal of cordial relations. More importantly, Europe will come to its senses only after its hostility towards Russia has destroyed it economically. So, realistically speaking, that will mean 50-100 years from now
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  1427. No.
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  1428. Russia will not allow the West to jerk it around. Let Europe take care of these pipelines as it needs them far more than Russia does.
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  1429.  @valski6818  I'm a Serb who's lived most of my life in the West, 40+ years in Canada. I'm retired now and preparing to sell my house before I move back to Belgrade. I hope to finalize everything in the next few months so I can visit Moscow and Saint Petersburg this summer.
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  1430. Good point. He should be referred to as dictator Zelensky or, at most, as the former president Zelensky.
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  1431.  @ellisduckworth5908  That's a serious misreading of reality. The majority of people in the Eastern European countries that were once a part of the USSR -- except Poland -- actually support Russia in this conflict. Their governments' policies do not represent the people's will at all, which is why we're seeing demonstrations in Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
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  1432. Israel even bombs the water desalination, water purification facility in Gaza from time to time. The cruelty, the barbarism of deliberately destroying Palestinian farms -- these are all crimes against humanity constantly, continuously committed by the Israeli apartheid state. This is why I stand with Palestinians and their struggle for freedom, justice, and independence!
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  1433. He's a sociopath. Sociopaths gravitate towards careers in the police, the justice system and medicine.
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  1434. Correct.
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  1435. Only a half?!
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  1436. What does this portend for Odessa and Karkhov? P.S. Believe it or not, there's research that shows chicken soup is the best remedy for colds and flus. Have plenty of it and get some rest, Alexander!
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  1437. The EU's trapped itself into all this insanity. I refuse to blame the US for European spinelessness, curruption, and racism.
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  1438. Poking the dragon. Very, very unwise.
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  1439. I needed help with a cyberstalker in Münich a few years ago and tried contacting the German cybercrime police unit. What a laugh! The relevant phone numbers listed on the federal police AND local Bavarian police websites were both out of service! 😂 So much for that legendary German efficiency.
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  1440.  @todd-617  Keep telling yourself that As early as mid-June, 27% of UK citizens were reporting having to skip meals as they could no longer afford to eat 3 meals a day. The Netherlands is now talking of subsidizing each and every Dutch family with €500-800 a month so people can survive. Production costs in Germany have risen by almost 40%, the repercussions of which Germans will begin to feel in a couple of months. And so on.
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  1441. We need to consistently challenge and the rhetoric of narratives as it in turn obscures the notions of fact and truth. One way we can do that is ask, whenever the concept of the Russian or the Western or NATO narrative is raised, which of these narratives coincides eith accommodates known historical and contemporary facts most closely and accurately. What if the "Russian narrative"approximates the truth far more closely snd accurately than the "Western natrative" does? I mean, we aren't even allowed to examine the two narratives against the facts pertinent to them! Nor are we allowed to point this out without instantly being silenced and censored with the accusation of Putinism.
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  1442. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  That, and a lot of bare faced lying.
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  1443. It's absolutely NOT normal for an infant to refuse food (milk) for 3 days straight, preferring to bite the mother's breast instead. Get over your denial about congenital psychopathy.
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  1444. They need to revert to using the Russian shuttle to take their astronauts up to the ISS and back, as they've been doing for the past couple of decades.
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  1445. The British ruling class will not allow it. Neither will the Yanks.
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  1446. The media situation you describe holds for the entire collective West. Ironically, there's a far greater range of views and far more discussion of topics in the Russian media today than anywhere in the West. How things have changed in just 30 years!
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  1447. That would be nice, but I doubt it. May Trump prove me wrong.
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  1448. ANY other Western leader, in fact.
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  1449. 😂
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  1450. He's part of the establishment. His claim (belief?) that NATO could defeat Russia is also a joke.
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  1451. Oligarchy is now a form of democracy?! 😂 No wonder they want us totally dummed down....
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  1452. Russia's economic success predates the SMO by at least a decade. It's been quite a while since the Russian economy grw to three and a half time the size of Germany's -- though you'll never know that listening to our MSM and our politicians. Check out Prof. Michael Hudson on things economical.
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  1453. ​ @Yurana-th8sl  Nadine made her own choices. And was killed for them. I'm not Muslim, but it strikes me as absolutely sensible that a woman should never travel alone to meet a strange man and be hosted by him. That there should be a friend or a family member present -- precisely because Muslims, Christians, Hindus, animists or atheists, we all know there are a lot of predatory men out there and a man can physically overpower a woman quite easily.
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  1454. The US needs to fall apart into several regional sovereign countries.
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  1455. ​ @andrebalsa203  There's no such plan now but Russia did propose a railway line going from Portugal all the way to Vladivostok, as both a trade and a peace initiative at once. The EU's war-mongering racists turned the idea down.
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  1456. Yes. 😢
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  1457. ​ @flopunkt3665 I didn't know Brazil sent the first man to space. Or that it has such a thriving space industry and such technology that the US relies on it to ferry its astronauts to the ISS and back, as it's been relying on Russian technology to do so for the last couple of decades. Etc.
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  1458. Yes, he did, and more power to him for it! Good man.
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  1459. Europe will be fine if the EU falls apart. It should never have become a political instead of a free-trade project.
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  1460. ​ @fightback397  They can hunt those Notsee mercs down later; right now, it made more sense to get their own people back in exchange for these nonentities.
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  1461.  @drysia26  The USSR dissolved itself in 1991. According to Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF back in 2914, from 1991 when it achieved its statehood until 2014, Ukraine was kept afloat economically entirely due to Russian largesse. The IMF estimates that in those 23 years, and these are figures that reflect 2014 values, Russia had given (not loaned) Ukraine $200 billion. Ukrainians have shown themselves incapable of statehood, due mostly to the oligarchs who rule it.
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  1462. London.
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  1463. Only in the US.
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  1464.  @ka3a4oek  All of NATO combined, including the US, can't put together a force of half a million men to fight in Ukraine.
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  1465. ​ @caesarcezar1331 Eventually, yes. But not just yet. 😜
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  1466. Next year's meeting will take place in Russia.
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  1467. Totally brilliant, yes.
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  1468. Neither France nor Germany has attempted to deny Putin's version of why he withdrew troops from the outskirts of Kiev, which leads me to conclude that there must be a record of their requests for their removal, a record they couldn't invalidate if they tried.
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  1469. Why don't you show the absolutely deserted streets of Aleppo, though?
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  1470. If Ukraine had implemented the Minsk Accords, none of this would have happened.
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  1471. And after shelling the civilians in Donbass, which they continue to do day in and day out. A war crime a day.
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  1472. And that's supposed to mean something? In the past two years, according to the World Bank and the IMF, the Russian economy has grown so much it first displaced Germany's to become #1 in Europe, and has now displaced Japan's to take the #4 spot globally.
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  1473.  @daveanderson8927  Reflects really badly on Joe Rogan that he invites such types to his show instead of having Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor.
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  1474. He's genuine. Real. And he genuinely cares for his people and his country. That's what sets him apart.
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  1475.  @Monkeynumber99  Heating and energy prices, perhaps. Germany's production costs have gone up by about 40%, the repercussions of which Germans will start to feel in a month or two.
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  1476. ​ @vumba1331 Brzezinski wasn't Jewish.
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  1477. Yes, they are.
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  1478. ​ @tinasvensson5295 Try following Russian television channels.
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  1479. Thank God for that mistake or we'd all be American vassals for centuries to come.
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  1480. 😅
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  1481. Over 40 countries.
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  1482.  @Shadowless_Kick  No it can't: it lacks the natural and energy resources that requires. Only a Europe with Russia as a leading part of it could pose an economic challenge to the US and China. Without Russian natural resources, Europe is just Asia's westernmost peninsula, now at the mercy of the US. And, as Kissinger told us decades ago the US has no friends, only interests. Which is why it's actively destroying Europe's industries and its economic power.
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  1483.  @jamiecartwright5093  I agree. All of Europe needs to be taught a lesson.
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  1484. The US as a whole is similarly afflicted.
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  1485. I'm always baffled by those claims that Putin's a dictator. The man's both democratically elected and has the undeniable support of most Russians! At present, Putin's supported by about 80% of his compatriots.
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  1486. ​ @jujuking9502 You obviously don't know history. 😅
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  1487. So, this would be Russia's equivalent of East Oakland and Arkansas rolled into one. Looks pretty tame in comparison. Gorgeous scenery, too. And such a well made documentary.
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  1488. No, what it said was that a single Sarmat could sink the British Islands.
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  1489. Losing over 3500 men in three days is not just a failure -- it's a disastrous failure.
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  1490. There's enough interest as it is, so much so that they're building an American Village just outside Moscow.
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  1491. He's grotesque. Much about the US is grotesque these days.
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  1492. YT has just vaporized a reply I wrote to someone explaining that Alexander doesn't use or show maps because he has eye problems. Totally irrational censorship.
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  1493. ​​ @stevebriggs9399  I see so many Americans posting that same claim all over the place, thinking there's a difference between a representative republic and a representative democracy. There's none. The two are one and the same thing.
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  1494. After training and equipping the Ukrainian armed forces for 8 years to fight a war against Russia, 40 Western countries have combined their military equipment, ammunition, and know-how and they still can't defeat Russia in Ukraine. Fiasco doesn't begin to describe it -- and all of this is unfolding right before the world's eyes. No wonder the collective West is thrashing about like a wounded beast, bewildered by its own impotence and the unexpected strength and determination of its intended prey.
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  1495. Drop the quotation marks around he. He's a he, not a "he".
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  1496. 😅
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  1497. They actively laid the ground for the war and tacitly supported the war 2014-2022.
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  1498. Andrei, could you please comment on Seymour Hersh's latest Substack piece, "General to General", in which he claims that Zaluzhny and Gerasimov are in secret negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine? Could it be that Hersh is being played by his unnamed sources as the article contains a number of bizarre claims, one of which at least is pure fiction, i.e. his reference to a supposed NATO security conference attended by Lavrov in Montenegro earlier this week? (There was no such NATO conference in Montenegro, and for Hersh not to fact check such a detail is sloppy beyond belief. An OSCE meeting has just concluded in Skoplje, North Macedonia, which Lavrov did attend, making sure the Baltics would NOT get to chair OSCE next. Is Hersh being fed obvious misinformation in order to discredit him, and so discredit his version of who blew up North Stream 2?) In any case, according to this article, Gerasimov is allegedly keen to end the SMO because Rissian losses have been disproportionate (?!), and because he's come to the conclusion that Russia can't win in this conflict, something Putin's also supposedly come to accept. Hersh's sources also claim that Putin is ok with Ukraine entering NATO once the conflict is over, provided Ukraine and NATO undertake to place no offensive NATO weapons or NATO troops in Ukraine. If true, I would find that shockingly irresponsible of Putin, because agreeing to any such arrangement would guarantee that sooner or later Russia would have to wage a direct war with NATO as a whole. Your perspective would be appreciated.
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  1499. ​@OneBigUnion Of course Russia imports things. What's meant by self-sufficiency is the ability of a country to rely entirely on its own resources, both human and natural. If needs be, Russia can be entirely self-sufficient. The US can't -- due to its own policies rather than any lack of natural wealth.
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  1500. We caused the whole thing.
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  1501.  @samg873  Actually, it is. Psychosis robs a person of a sense of reality. You just can't deal with that fact.
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  1502. Private (public) school education. Either that or an exceptional talent for languages (found in about 1% of the population).
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  1503. That's exactly what it is.
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  1504. Good thinking.
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  1505. I'm a European in Canada: of course it's lawfare. It's alarming that many more Americans, including those who vote Democrat, remain in denial about the harm the Democratic Party has been doing to the US polity for well over a decade now.
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  1506. ​ @zeropointenergy777 Cheap energy is a liability. Sure, and I have bridge to sell you.
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  1507.  @fazilm1  Ukraine and the West are not going to honour ANY agreement they might sign with Russia -- that much is clear and certain -- so there's no point in pretending otherwise. Russia's security from NATO is worth the trouble of dealing Ukraine such a series of military blows that it's forced to capitulate and accept Russia's terms. I hope Kremlin manages to get Putin to understand this without further delay.
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  1508. The Russians had built 3 defense lines, each more formidable than the last. Ukrainian forces didn't reach even the 1st one!
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  1509. 🎯
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  1510. Without a doubt: Odessa and Kharkov, in whichever order the Russian General Staff decides is best.
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  1511. Exactly!
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  1512. Michael's working on the last chapters of a new book that deals with exactly what you're interested in. He mentioned this in another recent interview, but in the meantime, his other books are already treasure troves of information and types of analysis not to be found anywhere else.
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  1513.  @tadhgcronin175  There'll be time enough for that once NATO's history.
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  1514. Mark Sleboda, a Moscow-based American analyst, thinks the war will drag on for another 3-4 years. I hope he's wrong and Scott's right.
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  1515. ​​ @GeoffDay-t4g  I'm not sure what you mean as the UK isn't even a second tier power anymore. Its entire army can barely fill 2/3 of a football stadium.
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  1516. Europe's falling apart as we speak. Just last week, the head of the German stock exchange said that Germany's fast becoming a developing (i.e. a Third World) country. And that just two years after Germany chose not to buy inexpensive Russian gas from Russia itself.
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  1517.  @joshntn37111  What's wrong with suggesting you take a book with you to read while recovering from surgery or even just waiting in the ER?
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  1518. 😅
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  1519. Ukraine's again using civilian infrastructure for its military depots and warehouses. Has been doing so from Day 1.
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  1520. That ship was damaged last year and was not destroyed in the latest attack either.
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  1521. Ukraine should just default.
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  1522. ​ @Kharkovkid Now that's someone who cared!
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  1523. If he lives long enough to enjoy it.
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  1524. ​ @DiogoJ1 That's why NATO Stoltenberg's been saying for months if we lose in Ukraine, it will be a massive defeat for NATO. That's why various EU politicians have echoed him, too. Right.
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  1525. Gilmore was always slightly right wing, a centrist at best. Politically very conformist. In their private lives, on the other hand, Gilmore's by far the kinder, more caring man. Waters, on the other hand -- the less said, the better. Yet on politics, Waters is the one with integrity and courage.
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  1526. 😂
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  1527. The Mafia state.
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  1528. Two thirds of our (Canadian) economy depends on trade with the US. We never bothered to diversify, and not one of our federal parties is even talking about it!
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  1529. EU citizens know what they should do.
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  1530. ​ @destroyerarmor2846 Not just Gorbachev. Putin and Lavrov also bear full responsibility for pursuing a 20-year policy of appeasement towards the West.
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  1531. He's a liberal hegemonist. Has a whole book advocating liberal (Western/US) hegemony, i.e. Western imperialism.
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  1532. ❤
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  1533. No, Stephen F. Cohen never taught at Yale. He was at Princeton until retirement and at New York U. after.
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  1534. We'll, given their history of nastiness all over the world and what they actually did in WW2, what's there to be proud about?
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  1535. A barf moment, among many.
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  1536. ​ @kmr_tl4509  I don't know what it's like to starve to death, but there must have something in the Chinese culture that already instrumentalized children, so that in times of famine it was less difficult than in some other cultures to break the taboo against letting your children be killed and eaten by a family that similarly let you kill and eat their children. For a contrasting story, I can never forget the example of the Russian agriculture scientists who were in charge of the Soviet seed bank in Leningrad (today's Saint Petersburg). Each one of them chose to die of starvation rather than eat the grains they had access to because those seeds were necessary for the future of the country. I don't believe that after decades of the one-child policy, Chinese parents today would follow the desperate practice of their ancestors.
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  1537.  @alexg7836  The greatest opposition to joining the EU comes from the youth. Over 80% of under-30-year-olds reject it.
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  1538. Always great to hear from Mike Jones!
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  1539. In the meantime, scientists, researchers, and futurologists from over 100 countries (including the US) are meeting in Moscow for a future-oriented summit. 🙂
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  1540. Because it's Russian territory Lenin annexed to the borderlands to form a new nation, Ukraine. The Russians were ok with that until Kiev began assaulting the civilians of Donbass in 2014.
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  1541. Because all of that is Russian territory which Lenin annexed to the Borderlands in order to firm a new Soviet Republic called the Ukraine. After the dissolution of the USSR, most Russians were ok with that until Kiev began shelling the civilians of Donbass, the overwhelming majority of whom are ethnic Russians, the descendants of the people whose land the communists had annexed to the Borderlands/Ukraine.
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  1542. I'm totally disappointed in Wagenknecht and her political, moral integrity -- or, rather, her lack of integrity, as it turns out. Martyanov didn't specify or explain the reason for his disgust with her, so I had to do an Internet search to find out that she's now done a complete 180 degree turn, blaming NATO's proxy war on Putin. She's clearly sold her conscience for a chance of gaining a few seats in the forthcoming federal elections in Germany: such behaviour is aptly compared to prostituting oneself.
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  1543. ​ @bumble-g2j  Even when it was briefly held by the defenders of Donbass, Avdeevka was still in Ukraine. It ceased to be a Ukrainian town when the people of Donbass voted to rejoin Russia. From that moment on, Avdeevka became an occupied town in Russia. It's finally been liberated.
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  1544. ​ @macrosense In reality, NATO can't even supply Ukraine with the ammunition it needs to fight Russia! Come on, who's trying to fool whom here?! 😅
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  1545. Pure fiction. Russian fleet officers have not been using that building from the start of the SMO.
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  1546. I keep praying Putin will allow it. 🙏
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  1547. They know they can't stop the Russian advance, so this is the PR alternative.
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  1548. I hope only for the West. The rest of the world has suffered way more than their due at its hands
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  1549. Alexander's spun a plausible narrative about the dirty nuke claims, but he missed at least two very pertinent moments in the series of events that have brought us to this. First, Liz Truss's public statement some 6 weeks ago that the UK would nuke Russia if it used nuclear arms in Ukraine. The second was Macron's apparently unprovoked announcement that France would NOT use nuclear weapons against Russia in the event Russia used them in Ukraine. I maintain, as I did then, that the real reason Macron came out with such a startling statement -- and remember how viciously he was attacked for it by London, Washington, and Berlin -- is that the French intelligence services have information that a nuclear false flag is being planned in Ukraine as a pretext for nuking Russia. This also fits the rumours that some people in the US establishment are now discussing the feasibility of a limited nuclear war with Russia. I also believe that Ben Wallace flew out to Washington precisely as he himself said, i.e. to alert the Americans that their communications with the Brits had been breached and that Russia knows about their joint plans with Ukraine to stage a dirty nuke false flag in one of the 4 regions which have chosen to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Unlike Alexander, whose narrative has Shoigu and RF's military intelligence community falling for some idle chatter they overheard but which should not be taken seriously, I believe that the Russians have solid intelligence on this, bits and pieces of which Shoigu shared with the defence ministers of Turkey, France, and the UK. In other words, I have absolutely NO doubt that the Ukrainians are fully capable (and not just in the technical sense) of a false flag using dirty nukes and that the US and UK are on board with this. Last but not least, I don't believe that it's a coincidence that just as this was unfolding 1. the Western media intensified their absurd claims about Ukraine winning and Russia losing, a narrative necessary to make the public believe that Russia is desperate and might therefore resort to nuclear weapons (the false flag has to be made plausible before it happens) 2. Joseph Borrell and others came out to tell us that should Russia win in Ukraine, this would amount to a catastrophic defeat for NATO as a whole. It's this last that must be prevented at all cost, and those with a track record of nuking civilian cities cannot be expected to have serious qualms about nuking some more civilians as well as soldiers to preserve their hegemony. I think the Russians understand this and that Shoigu's phone calls, as well as the fact that they've now made their concerns about a planned dirty nuke false flag public, were moves made to pre-empt such a false flag by alerting the global public to its strong possibility. I hope these moves have achieved their goal and that the parties involved have dropped their plan. But that's only a hope: we all know that in Syria they went ahead with at least one false flag using chemical weapons even though many people had raised the alarm about it in advance. Unlike Syria, Russia is a nuclear superpower, something that just may deter the Anglo-Saxons and their friends in Ukraine.
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  1550. With all my heart! ❤
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  1551. We'll see. I think Macron will fold once again.
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  1552. Thank YOU, for being good friends to Serbia! ❤
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  1553. They're so cute -- until they open their mouths and you realize you're in the presence of an out-and-out predator.
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  1554. This is NATO's proxy war against Russia, announced in a 2019 TV interview by Olexei Arestovich, former advisor to Zelensky. According to Arestovich, the West had given Ukraine one key condition for joining the gang: fighting a war with Russia. In the same TV interview, Arestovich said the war would start any time between 2020 and 2022.
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  1555. ​ @michaelkatz275  Crime a river. Killers getting killed, having themselves spent the previous 7 and a half years killing Donbass civilians of a hated, despised ethnicity. But then, what's new in that -- Ukrainian nationalists did the same to Jews, Poles, and ethnic Russians under their beloved Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, too. It's a Ukrainian tradition.
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  1556. So many trolls out here today, this channel.must be doing something right! ❤
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  1557. The Odessa region is a part of Novorossiya, all of which, as we know from Putin's most recent speech, is going to be repatriated.
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  1558. Or London. He has an apartment there and was given a British citizenship by Boris Johnson.
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  1559. Ukraine's already rejected it.
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  1560. Your comparison between the number of missiles used by Russia's Black Sea fleet in the past 14 months and the number of Tomahawks the US used in the past 30 years was a fantastic eye-opener for me. Thank you so much for the information and anslysis you give us!
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  1561. He was visiting Donetsk *city*. But yes, he's in the region and fighting, as is.
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  1562. Congratulations on managing to miss all the factual errors and tendentious "interpretations" in Snyder's work.
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  1563. Going to the UK instead of Russia was his biggest, his only mistake.
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  1564. A very old saying indeed. It comes from Aristotle, although many have claimed it as their own insight.
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  1565. The political contexts of the two events are also markedly different. Vietnam was of no importance for the security of the USA, whereas what happens on or close to Russia's borders is clearly of extreme importance for its security interests. The public back home in Russia understand this very clearly and will only renew their demands to intensify the engagement in Ukraine.
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  1566. ​ @Must_not_say_that Falsely accused them of what?
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  1567. No, it's not. Mariupol is thriving.
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  1568. ​ @tatianaaust8827  Both of you are right. I hope to God Russians finally bring themselves to understand what they're dealing with.
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  1569. 😅
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  1570. About 2,000 a day.
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  1571. Bye.
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  1572. Mother Russia and her Daughter Serbia. 🙂
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  1573. ​ @ltravail  Yes, it is -- factual.
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  1574. There are no NK troops in Ukraine.
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  1575. ​ @JosephBisio Evidence such as, for example, the Ukrainian control tower inexplicably forcing the plane to a lower altitude, which put it in the path of the BUK missile that brought it down?
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  1576. I don't know about God, but nature certainly does.
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  1577. So, you're 95? 😂
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  1578.  @dustin628  It's just England.
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  1579. Because it can see it's dealing with totally irrational people capable of anything.
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  1580. Yup.
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  1581. 🤣
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  1582. He can't get out of France now. Unless he can get a boat to whisk him over to Kaliningrad.
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  1583. He's wrong about that, although we do have a sizeable liberal-Westernized urban elite who are either far more sceptical or outright dismissive of Russia. All of the "independent" media in Serbia are majority Western owned....
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  1584. Exactly.
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  1585. Marxist, eh? 😂😂😂
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  1586. It had a great run for some 500 years +. Time for it to sink into irrelevance and obscurity.
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  1587.  @13thmistral  Where? All the MSM that are reporting it carry footage of Zelensky inside a building addressing some 40-50 soldiers and taking photos with them. Not a single MSM has ANY outside footage of him in Bakhmut.
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  1588. Not Newsom, for sure.
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  1589. ​ @mydancinglife730  I'm Canadian, and yes, I am. Surprised at just how out to lunch Trump is, and without having Biden's excuse of old age dementia.
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  1590. Here in Canada, the supermarkets inside shopping malls are THE most expensive. I suspect the same holds for China.
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  1591. It's sickening. 🤮
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  1592. 😮
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  1593. 41 countries fighting against Russia in Ukraine, and they still can't defeat it! Go, Russia, go! ❤️
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  1594. ​ @magicroundabout5081  They had months to adjust to it, though. Something about this SMO simply makes no sense, is riddled by too many mistakes.
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  1595. I'm deeply sorry your mother failed you there. 😢
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  1596. You can guage the desperation of the pro-Ukraine side by the silly trolls here.
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  1597. It's an old neoliberal slogan, first popularized during the 1980s, the Era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
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  1598. It was the dumbest move for Finland, but, as they say, you can't fix stupid (and ungrateful. Had it not been for Russia, Finland would not even exist as a country.)
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  1599. Russia doesn't want more territories. At most, and only if pushed, for its own security reasons, it will go to the river Dnieper, which would form a natural boundary. As for the ninnies who keep repeating Western propaganda points about last year's dash to Kiev, every single military man on this planet knows it was a fixing operation and not an attempt to take Kiev.
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  1600. Your therapist told you the truth there, brutal as it sounded. What was brutal, of course, is the way your ex treated you and the children, as mere conveniences and status symbols.
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  1601. Awful. Ukraine's dysfunctional as all hell. I pity their recruits. 😢
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  1602. Yes, that was ludicrous.
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  1603. I second that. Michael Hudson is simply stellar.
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  1604. From the very beginning.
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  1605. Is that true? I'm a Canadian and have never heard of that.
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  1606. At least the beginning of the end of the trans craze.
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  1607. ​ @bassmanjr100 Because it's their ancestral home, maybe?
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  1608. Pro-democracy?! Come on, we expect better from you than to call pro-Western guerilla fighters that. 😅
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  1609. You can't be serious. The Poles need to sober up asap.
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  1610. ​ @WorkwithMe287  Russia is a multi-party democracy with a vibrant independent media scene and regularly held democratic elections. Ukraine, in contrast, has banned ALL opposition parties and ALL independent media and introduced an app Ukrainians can use to snitch on their neighbours.
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  1611. I think it's unwise to put a strict timeline to these things. From the safety of London, Zaluzhny's urging Ukrainian forces not just to keep going but to be absolutely ruthless. I understand he's one of the "ideologically motivated" Ukrainians.
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  1612. Why is the Armenian public accepting this?!
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  1613. Another essential analysis of what's really going on in Myanmar! And as Brian remarks at the end, if anything, China's not doing enough to protect itself from Belt & Road subversion and attempted US "containment" from Myanmar. Reminiscent of Russia's (in hindsight counterproductive) 8-year patience and forbearance with Ukraine.
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  1614. But that's true of most countries anywhere: great if you have enough money, but if you don't, not. At this point, 21% of Canadian families are skipping meals in order to make ends meet, and the situation is even worse in the UK. Superficially, both are great countries, but the lived reality for surprisingly huge chunks of their populations is anything but.
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  1615. Bulgarians voted them into power, so they most certainly do reflect the majority of the electorate.
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  1616. Barking is about right.
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  1617. True.
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  1618. How exactly do you support them?
    8
  1619. ​ @xenusceptic Ursula von der Leyen's lies notwithstanding, the EU is buying tons of Russian gas and oil, mostly via third parties.
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  1620. ​ @TheRadivoje They're delusional if they think Ukraine can ever retake Crimea. It was never its to have in the first place!
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  1621. Nobody thinks mothers are saints. It's just that all the data we have show fathers to be more dangerous to children than mothers are.
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  1622. Britain's days of "relevance" are over.
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  1623. The Netherlands is hopeless.
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  1624. Danny Haiphong is a critically acclaimed author of "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence" and a long time contributor to half a dozen US and international publications.
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  1625. Orban folded. I wonder if this will be to Hungary's benefit in the mid- to long term.
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  1626. ​ @tundeterez  True, but it's still very well worth keeping in mind.
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  1627.  @clauso72  Hope dies last, living off the corpses of all the men killed to keep it alive.
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  1628. That was its primary aim: it was the Soviets response to NATO.
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  1629. Well said.
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  1630. Anyone who studies Chaucer learns about the Peasants' Revolt. I don't know, though, if Chaucer is still on the A'Level English syllabus as he was a few decades ago.
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  1631. ​ @matthewfusaro2590  They had excellent satellite imagery of the depth of defenses the Russians have set up over the past 6-8 months, i.e. since their first troop mobilization (I'm calling it the first because I suspect we may see at least one more). So they knew things would be very different this time. I attribute what we're seeing to the absolute callousness on Zelensky's part and on the part of those of his Western enablers both in the US and the EU who really do want to fight this proxy war to the last Ukrainian. Some of these people are simply irrational in their ethnic hatred of Russia and the Russians..
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  1632. ​ @lowersaxon It's probably how the first sentence got translated into Russians.
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  1633. Bears are angels now?! 😅
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  1634. ​ @Thomas...191 A richness of lies, fabrications, and omissions.
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  1635. ​ @randygraham926  They've already shown more restraint than anyone had the right to hope for
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  1636. ​ @bluechurch776  Except that Lavrov is so giddy with their talks in Rhyad, he's practically Americans "our partners" all over again. Here's an excerpt: “I believe the discussions were highly productive,” Lavrov said, adding, “Not only did we listen, but we genuinely heard each other.” He further stated that he had reason to believe the American side “now has a clearer understanding of Russia’s position,” as it had been “thoroughly detailed” using specific examples drawn from President Putin’s numerous statements.
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  1637. What happened in 1989 is that a bunch of French special forces were smuggled into Romania to commit the massacre attributed to the Ceauşescu regime. I wonder how many Romanians are aware of this.
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  1638. More like 450,000 KIAs, plus 2-3 times that number of seriously wounded.
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  1639. And lucky. We don't want to recognize the element of sheer irrational luck because it reminds us that life is inherently unfair.
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  1640. That's how gullible people get destroyed.
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  1641. It will take them decades to accept they aren't the world's #1 in anything (except crime and the number of prisoners it has).
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  1642.  @pindapoy1596  Yep, that's the quote. And all anthropologists on the planet alternately guffawed and shook their heads at that politically motivated nonsense.
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  1643. Scott Ritter explained in a livestream yesterday that the Abrams tanks the US is pledging to Ukraine will have to be manufactured first. He estimates that this will take up to a year.
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  1644. The US is. And is definitely paying attention. As for Israel, we'll have to wait to see.
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  1645. Good!
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  1646. Don't see it happening as far as the capital's concerned.
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  1647. No conversation has taken place. But you just carry on worshipping your idol.
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  1648. Grayzone, Reducted, The New Atlas come to mind.
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  1649. You haven't noticed? Where do you live?
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  1650. The laughter of fools never bothers the wise. 😘
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  1651.  @todd-617  If you call it coping when almost a full third of the Brits can't afford to eat 3 meals a day any longer. 😂
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  1652. I'm a 68-year old retired college professor from Canada, where the situation is exactly the same. By the mid-2000s, the foreign students in my communications and humanities courses had better, larger English lexicons than their Canadian-born and educated counterparts. I haven't looked at more recent research on this (if we're even producing any, anymore), but by the late 1990s, almost a quarter (23%) of the graduates of the University of Waterloo, for example, were functionally illiterate. Nor is it difficult to see why that should be the case. A student of mine, for example, who had earned a first degree in anthropology at Carleton University had never written a single paper in the 4 years of her undergraduate studies in Ottawa. The engineering students I had at the University of Toronto in the late 1990s, where I was a post-grad teaching assistant, could write better and more coherently than many of my humanities students just a decade later. Their knowledge of history is equally abysmal.
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  1653. Political pressure.
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  1654. ​ @chantellucky4565  Most of those who've been traumatized DON'T go around trying to get the upper hand over others, as you put it, or trying to kill people.
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  1655. It costs Europe a lot more, and unlike Russia, who never once tried to use its energy supply to Europe as political leverage, for blackmail, you can count on the US to do so.
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  1656. 19-year olds are teens, too. Did he know she was 15?
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  1657. I think so. It also monitors the dress code among Iranian men.
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  1658.  @Natalya.57.Volkova  What did Nuland's grandfather do?
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  1659.  @bobobobfellerann4765  Thank you for that explanation. What puzzles me about Nuland is that she must know the fate of Jews in WW2 Ukraine, where they were betrayed to the Nazis by their Ukrainian nationalist neighbours and/or outright slaughtered by Stepan Bandera and his followers. Her evident, virulent hatred of Russia, which liberated Auschwitz, rather than of Ukraine, which had killed her ethnic kin, seems very strange to me. You clearly know a lot more about her background than I, so perhaps you have some insight on this, too.
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  1660. No, since Russia was not relevant within the immediate context of that statement.
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  1661. As they've done over and over again since September 2022.
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  1662. Except that neither of those countries had spent the previous 8 years shelling its German speaking populations or denying their right to speak their own language and practice their own culture.
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  1663.  @khairt1731  Kosovars are Albanians, and overwhelmingly illegal immigrants from Albania.
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  1664. One can only hope. It would be the merciful thing to do for the sake of what's left of Ukraine.
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  1665. Vietnam. Haiti. Nicaragua. Granada. Iraq. Afghanistan. Syria. And that's just the ones I remember offhand. The full list is much, much longer.
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  1666. I agree!
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  1667. I think it's about the suitcases full of dollars the State Department flies to Berlin every month.
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  1668. Yeah, like someone or other hasn't claimed it regularly over the past 2,000 years!
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  1669. ​ @JesseReza-g4l Absolutely for humanity, although I'm definitely concerned about their excessively pro-Israel posture.
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  1670. ​ @finderskeepers7293 Ukrainian and Baltic ones, yes. Most of the German Nazis ended up at home in Germany, in South America, and the USA (in that order). A smattering went to Spain. Btw, Germany paid them state pensions, including the ones who'd fled abroad, till the end of their lives.
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  1671. I do blame Orban. He shiuld have seen it coming, and he folded. I agree about the EU being a mafia.
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  1672. A fraction of what they're spending on the military.
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  1673. "our international order*?! It's not yours, Olaf. It's THE international order. (Honestly, these gardeners just can't help themselves: their sense of superiority leaks out noatter how much they try to put on a friendly front. Scholz was just sucking up to India. I wouldn't trust him an inch -- his recognition of India's importance (duh!) is a ploy, it's bloody patronising and condescending, that's what it is. Try to imagine him saying that about France, or Canada, the US or the UK!)
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  1674. Germany has become a laughing stock.
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  1675. That WaPo article bemoaning the fact that Ukraine will have to give up the Russian territories the USSR had previously given to the borderlands to form a new republic called Ukraine gives me hope: at least WaPo isn't talking about a direct confrontation with Russia and the nuclear war that would ensue.
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  1676. ​ @trevortrevortsr2 All of the above are demonstrably facts.
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  1677. Russia currently has 480,000 soldiers in reserve: all of them well trained men who volunteered to join the armybin the last 18 months.
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  1678. ​ @DudeNoEdge  American and European imperialism are a matter of incontestable record. China, in contrast, never sought or developed overseas colonies.
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  1679. What does your skin colour and sexual preference have to do with this or with your support of Palestine?!
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  1680. In the UK and elsewhere (US, Canada, etc), it was the need of industrial capitalism for an obedient, regimented workforce that led to the establishment of public schools and compulsory education.
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  1681. You've just quoted Kissinger, of course.
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  1682. It's simply disgusting, but not surprising any more
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  1683. A lot of Ukrainians understand it, too. That's why they're doing their very best to avoid conscription.
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  1684. I hope so.
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  1685. ​ @Cui-bono987  Yes, seriously. There must be a video of her saying that somewhere on YouTube.
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  1686.  @beslanintruder2077  Outside sources are blatantly lying if that's what they're claiming. For decades before the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Kosovo had a special autonomous region status with full cultural autonomy for Kosovo Albanians. The entire educational system, including university education, was designed to deliver instruction in Albanian, for example. There's absolutely no truth to claims about Serbian repression of Kosovo Albanians.
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  1687. God bless Crimea and the rest of Russia! Stay strong and carry on. Truth and justice are on your side. Love from Canada. ❤
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  1688. They're hiding from you how badly Ukraine's losing.
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  1689. When is Pearson NOT experiencing some kind of chaos?! THE worst international airport I've had the misfortune to have to use. I mean, by far the worst. Pearson's such an embarrassment!
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  1690. Competent?! She made a God-awful mess of it!
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  1691. And by the sheer amount of production China does. In production terms, it's outranked the US and EU combined!
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  1692. ​​ @2funny269 e was a member of Donbass defenders but has been living in Russia for a while now and was a military blogger.
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  1693.  @DTJKS  The last 20+ years actually, as NATO violated every verbal AND written promise it had made to the Russians not to expand eastwards.
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  1694. Well done, India!
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  1695. I hope so.
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  1696. You're confused: it was Obama who put a bunch of mega-corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs and fascists in power in Kiev so Joe Biden's son et al can plunder yet another country.
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  1697. That's exactly what it is: a shakedown.
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  1698. Depends on what kind of a winter Europe will have this year. Another mild winter could defer the real crisis for yet another year, but the problem can't be deferred indefinitely.
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  1699. "Territory known as Ukraine" = Russia's borderlands
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  1700. There's a Black American who's been living in Russia for years now who either has his YouTube channel or was interviewed quite extensively by someone else. I'm terrible with names, and his escapes me right now.
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  1701. With "King" Charles, no less. (I can't consider Jug Ears as anything but the bloke who wished he was Camilla's tampon. A king he ain't, no matter what the House of Windsor, a.k.a. the Huns, might say.)
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  1702. I'm astonished that you appear to believe Macron and Scholz can ever regain any credibility with the Russians, who'd be mad to trust ANY European leaders for at least the next 1-2 generations!
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  1703. That's not the problem. The problem are the genocidal economic policies the IMF has imposed on African countries.
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  1704. ​ @christinepeach8213  Not more. Just as.
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  1705. ​ @PigeoneerToy Thank you for your moral clarity. It's disturbing how many people are willing to exonerate her even after she's had years to reconsider and break the toxic bond she has with her criminal father.
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  1706. ​ @mariadamen7886  Johnson came months later. What happened was that the US and the Europeans rejected even negotiating a mutual security arrangement with Russia, although the Russians had said explicitly that in the absence of such negotiations, it would be forced to take "military-technical measures" to ensure its security from NATO encirclement.
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  1707. ​ @alessandrolombardi9329  According to New York Times, the ratio of losses varies from 1:6 to 1:10 in Russia's favour. Perhaps you consider that deep Russian propaganda.
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  1708. 😂
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  1709. There were videos of such scenes on YouTube in 2014.
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  1710. Finally! 🎉
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  1711. Why? It's been serving the US so well ever since its inception.
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  1712. There's no coup. Don't exaggerate. 😅
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  1713. A swarm of NATO bots in these comments.
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  1714. ​ @patriciapatriciagray-thorp9574  The boy told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated.
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  1715. I'm seriously tempted to visit Kazan during the upcoming BRICS+ summit! ❤
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  1716. Thailand's joining, and I expect Indonesia to follow suit in a few years.
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  1717. ​ @klausschwabshubris  Try polishing up your reading skills.
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  1718. As expected.
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  1719. ​ @wafudave6041  A favourite Ukrainian meme. Their mythology about Russia is above amusing. 😅
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  1720. Appalling.
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  1721. In other words, Russia alone is NATO's peer, one country vs 31 countries.
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  1722. ​​@@schakrei The Russians are living better than fine. Wake up! Everything's changed. But everything.
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  1723. Poor people, being sent to their deaths for the sake fattening Zelensky's wallet still further.
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  1724. Well, they're at least right on inflation in the West. As for China, a growth rate of 6% is something the rest of the world can only dream of.
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  1725. Germans should thank Xi for the lecture in prudence and geopolitics he gave to Scholz. We can only hope that there are political forces in Germany who're paying attention and drawing appropriate conclusions regarding their country's future.
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  1726. What do you think it's been doing all along? 😅
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  1727. ​ @komisossoutsidi5801  5 of the 6 were intercepted and the 6th damaged. Before this fiasco, Ukraine had something like 50 ATACMS all told.
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  1728. How many trillions has the US army misplaced and missing? What do you think the lobby system is? 😅
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  1729. Absolutely! Chestnuts used to be dried and ground into a flour, too; most of Medieval Europe subsisted on chestnut bread.
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  1730. ❤
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  1731. Good thing I didn't take your word for it! 😘
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  1732. He's not in the business of spreading lies.
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  1733. Occupiers have no right to self defense in international law. The occupied have the right to resist with any means necessary.
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  1734. What chaos? I follow a number of channels by Westerners living in China, and things appear to be better than fine over there.
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  1735. Actually, that's brilliant, as truth-telling always is.
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  1736. Exactly. Brazen exploitation of their suffering.
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  1737. I'm astonished how lightly the American public has taken this. When your military displays such disrespect for the constituional order and their own institutional obligations and duties, you're more than half way down the road of transgorming into a banana republic.
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  1738. ​@ailinofaolin8897 They'll lose Ugledar, too, regardless
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  1739. Many thanks!
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  1740. Poor you.
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  1741. Depends on how sane the Americans are. If they want to survive and do well, at the loss of their empire and their hegemony, then we'll be fine. If they prefer to indulge their death wish, they'll destroy themselves and most of us, too. Africa and South America should weather it to a certain extent, and the new human civilizations will all be black and brown skinned. May they be wiser and do better than we were.
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  1742. You can call something a failure of diplomacy if diplomacy had been tried in earnest and with the aim of producing a different result. I very much doubt that was actually the case in Ukraine or in Israel-Palestine.
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  1743. ​ @VioletJoy  You have a touching faith in the police. 95% of reported rapes in the UK are never investigated. It's frightening, really, how little protection the police offer the abused.
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  1744. 😂
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  1745. ​ @MA-go7ee Germany's economy took off due to those two factors, plus the huge number of foreign workers willing to do the work post-war Germans saw as beneath them. Certainly, without cheap Soviet and then Russian oil and gas, Germany would not have become the economic force it was until a year ago.
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  1746. ​ @JohnDoe-zb5mt They have not yet reached the FIRST of Russian defense lines, that's how "good" they've been so far. Three months, and losses to the tune of 60,000 men, NOT to reach let alone breach just the first of several Russian defense lines is probably the worst any Western proxy force has ever performed. Ukraine was forced into this utterly disastrous offensive (nothing counter about it) by US neocons, notably Victoria Nuland and her family. I remember her bragging back in March how "we" had spent months training, equipping and preparing Ukrainian forces for a spring "counteroffensive" and how glorious it was going to be.
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  1747. Tragic and true.
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  1748. 25 elderly men, all pensioners. 🤣
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  1749. I didn't like Gaddafi but his reign will be remembered as Libya's Golden Age. What the West did to that country is unforgivable.
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  1750. ​ @L8again902 Because the Natives are the only ones whose home this country actually is. Everyone else, including you and me, is a settler colonialist. You're just upset that we now have a lot more brown skinned settlers in Ontario and elsewhere than ever before. Deal with it.
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  1751. It's not being used by the staff, and the Ukrainians must know it. They're hitting an empty building in their impotence, killing a caretaker the other night.
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  1752. ​ @viktoriyaserebryakov2755 What "incredibly vague accusations"?! It's perfectly clear that the Israeli authorities were warned in advance of a planned, major Hamas action -- and that they ignored the warnings. Any reasonable, unbiased, i.e. impartial person cannot but conclude that Nattanyahu allowed Hamas to go ahead with its attack. Moreover, had this attack been prevented, it's also clear that Nettanyahu would be tried and sentenced for corruption within the next few months. Which answers the proverbial Qui bono question.
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  1753. Yes. It's insulting.
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  1754. It was just one (and by no means the worst) of the MANY lies Zelensky told in front of the media.
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  1755. Yep. Russia's had enough of American and EU greed and arrogance.
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  1756. Some of the homeless are already asking for it. 😢
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  1757. Apartment rents in Belgrade, Serbia have gone through the roof thanks to the influx of moneyed Ukrainian "refugees" there. As for the actual cost of real estate, and for the same reason, it's now significantly cheaper to buy a flat in Athens, Greece than in Belgrade.
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  1758. The Budapest Memorandum was violated by the EU back in 2013, when it used an economic ultimatum for a geopolitical end (see Article 3 of the BM). From that point on, there's been nothing in international law to guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity since Ukraine never registered its borders with the UN. The Minsk Accords never had a chance and were only a ploy to allow NATO to arm Ukraine to the gills. I don't recall offhand which Western politician admitted this publicly just in the last 6 weeks, but there's no controversy over that fact. I only feel sorry for ordinary, normal Ukrainians -- not their vicious, ethnic-hatred-ridden uber-nationalists -- who fell for Zelensky's promise to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish friendly relations with Russia and voted him to power with a 73% majority.
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  1759. 🎯
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  1760. Yes, that's what the famed American democracy has become. People don't dare what they really think for fear of losing their jobs, etc. And it's like that in Europe, too. I'm in Canada and will be moving as soon as I sell my house. The West is becoming unbearable. 😢
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  1761. They'll be operated by NATO troops.
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  1762. I don't fear Marine Le Pen.
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  1763. 😅​ @PhiloSurfer 
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  1764. It can't be done peacefully, alas. The very system that helped psychopaths to power must be reformed.
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  1765. Bingo!
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  1766. It backed away and out of Afghanistan, eventually, so I think it will realize one day the smartest move is to back out of Ukraine too.
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  1767.  @BillMartin-h2g  Nobody's seriously discussing it either in Brussels or Washington.
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  1768. ​ @MikeyPaper  The Ugly Canadian is fast becoming a real thing.
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  1769. No, it's not. At about the 15 min mark, Hall explains how there was a well-established precedent for changing the copy -- it was normal practice.
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  1770. Shoigu announced it yesterday: 70,000 volunteers who will be added to the 300,000 reservists, 200,000 of whom are already in training.
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  1771. Note how he reverses reality on its head when he claims that "other people" (the "weak" ones) refuse to be alone with him because they don't trust themselves with him. It's the exact opposite, of course: they can't trust him not to hurt them in the absence of others, of eyewitnesses to how he behaves and treats them. Also, note the put-down in characterizing those whom he hurts, who do object to his behaviour, as not strong, i.e. as weak.
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  1772. ​ @jacekboczarski6698  There are several YouTube channels by both Russians and foreigners living in Russia that regularly cover cities and towns outside the big two, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. They all look remarkably clean and well cared for.
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  1773. Love and support from Serbia.
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  1774. Ditto!
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  1775. Have you tried playing calming music to the pup and/or using calming essential oils on him?
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  1776. The zoom meeting was about Gaza. Let's hope they came up with a workable plan to stop the atrocities Israel is committing there 24/7.
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  1777. That's fascinating!
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  1778. They will be remembered and mourned by their families. And are very much on the mind of everyone I know personally who supports Russia: as among the many innocent victims of this proxy war.
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  1779. Au contraire, mon cher. To be recognized as a sovereign state in international law, Ukraine should have registered its borders with the UN. That's what international law requires. Why Ukraine failed to do so at any point in the last 33 years is anybody's guess, but it certainly reflects the laziness and the irresponsibility of its ruling class.
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  1780. Check out Brian Berletic of The New Atlas, Major Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor, too. The guys at the Duran have also been doing excellent geopolitical analyses.
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  1781. Way too long. Try publishing it as an article with one of the independent media.
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  1782. It will, after it collapses economically.
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  1783. Let's hope so. Germany's been known to eventually cave in to every demand the Yanks have made, so we'll see if they actually stay the course on Leopard tanks.
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  1784. 😂🎉😂
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  1785. It would violate the constitution of the RF, so it's a non-starter. Trump talks a lot of hot air.
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  1786.  @piotrcagara7512  But Europe is no longer Christian and hasn't been for quite a while. It is busy rejecting its own past greatness and intellectual and cultural achievements, too. In short, the European civilization is experiencing a rapid decline and continuing moral degradation. I say continuing because Europe's never really confronted the evil at the heart of its 20th century self, and has never made any serious, genuine attempt to climb out of the moral abyss WW2 showed the world it had sunk into.
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  1787. Biden's a socialist?! How can Alex repeat such a politically illiterate, cretinous statement with a straight face and imagine that doing so doesn't erode the credibility of this channel?
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  1788. It was an apartment building, actually. Even worse, that is.
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  1789. They never captured Robotyne, only claimed to have done so.
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  1790. 😅
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  1791. I don't have children, but I have clear recollections of how we used to get around our parents when I was a kid. Stop blaming parents for what sickos do.
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  1792. I gave up on that following a visit to Italy about 10 years ago, when a friend asked me sarcastically if I support dictators for criticising the US illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq.
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  1793.  @ZOFIELHERRERA-wy3yo  You can scream "wrong" as much as you like, but it's just facts.
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  1794. ​​ @jmasel2789  Go to the media. Go public with it. Your son deserves to be protected.
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  1795. No, Russia has NOT given up or withdrawn from the Kherson Oblast. Its forces have withdrawn from the west bank of the Dnieper, where Kherson city lies, and have taken their positions on the east bank. When the reinforcements from the partial mobilization arrive, they will either retake Kherson city OR leave it to a rump Ukraine as a bargaining chip in any future peace negotiations. But the region itself is and remains firmly in Russian hands.
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  1796. In a word, disgusting.
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  1797. Zionists did originally think of moving to Uganda. A piece of Nevada would work just as well.
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  1798. If we were to judge a national standard of living by the percentage of households who own their homes, both Slovenia and Serbia would come far on top of Germany as most Germans rent, not own, their homes.
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  1799. YouTube censorship. He'll be back next week, I hear.
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  1800. Independent journalists, mainly. Very (but very) few European ones have reported from anywhere in Donbass.
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  1801. ​@scrapin4mhe Only a misogynist would think that way about women.
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  1802. ​ @RainerMichelle  Eastern Vikings, the ones you're referring to, were ethnic Russians. Most people -- such is the state of our education and our relation to reality, more broadly -- don't know that Russians themselves were also Vikings, assuming that the term applies only to Danish and Scandinavian maritime marauders.
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  1803. He wasn't even exiled. Moved to London, UK, in 2014 and has kept his Russian passport, too. I love his detective novels, and it's such a shame to discover that, politically, he's a shameless, brazen liar. A pity.
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  1804. Thank you!
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  1805. For the algorithm.
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  1806. It depends entirely on the regime in Kiev. The longer they refuse to negotiate, the more territory they'll lose.
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  1807. ​ @Marmocet Huntington knows whereof he speaks of. The West's dominance was as much a result of its values as Genghis Khan's was.
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  1808. It's also a phrase made famous by Inspector Cluseau of Pink Panther fame.
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  1809. ​ @Леонид-н7ж  Calm down. He was referring to the American public, the civilians who are being deceived by their politicians and their media. As he says, the US military is fully aware of the real facts of the matter.
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  1810. ​ @matej2007  Nobody asked for yours either.
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  1811. Urrraaaa!
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  1812. True, but in both cases, it's a matter of the majority.
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  1813. This will drag on for a while because the collective West is still egging on Kiev to fight and not to return to the negotiating table.
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  1814. ​ @henrys.6864 There's an American village built just outside Moscow
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  1815. ​ @GASNICABRUNATNA  On the contrary: strength, health and vitality come from hybrid vigour.
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  1816. That would be nice.
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  1817. I watched the entire interview and the two hours just flew by!
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  1818. 😅
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  1819. ​​@chriszzw30 Nah. You're confusing him with Zelensky.
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  1820. No Western army has (in living memory) faced the conditions such as in and around Bakhmut. Brian Berletic posted an excellent analysis of it just yesterday: essential viewing if you want to understand why the Russians aren't rushing it.
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  1821. Her age doesn't enter into it. She's been fudging things for years now, deliberately.
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  1822. Ukraine lost a long time ago. It never stood a chance once it walked back from the peace agreement it had initialled in Istanbul in March 2022.
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  1823. It's nice to see your channel growing day by day. 🎉
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  1824. ​ @MichaelKurse  Roger Waters has lived in NYC for 30+ years and is on his 3rd American wife now. It's not affected his accent one little bit.
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  1825. BRICS will have its own regulations, though none of the silly bureaucratic ones about the acceptable length of carrots, for example, and it already has some political conditions for joining it. To illustrate: no country may join BRICS if it engages in any sanctions regimes against other BRIC members.
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  1826. I wish the interviewer had asked her to expound a bit on her last point: for example, what does she mean by "higher order" questions.
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  1827. Denial is a river in Egypt, right? 😅
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  1828. He's expressing perfectly reasonable, ethically well-founded disdain for the idiocy and the utter lack of morality on display in Europe.
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  1829. ​ @vhawk1951kl  You should see a shrink about that.
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  1830. ​ @egay86292 Well, he didn't start any new ones. In contrast to his predecessor, who started 5!
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  1831. ​ @kitcat4512 I'm not aware of any significant protests against this in the UK.
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  1832. They were in the process of getting divorced and both were already in new relationships. Why would she, given the circumstances, have decided to disappear without a trace in order to start some mysterious new life who knows where? And why would she have bothered staging things so as to incriminate a man she was divorcing anyway? On the other hand, the most meticulous search of all those CC tapes couldn't place him anywhere near the supposed scene of abduction. He simply wasn't there. And her phone did look deliberately placed to be found at the particular spot where it was found. Finally, I don't believe for a moment that the police could not have spotted those blood stains using the special light they had because it was a rainy day. Especially since one of the stains, the largest one, is clearly visible to the naked eye and is supposed to be a heavy blood stain! So far, I can only conclude that the jury had several grounds for a reasonable doubt about his guilt, but it would be good to see what the second part of this investigation revealed.
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  1833. ​ @radicalmind5742  It was a political mistake on Putin's part: he thought, as it did seem plausible at the time, that a small expeditionary force, which is what the Russians originally started with, would serve to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table and make actual war unnecessary. And it almost worked: Ukraine did initial the peace agreement worked out in Turkey in March 2022.
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  1834. ​ @cango5679  Zelensky won the 2019 elections on a platform promising the implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia. He got 70% of the vote (none of which came from Donbas, since the people of Donbas were deprived of their right to vote). It's reasonable to assume that many of those who'd expected the implementation of the Minsk Accords from Zelensky but got a bloody proxy war attrition with Russia no longer support him.
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  1835. I'm a feminist, and I applaud this young woman. 🙂👍
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  1836. ​​ @theMYLF  They clearly don't. Almost half of the forces being either fat or obese?
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  1837. When someone does to you what that man did to her in New York, you have to be a little crazy to continue to have any contact with him.
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  1838. ​ @JackRichardsonM8  Training? 😂
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  1839. As Shoigu pointed out, Russia has reservist forces numbering 25 million. The current mobilization represents 1.1% of that.
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  1840. He's a liberal hegemonist. Has a whole book advocating liberal (Western/US) hegemony, i.e. Western imperialism.
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  1841.  @elijahcriswell1658  He was conflicted and couldn't give her an answer there and then. He communicated his ambivalence very clearly.
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  1842. I'm amazed Russia didn't do so months ago!
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  1843. Exactly!
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  1844. It's also those who allow themselves to be bought by them, and all the rest of us who tolerate this state of affairs and a system that makes it both possible and legal.
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  1845. The rot set in back in the 1990s.
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  1846. ​ @salvadorpeters7375  You have to find a way to force your oligarchs into giving up the obscene rates of profit they got used to over the past 30-40 years. Once upon a time, corporate tax rates were as high as 90%. It's doable.
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  1847. 😂
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  1848. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074 And lost the war and his entire army in the end! 😂
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  1849. Depends on what kind of a winter Germany gets this year.
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  1850. As in Germany.
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  1851. ​ @brolohalflemming7042  In weakening the EU. As for Russia, it's stronger than ever before. You could say, only half of his plan failed. (Talking about Blinken et al leaves me feeling dirty, sallied.)
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  1852. ​ @cogitoergosum1474 There's such a thing in international law as the right to preemptive invasion/war/strike. A right that's recognized for a very good reason.
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  1853.  @edvinasbrilius7403  No doubt you and the collective West are right. 😜
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  1854. Don't be so naive! Scholz was trying to butter up Modi, nothing sincere in what he said. It's positively patronising for a German chancellor to "recognize" India's importance! The only reason he's doing it is because BRICS country have overtaken G7 nations economically.
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  1855. It's not that he lacks pragmatism -- no, it's not that which destroyed Syriza as a viable Left-wing party -- but that he lacked the courage to do the pragmatic thing that would have saved the Greek economy. His ideological commitment to the EU made Greece into a German colony for the next 100 years. Varoufakis betrayed Greece for his love of the EU. There's no getting around that.
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  1856. ​​ @johannespaulfrank3441  The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior were never de-Nazified post-WW2. As per research findings of a group of German historians (published in the past 18 years or so).
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  1857. ​ @yurichtube1162 So do I. It's a very pernicious political organization, harbouring pro-fascist countries such as the Baltics and Croatia.
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  1858. Since when does an occupier have the right to self-defense?
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  1859. They absolutely do play a role, as you point out. So does the insane decision to appropriate the Russian reserve currency funds held abroad. Other countries have been pulling out their reserve currency funds from the West at the speed of light this past year. On top of which, they've stopped investing in the US. The States lost a whopping 80% of foreign direct investment in the last 12 months, all due to the incredible arrogance and greed of the people presently running the country.
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  1860.  @vesakaitera2831  And with all that fabulous help from the US and NATO, Ukraine's getting destroyed even though it had the largest, NATO-trained army in Europe in 2022. Finland and Sweden can now look forward to an even worse fate as neither of them have an army even 1/3rd the size of what Ukraine did two years ago.
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  1861. Not a sober-minded analysis.
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  1862. 😅
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  1863. I don't think that recession equals economic collapse. Germany is certainly in a recession, but it's a huge exaggeration to say that its economy has collapsed.
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  1864. At least 75%, I think.
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  1865. American Jews have the same privilege. Though I don't see how a person who's "failed to sustain himself" in either Europe or anywhere else in the world can afford the price of a plane ticket to Israel.
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  1866. France and Italy aren't doing zilch to harm or contain Germany. It's an entirely American project.
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  1867. Things must be going really badly for Ukraine that its Western supporters feel compelled to litter this comment section with their absurdities quite so vehemently as is the case today. Meanwhile, the Swiss newspaper le Temps reports on the secret decision of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to restrict the access of Western journalists to the battlefield.
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  1868. Indeed!
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  1869. Thank you for that detail.
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  1870. Re. Gen. Milley: "He better go watch 9 and 1/2 weeks. It's a great movie". 😂 God bless Andrei Martyanov and God bless Russia.
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  1871. ​ @antonywooster6783  Except that their attempts have all backfired, something they should have noticed by now. 😅
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  1872. The possibility of NATO directly intervening in Ukraine (beyond the proxy war parameters, that is) is what has been worrying me for months now. I think Russia's biggest mistake has been its decision not to finish this quickly, using it's overwhelming military power. There are reports now from the front that the Russian forces have been regularly ordered to stand down precisely when they are at the point of decisively routing the Ukrainian forces. iEarlGrey talks about it in a video he posted on Dec. 30 it 31.
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  1873. ​ @notserpentis Not really. Overwhelmingly most Serbs support Russia. We've never had any close ties to or warm feelings about Ukrainians.
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  1874. 😂
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  1875. ​ @torgnyhansson7409  Russia's still pussy-footing it in Ukraine. Just one Sarmat missile alone would be enough to flatten all of central and Western Ukraine.
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  1876. First-rate analysis, as always. I can't emphasize enough the enormous respect I have for Brian and his unassailable integrity.
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  1877. ​@OneBigUnionPrecisely.
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  1878. Yeah, that was cringe.
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  1879. Europe's a slow learner.
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  1880. It's a disgrace.
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  1881. ​ @bernt66  As a Canadian, I'm fed up and disgusted with my fellow Canadians who seem to believe that the problem started and rests with this government. Our parliament honoured the same Ukrainian Nazi in 2008, too. Ever since the end of WW2, we Canadians, our grandparents and parents, have lived perfectly content with our country's policy of giving shelter to German Nazis and Ukrainian, Baltic, and Croatian Nazi collaborators. Suddenly, we're now ashamed of what our entire parliament did last month, pretending to the rest of the world that this was an aberration!
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  1882. Don't be silly.
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  1883. Love and support from Canada!
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  1884. Praying for Russell.
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  1885. He's a fool if he doesn't.
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  1886.  @bengale9977  Less than 2% of the territory it had previously liberated. Doesn't seem all that much to me.
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  1887. Jews lived side by side with Arabs in perfect amity for over a thousand years.
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  1888. Alexander must have taped this video without realizing Russia HAS officially denied that they were negotiating any energy infrastructure deal with Ukraine. Maria Zaharova has flat out rebutted such rumours or claims.
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  1889. Not always. Russia offered only friendship and love to the West, but the door did not open as the West responded with derision, rejection and hatred.
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  1890. NATO flew it out of Libya the moment that was doable.
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  1891. ​ @Stephen-4722  The use of civilians as a human shield is a war crime. Amnesty International has a whole report on Ukraine's use of human shields. And that's just for starters.
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  1892. ​ @TheAlgorath Wagner was founded to provide a better payment system for especially distinguished Russian army veterans, in the first place, because it was felt that the army's payment system didn't properly remunerate its best. This is why Wagner's so effective: it consists of Russian army's most skilled and battle hardened veterans. Prigozhin's inmate forces were just a sideshow, never more than 15-20% of Wagner's troops.
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  1893. Just keep telling yourself that. 😜
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  1894. They're moving to India, China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. Most definitely not to North America.
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  1895. There's nothing new in that. Just the old, well-established British foreign policy.
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  1896. ​ @jonahtwhale1779  when it comes to sports, i.e. activities in which sex differences is size, masculatire, etc. are determining of performance -- men should compete with other men, and women with women. This is not sexism but elementary fairness -- and you know it.
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  1897. You expecting the bully to reform?
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  1898. These Europeans are hilarious! 😅
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  1899. It wasn't Russia but Ukraine that kept shelling innocent civilians for 8 years. The war began in 2014, as Jens Stoltenberg, head of NATO, let slip the other week.
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  1900. The first iteration of Nazis loved the occult, too.
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  1901. Nah. It's just that a lot of Russian Jews live in Israel.
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  1902. Greed. And German revanchism.
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  1903. ​ @JohnJohnson-n3n  Speaking from experience, are you? 😅
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  1904. 😂😂😂
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  1905. The Ottoman Empire fell from within. Exactly what's happening to the US empire and Western hegemony.
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  1906. ​​ @alexdetrojan4534  You say as though this were a bad thing, but Africans understand they need to have a big brother around to make sure the Western bully doesn't try to stage a comeback. Smart of Africa, actually.
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  1907. Shame on your son for participating in that.
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  1908. That was very much in honour of Russia itself at least as much as in honour of Putin himself.
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  1909. ​ @mattmccaughen7371 Indian channels have shown videos of a Ukrainian ship being destroyed and of a Ukrainian landing party (from a boat) being annihilated with Russian artillery.
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  1910. I remember Scott Ritter explaining back in June 2022 that the battlefront had become a real Hell on Earth by then. And that hasn't changed at all. Ukrainian casualties are simply unimaginable, with over 1,000 men dying each and every day. 😢
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  1911. Barred from owning animals and required to do 500 hours of community work. Also, forced to financially compensate for their loss the owners of the dog that died as the result of her dog's actions.
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  1912. I very much hope you're right.
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  1913. All of that is true and all of that is irrelevant. Vucic has not been sufficiently obedient to his bosses in Washington and Berlin, refusing to join their sanctions on Russia, and the opposition can be counted on for perfect obedience.
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  1914. Good, if true.
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  1915. Who told you that whopper? 😂
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  1916. Exactly the opposite. Israel attacked. Iranian soil in that consulate compound, knowing perfectly well that Iran would be legally justified in responding. Iran then made sure to target only military objects, avoiding civilians altogether. All of this so Netanyahu can stay in power a little longer.
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  1917. Europe is not a continent. Like India, Europe is a subcontinent and the Westernmost peninsula of Asia.
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  1918. ​ @JampanyimTamu And who is an open fan of Stepan Bandera and the organization he founded.
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  1919. I'm pretty sure Sun Tzu wasn't referring to attacks on civilians....
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  1920.  @hrissan  And he was right. The USSR defeated the Nazis, and the USA benefited and profited from it all.
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  1921. ​ @TheTaoofEternalWar 😂
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  1922. It's terrible watching it unfold before our eyes and not being able to do much about it.
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  1923. Why doesn't everyone have perfect pitch? Why isn't everyone a Newton or a Bach?
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  1924. 100% deserved. Brian should have an audience of millions, in fact!
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  1925. ​ @alexanderdovzhenko2095  He's not far off. 84% of the world has refused to join the West in its manic, rabid hatred of Russia and the sanctions it has imposed on it. Despite the impression given by UN General Assembly votes the US can engineer, it''s the West that is increasingly isolated and Russia that finds friends all around the world. Just look at how BRICS are expanding, with Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey all applying to join now!
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  1926. ​ @-108-  Just keep telling yourself that.
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  1927. Of course it's a surprise.
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  1928. ​ @stevebarrett6767  And he didn't. The SMO was never an invasion, as the military use and understand the term.
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  1929. ​​​​ @forexstrider  Krainer doesn't have the name recognition Armstrong does, but he's even less ideological and more reality-based than Martin (who's a legend, of course).
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  1930. 4. Four regions.
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  1931. How does one prepare for this? What options do we have? What can we do to prepare for this?
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  1932. It's his training and experience as a courtroom lawyer. Definitely impressive.
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  1933. ​ @Astra-k5d  They've been violating international law for decades. Remember Iraq, Serbia, Libya, Syria.
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  1934. ​ @adamesd3699  Odessa, too.
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  1935. Which is why Stoltenberg has said several times by now that NATO can't afford to lose this (proxy) war. It will, of course.
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  1936. You're right: in fact, most sociopaths and psychopaths don't commit violent crimes at all. Only a minority end up as murderers; the rest destroy other people's lives in other ways.
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  1937. The only way a rump Ukraine won't be a security threat to Russia is is the Russians negotiate a peace deal that allows them to have a number of military bases in Ukraine, permanently hosting at least 150,000 Russian troops on its territory at any one time.
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  1938. ​ @byDEVITA What's disrespectful about being desired? Maybe you mean being merely listed after, treated as a sexy object?
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  1939. He may well get to that point, too.
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  1940. A veritable sea change in international relations.
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  1941. The smallest of today's bombs, the so-called tactical nuclear bombs, are several times the size and power of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  1942. ​ @elianamckee  Oooh, that's nasty.
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  1943. ​​ @patrickvanmeter2922  Those words were addressed to a people in a particular context, and it would have worked a lot better for 1st and 2nd century Jews if they'd followed Jesus instead of their zealots. The only absolutely universal teachings of Christ are to love your neighbour as yourself and do to others as you'd want them to do to you. If we all lived like that, the world would be a far, far better place than it is today.
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  1944. He spoke of that in the first of his 3 posts yesterday.
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  1945. Wise.
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  1946. Brilliant. I don't think it'll take another 5 years to get there, but I may be wrong.
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  1947. Excellent. We don't need to send more help to Ukraine, then.
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  1948. Brian's overall reading of the Trump administration's actual intentions is also quite different. I suspect Berletic is right, but time will tell.
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  1949. So, you're thanking your god for giving other people horrible lives he's spared you. An interesting deity, that.
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  1950. Scott Ritter published a two-part article on the legality of the Russian SMO back in March. Very much worth tracking down on the Internet.
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  1951. So if the culture is bent, that makes it ok?! 😡
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  1952. That's a key reason why this is happening.
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  1953. I can only imagine how shocking and hurtful that must have been. I think, however, that such attitudes may gradually change as more and more of us in the West refuse to accept Israeli conflation of Jewishness with Zionism and refuse to be emotionally and morally blackmailed by what many Jews themselves seemingly call the Holocaust industry, i.e. the cynical exploitation of the memory of WW2 Nazi wholesale annihilation of European Jewry to justify or excuse Zionist atrocities against the people of Palestine.
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  1954. Nice try. 😅
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  1955. Odd how you forgot to mention that 1. The USSR was the LAST in Europe to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany and did so only to buy itself time to prepare for the inevitable; 2. It did so AFTER its repeated offers to France and the UK to form a defense alliance against Nazi Germany were rejected by both. The victims of European imperialism, including those in North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, number in hundreds of millions. Never in human history has there been a more vicious, bloodthirsty, inhumane civilization than that of the collective West.
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  1956. ​​ @rafbarkway5280  The attack itself unfolded over a two-hour period. Please explain how the US was able to determine it was being carried out by ISIS-K only 55 minutes into the attack? And how the Americans knew the terrorists were Tajiks, a fact not revealed until several hours later.
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  1957.  @SHANECatLovingGenXHistorian  And, as a consequence, there were dog saliva and teeth marks on the scarf. Also, no dog could strangle a person on a hardwood floor: they don't have any traction on smooth floors.
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  1958. ​ @padmalaycock1612  There were already plenty of Russian cartoons for children exemplifying such virtues when Putin was growing up.
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  1959. You (plural) really need to grow out of that self-sabotaging mindset when it comes to your own country. Many of us in the West wish we could have a political leadership even half as good, mature, and dedicated to the well-being of our people as yours is for Russia. ​ @GuiltyCrusader 
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  1960. ​ @kiwifrankie  Nah. He found himself without provisions in an empty Moscow Kutuzov had deliberately evacuated in advance, surrounded by Russian farmers in the countryside refusing to sell food to French troops. It was Napoleon's failure to take his logistics into account that forced him to pull out of Moscow and out of Russia as a whole. Most of the casualties his army sustained on their march westwards were due to diphtheria, not to the cold and snow.
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  1961. I guess the point of this interview is to exhibit American conceit and arrogance. Am pretty sure we're all familiar with them.
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  1962. 😂
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  1963. Exactly! Furthermore, both Russia and the rest of the world will be safe from the West only once it's lost the economic ability to meddle in other countries' internal affairs and to aggress against them militarily.
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  1964. Excellent!
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  1965. That would be good.
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  1966. You really need to grow out of that sentimentality of yours. Nobody has the right to be so naive. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on both of us. Fool me three times, shame on me.
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  1967. ​ @Amin-al-Husseini_1941picture Add to that Judith Butler, the post-modernist "philosopher" who popularized the notion that gender is a performance. She's been far more influential in the last 30 years, in the academia, than any of the guys you mention. Butler argued back in the 1980s that the way to subvert patriarchy was to parody gender, to act it out parodically. That's exactly what transgender males, men who pretend ("feel " and "identify as") women are doing. They parody women, and today's liberals (I don't call them feminists as they don't deserve that name) validly, mindlessly applaud them as "brave", not having the sense to realize they themselves are being mocked by OTT impersonation.
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  1968. ​ @willbass2869  Nothing to do with the establishment of present-day Odessa, which was founded on the site of the ancient Greek settlement by Empress Catherine the Great.
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  1969. Me in Shanghai a few years ago. 😂
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  1970.  @kevinwaalker  The Russian economy is growing because, unlike the economies of finance capital, it's based on industrial production and on actual, material things of real value -- and because Russia has excellent trading relations with over 80% of the world. Meanwhile, American cities and highways are crumbling and soup kitchen lines go for miles....
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  1971. ​ @gothicgolem2947 Keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, Ukraine's reduced to dragging 60 yo men and 15-26 yo boys off the streets of its cities and giving them a 3-day "training" before they're sent off to serve as canon fodder.
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  1972. ​​​ borabora9304 udging from your comment, you seem unaware of these two facts: 1. Srebrenica was a revenge action for the prior slaughter of Serbian civilians by Muslim forces in the villages around Srebrenica. I myself learned this from the war journals kept by a Dutch officer who was a part of UN forces in Bosnia. Our media made sure we never knew this. 2. There was never a genocide of the Albanians in Kosovo, not was there any Serb plan for one. Again, like practically all of us who watched the disintegration of Yugoslavia on our TV screens, I also thought that the huge exodus of Albanians in the days leading up to the NATO bombing campaign on Serbia was a reaction to a Serb attack or a planned Serb attack. Not so. In reality, what those people were fleeing was NATO's air campaign they knew was coming. Most astoundingly, at least for me, was this: the whole claim that Serbia was planning a genocide in Kosovo rested on a fake intelligence dossier cooked up by the German intelligence services. It was the model for the later "sexed up dossier" the Brits concocted to provide a pretext for their and US invasion of Iraq. The extent and depth of German (and NATO) cynicism can be gauged by the fact that even their fake intelligence dossier was put together in such a slapdash manner that a dossier supposedly prepared by the Serbian security apparatus was actually in Bulgarian!
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  1973. At least he never made a fool of himself claiming that Ukraine had a chance of defeating Russia. 🤣😂🤣
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  1974. ​ @haithamalbusaidi36  I respect international law.
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  1975. Nah. They're both evil. Just evil and quite perfectly sane.
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  1976. ​ @robbinghook3571  To Ukrainians, too.
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  1977. Twitter or Facebook. I also can't recall which.
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  1978. Ph.D. in economics.
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  1979. Thank you for this essential background.
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  1980. ​ @TeleologicalConsistency  What?! German ministers don't have to be elected first?
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  1981. Sure. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  1982. ​ @wiggly103  Her paternal grandfather. Her father was born in the US. Her mother's British.
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  1983. You're supposed to scream and yell at a bear, too. That's what national parks in Canada advise.
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  1984. Thanks for this information. Very interesting.
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  1985. ​​​ @annebritraaen2237 Ocean currents. Their movements are an excellent predictor of long-term (6 months and longer) weather patterns. The day to day stuff is much more difficult to predict with accuracy, though I find weather forecasts in Canada very reliable.
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  1986. Zelensky ordered the army the other day NOT to accept more than 500 bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers a day. That tells us that Ukraine's losing a lot more than 500 men a day. It's absolutely appalling.
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  1987. The Croatian flag itself is the flag of the Nazi-collaborator Independent Croatia, a WW2 statelet sponsored by the Nazis. All of the former Nazi collaborator countries are now in the EU. Every one of them.
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  1988. It's an invitation for Russia to go all the way to Dnieper.
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  1989. I hear from friends in Germany that it's simply impossible to have a normal discussion about the causes of this war, its conduct, and the future of the European security architecture even with family members, let alone friends and acquaintances.
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  1990. There hasn't been a Labour Party in the UK ever since Tony Blair.
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  1991. He's a world famous economist.
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  1992. Russia, the cradle of the world's best writers and some of its best composers. Russia, who put the first man to space. Russia, who's kicking NATO ass single-handedly in the proxy war in Ukraine. The West, in the meantime, can't define woman any longer. 😅
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  1993. ​ @freddamanstone12  That's Zelensky's pastime.
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  1994. Bakhmut is/ws THE most heavily defended, entrenched city in Ukraine. The liberation of Mariupol gives a much better idea of how long it would take to get and control Kiev. But, as others have pointed out, Russia isn't interested in taking Kiev at all and will, at most, if provoked by long-range missiles the West might sent to Ukraine, take everything to the Dnieper River, the obvious and natural new border between it and Ukraine. As both Putin and Shoigu intimated just last week, however, it probably won't want to go even as far west as the Dnieper unless further provoked.
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  1995. Don't judge by yourself. I know one person with the bipolar disorder, and I'd never let her babysit anyone's children.
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  1996. Boycotting it will destroy it.
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  1997. Why bother? It's cheaper this way.
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  1998. 😅
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  1999.  @dss3113  The price of petrol has always been absurdly high in Europe as a whole, not just Germany.
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  2000. Because the UN recognized Israel as a country back in 1949. It could, however, demand that Israel go back to its 1949 borders -- or face sanctions amounting to a blockade.
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  2001. More Russians died in that famine than Ukrainians. The hardest hit were the people of Kaza.
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  2002.  @katalinnemeth5871  What are you talking about?!
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  2003. The worst of it, the most horrific irony of it all is that the survivors of Nazi Holocaust were treated despicably badly by resident Zionists when they arrived in Israel in the late 1940s. The direct ancestors of the men and a woman who exlpoited the memory of their suffering actually mocked and derided the survivors as "weak" and "spineless" for having allowed themselves to be treated as human cattle by the Nazis. There are survivor testimonies about this, absolutely heart-rending and shocking to read. 😢
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  2004. On my advice, my sister took the Sinovac rather than Pfizer shots in Belgrade, Serbia. She never had the slightest problems as a result. I took Pfizer shots here in Canada, only to end up with an erratic blood pressure and a wrecked immune system -- as well as two more rounds of covid-19.
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  2005. I've spent four years in boarding schools run by Catholic nuns, two different convents and two different religious orders, and in neither convent was there any lesbianism. I have no interest in covering anything up as I'm Eastern Orthodox, not Roman Catholic myself.
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  2006. The abusive boyfriend, to boot.
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  2007. Mercouris tends to get carried away with his penchant for narratives. Nord Stream 1 and 2 had little or mucklh more likely nothing to do with the joint EU+US Ukraine project. It was Germany itself, under Angela Merkel, who drove the whole EU Association deal of 2013 that violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum AND laid the ground for the American-engineered coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014. Furthermore, the US had been trying to wrestle Ukraine for itself since 1991 and had already staged one colour revolution there which prov d briefly successful but failed to result in a permanent success for NATO/US.
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  2008. It's a political AND military failure of first order. I don't dispute that the withdrawal from Kherson city will save Russian soldier lives, but for the Russian army to be seen abandoning a city Russia incorporated into its territory just a few weeks ago, a city whose residents had voted to join Russia, is devastating. There's something VERY wrong with the way Russia has conducted this SMO all along, but especially since the end of June.
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  2009. After Niger threw out the American forces and closed down their military base there, other countries have no excuse for not doing the same.
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  2010. ​ @Neapoleone-Buonaparte  Eat your heart out with your envy of Russia. 😜
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  2011. ​​ @davidcritchley3509 Romanians were never consulted or asked if they wanted to join NATO. The same is true of all the other post-Soviet, post-Warsaw Pact East European countries. Not a single referendum anywhere, and not even any public debate about it. And not because the people of those countries were so keen on joining NATO that no discussion was needed. Quite the contrary, in fact.
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  2012. Yes, and it worries me that Putin's still dragging his heels.
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  2013. Plus fighting off Sweden, Poland, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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  2014.  @elliekwong3180  He may well have said it to the public back home in Russia. Unless you follow most of the major Russian media, you can't know either way
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  2015. She doesn't look 15 here. More like 20.
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  2016. ❤
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  2017. This is normal: it's how it works with war reparations, too.
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  2018. That would never do for the US. Russia asked to join NATO in 2000 and was turned down.
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  2019. ​ @yehmen29  What an indomitable spirit to survive all that and come out of it a good human being.
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  2020. Likewise.
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  2021. Nah, it's as Martyanov said, another PR/propaganda story by the losing Kiev regime .
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  2022. Alex looks just fine to me.
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  2023. We don't need to fight NATO. We just need to be patient: the West is accelerating its own decline by the day and it will take only a few more decades before it's occupation of Kosovo and Metohija becomes economically unsustainable. NATO itself may not last that long either.
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  2024. You heard that right. One German soldier was captured alive, I believe. Andrei Martyanov spoke about it in his video last night.
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  2025. The World Bank now ranks the Russian economy as #4 in the world, ahead of both Germany and Japan. Envy is not an attractive trait.
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  2026. Alleged murder?! I thought the Ukrainians actually filmed themselves killing those PoWs in cold blood.
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  2027. ​ @horiahariton  I know that, but part of the Istanbul deal was that they would remain in Ukraine but as autonomous regions, as per the Minsk Accords.
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  2028. The sanctions are hurting only Germany and Europe as a whole. Russia, in contrast, is flourishing.
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  2029. Without the Indian genius invention of the zero, there would be no modern mathematics. Without the Chinese invention of printing, the Renaissance would never have taken place.
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  2030. ​ @andrzejraven6437  Just keep telling yourself that. Btw, last year, with its uncommonly mild winter, the EU had to subsidize those low energy costs to the tune of one trillion euros. 😅
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  2031. ​ @bassmanjr100 And yet they are.
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  2032. Arestovich openly mocked the Ukrainian public on Ukrainian TV some years ago (well before the start of the SMO), directly saying that everything about Ukraine is based on lies. There's a video on that TV interview with English subtitles somewhere online, possibly even on YouTube, but it's been a while since I watched it last and can't recall the channel on which you can find it. That's what's so strange about this whole Ukraine disaster, that its public knew perfectly well they were being lied to about virtually everything.
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  2033. ​ @TeunisMaranus Ditto the French. Had they and the Brits accepted Stalin's proposal to create a pre-emptive defense alliance during the 1930s, there'd have been no WW2.
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  2034. ❤
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  2035. Those who refused the offer to evacuate stayed behind -- by choice.
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  2036. Indeed.
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  2037. I think it's time for us Slavs to acknowledge the reality of Anglo-Saxon animus and greed directed at us.
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  2038. @Marcel Daman In your wet dreams.
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  2039. Wildly incompetent.
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  2040. You should submit this, slightly expanded, as an article to Consortium News, or The Saker, or Strategic Culture.
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  2041. Yugoslavia should not have been broken apart.
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  2042. The mother should have remained in a psych ward for at least 4-8 weeks. I also wonder just how much Aunt Debora knew and was told about postpartum psychosis and WHY it was IMPERATIVE for the baby's safety that it be cared for by other people and not her psychotic mother until the mother was medically cleared. Did anyone from child or social services sit down for at least 30 minutes with Debora and other family members to explain this in detail?
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  2043. It's unfolding as we speak.
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  2044. Didn't your mom teach you that lying is wrong? Macgregor never said any such thing.
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  2045. Physicians in Eastern Europe were also seeing a strange new type of pneumonia in the Fall of 2019, complete with the typical symptoms of covid-19.
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  2046. He left Ukraine, or attempted to leave it, yesterday. Lira himself posted everything Mercouris is here reporting about 24 hours ago.
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  2047. Excellent news, so far! Thank you so much for the superb work of keeping us reliably informed you've been doing since the start of the pandemic.
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  2048. 4.
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  2049. As long as China depends on others for its energy needs, it's far, far from achieving autarky.
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  2050. What do you mean "avoid escalation"? The West has been escalating like mad all this time, and Russia's restraint is perceived as weakness. That in itself is very dangerous.
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  2051. German minister of defense has already stated that Ukraine's current gains in territory will have NO effect on the outcome of this conflict.
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  2052. Exactly.
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  2053. Love and support to Russia!
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  2054. Love and support to Russia, from Canada.
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  2055. 😅
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  2056. It was rejected a few hours ago.
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  2057. None of the ethnic groups in Singapore has an ideology similar to Zionism (or Judaism, for that matter), though.
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  2058. How do you reconcile your view of the USSR with the fact that 75% of its citizens opposed its dissolution and a majority of Russians today still report fond memories of their life in the Soviet Union?
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  2059. That makes perfect sense: I'd want my nurse to be able to communicate with me fluently in English, so it only stands to reason that German people need German-speaking nurses!
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  2060. In a word, the oligarchs.
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  2061. That would be good, but so far Hungary is the only EU country with the courage and the integrity to say no to this demented anti-Russia policy the West adopted over a decade ago.
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  2062. No one country has the right to control and dictate to the rest of the world!
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  2063. If you want to understand what the US really is, check out Prof. Michael Hudson, economist and economic historian. Some of his books are now available in Chinese (Mandarin), too.
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  2064. ​ @ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869  Russia's having no trouble trading in rubles and the local currencies of its trading partners. It's a myth still prevalent among Western populations that the US dollar is necessary for foreign trade.
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  2065. Peter should know better: Russia's military doctrine is crystal clear on when Russia may resort to first use of nukes. Only if the country is faced with an overwhelmingly more numerous enemy OR if the state's been decapitated. Neither of these conditions obtain. What Putin was referring to are Russia's hypersonic missiles. One Sarmat can destroy an entire mid-sized country, so Russia has no need to use nukes at all.
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  2066. It isn't. It's always been the other way around, in fact.
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  2067. I'm sure she wants and appreciates acknowledgement, of which she gets plenty both inside Russia and abroad. Fame is another matter, and like you, I applaud her for not seeking it.
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  2068. What are you doing about it? One would think Europe was in the depth of feudalism, with no democratic traditions at all.
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  2069. Let's hope so!
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  2070. Madeleine Albright, for example? Too bad she never faced justice, as overwhelmingly most war criminals never do.
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  2071. A heavyweight who spent 20 years fighting bare-footed Taliban only to slink out of the ring in total disgrace.
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  2072. So happy to see Assange reunited with his wife and his dad! May he have decades of a free, happy family life to come!
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  2073. God protect and save us all from our psychopaths in power. And from our own gullibility and lethargy.
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  2074. ​ @lesleyriseam1282  That's exactly what Yanukovich wanted to do back in 2013. The EU, however, would not have it. It presented an ultimatum to Ukraine: you can trade with us or with Russia, but not both. That EU ultimatum was a direct violation of Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum. When a full history of this era of European history is written, the EU will come out as the villain it's been vis à vis both Ukraine and Russia.
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  2075. Exactly.
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  2076.  @BobWidlefish  I find it too hectic even at 1.5. 😅
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  2077. The French Resistance was a joke. The only people who actually fought the Nazis were the Soviets, Greeks, Yugoslavs, and Poles. For the most part, the Brits engaged only in bombing raids.
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  2078. I suspect he knows it.
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  2079. *hypocritical (That was probably an Autocorrect stupidity, but Hippocratic means something very different.)
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  2080. Going on 30 years for me.
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  2081. Eventually, yes. I just hope that it won't come all at once, so that people can get used to the new reality gradually and adjust.
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  2082. Yes, it's a war crime.
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  2083. I can't help but feel sorry for the crew of those M-113s.
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  2084. Scott Ritter, Brian Berletic and Douglas Macgregor have all been predicting this for the past 2 years, ever since Putin finally approved a conscription round in September 2022.
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  2085. Truth hurts, doesn't it.
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  2086. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, first, and then the USSR, was a geopolitical disaster that's brought us to this.
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  2087. You think today's Labour would act differently?!
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  2088. The American economy, yes. As for the economies of EU member states, they'll survive but seriously downgraded.
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  2089.  @Tehjubjub  They may be British, but they sure aren't English.
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  2090. Voltaire must be spitting with fury at such abuse of his good name.
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  2091.  @yurichtube1162  The entire State Department leadership consists of dual Israeli American citizens.
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  2092. ​ @ms.anonymousinformer242  Dear heavens, why did she stand for that?! Why didn't she leave the first time he hit her, and report him?!
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  2093. ​ @wandajean5186  Was she talking about adults? 😂
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  2094. 19th century England didn't lead in any of those fields. It did, however, take the lead in ending the slave trade and it produced a few fine novelists and a couple of great poets. It also led in extending the franchise -- not to all men (and no women, of course), but the extension of the franchise paved the way to contemporary representative democracy. Too bad it turned out into a fig leaf for the oligarchy.
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  2095. 😂
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  2096. ​ @webertherese9115  Giving, perhaps, but not stupidity, I hope.
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  2097. I wish they would, but I'm afraid too many are brainwashed into believing those are their best/only options.
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  2098. ​ @lovelydove99  Why would I structure my marriage according to the customs of an ancient Middle Eastern tribe?!
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  2099.  @lovelydove99  You're woefully misinformed. Biblically structured marriages in the US, as among US Evangelicals, have a higher rate of divorce than marriages that don't follow the Biblical model. You've been lied to: the model invented by those Middle Eastern tribes just doesn't work. It didn't work then, either, resulting in numerous divorces, so many that Christ felt compelled to speak out against Biblically approved divorce, too.
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  2100. ​ @user-hq6ov9vc6v  If true, what an idiotic move by Russia!
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  2101. Yay! 🎉
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  2102. ​ @divingduck9 Or you can snap out of the trance that keeps you in the US and looks for a better place where to live and work.
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  2103. Time to play Kipelov's "Nepokorennyy" again!
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  2104. And winning against all of NATO, plus Japan, South Korea and a couple of other Western satellites.
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  2105. 😂
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  2106. You'll have to liberate yourselves this time.
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  2107. This is not the first time Nuland's retired from the State....
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  2108. ​ @thomridgeway1438  Or his flat in London. After all, Boris Johnson made him a citizen of the UK back in 2022.
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  2109. Doesn't sound crazy at all. It's exactly what's happened and practically in plain view of us all.
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  2110. ​ @konrad9240  Trump Jr is already trolling Zelensky on X -- saying he's about to get his allowance cut. 😅
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  2111. I think the Brits are asking for a visit from Mr. Sarmat.
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  2112. Not true. Hungary proves the contrary: the party in power can matter a great deal provided it actually does what it promises in its election campaign.
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  2113. 🎯
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  2114. Cope harder. 😂
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  2115. ​ @arnoldsaunders6073  Yes, it will. We just have to be patient.
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  2116. I found it riveting. Two hours just flew by!
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  2117. That's a discussion. An interview is exactly what these two are doing in this video.
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  2118. ​ @westbenchmancave  Ditto here.
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  2119. ​ @barbarianslab  What's wrong with now?
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  2120. Of course it was an attempted false flag. Alexander is the only independent analyst I follow who keeps insisting it was all just an innocent mistake. The fact that the missile had to be deliberately programmed to explode on the ground rules it out, however.
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  2121. Love and support to Russia!
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  2122. Putin's not "too old" to run -- he's a both physically and mentally robust,and will be only 72 or so in 2024. I'm surprised by your animus against Putin, who single-handedly pulled Russia from the abyss of the 1990s, reigned in the oligarchs, and has presided over an unprecedented flowering of the Russian society. The turn-around his policies have created in the past 20 years has been absolutely astonishing and remains unrivalled in the annals of history -- not only of Russia but of any country ever.
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  2123. They can't retreat. It's not by choice that they remain there.
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  2124. ​ @FMRAGE-t8w  You can always exit the world by yourself without maliciously wishing death upon the rest of us.
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  2125. Nah, not the entire world. Just the collective West.
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  2126. It's infuriating.
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  2127. And they've already rejected it.
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  2128. Fine. It repaired itself years ago.
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  2129. ​ @MrRight1000  Except that Russia has contributed hugely to Western art, literature, and philosophy. In short, to the European culture. It's contributions to science are universal.
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  2130. ❤
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  2131. A great deal has changed, and that apart from Ukraine losing half a million men (a demographic tragedy that can't be rectified), not counting the severely wounded, mentally destroyed and physically maimed (normally, their number would be three times the number of killed in action). Its vaunted counteroffensive failed abysmally, none of the NATO weapons it got has proved particularly successful let alone a game changer, and the US has now switched to promising to help Ukraine not for as long as it takes but for as long as it can. Also over the last year, the Russian economy outranked Germany's to become the #1 economy of Europe, and #5 in the world. China now outproduces not only the US but the US+EU and is incontestably the world's top economy. During the same period of time, Europe as a whole has entered a recession, and 15% of German businesses are insolvent. BRICS outrank the G7, having 37% of the global economic output to G7's 30%. Poverty rates are climbing all over the collective West, especially in the UK, Canada, the US, and almost all of the members of the EU. Etc.
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  2132. Not ignorance. Not at all. Evil.
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  2133. 😂
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  2134. Silly Soviets should never have left Berlin in the first place or disbanded the Warsaw Pact.
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  2135. 84% of the world is with you. We love Mother Russia! <3
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  2136. ​@benjaminjohnsonboston But so is Hilary!
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  2137. And ever! ❤️
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  2138.  @leeahammon5661  Neoliberalism, plain and simple. Capitalism.
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  2139.  @charlesmartel6103  Bet you didn't say the same when the US invaded Afghanistan, or when the US and UK invaded Iraq, or when NATO countries bomb Serbia, or when NATO countries attacked and bombed Libya, etc. Btw, when you invade a Nazi country (whether it's one that's killing people of your ethnicity just because of their ethnicity, or another that isn't), you are a liberator from Nazis, not one of them yourself.
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  2140. ​ @TheTristianNetwork  That's the way to terrorize another. Loathsome. 😢
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  2141. ​ @ohsweetmystery  Oh wow! Such machismo! Brave you! 🤮
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  2142. Correct.
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  2143. ​@Anníe Smith If you can help them get out, they could go to Serbia. I'd strongly advise it.
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  2144. What Soviet or Russian threats?
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  2145. It's what's happening to the collective West as a civilization. (Israel isn't one.)
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  2146. What an absolutely obscene couple, the Zelenskys.
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  2147. All this has achieved is destroyed Finland's security. From now in, it will have Russian nuclear-capable missiles in its borders. A stupendously dumb move on Finland's part, but as they say, you can't fix stupid
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  2148. What a bizarrely looooong tie! 😅
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  2149. Indeed. Not that our MSM would ever remind us of that.
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  2150. Especially on Arabs.
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  2151. Having preserved their cultures, too.
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  2152. Truly prescient.
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  2153. uninterested (Disinterested = objective, impartial)
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  2154. Correct.
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  2155. Vote for Jill Stein, then.
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  2156. A hate crime.
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  2157. YouTube does it all the time.
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  2158. Today's Labour is Conservatives Lite.
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  2159. Like a baby. Psychopaths are not troubled by the horrors they commit.
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  2160. Probably abandoned the family. If he was a first generation immigrant, he might even have flown back to Pakistan to start a whole new family there.
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  2161. ​ @sureitscool5475 Because Russia gave Ukraine 8 years to implement the Minsk Accords, the time Ukraine used to kill 14,000 people in Donbass and to arm, train, and equip themselves via NATO for the proxy war against Russia the West wanted. It had moved some 160,000 of its best trained and armed troops on the border of Donbass and was poised to attack its civilian population in a genocidal assault by mid-February 2021, when it massively escalated its ceasefire violations (2,000 in the week preceding February 24). Ukraine wanted a war; Russia didn't and acted at the very last moment to protect the people of Donbass. That's why I support Russia.
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  2162. ​​ @milosstojanovic4623  In the entire Serbia, which is why its cancer rates have gone through the roof. The highest in Europe.
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  2163. Neither of those regions are in Ukraine any more. Last September, their residents voted in a referendum attended by foreign observers to join Russia instead. They are now parts of the Russian Federation.
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  2164. Beckett, like James Joyce, was a terrible narcissist.
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  2165. Exactly. But it's a rare academic who wants to acknowledge it.
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  2166. They'll be fine as long as they don't do something stupid. Their choice.
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  2167. ​ @mareklodyga  It was over for Ukraine back in April 2022, when it walked away from the ultra-generous peace deal Russia had offered it in Istanbul. From that moment, it was all just a matter of time, i.e. of the type of war the Russians would choose to wage.
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  2168. ​ @Caldera01 BS. The only social pressure detransitioners experience is from the trans community, who turn viciously hateful towards anyone who so much as expressed doubts about being trans or wanting to detransition.
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  2169. All officers of the Russian Army, including the highest echelons, lead from the front. This is an age-old practise.
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  2170. It means preventing the other country from developing it's economy and prospering.
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  2171. It's called terrorism.
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  2172. He's never been a psychoanalyst. He's a psychologist, which is a little different.
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  2173. Which is why I'm puzzled that anyone still imagines Trump is presidential material and should run again.
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  2174. Do the Ukrainian forces inside Bakhmut have the supplies of food and ammo to last a few more months?
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  2175. ​ @germanjohn5626  What we've had for some time now is fascism with a liberal face, so that meme won't wash.
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  2176. ​​ @adrianobanak2824  Oh, it knows how to carry out blitzkrieg operations, and how. It simply chooses to fight a slow war of attrition for two reasons: to minimize its own losses and to demilitarize Ukraine, destroy its capacity to ever again pose a threat to the security of the Russian Federation. But boys find that hard to grasp.
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  2177. I think Russia should simply forget about Europe for the next century or two, in the sense of not even bothering to resume trade with these countries. Let reality teach Western Europeans manners and a healthy respect for truth, something that will take roughly a couple of centuries. Until then, it's pointless bothering with these people.
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  2178. Tell that to the people of California, Massachusetts and Ontario, all of which are on major faultlines.
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  2179. 😂
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  2180. The weapons they've given to Ukraine are without exception their second best.
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  2181. Where are these images posted?
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  2182.  @fredericfuknchopin4552  😂 Russia's been fighting all of NATO single-handedly.
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  2183. If you want to thank a specific leader for China's incredible progress, that person should be Deng Xiaoping.
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  2184. How about a Black. Hitler? A Black Pol Pot? A Black Jack the Ripper? Why not? It's all "interpretation". 😜
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  2185. North Stream.
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  2186. Exactly. Btw, parts of the Finnish armed forces still have the swastika as their symbol.
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  2187. That opening video was mind-blowingly incredible! Russians really are different. ❤
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  2188. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  2189. Does this mean that Serbia will now ask NATO to close down all their offices inside Serbia's government ministries and withdraw the NATO officials who've been serving in them? I was shocked to learn recently that since the 1999 bombing, Serbia has reduced its once very competent mid-size armed forces to 5,000! Will Vucic do what's necessary to correct that now?
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  2190. Hitting civilian objects like universities -- the work of low-down cowards and mere criminals. How shameful for Ukraine, but if it's intended to create discontent with the government inside Russia, if your reaction is typical, it appears to be working. Thank you for your work, Levan. I'm also beginning to wonder who exactly advised Kremlin that a long, slow war of attrition is the best approach in Ukraine. Does Kremlin really think that systematically killing quarter of a million or more of Ukrainian men will make for better post-war relations with a rump Ukraine than a quick, fatal blow that would have spared at least half of that number might do? I really don't understand the logic of such a calculation. As for those statements re. NATO made by Petrushev, they can only make Russia appear weak since, quite understandably, Russia will not start sending missiles onto various NATO bases, etc. all across Europe. Obviously, Russia is doing its utmost to prevent WW3, but it's bizarre that Kremlin doesn't understand how such statements reflect on it.
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  2191. And they announced just the other day that they'll have all of 6 (six) Ukrainian pilots trained to fly them by next summer! 😅
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  2192. With what? The Brits can't even fill a football stadium with their entire army!. 😅
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  2193. I love the Chinese dog classification of goofy! 🙂 All three of those breeds richly deserve it, gorgeous and adorable as they are.
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  2194. I used to support the Free Tibet movement until I realized that it had nothing to do with freedom, except the freedom Tibetan clerics, the monk class, used to enjoy over ordinary Tibetans, who were serfs to their lamas.
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  2195. ​ @EricTD1995 Zero inflation in China.
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  2196. I hope you won't re-elect that judge.
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  2197. It already is.
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  2198. His electoral base was in Donbass, and since that's now a part of Russia, Kremlin will need to find someone else from the Ukrainian opposition for that role.
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  2199. Exactly. 💯
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  2200. If they're allowed to, yes, they'll hold such referendums.
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  2201. ​ @rebelwithoutaclue9387  Congratulations 🎉 Good for you!
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  2202. You need to stop believing such nonsense.
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  2203. I see no need for that apology, Alex. It seems that some people working for the EU have very fragile egos and a rather developed vanity. As for these defense systems, how many of them will Ukraine be getting and who will operate them? There's nothing weird in what Europe's doing: they themselves have told us repeatedly that they're at war with Russia, so why should we act surprised when they jump to send more military equipment to the country that's fighting Russia on their behalf?
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  2204. 😮
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  2205. He has a doctorate in social work. None of his degrees is in economics.
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  2206. ​ @felixprime8291  Nice try. Last year, Ukraine passed a law prohibiting peace negotiations with the Russian Federation. 😅
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  2207. 😂
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  2208. I don't think Ukraine will ever recover demographically.
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  2209. Love and support to Russia!
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  2210.  @ThePbsuccess  That, too. I'll be talking to my financial advisor here in Canada in the next couple of weeks.
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  2211. He takes his advice on the economy from his dead dog, with whom he communicates paranormally. 😅
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  2212. ​ @sowianskiwojownik5973  Didn't the US do well under another wheelchair bound president?
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  2213. Nah, you'd be as rich as Zelensky.
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  2214. Not even close to what I'm hearing from my friends in Russia.
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  2215. Thieves. Organized crime.
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  2216. ​ @Luke101 Oh God. Go and read up a little about postpartum psychosis first! Even in other types of psychosis people don't usually blank out and lose their memories. She remembered what she did but she could never tell why because she was literally insane when she did it. And was still visibly ill when interrogated by those detectives.
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  2217. I don't think he ever had that in mind, but given Kiev's obduracy, it's possible. More and more Russians are coming to think that re-absorbing all of Ukraine into Russia is the only way to solve this problem long-term.
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  2218. South America and Africa should be alright.
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  2219. ​ @agffans5725 So? You think it's hard to place such a video inside a Russian channel?!
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  2220. Yes. Some things should not be forgiven, whoever did or does them.
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  2221. It's something genetic with them. I hate to say it, but there's no denying it.
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  2222. If only they'd implemented the Minsk Accords, nobody would have died in this otherwise unnecessary war.
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  2223. As they should.
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  2224. ​ @ijatpingrhyb  I don't understand why they ever elected another member of the Marcos family mafia.
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  2225. ​​ @gingerfox7143  Probably. And I expect that a part of their officer corp was actually educated in Russian military academies.
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  2226. ​ @MonsterMeatMarcus  You can Google it yourself. And while you're at it, check how the US and all of the EU countries voted on similar UN resolutions over the past 10 years.
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  2227. I'm afraid so.
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  2228. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  2229. They are already there. Wagner guys are coming across mutilated bodies of troops whose heads and hands have been chopped off by the Ukrainian side to prevent identifying them. There's no point in doing that with the corpses of mercenaries, so the only logical conclusion is that these were NATO officers who lost their lives in Bakhmut.
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  2230. ​ @clayton56tube 😅
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  2231. It's also spared the lives of hundreds of Ukrainian forces.
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  2232. ​​ @arostwocents  I've never heard the Duran guys ask for money and I follow them on a daily basis. You know what rhymes with pants on fire.
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  2233. Did you see the grey beard on the Ukrainian soldier at the 42 second mark?! He must be well over 50, poor guy, forced to fight a losing battle for Zelensky and his corrupt regime.
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  2234. Thailand needs to throw out all of the Western funded NGOs still operating in the country
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  2235. What nonsense. NATO has already openly rebutted these claims, saying it "cannot confirm" anything of this. Zelensky made the same claims just a couple of days ago and NATO all but called him a liar yesterday.
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  2236.  @barrieroberts75  A massive California earthquake is a certainty. So is a huge earthquake in the Boston area. The only unknown is when.
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  2237. Homosexuality is legal in Russia. The fact that Russia rejects transgenderism and homosexual marriage cannot be a rational reason to go to war with it ir to hate it. There's no such human right as right to homosexual marriage!
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  2238. Tom Holland's Dominion is superb. Looking forward to reading this new book, too.
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  2239. Woke women are in the minority. I see no reason why all women should be held accountable for the craziness of a few.
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  2240. ​ @demos436  Schools are responsible for teaching reading to children. The love of reading, however, is something children learn from their parents.
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  2241. Foolhardy. Acting as instructed by his paymasters in Germany.
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  2242. No, don't ever aspire to be a villain. Just be safe and protect yourself, and never mind about being "rude", etc. But don't be one of them, don't be a villain.
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  2243. The war started in 2014, eight years before Russia finally moved to defend the people of Donbass.
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  2244. Secured? Are you sure about that? 😅
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  2245. Vucic is about 6 foot 5, and was made to sit on a chair fit for a kid in grade 1.
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  2246. @F.I.N.A.L.I.T.Y. It's probably one of the worst things you can do while going through a psychosis. As a matter of fact, there are many documented cases now of people being plunged into a psychosis due to meditating.
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  2247. The Trigger-happy Rainbow Coalition with Nukes.
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  2248. I'm not Russian or Ukrainian and I feel the same as you.
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  2249. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  2250. Except Stalin.
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  2251. 4 in 100 in the US, by far the highest rate in the world.
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  2252. Shame on us. 😠
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  2253. ​ @pedropedro58er  Probably not.
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  2254. About the American journalist arrested for spying in Russia: just do the following thought experiment, and things will at once become chrystal clear to you. What would you think about a Russian journalist employed by a major Russian newspaper caught snooping around a premier weapons and armaments production facility in the US at a time the US is involved in a war Russia had set up for it and spring the trap? What would the US media be saying in that case? And there you have your answer.
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  2255. Deservedly, too.
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  2256. I don't know what Andrei thinks, but a great many of us are hoping that Pentagon won't allow it.
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  2257. Criminally reckless.
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  2258. I've heard that claim, too, but have never come across any explanation as to why the ONLY ammunition found on the ground was that used by Nazi Germany, not by the USSR.
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  2259. Same in Eastern Orthodox churches. Normal practice from the earliest Christian times.
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  2260. The oligarchy's strengthening itself with immigration.
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  2261. 😅
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  2262. It's 350,000 tons of fertilizer that Russia is offering to poorer countries for free.
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  2263. The human species is biologically the most adaptable of all animal species. I guess we're all the Borg. 😉
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  2264. They are THE best.
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  2265. OMG! 😮
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  2266. Well and eloquently said. There's something condescending in this race based revisionism.
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  2267. It already has. EU countries must now pay for oil and gas in rubles, not in euros or dollars.
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  2268. Journalism schools do teach the craft -- which, though essential, can also be picked up on the go, through an apprenticeship program, say -- but they don't and cannot give students a broad base of general knowledge, much less in-depth knowledge of any particular field. There's a good reason why the journalists of old used to come from university programs in history, economics, and the sciences.
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  2269. Thank you for the news! Much relieved.
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  2270. The Forbes article literally makes no sense: why on earth would Ukraine need more tanks from its masters in the West if it's captured hundreds of Russian tanks?!
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  2271. ​ @ccahill2322 It's not about labels but about the truth. Despite all the hot air made about it, and as documented by a group of German historians some 15 years ago, Germany never de-Nazified itself after WW2.
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  2272.  @oliveoil5789  Because the Security Council will never approve it; any such motion would be vetoed by the US.
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  2273.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Didn't your parents teach you that it's wrong to lie? Ukraine never offered any such thing to Russia and has repeatedly said on numerous occasions in the past 13 months that it aims to join NATO. Imagine Mexico wanting to join the SCO, the Russian Federation's military alliance!
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  2274. If Putin had paid attention to Paul Craig Roberts's blogs and advice during the 2010s, the tragedy in Ukraine might have been avoided. Instead, he kept giving peace and diplomacy a chance long after it had become clear the West would not hold Ukraine to account for failing to implement the Minsk Accords and was taking Russia's patient approach for weakness.
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  2275. Pure arrogance.
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  2276. 👍
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  2277. It was a very peace-oriented speech. He even emphasized that all Russia's interested in is protecting the people of Donbass. Ukraine should pay heed and sue for peace NOW, because of prolonging the war could well result in Putin having to cave in to the pressure inside Russia to take all of Ukraine, to end all debate about Ukraine's future once and for all.
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  2278. Eternal shame on Japan! Not only on those who committed these crimes, but also on present-day Japan, for still denying it and refusing to acknowledge what it did. And eternal shame on Dutarte for removing the statue commemorating Filipino comfort women! 😢
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  2279. ​ @berniehand5528  A republic can in reality be an oligarchy.
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  2280. Weeb Union, who's been remarkably accurate over the past 8 weeks I've been following his videos, reports that Russian forces had to withdraw and allow Ukrainian firced to retake a considerable area outside Bakhmut. Prigozhin seems to have entirely right this time. I'm surprised the Duran are denying it.
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  2281. Dr. Apkome calls it as it is. Very impressive.
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  2282. ​ @markduncan8227 You wish.
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  2283. ​​ @Jouantiese Who cares what "the world's largest democracies" think?! Doesn't mean much? It means that over 80% of the world has voted to protect Palestinians from Israeli barbarism. That's what it means. Every country that voted against or abstained is worthy only of absolute contempt.
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  2284. Edmond Nrecaj Belgrade was noted for its wealth and its multiculturalism by Western travellers as far back as the 16th century. Check out the great French historiographer Ferdinand Braudel for this.
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  2285. It won't.
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  2286. Astonishing to hear Alexander Mercouris repeat the shameless Zionist Shoah references in the context of a decades long conflict in which Israelies have been committing one wave of ethnic clransing and slaughtering of Palestinians after another, of a people who had played no part in Europe's shameful persecution of Jews. Let's be honest about this: NO attack by Hamas can ever be equated to, can ever represent an existential threat to Israel. Zionism, the official ideology of the state of Israel, has been an existential threat to Palestinians from the 1920s on. P.S. The a in cadre is pronounced like the a in car.
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  2287. How's he promoting Islamophobia in Europe? By pointing out that for years France had happily tolerated in its midst radical Islamists and Islamic terrorists it now wants to deport back to Russia?! This criticism amounts to (promoting) Islamophobia only for those who secretly view ALL Muslims as terrorists.
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  2288. Which services are these? I'm aware of only one: the English Language training immigrants are offered free of charge. If you know of services immigrants get that native born Canadians don't, please do list a few.
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  2289. It all depends on what the West does. If it decides to give Ukraine long-range weapons, the war will expand further west towards Kiev. Both Putin and Shoigu are on record about that.
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  2290. 👍
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  2291.  @aliquill2252  In both cases, dealing with the ideological descendants of WW2 Nazi collaborators. The Croatian flag is the flag the Croatian WW2 Nazi-allied state first used. And, another interesting and relevant similarity, as the telegrams they sent to Berlin on this topic attest, in both cases even the notorious SS found their Ukrainian and Croatian collaborators absolutely bestial in their inhumanity.
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  2292. ​ @thecomment9489 Tragic, except for Ukraine's billionaire class, which now includes Zelensky and his entourage.
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  2293. He's only gained in the admiration of about 85% of the world.
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  2294. This video was morally repugnant. The sucking up to Israel and Zionists and not a word about the decades of atrocious human rights violations and violations of international law, including violations of numerous UN Security Council resolutions Israelis have been committing. No word of reference to the genocide they're currently committing in Gaza either or to the hundreds of their own citizens they slaughtered a year ago. A complete loss of moral credibility on the part of Alexander Mercouris. I can't help but wonder what his aunt Melina Mercouris would think of him now if she were still with us.
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  2295. The US had no qualms about using depleted uranium in Serbia, whose cancer rates have shot through the roof in consequence.
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  2296. That's a bit of a myth in this case. Very, very few Israelis come from the ranks of those who survived Nazi death camps. Worse yet, as survivor memoirs have revealed, Zionists welcomed them with jeers and denigration, openly mocking them for their "weakness". I read a few of those memoirs about 20 years and was so profoundly shocked that I've since blocked the names of the authors (though I may still have them jotted down somewhere in my reading notes).
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  2297. 👏🎉❤
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  2298. Asking a killer if she poses a risk to Canadians. What do these media dimwits expect her to say?! 😅
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  2299. ​ @georgecoventry8441 Same with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact a year later: Stalin knew what was coming and bought the country some time to prepare for it.
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  2300. Is that why Palestinians look to Moscow for help?
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  2301. Might be a Ukrainian immigrant.
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  2302. There are others who know as much: ex-Marine Brian Berletic, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, the Indian Major General whose name always escapes me, etc.
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  2303.  @terintiaflavius3349  Not at all. Under 6,000, actually. The BBC has been moaning since June about not being able to account for more than 4,500 Russian casualties. Since then, the number has risen to 5,800+. Fact.
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  2304. Russia's shrugging off the combined weapons and ammunition of a coalition of 41 countries (including all of NATO) involved in the proxy war in Ukraine, and these jokers are prattling about how Russia can't fight at night because its troops lack night vision! The West has become positively pathetic by now.
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  2305. Both Guterres's abject failure to acknowledge the Soviet defeat of fascism in WW2 and Europe's pointed failure to include Russia in the commemoration of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz testify to the complete moral bankruptcy of the Western civilization and its East European hangers-on.
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  2306. The Russians should help them return home asap.
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  2307. ​ @oswarz Worst for them.
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  2308. A long time ago.
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  2309. ​ @gizmocat6990  I am religious, and am sorry about my own schadenfreude but there's no point in pretending I'm not to glad to see Russia react appropriately at last
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  2310. 😂
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  2311. Their job is to tell Americans what to think. Truthfulness would be inimical to that goal.
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  2312. 😂
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  2313. Nurture does create gender but it doesn't create or determine sex. We need to insist on the proper use of these terms as one of the key tactics of the transgender propaganda has been to conflate the two concepts, sex and gender, in order to erase the reality of biological sex. You may impersonate a gender (which is what trans males and females do) but you cannot choose your sex, which is biologically determined.
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  2314. You should have expected this. Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and Labour has been Conservatives Lite since Blaire destroyed old Labour.
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  2315. Alexander doesn't go under the Alex moniker. His Duran partner is an Alex.
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  2316. ​ @Foreigner567  It's always been Kiev. This Keev thing is supposed to Ukrainian and sounds awful.
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  2317. ​ @Carlos-Santos  I am (from Eastern Europe), and Scott's 100% right. I realize you have a difficult time accepting that.
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  2318.  @John-dh1gh  Your brainwashed ignorance of facts is showing. Russia wasn't even party to the Minsk Agreements, which were between Kiev and Donbass only! Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men have now died pointlessly because the Western-supported regimes in Kiev refused to implement those accords.
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  2319. Exactly. And they know it. Both Borrell and Stoltenberg said as much a few months ago: Ukraine's defeat is NATO's defeat.
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  2320. Their numbers are NOT declining. On the contrary, their numbers have increased over the last 40 years. Even the World Wildlife Fund admits that there's been no decline in the numbers of polar bears worldwide, while the New Scientist reports increasing population sizes.
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  2321. Why such unnecessary exaggeration? You lose credibility with claims of a hundred million Native Americans.
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  2322.  @willbass2869  There was no city on that ancient Greek settlement site when Catherine the Great founded Odessa there. I hope this clarifies it for you.
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  2323. 😅
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  2324. 😂
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  2325. Why do you think only DemParty administrations have been doing this?
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  2326. I remember Zelensky promising that this year's Eurovision would be held in Mariupol. 😜
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  2327. ​ @EstParum  Didn't your mother teach you it's naughty to lie?
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  2328. Which reflects the views of his GA's audiences, yes. We're a minority, though
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  2329. ​ @rydplrs71 He also tried to pull the US troops from Syria but was prevented by the Pentagon which simply refused to do it.
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  2330. ​​ @UtubeRwokeLefties  No. I do reluctantly believe the World Bank and the IMF, though. And according to them, in 2023, the Russian economy overtook Germany's and is now #1 in Europe. Furthermore, in 2024, Russia overtook Japan to take the #4 position globally.
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  2331. Exactly. Vile.
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  2332. ​ @LoveBagpipes The guy got offed in Spain a few weeks ago.
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  2333. Wagner lost at least 20,000 men in Bakhmut/Artemovsk. In Russian terms, that's quite a bit less than "doing well".
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  2334. Stop and think. This man has not had a home, as you and I understand that, with the stability and continuity it comes with for us, and now finds "home" in several places at once.
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  2335. ​ @td6460  Thank you for the compliment.
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  2336. Because he's an embarrassment to them and they'd rather he flee Ukraine. I'm just surprised Lira chose to try leaving via a regular border crossing instead of walking into Hungary at some other point along the border.
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  2337. It's Mearsheimer who calls himself a realist. In reality, he's an ideologue who supports US hegemony.
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  2338. There is no major party of the Left in the US. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are right wing parties.
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  2339. ​ @Triple_J.1 No: that's culture.
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  2340. 😮
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  2341. That's pretty impressive, actually!
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  2342. Soviet technology. Ukraine's not produced a single new thing of its own since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
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  2343. I hope you're right.
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  2344. Oh, Germans have never forgotten who really defeated them. And are still very sore about it -- hence their support for Notsee Ukraine.
    5
  2345. Oh yes, they did. In Eastern Europe, they did.
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  2346. Because such hits have zero effect on the ability of the Russian forces to carry on. Russia's using about 10% of its military capacity on this proxy war in Ukraine.
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  2347. Brazil doesn't have a "pro-crime" government. You may not like Lula, but please don't lie.
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  2348. The losses included the wounded. The kill ratio doesn't.
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  2349. Since 2022.
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  2350. And one that could so easily have been avoided simply by the implementation of the Minsk Accords and NATO's agreement to abide by and implement the terms of its own agreements with the Russian Federation.
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  2351. Except that the elite is not going down at all, alas.
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  2352. Russians do see through it. Ukrainians, not so much.
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  2353. Learning a new language is great for warding off senility and the Alzheimer's. Try spending 3-6 months in Russia, enrolled in a Russian language course just for fun.
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  2354. Same here in Canada.
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  2355. ​@samirdoncic6395 No, he said no such thing.
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  2356. *implemented (Ukraine had signed the Accords but it used the process to prepare for a war with Russia which, according to Alexei Arestovich (former advisor to Zelensky) NATO had made the key condition for its eventual membership. Back in 2019,in a Ukrainian TV interview, Arestovich said the war would start any time between 2020 and 2022.
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  2357. I know. It boggles the mind anyone should hate genociders.
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  2358. Alex Krainer is always worth a listen! But I was floored to hear from the other guest that a gold-backed currency is a feature of socialism. He must believe that the US was a socialist country before it went off the gold standard.
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  2359. America lacks the culture from which such men arise.
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  2360. It's not just a rumour. It's a fact.
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  2361. Slovakia, too, most probably. Possibly Bulgaria also, within the next 10 years.
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  2362.  @JuanTorres-ny9ff  Of course it can! Don't be naïve.
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  2363. Yes, just as we used to be horrified by what our ancestors did in WW1 and their failure to stop WW2 from happening, when England and France rejected the Soviet offer of a defense alliance in the 1930s to forestall any German attempt at taking over Europe.
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  2364. That's exactly what it is.
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  2365. I don't see how any other interpretation is logically possible, and I'm sure Pentagon understands this regardless of what it's been instructed to say in public.
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  2366. Two thirds of our economy depends on trade with the US. We never bothered to diversify, and I still don't hear anyone talking about it.
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  2367. They won't. Although many, perhaps most Greeks do feel a certain solidarity with us.
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  2368. Yes, and the schtick is getting tedious.
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  2369. The truth of the matter is exactly the opposite. Russians continue to volunteer in such huge numbers that they don't need another round of mobilization. Ukraine, in contrast, needs to find 500,000 men and is pressuring EU countries to deliver the Ukrainian men who've fled there back to the Kiev regime. As for ammo, your claim is so ludicrous, I really don't see why you bother with such nonsense. Lies will not turn things around or magically produce the ammo the West can't.
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  2370. It's not "if" any longer. He gave his blessing to Mike Johnson's "compromise".
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  2371. Amazing song!
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  2372. Frankly, I wish it would, if only for a couple of weeks to show Europe and the US it means business, but I think that while the Russians will no doubt escalate things quite a bit, they'll still do their utmost to spare civilian structures and civilian lives, of course.
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  2373. OMG, that never occurred to me!
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  2374. You may not be compassionate, but Ritter is right in that, on the whole, compassion comes a lot more naturally and spontaneously to a lot more Russians than Frenchmen, Brits, Americans, Germans, Canadians, etc. There are deep rooted cultural differences among nations, and a great many Westerners who've lived in Russia fall into a depression on their return home. I learned of this fact myself only recently.
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  2375. You haven't even begun healing yet. There's much work of accepting what's happened and grieving the future you had hoped for, before your deeper healing can start. It will all take time.
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  2376. Very imaginative of the WSJ.
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  2377. "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be its friend is fatal." Henry Kissinger Let's hope that after its centuries-long experience of Anglo colonization, India doesn't make itself trade dependent on the US. We all know how vulnerable to blackmail and external control it makes any country that relies on the West to any appreciable degree.
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  2378. Foolish then, as now.
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  2379. YouTube promptly deleted my original reply to your comment, so I'll try to reconstitute it here. Hudson is referring to the Ottoman rule in the Middle East, which was very different from the way Turks behaved in Europe, in the Balkans. That said, the West has regularly downplayed, denied, and whitewashed the extreme cruelty and psychopathic callousness the Ottomans displayed in Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Bosnia. So, for example, British newspapers used to ridicule as preposterous and false the accounts of Turkish genocide-level atrocities in Crimea and Bulgaria in the second half of the 19th century, nor have Western historians to this date ever corrected their account of the Ottoman invasion and colonization of south-east Europe. Prof. Hudson must be forgiven for not knowing what has been studiously covered up by Western historiography.
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  2380. Courage evidently doesn't reside in testicles.
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  2381. That, and having taken on Russia on behalf of the collective West.
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  2382. Great respect for India's foreign minister!
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  2383. He already has a British passport, courtesy of Boris Johnson.
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  2384. ​ @jerome4038  The Nazi swastika, yes.
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  2385. There are miles long tunnels into and out of Bakhmut. Some of the Ukrainian forces may well have withdrawn from the city using those.
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  2386. You already have it.
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  2387. ​ @andreasschmidt2739  Naturally. They have conventional weapons with the destructive power of a nuclear bomb. If you're in Europe, pray they don't lob it at your country.
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  2388. I pray for Russia's decisive victory every day. ❤
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  2389. ​ @bevanbuckwheatshea5520  Of course they thought they were being helpful. But they were also naive. We must stop teaching girls and women to look out after others instead of looking out for themselves first and foremost. We should teach girls to get someone help, but not to try doing it themselves!
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  2390. EU members have also sent tens of billions plus weapons and ammo to Ukraine.
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  2391. You give them far too much credit. They're as incompetent as they are venal.
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  2392. ​ @rachelweyenberg9574  The step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. The grandmother has since divorced that man.
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  2393. About that video with Zelensky and his two sidekicks: their shadows are falling directly forward, towards the camera, while the shadows of the buildings to their right fall squarely towards the left. Definitely Photoshopped.
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  2394. ​ @Samael44444 Only a small percentage of psychopaths are killers.
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  2395. The bombing of Libya's Man-Made River was pure spite, pure malice and triumphalism. And an expression of the ethos, the true character of those 4 countries.
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  2396. They may need them sooner than that.
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  2397. Exactly. I was a tiny bit disgusted to hear Alexander describe Swedish neoliberals as left wing.
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  2398. The judge does good work, too. A different format, but still genuinely informative.
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  2399. The step-grandfather, actually. He was known to hate the mother and he was at the scene for 30 minutes before the police came. He had plenty of time to coach the boy to incriminate his mother, the woman the step-grandfather hated. The grandmother has since divorced him.
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  2400. Hmmm. No. It needs better than to sign such promises. There need to be enforcement mechanisms in place to ensure Ukraine doesn't renege on them.
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  2401. 👍
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  2402. Of course the Brits would say that now
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  2403. Who's this "we"? 😂
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  2404. ​​ @beezihester9807  Ukraine lost a long time ago. And it's entirely due to US Democrats, who callously pushed it into a war with Russia, a war they could EASILY have avoided by simply negotiating a new security architecture in Europe and a win-win solution.
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  2405. You also have the most beautiful anthem in the world! ❤
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  2406. True, but even so, what has the attack on Kursk achieved beyond proving to the Russians they need to take at least all the territory east of the Dnieper to serve as a buffer zone between them and the enemy.
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  2407. Yes, unless there's an overriding reason for doing so. Helping Ukrainian forces save their lives by surrendering to their Russian counterparts would count as one such reason in my opinion
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  2408. You have too much faith in their planning abilities.
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  2409.  @2vintage68  I feel sorry for the old folks and single mothers, the demographic that will be hit the hardest.
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  2410. Alexander isn't a contributor; he's a host and it's not customary to introduce hosts.
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  2411. 😂
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  2412. Not surprising: she has a PhD in American Studies, after all
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  2413. The New Atlas, too (Brian Berletic).
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  2414. Putin's way too soft.
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  2415. Thank you sooooo much for addressing that RT article -- first it shocked me, then I began to worry a little that there are still many liberals and Atlanticists in Russia's governing circles. I'd also very much like to hear what you can tell us about Margarita Simonyan, who was, astoundingly, appointed to her position of RT's editor in chief at the age of 25!
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  2416. And the rest of the world knows it, can see it with their own eyes.
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  2417. 41 countries. All of NATO, plus other US satellites.
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  2418. 100% so.
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  2419. Brian shows you a study on these weapons done by the US Army itself, and you say you don't believe it. Ok.
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  2420. Which world are you talking about? South Americans just refused to meet Zelensky in Europe, 49 out of 54 African countries have just concluded their summit with Russia in Saint Petersburg, all of the Arab world has turned its back on the West, Saudi Arabia's joining the BRICS, and all of Asia (barring Japan and South Korea) support Russia.
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  2421. Which is why the failure of the Zelensky regime (and its Western masters) to offer unconditional peace negotiations right now is beyond idiotic.
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  2422. Nice to see Glenn Diesen again.
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  2423. ​ @hommie422  Russia. According to both the World Bank and the IMF.
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  2424. No.
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  2425. ❤
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  2426. It's straightforwardly, not borderline, criminal.
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  2427. Congratulations to this extraordinary young athlete! 🎉❤
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  2428. You really do need to drop that naivety, outgrow it. It's cost Russia far, far too much over the past 200+ years.
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  2429. When you borrow money, as most countries need to do, you don't have to kiss the American boot or accept IMF's punitive conditions that require borrower countries to slash their education, health, housing, and infrastructure budgets.
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  2430. There's a channel that posts walkabout videos of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Both are beautiful.
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  2431.  @hanyward9245  Just click on his photo/avatar.
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  2432. All it suggests is that Russia isn't interested in more territorial gains, something we've known from the very start. Ukraine lost Novorossiya entirely due to its own stupidity and nastiness: it could have retained it all and spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of its men had it simply implemented the Minsk Accords.
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  2433. Shameless hysteria.
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  2434. Absolutely. I pray Putin understands that.
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  2435. ​ @nemanjastankovic4439  Russia can offer Ukraine privileged access to the Odessa port, for trading purposes only. And that would be more than generous at this point...
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  2436. And that one time 300 years ago was in reaction to Poland's own invasion of Russia and attempt to conquer it.
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  2437. ​@john.norris 😅
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  2438. Stopped listening after the second time this guest framed the proxy war in Ukraine as Putin "getting away with things".
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  2439. The mystical path is far more widely trodden in the Orthodox tradition, and should you decide to join us formally, you will be welcomed. Our churches are like long estranged sisters: with patience and lice, God may bring us back together yet. In the meantime, you may want to look into the contemporary Catholic practice of the Centering Prayer, if you aren't already familiar with it.
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  2440. The health system failed that baby first and foremost. Her mother should have remained under constant psychiatric care, in hospital, until she recovered. It's appalling that the hospital just sent her home with a prescription for meds, especially after she first tried to harm the baby! Appallingly irresponsible and callous of the health system itself.
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  2441. Yesterday was a day mourning, today is the day of celebration. RIP innocent people from both sides.
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  2442. Most of the Orthodox world will celebrate Easter NEXT Sunday. Alexander, as a Greek Orthodox, does celebrate it today.
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  2443. Those are the servants of power, mere puppets, not the puppeteers. The ones in control are the oligarchs themselves.
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  2444. Gangster capitalism (and it's mafia state). Nothing's changed since Brecht wrote about it.
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  2445. So, why isn't Hungary talking about exiting the EU?
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  2446. In the meantime, the Russian economy is booming and its standing in the world at large has never been better. Bolton's a dolt.
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  2447. With 10,000 tanks in reserve and the ability to produce 1,000 new ones a year, Russia must be quietly sniggering.
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  2448. How can you talk about liberal democracies without acknowledging that they're all oligarchies whose moneyed class decides their fireign policy in what they think is their own interest (as distinct from the interest of the people)?!
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  2449. The whole nonsense of Russia having all the time in the world has hobbled and subverted the SMO practically from the start.
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  2450.  @Ktaurus26  Money, perhaps, but the West has just announced that from now on it will no longer be sending arms to Ukraine and that its military aid will consist entirely of training Ukrainian forces. This was to be expected as it's some weeks now that the US said it's exhausted its stores of weapons and that it will be some years before it can supply Ukraine with a new batch.
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  2451. Not on the outcome. Only on its length, which means on the number of men (it's mostly men who've been dying in Ukraine, and mostly Ukrainian men) killed in it.
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  2452. Absolutely no comparison.
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  2453. Indeed! Only the wilfully blind still don't see it.
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  2454. ​ @DaveAgainstVileEvil  Everyone and his uncle knows the Russians pulled out from Kiev environs in a show of good will to cement the Istanbul agreement that was being initialled by both parties at that very moment. Everyone and his uncle also knows that it was at Macron's suggestion that Putin gave orders to pull out from Kiev. Everyone and his uncle also knows that it was the Anglo-Saxons who did the dirty on that agreement, with Boris Johnston flying into Kiev to threaten Zelensky that the West would deny Ukraine any security guarantees if it went ahead and signed the already initialled agreement. The result? The loss of half a million Ukrainian men killed in battle.
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  2455. ​ @Decoy0527  Across the globe? That was mainly a feature of American liberal feminism.
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  2456. And in multiples of the numbers the Russians send! 😅
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  2457. He was bribed. The threat was of a financial nature, and he folded.
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  2458. The generals. They can sign capitulation papers.
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  2459. None.
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  2460. The US isn't at all threatened by either Russia or China, or anyone else. It doesn't have to go softly into that good night because it's not about to die. It just needs to learn humility, integrity, and cooperation. What's so bad about any of that? P.S. Sorry, Scott, but the US was never essential to anyone except to the Americans themselves. And that's just as it should be.
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  2461. A known outlet for MI6.
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  2462. A situation brought to us courtesy of 40 years of neoliberalism.
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  2463. ​ @jb-xc4oh  I am Serbian and I thank you for your kind words. ❤
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  2464. A meaningless, totally cynical apology. They knew exactly whom and what they were celebrating.
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  2465.  @shane7103  You need to work on your comprehension/reading skills. My argument, since you managed to "misunderstand" it the first time round, is that naturally occurring famines were sadly commonplace in that part of the world and that those (i.e. the Russians) who Ukrainian nationalists claim were intentionally and deliberately starving Ukraine were themselves much more severely affected by that natural disaster than it was.
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  2466. It was clear and obvious as early as last Spring that Ukraine banked on being able to pull NATO into a direct conflict with Russia. Some in Kiev haven't given up on that hope yet.
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  2467. ​ @vesakaitera2831  It's worked for Russia for over 200 years now.
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  2468. ❤️
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  2469. Because he's reporting facts now?
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  2470. That, and the fact, which they are aware of, that the referendums in those 4 regions were overseen by over a hundred foreign observers, as the referendum in Crimea also was. In other words, they KNOW those regions are well and good lost to Ukraine because Ukraine treated their residents so atrociously, so barbarically for the past 8 years that they genuinely don't want to be a part of it ever again. They may, and will, pretend that the referendum results were faked, but they KNOW better.
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  2471. I pray you will be liberated, maybe even by the end of this year. ❤
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  2472. Exactly! No Israeli adult can be considered a civilian in this context.
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  2473.  @ОльгаОрлова-ы6д  With a SIM card and Google Translate, it's more than enough! Btw, I'm planning to visit Russia for the first time this summer. Looking forward to it so very much! 🙂
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  2474. You can un-press it.
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  2475. Indeed and exactly so.
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  2476. And what will make it understand that?
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  2477. I have my window slightly open here in Canada. Not all the time, but for a couple of hours a day. Fresh air, you know. We Europeans like it. 🙂
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  2478. Not quite. They walked into a city the Russians had pulled out of, taking all of their equipment with them and and evacuating over 115,000 civilians over the past 4 weeks.
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  2479. I don't. I live in Southern Ontario, a couple of hours from the border with the US, and I have no desire to even visit there ever again (the last time I was in the US was in transit from the Dominican Republic).
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  2480. You forgot to take your pills again.
    5
  2481. Peskov didn't say he couldn't deny it. He only said he couldn't confirm it. The polite diplomatic way of saying, someone's lying.
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  2482.  @arcsephiroth  Spot on.
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  2483. Sooner or later, that won't be up to him anymore.
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  2484. ​ @matebalazs1575 Should never have left either.
    5
  2485. ​ @upstairs1307  😅
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  2486. ​ @Worldturnedupsidedown  They can still pledge that money to whomever they want.
    5
  2487. How much freedom have we really got left?
    5
  2488. ​ @RichardPhillips1066  Because he's a member of that outfit.
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  2489. They all do. Money, money, money....
    5
  2490. Truth hurts, but it's especially painful to narcissists.
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  2491. US governments just carry out the will of their donors, the US corporations.
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  2492. ​ @crescentprincekronos2518  The world doesn't need a country to "lead" it. Every country decides what it wants and how to achieve it, and no country has the right to even aspire to "lead" others. How presumptuous to think that any country could or should dictate to others ("lead" them)!
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  2493. ​ @joelturley4847  Just keep telling yourself that.
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  2494. They were terrible under Stalin, but by 1990, things had changed so much that 75% of the citizens of the Soviet Union wanted to preserve it!
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  2495. ​​ @galanis38  They've mentioned Gaza and Israel here and there, giving the topic no more than 10 minutes maximum at any one time. Compare that to the hundreds of hours they've already devoted to the proxy war in Ukraine.
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  2496. It is appalling, but it's not a war crime.
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  2497. He's evil. Some people are like that. And they often claw their way to the top, too.
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  2498. So why don't you tell us what Dominion's production numbers actually are?
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  2499. No, I haven't. I'm sure thre are some, maybe even many, but the ones I've come across were anything but. A very conceited, entitled, deluded people, especially those from the western parts of the country.
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  2500. 😅
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  2501. ​ Influencer der kein Mensch mehr ist  He didn't. The official version is that he was found dead of a bee sting in his home. His body was immediately cremated, so we'll never have a chance to discover what really killed him.
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  2502. We just have to be patient. This won't be resolved any time soon.
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  2503. 2, 3, and 4. As for Russia, it's stronger today than a year ago and continues to gain in strength with each passing day.
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  2504.  @grandemperorputin5992  I've already replied to a similar question. But I'm curious to know why Americans imagine that private property is banned under socialism. There are many billionaires in China.
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  2505. I don't mean to be rude, but your comment is incomprehensible. Why not use Google translate to write it in your native tongue, then copy the English translation, and paste it here?
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  2506. They faced the best in Bakhmut, and lost. They'll lose to the Chechens too.
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  2507. Indeed! 😅
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  2508. You should take that up with the people who're running your country.
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  2509. ​ @EnlightenedMindset  There is: one is fighting an occupied, the other is attempting to ethnically cleanse a whole nation.
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  2510. I know. It's absurd to trust Zelensky. It's absurd even to pretend to trust him.
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  2511. This was clear to those of us who followed his 2010s debates and discussions on Ukraine with the late, sorely missed Stephen F Cohen. Mearsheimer almost lost tenure during the early 1990s because of the book he'd co-written on Israel's influence on US foreign policy. Since then, he's been firmly wedded to the concept of a global US liberal hegemony.
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  2512. Exactly!
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  2513. If I were American, I'd vote for her. No one else comes close to her in integrity and vision.
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  2514. Szijjarto will make a very fine president one day
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  2515. It's like asking what the Nazis should have done to prevail.
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  2516. It's happened before, so yes, I wouldn't be surprised to learn in a day or a week that this was done by Ukrainians. They already have a track record with this, and other similar behaviour.
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  2517. And Russian. He can quote reams of Russian poetry in the original.
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  2518. Same difference.
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  2519. The Islamic Republic is about 40 years old.
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  2520. ​ @sylviewalker7560  Please stop projecting a specifically American trait onto the rest of us.
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  2521. He's a practiced, conscience-free liar.
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  2522. ​ @IgorMuravyov-o5r  Thank you for the history lesson. I never knew that.
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  2523. Money has something to do with it, too....
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  2524.  @huangjin800  And Brussels, with both NATO and EU headquarters.
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  2525. Weeb Union said yesterday that Russia controls 2/3 of the Bakhmut territory. However, Ukrainians still hold the city centre itself.
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  2526. Well, it did -- for about a hundred years. Lenin gave all those parts of Russia to its Borderlands (which is what Ukraine means) in order to create a new state, a new nation there. Now, given how badly Ukrainians have treated the people of those regions, they are going home, rejoining Russia.
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  2527.  @charlesmartel6103  Kherson was never fought over in a serious way: the Russians had failed to mobilize in time (Putin dragging his heels s usual), was in Ukraine with only an army the size of an expeditionary force, and the Russian Army did the rational thing. Not having enough forces for the task, the Russians withdrew and let the Ukrainian forces walk in. It was a Russian loss and a Ukrainian gain, but no victory to Ukraine.
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  2528. No problem, Brian. Great to see you have subtitles in Thai now. I don't speak or read the language, but it's really good that the Thais now have access to your geopolitical analyses.
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  2529. Try to track down the video of the Russian Security Council meeting at which Gerasimov first reported on the Kursk incursion. Seeing Putin as visibly furious as he was there will dispel any doubts about just how badly Russia was caught napping.
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  2530. ​ @norwegiangothic6054 Zelensky changed laws to effect that.
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  2531. Urrrraaaaa! 👍🙂❤️
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  2532. No.
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  2533. Wow! 😮 That's terrible! It sounds like a class thing. Shameful.
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  2534. They were also in US colleges and universities.
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  2535. Yes.
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  2536. As it de-dollarizes itself, I hope the world treats the collective West as it deserves to be treated. Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself, and, conversely, with 50% of mercy.
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  2537. Russia withdraws from an area 45 km x 40 km, Ukrainian forces walk in, Kiev claims a great victory, and all of the West goes into an orgasmic swoon. The Clown World of the collective West.
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  2538. 😮
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  2539. 🎯
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  2540. As a Christian, I share your view. There's a spiritual dimension to this, as you describe.
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  2541.  @DjmMik  And yet, Canadians re-elected him yet again just a year ago.
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  2542. ​ @ryansack5198  Even adults can drown in a foot of water!
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  2543. ​ @Michael-Philip The US military is the single greatest contributor to climate change/global warming.
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  2544. ​ @flightofthejellyfish  A perfect summary. My hat off to you!
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  2545. And the economies of Europe, too!
    5
  2546.  @bayerischemotorenwerke5252  How do you imagine the people will survive if their economy goes down the drain?!
    5
  2547. ​ @egay86292  Both economies are in ruins, with no prospect of recovery. Both lost their empires and are still smarting from it. Some success.
    5
  2548. 😅​ @дмитрийчеканов-б1х 
    5
  2549. You can make it a lot simpler by not worrying about eating all the fat standard keto requires. Remember, the diet was designed for children with epilepsy and the amount of fat appropriate for that specific health condition simply isn't necessary for most people. I'm ketovore right now, slowing inching towards carnivore, which I want to do for 3 months straight and then reassess. I do like vegetables and am hoping I can reintroduce them into my diet some time down the road.
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  2550. I'm so sorry for your loss. We're having more and more homeless in Canada, too, and not just in our largest cities. It's heart-breaking and shameful how our societies have money for weapons and wars but not for our homeless and our poor.
    5
  2551. 😂​ @elpoiken 
    5
  2552. They aren't trying to drive them out. They're methodically destroying them. 4,700 as of yesterday.
    5
  2553. ​ @Theodish_Warrior  Don't be paranoid. We just want you to go home and leave us alone.
    5
  2554. Please do! It's a story that needs to be told.
    5
  2555. Truly impressive numbers.
    5
  2556. They did the brunt of the fighting in 2022.
    5
  2557. Just subscribed.
    5
  2558. Nah. Just the collective West.
    5
  2559. ​ @lets_discuss5352  Taylor Swift.
    5
  2560. 👍
    5
  2561.  @Shadowless_Kick  Suppress channels that go contrary to the Western party line.
    5
  2562. 😅
    5
  2563.  @brianpeck4035  The high ground is across the Dnieper, on the eastern bank, where the Russian forces have withdrawn to.
    5
  2564. I saw a couple of his videos a while ago. It was clear that he was running an anti-Russia propaganda channel. In the EU, he'd be serving time if he dared present pro-Russia views. In the end, all I can say is, if only Julian Assange were as lucky as this guy.
    5
  2565. I agree. Disgraceful. Am not sure how much longer I'll be able to listen to these two.
    5
  2566. ​ @ginaturner7755  How? It's not as though anything she's saying is a secret.
    5
  2567. And Canada, and Australia. The collective West is exactly the term needed.
    5
  2568. ​ @ramsanjay7 That's what the head of the State Department is.
    5
  2569. Thank you for raising this topic and clarifying a couple of things for me, Sam. As soon as videos from one of the Russian Russia-bashing started to show up in my feed a year or so, I in return started telling YouTube that I don't like the videos. Lo and behold, YouTube's algorithm quickly figured out NOT to offer me such fare any more. 🙂
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  2570. Culturally opportunistic.
    5
  2571. It's AI that frightens me. Anyone who tells you not to fear it is either a fool or a scoundrel. And sometimes, the very intelligent can also be fools.
    5
  2572. Love and support for our dear Russian brothers and sisters from Serbia! We're with you. God bless and protect you all! And may God bless and protect Russia for all time! ❤
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  2573. I got images of both black and white folks, including some poor people tied to lamp posts in Ukraine! 😮
    5
  2574. ​ @matthewbaumann630 Amazing how nobody's ever been able to provide any visual evidence of those mythical 75 units of the Russian Army in Donbass prior to February 24, 2022.
    5
  2575. Why the amazement?
    5
  2576. On top of which, he was lying as always, accusing Russia of what Ukraine's been doing.
    5
  2577.  @australiaprisonisland9156  Here in Canada, our federal police force has just advised the government in a heavily redacted report that the plummeting quality of life and continually increasing cost of living is likely to provoke widespread social unrest within the next 5 years.
    5
  2578. 😂
    5
  2579. You're not Russian. Your fake YouTube name is Pyotr Poroshenko, the name of Zelensky's predecessor.
    5
  2580. Same in Canada.
    5
  2581. Somebody's also very keen to deny those casualty figures.
    5
  2582. ​ @anoushnewman1247 Just click on the "Translate to English" link below his text.
    5
  2583. ​ @sonyx5332  I'd like to see it, too, but I doubt it's on YouTube.
    5
  2584. I agree. Am a bit exasperated with Putin's foreign policy and his handling of the SMO too.
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  2585. She's my family's patron saint.
    5
  2586. They would not be there as NATO forces at all but as some nebulous "coalition of the willing".
    5
  2587. ​ @HercTheGreek  Exactly! 😂
    5
  2588. ❤
    5
  2589. 41 countries. All of NATO, plus a few satellites.
    5
  2590. A strangely creepy picture.
    5
  2591. 41+ countries.
    5
  2592. That's seriously f*cked up.
    5
  2593. Nah. They'll be withdrawing from Bakhmut on May 10.
    5
  2594. 😂
    5
  2595. His callous indifference regarding Ukraine is the stuff of sheer sociopathy.
    5
  2596. The Soviets defeated them. You just walked into Europe at the last moment to make sure you'd get to dominate it post-war.
    5
  2597. No, not the repair technicians. As always, they should just hit the targets when there are no civilians around.
    5
  2598. ​@OneBigUnion That's exactly what he said: none of us knows what exactly caused Navalny's death. We do, however, know how Gonzalo Lira died.
    5
  2599. ​ @screamingmonk  😂
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  2600. 🎯
    5
  2601. Putin's been far, far too soft the last 10 years, in fact. He himself acknowledged last fall that the decision not to help Donbass win it's independence in 2014 was a mistake (his personal mistake). He also stalled last summer, probably falling for Kissinger's talk about the need for negotiations, and rejected his MoD's advice to mobilize troops as early as last June or July. Assuring Zelensky that Russia would not take him out was a part of that pattern. I know from other sources, people fighting on the side of the Donbass defense forces, that the Russians have repeatedly given them orders to stand down exactly as they were on the point of liberating another piece of territory and driving the Ukrainian forces out of there. Such deliberate stalling suggests a conscious policy -- one which I don't understand.
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  2602. ​ @jasonjones4036  Don't be silly. Physically, women are at a great disadvantage, especially in upper body strength.
    5
  2603. @user-vi7jj4de8r The photos don't necessarily indicate consent.
    5
  2604. His personal fortune was just under billion a year ago. Amassed in the three years he'd been in office. The guy's a thief extraordinaire, skimming and grabbing with both hands.
    5
  2605. I finally understand why I can eat cheese without any problems even though I've been lactose intolerant since birth.
    5
  2606. And voted against it more than once.
    5
  2607. What's odd, and doubly odd since you don't even realize it, is that you ever thought sex is something to be sought, that it's a transactional thing. If you don't want to have a close, intimate relationship, then "seeking sex" is bound to lead to disappointment and apathy.
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  2608. ​ @claudiodominguez. There's nothing asinine in what Scott is saying. Germany has a historical debt to the Russian people that cannot just be written off.
    5
  2609. Who's threatening the US? What security concerns does it actually have? I don't see dozens of Russian or Chinese military bases surrounding the US.
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  2610. ​ @masterchicken4794  All of which Russia will quickly and easily regain just weeks from now, whereas Ukraine's pointlessly losing 600-1000 men a day. Just wait and see what happens once Russian reservists enter the field in their full numbers.
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  2611. ​ @duncansmith7576  So now facts are biased?! 😅
    5
  2612. ​ @nicksm7980  Was, yes, but it no longer is. The losses have been astronomical, and irreplaceable.
    5
  2613. ​ @williamhallleiva8735 A fifth. The 20% with more than 50% of Ukraine's productive capacity, mineral wealth, and about 30% of its famous black earth. Without the eastern regions -- all of them Lenin's gift of Russian territory to the Borderlands -- Ukraine's economy is kaput.
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  2614. The organizers estimated about 3,000.
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  2615. ​ @dudebro91-fn7rz  A country that's defeating NATO single handedly is weak?! Ridiculous.
    5
  2616. Interesting. There are, in fact, at least two widely divergent theories of the etiology of the NPD. The one developed and championed by Kernberg, states that narcissism is the defense formation against ego wounds sustained in childhood. The other, less known, theory is that narcissism is the result of excessive childhood coddling and ego entitlement by enabling parents.
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  2617. I hope you can get surgery to help you.
    5
  2618. Historians agree that that was the message of the nuclear bombs the US dropped on those two civilian cities in Japan.
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  2619. China is not ethnically and culturally homogenous. It's a harmonious multicultural society.
    5
  2620. OMG! That's so unfair! May things turn out for the better for you soon!
    5
  2621. The Zelensky regime rejected the proposal a few hours ago.
    5
  2622. According to the Poles. Say no more. 😉
    5
  2623.  @LilRedRasta  Not with Russia's involvement, bud. It's wrong to lie about such things.
    5
  2624. Except that a majority of our fellow Canadians accept and even embrace this. Let's face it: we're a nation of conformists.
    5
  2625. 😂
    5
  2626. Who? Cui bono.
    5
  2627. 🙂
    5
  2628. Every year, for the past several years, there are 3,000+ people sent to prison in the UK for their comments online. I briefly researched this a year ago, only to discover that the UK leads Russia in this respect 10:1! Someone should look into the number of similarly imprisoned in Germany and elsewhere in the EU.
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  2629. Vandana Shiva is a world treasure! India should be celebrating her with great pride. 🙂🎉
    5
  2630.  @josephdewuhan  Great idea! 👍😅
    5
  2631. RT reported a couple of hours ago that Ukraine's violated the Easter truce in several places.
    5
  2632. You need a real Left party in the US. Until you figure that out and establish one, nothing will change.
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  2633. Just an omission. India's already trading in its own currency as well as rubles in its trade with Russia.
    5
  2634. ​ @canadianbacon5553  He and Asma were the darlings of the West during the 2000s.
    5
  2635.  @mmdurante1616  That's what you were made to believe by those who've been lying about Ukraine and this conflict all along. The independent journalists on the ground have been interviewing people there, and the eyewitnesses tell a completely different story than the one pushed by Kiev and it's Western sponsors.
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  2636. Brian's videos about Thailand should be part of every highschool civics class in the kingdom.
    5
  2637. ​ @bburn1793 No doctor in Canada has ever asked me such a question out of the blue.
    5
  2638. ​ @missis_jo  There's no way around your last point: educational achievements of children all over the world are closely correlated with the parents' socio-economic status. It's a matter of class culture differences and no reform of the education system can eradicate those in a world of readily accessible 24/7 entertainment (a.k.a. the internet).
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  2639. Trump's already demonstrated that he's too weak to pick out an administration loyal to him and to his vision in both domestic but especially in foreign policy matters.
    5
  2640. ​ @jumpinjee  It's not. All Apple products can be easily hacked by grad students and profs.
    5
  2641. I'm a 67 yo woman with a couple of chronic health issues and I can walk a mile in 20 minutes. If pushed, I could speed walk 1.5 miles in 20.
    5
  2642. Probably a bit of both.
    5
  2643. After 2,000 years of calling on him to return, maybe it's time we heeded his own words: nobody but the Father knows when this will unfold. Trying to hurry events up is pointless.
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  2644. Oh they are. Human, that is. It's our culture of narcissism that insists evil people are somehow not human. An infantile way of thinking.
    5
  2645. Liman might be a sideshow, but just a day before Russian forces withdrew from there and left the residents of Liman to the most un-tender mercies of the Ukrainian forces, Putin had triumphantly promised the people of those 4 regions that Russia will never abandon them. Some 24 hrs later, Russia abandoned the residents of Liman.
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  2646. ​ @SuanLuang 😮 That can't be true! Can it?!
    5
  2647. NATO may well remind Ukraine that had it not sold and pilfered away 2/3 (66%!) of the weapons and ammunition it has supplied it, Ukraine would not be needing to be bailed out yet again.
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  2648. Surely both the Ukrainian and the American military advisors are perfectly well aware of the Soviet strategy at the Battle of Kursk and are taking that into account in planning whatever spring or summer counteroffensive Ukraine might launch. What I mean is, the Russians can't afford to be complacent about it. Btw, I find it interesting that the Americans have already drawn up contingency plans for the chaos that may ensue should Zelensky be killed (or should he flee from Ukraine, a scenario they don't mention). It strikes me as hilarious that they've also drawn up contingency plans should Putin be killed.
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  2649. Love and support from Canada.
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  2650. You don't know history, do you? Kosovo has been a part of Serbia for centuries. It was NEVER a part of Albania and contains not a single Albanian toponym or cultural monument. It's Albania who's been trying to grab it from Serbia for the past 100+ years.
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  2651. ​ @vestasharp6861 They knew what they were during.
    5
  2652. How ironic, given how India treats its poor and its vulnerable.
    5
  2653. Large enough, strong enough and rich enough. A remarkably sane society, too.
    5
  2654. Yugoslavia may have been a bit of a regional player but it was never , anywhere close to a global power. It was certainly a founder and major force behind the Non-Aligned Movement. Which is exactly why a socialist Yugoslavia had to be destroyed.
    5
  2655. Yes, and millions of them have been suffering these conditions for over 8 years now.
    5
  2656. ​​ @trakomane55  Those lands were immemorially a part of Russia until LENIN and STALIN annexed them to the Russian borderlands (ukraina) to create a new Soviet Republic called the Ukraine. Their original name was Novorossiya, i.e. the New Russia. And they're now returning home.
    5
  2657. ​ @MsSalem-qm1lp  Evil is real, but this is not it. This is postpartum psychosis, a well known and absolutely treatable temporary form of insanity. It's caused by extreme hormonal unbalance with wild chemical and hormonal fluctuations following a pregnancy. All mothers with postpartum psychosis do eventually recover, but it's imperative that the baby be cared for by someone else while the mother is still in the grip of this psychosis.
    5
  2658. 😂
    5
  2659. 😂​ @lappo2534 
    5
  2660. Not a bad plan.
    5
  2661. ​ @katymeigs5290  For most of the last 1000+ years, Tibet was a part of China. It's thriving under Beijing's rule once again.
    5
  2662. Everyone is misinterpreting Putin's speech. The Russian military doctrine doesn't allow for first use of nuclear weapons in case Russian territory is attacked but only if Russia is faced with a numerically overwhelming enemy OR if the survival of the state itself (an attempt to dismember Russia as Yugoslavia was torn into pieces, or a decapitation strike on the leadership of the state which would leave Russia undefended). So, what Putin was referring to are the hypersonic missiles Russia has: one Sarmat would be enough to sink most (if not all) of the UK into the sea or wipe out a medium sized country in Europe. Russia simply has no need to resort to its nukes even if its military doctrine allowed it.
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  2663. Some initiative. 😂
    5
  2664. Hmmm. Does it look that way to you?
    5
  2665. I'm sure some of them are far right, but those types are a minority.
    5
  2666. Go and check out the photos of Grozny then and now.
    5
  2667. And Ursula Von der Leyen And Borrell And Jan Stoltenberg And Olaf Scholz And Boris Johnson And Angela Merkel And Francois Hollande And Petro Poroshenko And whoever are the president's of Poland and the Baltic chihuahua states
    5
  2668. Yes, but you know you're in the minority these days. You're a rare exception.
    5
  2669. You're idealising Putin. He's always had a soft spot for Germany and Germans and is now publicly admitting that Russia should have launched an SMO back in 2014 or 2015 at the latest.
    5
  2670. RT is pretty good, actually. Which is why it's banned in the collective West.
    5
  2671. ​ @joelturley4847  Copium.
    5
  2672. Angela Merkel's work.
    5
  2673. This is how they start things, though. Outright occupation comes a few decades down the road.
    5
  2674. Try to recall who told you Russia was about to launch a great winter offensive. And then stop listening to them.
    5
  2675. ​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  May God protect and keep him safe!
    5
  2676. Just keep telling yourself that. 😜
    5
  2677. You caused it in the first place. And have worked tirelessly for the past decade (overtly, and two decades a little more covertly) to bring this war about.
    5
  2678. As always. 😅
    5
  2679. He can't do maps. Bad eyesight.
    5
  2680. ​ @kentauree  It's not just the printing of money -- power resides in those who own the corporations and the media. If you don't address that, you'll have done nothing.
    5
  2681. Or he's just stopped advising him, which seems more likely, given the decisions he made over the past year.
    5
  2682. Good news, surely.
    5
  2683. The opposition immediately politicized that tragedy -- it was distasteful and transparent. The other thing is that Belgrade traditionally sees itself as superior and more sophisticated than the rest of Serbia and can't stand it that democracy means the snobbish Belgraders don't get to run the country as a whole.
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  2684. ​ @pin65371  Try lying, harder.
    5
  2685. ​ @Lean_Dad  You've got to be joking! I'd take Italy over Germany any time!
    5
  2686. Lots of Western bots here made very unhappy by Prof. Hudson. 😅
    5
  2687. You obviously prefer to live in blissful ignorance since you take such umbrage at anyone analyzing Trump's campaign manifesto.
    5
  2688.  @michaelearlgrey  English is not his native tongue. It's perfectly clear he means their sovereignty, their sovereign rights to chart their own geopolitical and foreign, as well as their own energy policy.
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  2689. I wonder if child services did actually sit down with Debora to explain how dangerous and unpredictable postpartum psychosis is and why it was imperative not to allow Deasia anywhere near her baby daughter. Watching this, I also had serious issues with the investigating detective trying to force a clearly insane woman into taking responsibility for her actions. However horrible her actions, and they were awful and gruesome, she can't be considered guilty due to genuine, unfeigned insanity. I surmise that she was later talked into pleading guilty by her own defense lawyer, for reasons unknown to me (this video doesn't address that at all). The problem with that resolution is that this woman needed continued, long-term psychiatric care, something she wasn't going to be given in prison. In a very real sense, and although the killer got sent to prison for what she'd done, this was still a miscarriage of justice and a tragedy all around.
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  2690. 😅
    4
  2691. None of which means he won't take you to war against Russia.
    4
  2692. ​ @f4llen1759  Thousands?! What planet do you live on? About 5 million Ukrainians have sought refuge in Ukraine since February 2022. That's on top of the other 4-5 million Ukrainians who've been living and working in Russia, and supporting their families in Ukraine with the money they were sending to them, for the past 15-20 years!
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  2693. Israel victorious? What drugs are you on?! 😅
    4
  2694. There's zero chance of Ukraine retaking Crimea.
    4
  2695. He's already discussed it in a number of his recent videos.
    4
  2696. You should have BEGUN asking some of these questions months ago -- by July, at the latest. Even to this day, and despite the appointment of Gen. Surovikin over a month ago, the Russians still haven't brought all the forces fighting in Donbass under a unified command!
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  2697. ​ @vostok2360  It's exactly so! They've made and continue to make themselves pathetic with their fantasies of superiority and their dishonesty.
    4
  2698. Amen.
    4
  2699. If only Putin had paid heed to this back in 2014.
    4
  2700. You'll start feeling the true consequences of your leaders' decisions and your willingness to go along with them in 10 years from now. The current economic situation is as nothing to what it will be for/in Europe by the end of this decade.
    4
  2701. ​​ @mladenmatosevic4591  The Russians don't use Western weapons. They're at least a decade ahead of the US in military innovation.
    4
  2702. The Chinese immediately owned the balloon. All further speculation on that score is absurd.
    4
  2703. The state was dismantled, but there are plenty of people over 50 who still regret its violent demise and still think of themselves as Yugoslavs.
    4
  2704. Andrei's videos deserve the widest circulation possible.
    4
  2705. ​ @arthurtane1557  The IMF is using it, so so much for your "academic" theory.
    4
  2706. I see no reason for believing the Zionist version of events. Note that this is happening less than 48 hrs after Blinken's most recent visit to Israel.
    4
  2707. ​ @stansirlmkhope2312  I go out of my way to ignore both.
    4
  2708. Probably so, but what prevented Russia from hitting hard the Ukrainian communications and other infrastructure that does constitute a legitimate military target?!
    4
  2709. ​ @chester_bennington_  I doubt that most of them do. The ones who fled in 2022 might, but the majority of the ones who stayed in Ukraine know better by now.
    4
  2710. True.
    4
  2711. Lola's an absolute beauty! Wonderful temperament, too. 😍
    4
  2712. ​ @pja6476  Yes, you should ignore lies. Or do you enjoy being fooled?
    4
  2713. 😂
    4
  2714. True.
    4
  2715. It was about 125 k, but even so, it's grown remarkably since.
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  2716. ​ @stephensteele1213 A lot of Americans are actually leaving the States these days. Once you've travelled a bit, you realize how the US is all hype.
    4
  2717. ​ @palawanjungledays3099  Only if it's completely lost its mind.
    4
  2718. A leg amputated from smoking?! Is that what your mother told you? 😅
    4
  2719. Hello hasbara.
    4
  2720. Turkey, Cyprus and Israel outrank Russia and China?! 😂
    4
  2721. ​​​ @benbim540 Those figures are highly misleading, i.e. meaningless. The only comparisons that tell us something of value are based on Purchasing Power Parity. What Russia, China, India etc. are getting for their trillion+ is several times more (and often much better) than what the US is getting for its trillion+. I agree that even with PPP, the US is the most militaristic country in the world, but the ratios are not nearly as skewed as simple dollar figures suggest.
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  2722. There was a time in the West when one's word was one's bond.
    4
  2723. Not weakness but folly, as you said.
    4
  2724. Michael Hudson understands Europe well: what motivates it, what it's revived and embraced is the old Nazi ethnic/racial hatred of Russia.
    4
  2725. The Russians knew about it; they just couldn't believe Ukraine would go ahead with something so stupid and took it for a feint.
    4
  2726. I feel sorry for all non- and anti-nationalist Ukrainians, but I'd very much like to know this: when they voted to elect Zelensky, did or didn't Ukrainians know that he was a creature of Kolomoisky, and did they or did they not know that Kolomoisky had financed the Azov and other Nazi militias in Ukraine? If they knew this, how on earth could they have believed his campaign promise to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish good, pre-2014 relations with Russia?
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  2727. In Serbia.
    4
  2728. The uncultured in Slavic languages means uncivilised.
    4
  2729. Probably. Especially since it's clearly a coordinated shift.
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  2730. Dream on. 😅
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  2731. ​ @klausschwabshubris  Yep.
    4
  2732. ​ @thetooginator153  The people of Donbass voted overwhelmingly to re-join Russia in September 2022. I say re-join because Donbass was chopped off from Russia and annexed to the borderlands in order to create Ukraine in the 1920s. The people of those parts of Russia were never asked if they agreed with that.
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  2733. ​​ @mnemonija  A free country doesn't have a NATO office in every one of its ministries, as is the case with Serbia.
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  2734. And he was never exiled. He just moved to the UK in 2014.
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  2735. You don't need to apologise: you're absolutely right.
    4
  2736. ​ @gkagara You should consider the very real possibility that you're being overly optimistic.
    4
  2737. Russian-speaking, yes, but not Russian in any real sense of the word.
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  2738. They'd be mad to want back onto that sinking ship! The EU committed slo-mo economic suicide the moment it chose to sanction Russia and refuse to continue buying cheap Russian energy products. Now it relies on ludicrously expensive AND unreliable American LNG, which the US has just suspended shipments of to Europe as it needs the stuff itself! 😅
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  2739. Not if you're lied to. Ukrainians had voted for Zelensky based on his campaign platform which promised immediate implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia. The 73% of the Ukrainian voters who elected him president in 2019 bear no responsibility for his betrayal of every campaign promise he'd made.
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  2740. ​ @robertburnett6348  It's par for course, especially during election campaigns.
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  2741. Must be well over a billion by now: he was as in the Panama Papers with already more than half a billion at that point!
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  2742. Don't be too sure about that. I'm one among the many who once spent a year in the US and chose not to live there.
    4
  2743. I could live on Panettone, I love it so much!
    4
  2744.  @sylviam6535  The northern part of Ukraine has much more severe winters than the southern and south-eastern regions, which are influenced by the Black Sea. This winter happens to be unusually mild, to boot.
    4
  2745. His laziness is a reflection of the disdain he has for Black people (and everyone else making less than at least a million a year).
    4
  2746. ​ @lowersaxon Denial is a river in Egypt, right?
    4
  2747. ​ @flyrodmike They know they'll lose Europe and whatever cooperation they still have with India and China if they do so.
    4
  2748. I'm pretty sure the Russians will spare Kiev. It's that Russian sentimentality they still cling to.
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  2749. That small boy was gleefully shelling civilians for 8 years straight. Looks like a bully to me.
    4
  2750. ❤
    4
  2751.  @alexanderdovzhenko2095  Not as nasty as the friends the US and EU keep.
    4
  2752. Zaluzhny has confirmed that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from Marinka.
    4
  2753. But that's exactly the issue: Mearsheimer isn't describing the world as it has been throughout the ages. Even cursory knowledge of China's history reveals that China itself is a very clear exception to what Mearsheimer calls "realism". Projecting onto others what we ourselves do is a very sly form of self-deception. It's anything but realism.
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  2754. ​ @FluffyTurtles  You already have his former advisor Alexey Arestovich with you.
    4
  2755. 🎯
    4
  2756. Ukraine had already become Europe's poorest country before February 24, 2022.
    4
  2757. You think your politicians represent you?! That's not how it works. You elect your politicians to represent the corporations and the oligarchs. Your part is to give the whole thing the appearance of democracy, which is the only thing that legitimises the continuing transfer of funds from the poor to the rich the system is designed for. That's all that remains of democracy in the US: just the appearance of it.
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  2758. BRICS consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Argentina has applied to join them, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia are preparing their applications, which will be submitted at the next BRICS meeting next year.
    4
  2759. ​ @juancarlosjuancarlos4629  Keep telling yourself that.
    4
  2760. Excellent! We need Russia AND China acting in concert to get a new security architecture for all of Eurasia (Europe is a subcontinent, the westernmost peninsula of Asia).
    4
  2761. ​ @jkjk42898  Lenin's, to be precise.
    4
  2762. It's not done so until now, so you know the answer to that.
    4
  2763. The British governing class has traditionally hated Russia for existing. Imperial envy, that's what it is, except the Brits have forgotten they aren't even a regional power any longer. Nothing to do with Russia, but bullies always have to blame someone else for their problems.
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  2764. Mariupol is flourishing at last. The people of Dontesk can finally sleep safe from Ukrainian shelling. Etc.
    4
  2765. Russia has very persuasive, effective conventional weapons such as the Sarmat that it can use in Europe should it ever need to do so before it ever even considers the nuclear option. Unless, of course, the Ukrainian Nazis, as the last act of loser spite, resort to dirty nuclear bombs, in which case God help us all.
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  2766. ​ @robyenney951 Oh dear. How easy it is to fool Americans. FYI, the accent Mercouris has adopted is considered extremely snobbish and upper-class, you might say pretentious, in the UK.
    4
  2767. He also has a British passport, thanks to Boris Johnson.
    4
  2768.  @WassimJelassi  Check out Weeb Union. A very objective Dane who does brief military updates 2-3 times a day.
    4
  2769. Kherson in enjoying beautiful balmy weather right now (up to 20C for the next few days), an Indian Summer that is set to last until next Friday, when the first rain is expected to fall.
    4
  2770. ​ mcnuffin1208 😂😂😂
    4
  2771. You're being very quiet about it, aren't you? No street protests, no strikes, nothing.
    4
  2772. Wishful thinking.
    4
  2773. I used to teach a general humanities course at a college in Canada a couple of decades ago, and one of the units covered Marx's understanding of history and his critique of alienation in capitalism. We had quite a few adult students from China, and at the end of the course they'd regularly tell me, with appreciation, that the Marx I introduced them to was very different from the Marx they'd been taught in China. Btw, ALL of my students readily understood Marx's critique of alienation, a phenomenon they were familiar with from the work/jobs they had to do to support themselves.
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  2774. Most of Russia proper lies in Europe. The rest of the Russian Federation is in Asia. Btw, contrary to what we learn in school, Europe itself is a subcontinent of Asia, its westernmost peninsula.
    4
  2775. Kudos to India for this! Totally impressed. Respect! 🎉
    4
  2776. Not any more. At no point was it as strong as Turkey's either.
    4
  2777. ​ @allseeingotto2912 All of North Africa and parts of southern Europe.
    4
  2778. Exactly.
    4
  2779. Why not? Fairly representative of the ethnic and religious make-up of the country.
    4
  2780. ​ @MA-me3rm  We resisted insane EU pressure to join their economically suicidal sanctions on Russia. And we've maintained rich cultural ties with Russia at a time you lot were banning Russian music, literature, even Russian trees. 😅
    4
  2781. Good question. His possession of a gun shows intent, premeditation.
    4
  2782. Your loss.
    4
  2783.  @nolitetebastardescarborund9761  Volodya is for small children only. Putin's nickname would be Vova.
    4
  2784. It wasn't Russia who banned Western media but the collective West that has deprived its public from accessing Russian media. These facts speak for themselves.
    4
  2785. ​ @boomengerinaldo6103  I'd be surprised if it wasn't, given that it's something done in other countries all over the world. But then, who knows what the "exceptionalists" do? 😜
    4
  2786. Russia's laying the legal ground for upgrading the SMO into an anti-terrorist operation à la the one they carried out in Chechnya.
    4
  2787. 💯👍
    4
  2788. Dream on, sweetie. 😜
    4
  2789. They do have nuclear weapons, both the Brits and the French. They don't need any more nuclear bombs than what they already have.
    4
  2790. And the EU thinks this will not affect the euro as a reserve currency?!
    4
  2791. Aidar battalion are one of the "ideologically motivated" Nazi militias incorporated into the Ukrainian army. Germany has just voted against a UN proposal to ban on the glorification of Nazism, so it's not much of a surprise that German journalists won't nention this fact about the Aidar.
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  2792. ​@@nighthawk2023Yeah, right, except that apart from the collective West, everyone else is trading with Russia and in fact increasing their cooperation with Moscow!
    4
  2793. It's not even 3 years. Compared to other recent wars (Afghanistan, Syria), it's hardly even begun.
    4
  2794. It's not a conversation; it's an interview.
    4
  2795. ❤️
    4
  2796. Oh no. Only a small percentage of psychopaths kill people. Most are to be found in the police, the medical profession, and law.
    4
  2797. I can't listen to him on anything below that speed.
    4
  2798. ​ @BorntoYeet Every independent analyst in the West estimates that Ukraine's lost over half a million men, not counting the severely wounded. Why do you think Zelensky and his crew are now reduced to sending amputees to the frontline?!!!!
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  2799. ​ @GreenIsland38  How ignorant can you be?! The Soviets were going to put nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to the Americans putting nuclear missiles in
    4
  2800. Support for Russia from Canada!
    4
  2801. ​​ @mistressfreezepeach The world turned upside down. It's the same all over the West.
    4
  2802. Exactly!
    4
  2803. ​ @ebonytv3414  No, Alaska was sold away fair and square. But Texas and California ARE Mexican, and Hawaii belongs to itself.
    4
  2804. ​ @steveo5295 👍
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  2805. ​@@epoh2073 What democracy in Ukraine?! For 8 years Kiev prevented almost a quarter of the country from participating in elections at all, and Zelensky has since banned ALL opposition parties and ALL independent media!
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  2806. To be fair, he was forced to withdraw from negotiations by the UK and the US. Ukraine had already initialed and was on the point of signing a peace deal with Russia in April 2022 when Boris Johnson flew into Kiev to tell Zelensky the West would give Ukraine no security guarantees if it signed a peace agreement with Russia, that it had to continue the war.
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  2807. That and integrity. Traded in for greed and power lust.
    4
  2808. Oh yeah? 😂
    4
  2809. 🎶 Music to my ears. 🙂👍
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  2810. The Brits also saved tens of thousands of Croatian Nazi collaborators, people who committed atrocities against mainly Serbs so awful that the Nazis stationed in Croatia wrote alarmed cables about it to Berlin.
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  2811. Which would be the best outcome for Europe, actually.
    4
  2812. Dehumanizing Russians, anti-Russia and hate, has been cultivated in the West for the past 1,000 years. The Swiss MP Guy Mettan wrote a book about it a few years ago. Its title in English is: Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria. Can't recommend it highly enough.
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  2813. ​ @johnsmith1474  It's not only beautifully rebuilt but you can see numerous videos of Mariupol today right here on YouTube.
    4
  2814. ​ @cleopatra7377 I think he's citing a hilarious Minty Python sketch in which a knight gets all of his limbs hacked off one by one while saying, oh it's nothing, it's but a scratch.
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  2815. Where did you hear that? I can't find anything to suggest, let alone confirm it.
    4
  2816. ​ @mir-jan3496  Ima nas, kako da ne. 🙂
    4
  2817. I can't really imagine a city of that size! I'd have to visit for a month to get a sense of what it's like.
    4
  2818. I agree. I also watched the video of the security council meeting at which Gerasimov first reported on the incursion in Kursk, and I've never seen Putin as visibly furious as he was there. He was literally gnashing his teeth!
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  2819. Absolutely it does!
    4
  2820. 😂
    4
  2821. It's the only thing that could save Ukraine economically (and demographically). It's one of those ironies of history that Ukraine's nationalists will turn out to have been largely responsible for destroying it.
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  2822. What a privilege to be able to hear Prof. Karaganov on the topics covered in this discussion!
    4
  2823. True. It was obvious to me even as it was happening. As for Gorbachev, no head of state has the right to such naivety. He was criminally naive.
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  2824. ​ @rizkierwin6488  There's nothing promiscuous about having several prior sexual partners before marriage. Several vs dozens is the difference.
    4
  2825. ​ tanjar4932 Yes, and lost through emigration forced by extreme poverty.
    4
  2826.  @rayglover8697  We have total energy security here in Canada, yet every winter my monthly gas bill comes to $250-320.
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  2827. Kiev plays to the Western MSM crowd, not to the minuscule percentage who follow independent analysts on YouTube.
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  2828. Poland, Germany, France, Spain, the UK and Italy are all mid-sized countries, small in comparison with Russia, yes, but then no country except Canada comes even close in size to the Russian Federation. And even there, Russia's almost twice the size of Canada!
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  2829. Go directly to the Syrian embassy. Don't bother with the Red Cross.
    4
  2830. It's lie. Am surprised you fell for it. It's the Ukrainians who've been executing their own troops wanting to surrender.
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  2831. The fact that The View has an audience at all is an indictment on the American public. I've seen them a couple of times in my dentist's office (I'm a Canadian socialist) and couldn't believe how mindlessly partisan and vulgar they are.
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  2832. South Korea is dying out, demographically. At present, it's 0.34 child per South Korean woman.
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  2833. Franz Ferdinand was just a trigger. I doubt that Russia will let itself be drawn out in reaction to this.
    4
  2834. ​ @MatthaiKurian A lot of my friends use Facebook to exchange information not disseminated by our legacy media.
    4
  2835. The EU was the brainchild of Hitler's wartime cabinet. 'Nough said.
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  2836. What they're doing is just awful. As Mr Martyanov put it the other day, Russian forces are by now begging them to "Please, stop! We're sick of killing you!"
    4
  2837. France might do it, just. Germany? No. And I'd rather not see Germany leading Europe (or, rather, dominating it) any more.
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  2838. The effrontery, rather.
    4
  2839. 😂
    4
  2840. The Ukrainians are trying to retake it. And losing thousands of men in that futile project.
    4
  2841. I think this happened shortly after a group of Ukrainian soldiers were encouraged to surrender only to feign surrender and then lunge at their Russian counterparts with weapons a-ready. They were neutralised, but it was a shocking scene alright. Still, I'm sorry for that poor Ukrainian killed by a drone.
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  2842. May it be so! 🙏
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  2843. This sounds more like a punishment vote against Conservatives than a vote for New Labour (the UK lost its Labour party under Blair). I'm a retired college prof in Canada, but if I were British, the only party I'd vote for today is George Galloway's Workers Party.
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  2844. Her maid does her shopping.
    4
  2845. 😂
    4
  2846. Perfectly clear sound in Canada.
    4
  2847. ​ @vintagechild4418  A daily dose of cod liver oil for preschoolers was standard practice in Eastern Europe 60 years ago.
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  2848. Trolls are desperately splattering their verbal excrement all over this comment thread today. Panic mode in Kiev and the collective West.
    4
  2849. ​ @pitkind4hardcoresolo 😂
    4
  2850. I seem to remember a bloody civil war, followed by the return of monarchy which again proved itself too autocratic, followed by the monarch's deposition, and finally the threat of a foreign invasion and the importation of a foreign (Dutch) monarch to establish the laws and the system of real parliamentary monarchy, with the monarch firmly bound by the laws of land which this gentleman would have us believe just grew "organically" and all by itself from the inherently democratic spirit of Englishness. I thought we were all grown ups here.
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  2851. ​ @screamingmonk  Over a year ago. He's on Telegram, though.
    4
  2852. ​ @minochenkovatn Not a trained assassin, just an easily manipulated one.
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  2853. Bravo, Spain! Bravo, Spanish labour unions and the working people of España!
    4
  2854. It's sheer madness. And the European population in their various countries is idiotically passive about preventing another major war on the subcontinent. We Europeans aren't as smart as we imagine ourselves to be...
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  2855. 😅
    4
  2856. Bulgaria was a Nazi ally in WW2. Despite which, and thanks to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, they managed to save ALL Bulgarian Jews. Not one was handed over to the Nazis
    4
  2857.  @aprescoup  I disagree: the greatest weakness of the Left has always been our interminable infighting. Critique is fine but it's also a distraction from the more difficult and important business of organizing and working together in unity.
    4
  2858. I understand they've already retrieved it.
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  2859. ​ @fabianschrotter  Yes, you should remind Ukraine and Israel if thatt.
    4
  2860. If I were Jewish, I'd hate Europe, too. But then, some people are wierdly irrational: Madelaine Albright, who was saved by Serbs together with the rest of her family, hated Serbs with a passion only a psychiatrist could fathom.
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  2861. Modi had already left when this took place. 😢
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  2862. Blinken and Sullivan sound like characters in a comic operetta.
    4
  2863. Have a look at the interviews with Africans living in Russia, available on YouTube. I was pleasantly surprised by their uniformly positive experience of Russia.
    4
  2864. This is the second time Victoria Nuland's "retired" from the State Department, so it's entirely within the realm of the possible that she may return to it yet again, alas.
    4
  2865. It lacks the culture that produces such leaders.
    4
  2866. No. I used to but not lately.
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  2867. Everyone? That's absurd.
    4
  2868. ​ @fempilled  My concern is that anyone could see the Greens as a viable alternative in the light of what they've done to Germany.
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  2869. Yesterday I berated you for speculating far too excessively; today I have to take that criticism back. What's more, Brian Berletic is singing your and Alexander's praises today for accurately predicting that Russia would let Ukrainian forces take Karkhov. 🙂 Congratulations!
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  2870. He's been protected by British special forces the last year or so.
    4
  2871. True.
    4
  2872. Not so: Russian generals and other high ranking officers always lead from the front. This is an old-age practise among Russians.
    4
  2873. In the long run, yes, even for the people in the collective West.
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  2874. Is that why Buren's praying and hoping the conflict would freeze for the next 6 months? 😅
    4
  2875. ​ @TacticalMayo  Russia's using less than 20% of its military capabilities in Ukraine.
    4
  2876. ​ @jackcaffrey8493  KGB? 😅
    4
  2877. Well, he thinks Spain is in BRICS, so....
    4
  2878.  @pausereflect5911  There are no tiers in BRICS+.
    4
  2879. 👍
    4
  2880. Depends on who planned and carried out the assassination of Wagner's top officials. Prigozhin was only the most visible but least important of them on that jet.
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  2881. How are things in Tripoli? I taught English there in the late 1970s, straight out of university myself and have the fondest memories of my girl students.
    4
  2882. Zelensky doesn't care for Ukrainian lives. It's that simple.
    4
  2883. This has been confirmed by a former hostage, a Jewish woman who spoke about it in the interview. Asked repeatedly about it, she clarified that many of the civilians had been killed in crossfire and specifically by Israeli forces. I saw the video on either Redacted or Greyzone.
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  2884.  @slasaus1  I'm a Canadian. There are no Chinese troops in either South America or Canada.
    4
  2885. I hope you do finally go in hard and force Kiev to unconditional surrender. Nothing but Ukraine's total capitulation and a peace on Russia's terms will guarantee the security not only of Donbass but of Russia itself.
    4
  2886. ​ @ОлекЛис  That's awful! 😢
    4
  2887. ​ @davidcritchley3509  Romanians were never consulted or asked if they wanted to join NATO. The same is true for all the other post-Soviet, post-Warsaw Pact East European countries. Not a single referendum anywhere, and not even any public debate about it. And not because the people of those countries were so keen on joining NATO that no discussion was needed. Quite the contrary, in fact.
    4
  2888. ​​ @mitzithompson6585 "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser. An American classic.
    4
  2889. And the 22nd, and 23rd, and 24th, etc.
    4
  2890. 5 billion, Aaron. Nuland was very specific: 5 billion dollars to bring about the coup d'état of February 2013.
    4
  2891. He's a joke then.
    4
  2892. You're confusing Prof. Mearsheimer with someone else.
    4
  2893. Any way you look at it, Russia betrayed the trust of the people of Izyum, who are now left to the most intender mercies of the Ukrainian army and its Nazis. Badly done, Russia. Badly done.
    4
  2894. ​ @nono-wc6gc 😂
    4
  2895. ​​ @elsonck2523 Kolomoisky, Zelensky's mentor billionaire, financed the Azov.
    4
  2896. Your #5 doesn't even feature on their priorities list.
    4
  2897. The latter.
    4
  2898. They were even before it. So much so that Shoigu's just said that all talk of a second mobilization is ridiculous: Russia has several HUNDRED thousand volunteers already in training.
    4
  2899. No. It really happened and was tolerated, ignored and covered for several decades.
    4
  2900. Can you tell us, in brief, what Michael Khazin's take on Blinken's visit to China is, please?
    4
  2901. ​ @victorkapustin4071  Not necessarily. It can also be the slight embarrassment of a usually self-effacing person.
    4
  2902. 😂
    4
  2903. War crime. Ukrainian specialty.
    4
  2904. They offered to surrender only once they were told nobody was coming to take their wounded and help them retreat. Abandoned by their own side, they sought Russian help for their wounded and surrendered as a unit. The wounded are now being given medical assistance by the Russians and the rest are being processed to determine if they'd been involved in any war crimes (standard Russian procedure).
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  2905. He's obviously a smooth talker. Wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
    4
  2906. The Russians have 10,000 tanks in reserve and can easily manufacture 1,000 tanks a year.
    4
  2907. It's well understood, geologically and in palaeoclimatology, that the Berring Straights were once a land connecting bridge between Asia and North America. Genetics also tells us that the ancestors of present-day Natives migrated to North America overland, I.e. over that "bridge" would would have been at least several miles wide. The climate in those part (Siberia, North Asia and Alaska -- was much, much milder, too. The "needing no clothes" part of the ancestral narrative is obviously an exaggeration, a hyperbole (a figure of speech often found in oral narratives).
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  2908. Try listening and actually paying attention.
    4
  2909. ​ @willbass2869  Where's the slander?
    4
  2910. He's for once seriously underestimating the number of casualties (kia's) Ukraine sustained during that period.
    4
  2911. Truth matters, as does people's health. Mine has been injured, debilitatingly, by the Pfizer vaccine.
    4
  2912. Absolutely agree with you except for that "you haters". Why is it that North Americans take criticism for hatred?
    4
  2913.  @tonupharry  78% of Russians approve of Putin's job performance. 86% of the world supports him.
    4
  2914. Yellen offered no advice: she made outrageously silly demands.
    4
  2915. ​​ @olliefoxx7165  Don't be so touchy. You know it's most US-born Americans.
    4
  2916. ​ @Eggplant-Va  Stupid can be descriptive rather than derogatory.
    4
  2917. Serbia hasn't sent any aid to Syria either. Absolutely shameful!
    4
  2918. And you think you've done something just by venting?
    4
  2919. Yes, but he can ignore them.
    4
  2920. As expected. Self-imposed censorship is everywhere in the collective West.
    4
  2921. The EU is America's second institution of power in Europe,NATO being the first.
    4
  2922. Please don't compare and question yourself. Each one of us is unique and different, and it's no shame and no fault of yours that you're having a very hard time trying to recover. Try to be as gentle, kind and supportive of yourself as you would be of a mistreated and abused loved one, of someone precious to you. With kindness and patience with yourself, you may be surprised in time to find reserves of inner strength you can't even imagine right now. My very best wishes to you!
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  2923. Alexander, please take the time to recover from that head cold that's been plaguing you for too long now. The material in this video could have been presented in 20 minutes flat, were it not for the repetitions and unnecessary elaborations, and this tells me your powers of concentration are down. Best wishes on your full recovery!
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  2924. Serbia is not in the EU. Moreover, there's a strong internal opposition in Serbia against joining it. Recent polling shows 80% of the young (18-35 year olds) are against joining the EU.
    4
  2925. Pozdrav iz Kanade.
    4
  2926. What worries me is that Putin seems willing to go along with some sort of a peace deal rather than force unconditional surrender on Kiev.
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  2927. Australia's not even half the size of Russia, which is by far biggest country in the world.
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  2928. You don't know the true history of your country, then.
    4
  2929. Adults drown in a foot of water, for goodness' sake! And the boy told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. Finally, doctors who assessed him before trial said that at 6 years old, he was developmentally at the stage of a 4 and a half year old, an age at which children confabulate a lot.
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  2930. He's speaking in what for him is very much a second language he doesn't use in a daily basis.
    4
  2931. The Kagan-Nuland clan.
    4
  2932. Composed by a friend of Andrey's.
    4
  2933.  @thepsychedelicaxolotle5020  He's not the one spreading hate. The attitude of superiority religious Jews find embedded and justified in the Tanakh (the Old Testament) is shared by secular Zionists. Several Israeli historians and analysts have written on this topic at length. Btw, Judaism is certainly a religion but being Jewish is also and in most cases an ethnicity. There are many secular Jews and Jewish atheists. There are two ways you can become a Jew: either by being born to a Jewish woman (the father doesn't count), or by converting to Judaism.
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  2934.  @jawanmardi7609  Patricia Crone is wrong: you can join Judaism by conversion. Oxford Classical Dictionary tells us that "Shaye Cohen has argued convincingly that conversions to Judaism began to occur in the 2nd century BCE, as the Hasmoneans came to power and developed an understanding of Jewishness that permitted people to adopt Jewish customs and thus acquire Jewish identity."
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  2935. They'd be fools not to.
    4
  2936. One of a handful of reliable ones, for sure. The New Atlas, Redacted, Grayzone, Garland Nixon, Danny Haiphong, Richard Medhurst, and iEarlyGrey are also excellent, as are Major Scott Ritter's and Col. Douglas Macgregor's frequent interviews.
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  2937. 😂😂😂
    4
  2938. Maybe the 14% of the world known as the collective West, but most of the rest of the world is doing not just ok but better than ever.
    4
  2939.  @thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755  Also, I wouldn't trust a recovering drug addict to tell the whole truth about how she'd treated her daughter.
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  2940. 😂
    4
  2941. And its obverse: Don't do to others what you don't want done to you.
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  2942. How likely is it this by this summer? Highly likely.
    4
  2943. Jeffrey Sacks watched the Duran on a daily basis.
    4
  2944. Serbia's a for all intents and purposes a colony of the West. It's governed by a comprador political class (regardless of which party is in government at any one time). An entire province of Serbia (Kosovo and Metohija) is under direct foreign (US) occupation. The only reason Serbia's current government has refrained from joining the sanctions on Russia is that over 80% of the population is against it and would topple any government that took openly hostile measures against Russia. Ironically, although a member of both the EU and NATO, Hungary is genuinely more independent than Serbia. Belarus and Russia, of course, are indeed independent states.
    4
  2945. Why? 😅
    4
  2946. Better that than its opposite.
    4
  2947. Joining you from Kitchener! 🙂
    4
  2948. That's freedom of speech, essential prerequisite for democracy but not sufficient for it.
    4
  2949. Into a graveyard, alas.
    4
  2950. You do know that, unlike the several million Ukrainian men scattered across Europe, most of them have slunk back to Russia, disappointed with the standard of living they were able to secure for themselves elsewhere?
    4
  2951. Yes, they moved it to Wiesbaden a month or two ago.
    4
  2952. True, but there's a clear continuity between imperialism then and neo imperialism now, with the same set of countries responsible for both.
    4
  2953. They've also accused me of writing comments that constitute "spam", which is their disgustingly disingenuous new censorship tactic.
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  2954. 😂
    4
  2955. THE most heavily fortified town in all of Europe. Yeah, that was incredibly fast. Cope harder.
    4
  2956. Is that true? Did she really threaten to use the nuclear bomb on Argentina over the Malvinas?!
    4
  2957. Like it wasn't dangerous before 1948?
    4
  2958. There's no contradiction between the two.
    4
  2959. I only know that the EU paid over 1 trillion euros in energy subsidies in 2023.
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  2960. How so. There's Macron again, saying today he "hopes" France won't have to go to war with Russia.
    4
  2961. So the French need to elect a party that will take them out of the EU. It's quite simple, really.
    4
  2962. ​ @oliviasukamto947  No. They know they're lying.
    4
  2963. Even your eminent philosophers, like Habermas.
    4
  2964. But of course. 😂
    4
  2965. A culture of narcissism, as American analysts described it some 30 years ago.
    4
  2966. Ukraine opened up its prisons and emptied them back last Spring.
    4
  2967. Perhaps not large, but NATO forces/officers are certainly present on the ground in Ukraine.
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  2968. The lyrics, yes.
    4
  2969. ​ @kikithepupper6774  Perhaps the BPDs I've known were the exceptions, but in my experience people with BPD don't really love anyone or have genuine empathy. They may feel they do, especially the ones with grandiosity and the belief they can save the world, but in reality, they have an extremely limited (if any) capacity for caring.
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  2970. A Ukrainian drone attack has killed a person in the Russian Belgorod region, its governor reported a few hours ago. How many deaths will it take for Putin to upgrade the SMO to an anti-terrorist operation?
    4
  2971. Psychopathy and terminal moral depravity.
    4
  2972. ​ @andrewworth4810 😂
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  2973. You're right, except that most psychopaths are not murderers. They do wreak havoc in other people's lives and cause unknown amounts of damage, but only a small percentage of psychopaths are killers.
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  2974. ​ @yianpap6093 There were some 4-5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia before 2014, and they've remained there all along. Some do support Ukrainian nationalists and constitute a guest-worker 5th column inside Russia. I don't see there's anything more to say about that.
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  2975. ​ @patb5266  Our parliament decorated that same Ukrainian SS member with a medal of honour back in 2007....
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  2976. To the youth: don't waste your time and money on a bachelor's. Go into the trades instead. You'll be making a fine income from the get-go, will always be in demand, and will start your working life with no to a minimal debt. And then, if you're interested in an academic subject, pursue it as a hobby, taking a class online every semester.
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  2977. On camera.
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  2978. Exactly. I just hope the people of Ukraine understand that at last.
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  2979. India and China have great diplomats, too.
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  2980. Depends on the severity of this winter. If it's as mild as the last, nothing will happen.
    4
  2981. 😂
    4
  2982. ​ @tylerd1297  The good colonel has been vocally critical of Israel, so Trump's highly unlikely to ask him to join his team.
    4
  2983. Me too.
    4
  2984. Russian Telegram channels deeply critical of the way the SMO has been run are Russian propaganda?! 😂
    4
  2985. ​ @donsolos I know, but how did she ever get a law degree?! Imagine the standards in that law school....
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  2986. 😢
    4
  2987. Mercouris has eye problems, which is why he doesn't work with maps.
    4
  2988. 😢
    4
  2989. Ukraine accounts for only 2% of the global grain production. It's importance as a "bread basket" is no more.
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  2990. Me too.
    4
  2991. The Romanian general needs to retake Geography 101. Romania is in the eastern part of the Balkans. Western Balkans are Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia.
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  2992. They're woke, but they as right wing as the most conservative Republican.
    4
  2993. ​@moyrablackie1 😮
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  2994. You totally discredited yourself with that slur on Jeremy Corbyn. 🤮
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  2995. ​​ @JosephBisio  Suspect to your heart's content, but Ukrainians are very obviously losing Avdeyevka, their most heavily fortified town in all of Ukraine.
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  2996. I'm visiting both Peter and Moscow next summer. My first ever visit to Russia. 😍
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  2997. ​ @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086 Reported by RT 10 hrs ago.
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  2998. 😂 Though I shouldn't be laughing, really. I've no idea where you are, but here in Canada, food's gone up by about 25% in the last 12 months, and wages have stagnated to the point that people no longer seek for employment since they can't live on what they earn, so they might as well live on social security. A taxi driver told me the other day that single people are now living 10 to a 3-bedroom.apartment because housing costs have gone up so much, it's the only way they can avoid homelessness. The UK has in the meantime warned its citizens to expect a massive increase in food prices, over and above the increase they experienced over the past year. The IMF tells us that both the British and German economies will shrink further this year, while Russia's (despite all the sanctions thrown at it) continues to grow.
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  2999. And said, Well done, son. 🙂❤️
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  3000. It's nonsense, and dangerous, cruel nonsense at that. It's cruel towards people with learning disabilities who need special help.
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  3001. You got it!
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  3002. ​ @jordansoviet23  Also in the US, and also in Canada.
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  3003. 😂
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  3004. ​​ @IndritBonati  It's accurate, and that's bugging the hell out of you. The truth is, Ukraine never had a chance and neither did NATO. They woefully overestimated themselves and absurdly underestimated Russia. As though the Germanic Knights, the Swedes, the Poles, Napoleon and the Nazis had not been enough to teach them not to mess with Russia. Which, as Bismarck pointed out, is slow to saddle but fast once it gets going. And it's still using only about 15% of its military capability in Ukraine. Welcome to reality.
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  3005. Protocommunists?! 😂 This is neoliberal capitalism exactly as it ut was meant to be.
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  3006. ​ @MikhailTeplensky  Independent military analysts in the US (Major Scott Ritter, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Col. Daniel Davis, etc.) offer similar estimates of the number of Ukrainian losses.
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  3007. ​ @markdeshayes8081  Russia offered Kaliningrad to Germany when it allowed the reunification, but the Germans turned down the offer.
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  3008. The latter.
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  3009. ​ @StompingRabbits  Nah. Why would they need nukes when they have Khinzals and Sarmats.
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  3010. They started the SMO as they did because of a catastrophic failure of Russian intelligence services, something that still needs to be investigated because it doesn't make sense at all. The mobilization came 2-3 months late; hence these humiliations in Kharkov, Liman, Kherson.
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  3011. Saying that you have no evidence one of your planes was shot down leaves open the possibility that this is indeed true. It certainly doesn't amount to a straightforward denial.
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  3012. When did you ever see Andrei other than stone cold sober? Pray, do tell.
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  3013. Good. Now just keep telling yourself that.
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  3014. Yes.
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  3015. ​ @eddiemoore6216  And you? 😅
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  3016. 🎯
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  3017. It's crazy the way Americans view themselves and the world. Punish Russia for what?! For existing, I guess. 😅 But who are you to punish others for anything?! The most violent, law-breaking, murderous country in the world for the past 80 years is so grandiose to boot, so megalomaniac, it imagines it has the right to go around "punishing" others! 😅 Thank goodness someone's finally got up to challenge this mad, failed civilization which has lost whatever had remained of its little mind after its murderous rampages around the globe to the extent of no longer being able to tell what a woman is!
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  3018. Indeed. 😅
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  3019. Seymour Hersh's NEVER been proven wrong on anything he's written. The man's incontestably THE premier investigative journalist the US has had in the last half a century. So yeah, you can take it to the bank: this is 100% accurate.
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  3020. I think so too. 🫤
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  3021. Just as the American and Canadian companies moved to China a couple of decades ago. Doesn't bode well for German workers and the middle class, too.
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  3022. Cope harder. 🤡 🤪
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  3023. 42 million in 1991.
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  3024. Biden said it in front of the whole world, with Scholtz standing right next to him.
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  3025. ​ @gradus1939  Second largest, after Russia.
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  3026. What this delusional denialism in the West tells me is that Russia will simply have to force Ukraine into unconditional surrender, total capitulation, because anything short of that will only allow the West to carry on as though nothing's happened. And that would be very dangerous for us all because delusional people are apt to take irrational, sometimes very self-destructive actions, too. American neocons need to be compelled by reality to recognize and acknowledge Russia's power so that they don't try to compensate for this disaster in Ukraine by something even worse.
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  3027. Keep telling yourself that.
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  3028. ❤
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  3029. That's worse than silly, given that under Justin Canada's finally bringing dental services under our health care system.
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  3030. ​ @LadieKadie  Nothing new in all this. Been happening for centuries.
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  3031. There were certainly some irregularities, but nothing in comparison with the last presidential elections in the US.
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  3032. That's my fear, too.
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  3033. ​ @nuclearstarr Sweet.
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  3034. Can always leave the EU, can't they?
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  3035. The documentary didn't blame last year's inflation rate on him.
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  3036. It's a police state, policed by Notsees.
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  3037. ​ @calicocat8213  That's exactly what it means.
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  3038. My only experience of Australians is with the tourists I've come across in Europe and some I met in Bali. The latter were decent although politically totally brainwashed. The ones I encountered in Europe were, without exception, shockingly racist. Left me with no desire to ever visit Australia.
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  3039. Over 13,000 by now. Almost 1,000 casualties a day, plus twice the number wounded (the usual wounded to killed ratio).
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  3040. Economists agree that WW2 and its war time production saved the economy of the USA. There's absolutely no reason to suppose that the Russian economy will be weakened in the slightest by its SMO in Ukraine. On the contrary.
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  3041. That's terrible and tragic. My sympathies to you and your entire family.
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  3042. Not for very long.
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  3043. That ship has been out of commission since last year, when it was damaged. Why the Ukrainians bothered to waste more long-range missiles in it is anybody's guess.
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  3044. How did you manage to twist Putin's words to that extent as to claim "the Russian wish to have it all"?! 😂
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  3045. Just keep telling yourself that. 😜
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  3046. It's appalling how few of us know who ran NATO at its inception and well into our lifetimes, too.
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  3047. I understand that Trump has told Netanyahu to wrap it up before January 2025. If that's true and Trump is elected, this war will be over in the next 8 weeks.
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  3048. There's no such person.
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  3049. Yes. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  3050. ​ @buymecola1  Instead of keeping them at home while making them clean up their operations. Now it can't force its corporations to bring the production lines back home.
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  3051. ​ @MrRoyalbeers  Try to keep up. He hasn't captured anything and has publicly admitted the Kursk adventure was a failure.
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  3052. Wow. ❤
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  3053. I hope you realized this was not normal behaviour and that you had your son assessed and treated by a psychiatrist.
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  3054. True. It's up to us, Serbs, to make Vucic change his mind by insisting that Serbia join the Eurasian Economic Union and BRICS.
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  3055. Just so, for most of us. Well put.
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  3056. That's Andrei's signature greeting. Don't expect him to change it.
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  3057. I'm sorry you got bit. Stray dogs scare me.
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  3058. A toothache will make me long for civilization every time. The tradition you've described also eventuated in the cult of coil, folk, immemorial tradition, etc. of Nazism. On this, I agree with Strauss.
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  3059. I've already ordered Scott's and Ania's book. 😊
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  3060. Straight out of Western MSM.
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  3061. ​ @miguelgameiro8063  But it's not really working in Kursk, not according to the Ukrainian forces we have testimonies from, is it?
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  3062. They would normally have powerful generators as a back-up. Standard practice for such institutions.
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  3063. We know that. Peace to you, too! ❤
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  3064. Tell us you've been brainwashed without telling us you've been brainwashed.
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  3065. Not guilt. Embarrassment. Shame. For guilt, you need to have a conscience and a strong sense of ethics. If Germany had either, there'd be no German tanks in Ukraine. Remember, Germany's responsible for over 27 million Soviet deaths.
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  3066. The video shows her keeling over without so much as being touched by anyone.
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  3067. Absolutely! Ukraine itself has really lost the right to exist as a country. It should be absorbed as a part of the RF, as one of its republics. Otherwise, this will happen all over again 20-30 years from now. I agree with Major Scott Ritter on that.
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  3068. ​ @anthonyagbojo1408  You're a bit confused. It's what you call "his people" who are slaughtering Palestinians, including Palestinian Christians.
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  3069. ❤
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  3070. ​ @jayspik6498 Yes, they spent 1T on energy subsidies alone last year, an expense they wouldn't have had if they'd taken a neutral position on Ukraine instead of going rabidly Russophobe.
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  3071. ​ @Jamicaman516  China's underwriting the US loan debt -- the American economy would crash in a day if the Chinese decided to dump US bonds.
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  3072. That's discrimination!
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  3073. I hope China, Russia, and the other BRICS and ASEAN countries, as well as Africa and South America, have people following Brian's videos, taking notes, and passing their summaries to the highers up.
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  3074. What's your point? There are millions of Americans living abroad.
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  3075. Starmer is to the left of Korbyn?! Peter's lost his mind. 😅
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  3076. ​​ @claudiamorley799  You're talking about the UK now. 😂
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  3077.  @pessi6185  It got pulled as it was streaming. I've never seen anything like it.
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  3078. That explains a lot. Poles pass down Russophobia from one generation to another.
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  3079. Yeah! 😅
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  3080. 😮
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  3081. Money, George, money. I bet both war criminals and genocidaires have made substantial donations to Rome.
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  3082.  @chrisbarnett6999  The rest of the world has lost all respect for the West, which is visibly in a state of accelerated decadence and decline economically and militarily, as well as culturally. None are so blind as those who will not see, though.
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  3083. I think the transcript got that wrong. The very next thing the cop says in response to whatever it was Sonny/Christopher actually said is "Nine whatsoever." Not something you'd ever say in reaction to hearing that an adolescent's parents don't beat him anymore
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  3084. 😅
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  3085. Add to that Brian Berletic of the New Atlas. You won't regret it.
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  3086. I pray for peace.
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  3087. Armenia needs to formally ask the CSTO for military assistance. Like NATO, the CSTO is then obliged to consider the request and respond to it if legitimate.
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  3088. Many thanks once again!
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  3089. ​ @blkhistorydecoded  It's definitely anti-Semitic to imply that the German genocide of European Jewry didn't happen.
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  3090. The one thing that annoys me about Russians is their naivety. Innocence of heart is a real virtue and it's what makes Russians such a good bunch of people, but their political leadership has no right to the luxury of naivety. Paul Craig Roberts had been warning in his blogposts for years that Putin's restraint and Moscow's desire to get along with an ever disrespectful West was sending all the wrong signals to Washington, which was incapable of seeing that except as weakness. Throughout the 2010s, PCG kept warning that Moscow's mildness would only embolden the West into a proxy war in Ukraine, which is exactly what happened. So, yes, I do hold Putin and his advisors in part responsible for this war. Putin himself admitted last fall that it was a mistake not to have gone into Donbass back in 2014 and finished everything before tens of thousands of people lost their lives.
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  3091. ​ @Kalemnos 😮
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  3092. Poland has never wanted to face, let alone acknowledge the truth of its centuries-long anti-Semitism about itself. After Jan T. Gross, a Polish historian at Princeton, published in the mid-2000s two volumes on murderous Polish anti-Semitism directed at the handful of Polish Jews who had managed to survive WW2, Poland even passed a law making it illegal and treasonous to claim there ever was such a thing as Polish anti-Semitism.
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  3093. It should. Whether it will is another matter.
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  3094. Exactly.
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  3095. 😂
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  3096. ​ @DennisMerwood-xk8wp  He's never ever called Israel an apartheid state.
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  3097. Prof. Michael Hudson estimates that Russia's economy is over 3 times the size of Germany's.
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  3098. He's equally critical of the US, though.
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  3099. Thank you!
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  3100. It's not any kind of socialism, that's how. Just because you call something by a name doesn't make it so.
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  3101. ​ @whitebeauty759  You're hysterical! 😂
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  3102. Very disappointing. 😢
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  3103. A superb discussion today! Thank you both for the work you're doing.
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  3104. What exactly are you disagreeing with? The fact that Assange was tragically, appallingly naive to think he would be safe from the reach of the USA in the UK? What's controversial about it?
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  3105. That's why I'm skeptical about his claims.
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  3106. ​ @kingdom_manifestations  There's the root experience and then there's your current experience of being ignored and disrespected. The current one you can step out of by walking away from the person who's belittling you .
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  3107. Well spotted!
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  3108. I pray it may be so. 🙏
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  3109. While her eldest son, the king, pretends he's an environmentalist. What a bunch of shameless hypocrites.
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  3110. Epic!
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  3111. I didn't know that. 😡
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  3112. Thank you
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  3113.  @KondorDCS  Bran Berletic is also excellent although he doesn't do day-to-day stuff.
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  3114. 🎯
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  3115. The vast majority of psychopaths are not killers.
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  3116. For an American, you seem to have an odd predilection for spelling Russia the way a Slav would do.
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  3117. ​@alex We're, sadly, the most conformist of nations. There's almost universal acceptance of the official Western narrative here, though I must report with a certain degree of pride (and surprise) that there's not a single Ukrainian flag to be seen in Kitchener (Ontario). Not now and not at any point since February 24.
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  3118. The main miscalculation was not intervening in 2014.
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  3119. She's lying, not misinformed. Her nickname is Von Der Liar.
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  3120. The two BPD people I've known intimately were superficially tender hearted but in reality cruel, manipulative, and incredibly selfish.
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  3121. We can only hope.
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  3122. Keep telling yourself that.
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  3123. 😅👍
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  3124. "Multiple women and such"? And such???
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  3125. Go to Chris Hedges' interview of Max Blumenthal. Blumenthal has done an excellent job of analyzing what really happened on that day.
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  3126. ​​ @sagnikchatterjee2946  It's sad that modern-day Hindus have resorted to mythopoeic denials of their own history and prehistory as well as the ethnic and cultural prehistory of the Indian subcontinent itself. It's an emotional stance that betrays their lingering sense of inferiority versus the Europeans (an overcompensation and vestige of British colonialism that will take the Hindu psyche -- understandably enough -- a long, long time to disembarrass itself from).
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  3127. Federation. Russia is a federation, just like Germany and Switzerland.
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  3128. Yes, there are.
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  3129. No, we are just nauseatingly conformist and superficially friendly.
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  3130. Imagine the tax revenue if they taxed the US corporations doing business there.
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  3131.  @mikearchibald744  Nah. Waters is most definitely NOT an anti-Semite. What he most definitely and openly is, is a vocal supporter of the rights of the Palestinians and a critic of Israel's apartheid state.
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  3132. I'm sure Russia would welcome partnership with an independent Dixie. The dissolution of the USA would greatly benefit the world as a whole.
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  3133. It wasn't all her own doing, let's not forget that. She had many accomplices, some more powerful than her, in what was done. All of Europe, the US and Canada, to be precise.
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  3134. ​ @ohsweetmystery  Massive losses of soldiers.
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  3135. The euro is the second largest reserve currency (20% to the dollar's 58%).
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  3136. It looks Russian because it was Russia. Ukraine was simply Russia's western borderlands until the 1920s, when Lenin gave it the status of a separate country and gifted it with vast Russian lands.
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  3137. You need to sober up. 😂
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  3138. You seriously expect Kiev to be able to keep it?
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  3139. Apparently, he was mad at the fact that he couldn't prophesy while in a room where his wife and children were petting a puppy. He couldn't put on his customary performance and blamed the puppy for driving M's angel away! It's actually hilarious.
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  3140. Excellent analysis of all those heavily inflated, highly misleading figures regarding the dollar, the euro, and the respective size of the US and European economies.
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  3141. Russia had not intended a war of these dimensions at all. The SMO was meant to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table and induce it to finally implement the Minsk Accords, as was being discussed a year ago in Istanbul. The West compelled Ukraine to take the military route instead, with the consequences we all see now.
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  3142.  @kcimb  Keep up. They removed their forces and equipment from the NPP two months ago.
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  3143. The Czech Republic, not Slovakia (or Slovenia).
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  3144. It takes time.
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  3145. No. The Russians never wanted to harm Europe, whose economic meltdown is entirely of its own and America's making. Just the other day Putin said all over again that Russia's relations with Europe will improve as soon as the current lot of political nincompoops are out and replaced by rational, pragmatic people.
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  3146. Meditation can exacerbate things for many people. Vigorous exercise, on the other hand, is the safest way to help lift yourself out of a depression. The problem is that when you're depressed, you lose all will to exercise or even socialize with others. My best advice is to ignore your lack of will/desire and force yourself every day to exercise nearly to exhaustion. You'll find soon enough that the hormonal changes brought on by vigorous daily exercise will also improve your mood.
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  3147. One side is lying. You'll find out which pretty soon.
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  3148. Why do we need the US?! 😂 Because two thirds of our economy depends on trade with the US.
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  3149. Far, far worse.
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  3150. Tulsi Gabbard is a good choice, though.
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  3151. 100%.
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  3152. The Roman Empire wasn't at risk in 50 BC. Its fall started a good century and a half later.
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  3153. Russia's ferrying US astronauts to and from the ISS because the US still doesn't have the technology to do it themselves.
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  3154. ​ @semi-useful5178  The oligarchs. Nobody is "noble" by birth and inheritance. As a class, the nobility are simply the oligarchy.
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  3155. ​ @Human-le9nt  I've just read a report saying 38,000 of the residents refused to evacuate Pokrovsk and are now planting flowers as a welcome to the Russians whom they're waiting for to liberate them.
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  3156. I'm surprised Penrose seems to think that consciousness consists of the surface consciousness which does get turned off by anesthesia.
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  3157. You're too optimistic about DemParty supporters. 33% of Americans (presumably all or almost all of them registered DemParty voters) polled by Ipsos a couple of days ago said they thought Biden had defeated Trump in that appalling debate.
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  3158. ​​ @johnnorris5333 eeds a period (or a semicolon) after "inside a NATO country". No commas necessary.
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  3159. No, thanks.
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  3160. 😂😂😂
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  3161. 😮
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  3162. Russia's doing so "poorly" that the consortium of 41 countries that are fighting this proxy war against it can't defeat it. All of NATO, plus a dozen or so accomplices.
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  3163. ​ @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  How exactly did she torture you?
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  3164. Brilliantly put!
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  3165.  @Girbie1973  Sure. Keep laughing.
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  3166. Yes, really disgusting. 🤮
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  3167. It's not as though Christians didn't persecute them for centuries. Doesn't excuse Israeli behaviour for the past 100 years now, but that's a separate matter.
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  3168. ​ @CheeseburgerFreedomMan_  It matters to your wife and children, though.
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  3169. ​ @Lemieuxonline  Don't you know what she did to Black people in California when she was the prosecutor there?!!!
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  3170. "Pure evil" is a bit of hyperbole considering how many other countries and peoples have behaved. The English in India, Australia, North America. The Spanish and the Portuguese in South America. The French, Italians, Germans, and Dutch in Africa. Etc.
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  3171.  @apebass2215  I'd do as Peterson did: carry him to the steps and put him there myself, holding him down if necessary until he calmed down.
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  3172.  @onerxowns2202  Gerasimov will be the overall commander. Surovikin will now serve as one of Gerasimov's deputies, as well as the general in command of the air operations.
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  3173. Putin would be inexcusably irresponsible to trust Trump.
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  3174. I'm still in shock here in Canada that Ireland failed to re-elect Clare and Mick. 🫤
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  3175. Military might is military might. Law is something else.
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  3176. Next year in Moscow! 🙂👍
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  3177. ​ @nomdaploom  British passport holder, too. Courtesy of Boris Johnson.
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  3178. So do I.
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  3179. ​ @demonhighwayman9403  No need for hope. 🙂
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  3180. The Russian economy is better than fine. Don't be fooled by the annual dip of the rouble. The IMF now rates the Russian economy as #4 globally, ahead of both Germany and Japan.
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  3181. ​ @adrianobanak2824  Oh, it knows, and how. It simply chooses to fight a war attrition because its goal is to
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  3182. We can only hope.
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  3183. 🎯
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  3184. ​ @2Camelpofthewind  On the other hand, a lot of Pitbulls are the goofiest of love bugs.
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  3185. YouTube does it all the time. Lots of people have been complaining about it. I now copy the text of my comments before I post them so I don't have to retype them several times over!
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  3186. Lots of secular people and atheists also have a similar attitude to the "inferior" others. I've seen it first hand among French businessmen in China, for example. German Nazis, most of whom were not religious, also viewed Slavs and Jews as sub-human. Talmud does encode such attitudes and not only justifies but encourages them, but most Jews outside of Israel, religious or secular, don't embrace those beliefs any more.
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  3187. Working towards his second billion dollars?
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  3188. Exactly. That's a huge part of it.
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  3189. Exactly.
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  3190. Total anthropomorphising of lions. Ridiculous, as you said somewhere above. If the father doesn't chase the young males out, the females will do so, sooner or later. In fact, it's frequently they who banish their sub-adult sons as these rarely if ever contribute to the hunts while taking the proverbial lion's share of what the females take down. And since by the point these young males are about 2 they will start having new litters of cubs, whom they need to focus on and feed for the next year and a half, the females are highly motivated to push out the lazy bones themselves.
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  3191. Nah. All we'll face is our own self-destructiveness,which is why I pray God saves us from ourselves.
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  3192. His own troops are promising to return to Kiev once this is over to deal with not just Zelensky but the entire Ukrainian leadership. The Redacted has a new video, posted in the last couple of days, in which Ukr. soldiers are threatening Zelensky et al on camera.
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  3193. He misspoke. I'm sure it's never happened to you.
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  3194. What are talking about? 😅
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  3195. Kiev, February 2014.
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  3196. I don't agree. Galloway lost thanks to the total, 100% media blackout he was accorded.
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  3197. The lack of integrity in our post-secondary education, in what we choose to highlight and what to omit from our curricula, is one of the signs typical of civilizational decay. It's absolutely mind-boggling that one can go through graduate school in the humanities or social sciences without learning the real history and behaviour of one's own country. Not your fault, of course.
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  3198. ​​ @adz-ql6kv  As in occult costs, occult treasure? 😂 Never confuse a word's etymology with its meaning.
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  3199. I'm afraid so.
    4
  3200. Sure. 😜
    4
  3201. ​ @ChekaFSB Ukrainians should be wearing it on their uniforms, then.
    4
  3202. It's hard to say whether Trump would do a better job than a man clearly suffering from stage 2 dementia?! 😅
    4
  3203. ​ @Aleksandr_TRI  Theoretically.
    4
  3204. You'll be able to say that without rank hypocrisy only once you've closed all your military bases in Europe and withdrawn your troops from there.
    4
  3205. Or throwing up.
    4
  3206. The Russian Federation is the home of over 100 ethnicities and languages.
    4
  3207. They really should. Or, offer to sell their gas to Europe at 5% less than the cost of the American LNG.
    4
  3208. I hope Hungary stays the course. It can always leave NATO and the EU and join the Eurasian Economic Union instead, though I believe it sincerely wants a pan-European defense alliance free of American imperialism and domination.
    4
  3209. My hunch is, never. We're prisoners of our geography, I'm afraid.
    4
  3210. The fascists voted as a block.
    4
  3211. 😂
    4
  3212. No maybes about it.
    4
  3213. Lol
    4
  3214. Gertrude's a dream! 😍
    4
  3215. A fantasy 'taking place' on the Theatre Square. 😅
    4
  3216. 😂
    4
  3217. She herself is just a figurehead, and while I'm all for removing her, that in itself won't change anything. EU populations need to focus on the institutionally anti-democratic nature of the EU as it's currently structured. Voting for the EU Parliament, for example, is meaningless. It's a political pantomime as all power in the EU resides in its unelected, appointed Commission. That's the problem the populations of EU countries should focus on.
    4
  3218. When the outside temperature is 40C, the coolest inside temperature would be 32C. Still not conducive to learning much.
    4
  3219. False.
    4
  3220. ​ @cadicamo8720  Russia has every right to push back against NATO encirclement.
    4
  3221. ​ @tonysherrard  Depends on the situation. Sometimes, surrender is the wisest course to take.
    4
  3222. This gentleman lost me when he portrayed China's presence in Africa as that of an imperialist nation. That's most definitely NOT the view of China held by overwhelmingly most Africans.
    4
  3223. A worthy heir of Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. 😉
    4
  3224. Indeed!
    4
  3225. ​​ @shawno.7585  You're right: it isn't at present, but it will be again in the future. At the moment, Kosovo's occupied Serbian land. We waited the Ottoman Empire out for 500 years, and we'll wait out the current NATO occupiers, too.
    4
  3226. Seems rather high on the Russian side, but possible.
    4
  3227. Russia's not marching west.
    4
  3228. What an excellent, fair-minded discussion. It's good to see that there are still public intellectuals of integrity in Germany. P.S. Srebrenica was a massacre in retaliation for the massacres the Muslims had committed against the Serbian population of that area. It's just that we were never told by our lying media -- lies of omission are still lies -- about those earlier massacres
    4
  3229. ​ @StofStuiver Excuse me, but that's crazy thinking. Your father kills your mother and you want to cling to him?! That's so messed up in the head, even sociopathic in its egotism.
    4
  3230. You don't need to be in on every single raid to know what sort of warfare was involved in Iraq.
    4
  3231. He doesn't want peace either.
    4
  3232. Reuters is MI6.
    4
  3233. Exactly.
    4
  3234. ​ @Polina-ji4fe  Psychiatrists know from long experience that psychopathy is incurable. The parents need huge amounts of practical and psychological support to survive a psychopathic child.
    4
  3235. Nonsense. There have been plenty of cases in which kids that age have shot or otherwise killed either their peers or younger children. All schools have the duty to ensure a secure work and study environment for their staff and students!
    4
  3236. Over 40.
    4
  3237. They, including the corporations, have nothing to gain and a great deal to lose from that.
    4
  3238. Incontrovertibly true.
    4
  3239. Food prices alone are up 25% or more.
    4
  3240. Ukraine's losing 1,000-2,000 a day, for at least 30,000 a month. No army can sustain such a rate of losses and hold its own. Not possible.
    4
  3241. ​ @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  He leaves that exact reply to other comments by women. He's clearly looking for a vulnerable victim-to-be. Disgusting and despicable.
    4
  3242. ​ @YoreHistory  Yes, I don't believe the boy. He told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. Finally, doctors who assessed him before trial said that at 6 years old, he was developmentally at the stage of a 4 and a half year old, an age at which children confabulate a lot.
    4
  3243. That's how I refer to it, too: the liberation of Bakhmut/Artemovsk. The interviews with the surviving civilians tell me that's how they see it too.
    4
  3244. There's no perhaps about it.
    4
  3245. Such a class act! 😍❤️. Happy New Year to all Russians! You have the love and support of many, many millions around the world! 🎉❤
    4
  3246. That will take quite a bit more time than Ukraine has.
    4
  3247. Of course Putin can and should be blamed for dragging this out unnecessarily instead of making a huge push and finishing it in a matter of weeks.
    4
  3248. It was existential for Western hegemony, and it died in Ukraine. Europeans are having an incredibly bad time accepting that fact.
    4
  3249. Meanwhile, China's the world's economic giant, complete with first-class infrastructure (stuff simply unimaginable in the US now) and a highly educated STEM workforce.
    4
  3250. ​ @Skelterer YouTube censorship.
    4
  3251. 🎯👍
    4
  3252. These days, more and more Americans are retiring to the Balkans. This, at least, is the impression one gets from the multitude of videos by Americans and Canadians who've done so.
    4
  3253. Insane.
    4
  3254. These days, self-censorship is par for the course throughout the West, including the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Opinions that differ from the official narrative (on whatever topic) are not merely shunned but can cost you your job, your income, your friends, and sometimes even your family. As for the media, censorship takes the form of 100% groupthink, so that NO alternate views and NO "inconvenient" facts are allowed to be aired or discussed.
    4
  3255.  @ugooko7569  The Brits are nothing without the power of the USA. If the latter ever does break apart, the UK will lose whatever leverage it still has in international relations.
    4
  3256. Lacking empathy = evil.
    4
  3257. That's its future, if it plays its cards well. So far, it's been incredibly foolish.
    4
  3258. Just so.
    4
  3259. What full-scale invasion?! And this channel claims to know something about military matters.....
    4
  3260. Where did you get that figure?
    4
  3261. How's JD Vance a part of the problem?
    4
  3262. All over the collective West.
    4
  3263. Because they've shown themselves untrustworthy time and time again.
    4
  3264. ​ @tadhgcronin175 The war and the sanctions have, paradoxically, strengthened Russia, not weakened it. And I for one am very glad of that.
    4
  3265. The missile attack on Kiev has already been confirmed by the Russian MoD and the Ukrainian side.
    4
  3266. ​ @ARolls-dd2zd Israel is a member of the UN, though, and as such is answerable to abide by international law and all of the UNSC resolutions pertaining to it and Palestine.
    4
  3267. ​​ @AdrianFahrenheitTepes  Some no doubt will. My handyman here in Canada, who assures me there are no Nazis in Ukraine and who's been brainwashed to view Russians as primitive deplorables, is planning to do just that but he's in his late 30s and won't be interested in fighting a war. I expect that over 90% of those who left in 2022 are similarly disinclined to sacrifice their lives in another proxy war with Russia. Had they been so inclined, they would have stayed in Ukraine.
    4
  3268. ​ @FrauUnibrow His own troops, I think.
    4
  3269. We don't need or want your "leadership". We just need you to start minding your own business and to leave the rest of us alone.
    4
  3270. Andrei, Canada has excellent chicken schnitzel, especially in Ontario. All those pre-WW1 German immigrants. We're not into deep fried stuff quite as much as the folks to the south of us.
    4
  3271. Great respect for what you've overcome. Best wishes!
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  3272. "The Global South" is a geopolitical term, not a geographical one. So are "the West" and "the Global North".
    4
  3273. NATO's a paper tiger, and the whole world now knows it.
    4
  3274. I'm actually glad that Germany's showing the world what it really is. It's good that the masks have finally come off. I just hope that the Russians never again succumb to their sentimentality about and their idealisation of Europe. (I remember Gorbachev justifying his consent to the reunification of Germany by saying that surely the Germans had learned humanism by 1989....)
    4
  3275. And ... in the Fall of 2019, physicians in several East European countries began noticing an unusual new type of pneumonia among their patients....
    4
  3276. They'll appoint one of her political clones.
    4
  3277. Beethoven must be turning in his grave at the sight and sound of a war-mongering bureaucrat humming his Hymn to Joy.
    4
  3278. I don't feel sorry for the ones who volunteered for that brigade.
    4
  3279. ​ @VeeFTeeS  You can probably find it online. It's not exactly a secret.
    4
  3280. It's a town, in fact. An urban settlement with a population under 100,000 is considered a town.
    4
  3281. ​​ @david3549tw  The US has launched 250 military interventions since 1991. No comparison. Not in the slightest.
    4
  3282. Orlov attributes the spirit of cooperation that characterises Russia to its harsh climate. However, if geography and climate were determining of people's character, Canada too would have a communal culture of cooperation, which it most certainly doesn't.
    4
  3283. I pray it turns out that way. 🙏
    4
  3284. ​ @chosen7127 No, they even showed the photo of Macron, Ursula, and Xi sitting around that round blue table, equidistant from one another, to point out the similarity between that and the long table at which Macron was sat at one end and Putin at the other a year ago in Moscow.
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  3285. You mean, the West has always been at war with Russia, attacking and invading it time, after time, after time.
    4
  3286. She doesn't exist.
    4
  3287. ​@@robertmartin3688Russia's single-handedly defeating a consortium of 41 countries, including all of NATO.
    4
  3288. I was surprised to find the emotion meter so accurate.
    4
  3289. The elected ones are not any better either.
    4
  3290. 😅
    4
  3291. We can only hope.
    4
  3292. Well said.
    4
  3293. Keep telling yourself that! 😅
    4
  3294. ​ @piotrproszewski3977 Lying will not change reality. Grow up.
    4
  3295. Likewise.
    4
  3296. For your daily dose of fairytales, go listen to Western propaganda channels.
    4
  3297. Their grandparents did, yes. Given what Ukrainians did to their fellow Jews in WW2, their attitude is truly incomprehensible.
    4
  3298. Denialism.
    4
  3299. Istanbul is not a European city and hasn't been one for quite a few centuries now.
    4
  3300. Formalism and social realism have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Btw, social realism produced some remarkably beautiful works. It's just that we in the West were heavily propagandized against it in favour of our utterly vapid abstract art
    4
  3301. ​​ @TacticalMayo  Not really. You need to have quite a bit of money in order to move from one city or one state or one country to another. So, no, you can't just leave. Most people don't have the financial freedom for it.
    4
  3302. I've been calling it just that since the early 1990s.
    4
  3303. According to Bashar, he never gave such an order.
    4
  3304. Amen.
    4
  3305. All the US needs to do give up its pretensions to exceptionalism, dismantle its hundreds of military bases abroad, accept the rule of international law (which it itself helped draft), and join the rest of the human race, engage in fair competition and co-operation with others. It's really as simply as that.
    4
  3306. Exactly right. But Ukraine and Russia are more than neighbours: Russia's very roots are in Kiev (the Kievan Rus), and go back to a time when the even the word "ukraina" did not exist! Ukrainian nationalism, a 19th century movement mimicking other European nationalist movements, and then Lenin's truly idiotic, ideologically-driven national policies drove a rift in a family of nations who to this day have far more in common than Ukrainian nationalists and the West want to admit. Europe is now a vassal continent to the USA, and until the latter loses at least 50% of the power it still enjoys (economic power most of all), I don't believe that Europe (and Ukraine) will find the wherewithal to tell Uncle Sam where to get off.
    4
  3307. To put it mildly.
    4
  3308. ​ @puppets.and.muppets Ooh, so scary! 😅
    4
  3309. They haven't reached the first line yet.
    4
  3310. The real story of the liberation of Bakhmut is yet to be told. Like everyone else, Russians fell for Prigozhin's admittedly masterful PR.
    4
  3311. ​ @Birthday92sex Yes, it's true. It's now over 15 years ago that the London Review of Books published a review of the work of three German historians, whose archival research showed that post-WW2 West Germany never de-Nazified its Ministry of the Interior (the police) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Justice I recently tried to access that review article in LRB's online archives only to discover that it's been removed.
    4
  3312. ​ @johnbodman4504  It's what happens when you have a corrupt system. This has been going on for decades.
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  3313. ​​ @Will-ts5ij BS. Most of the great European literature is in Russian. And who but the Russians gave us the Table of Elements?!
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  3314. You write really well. That was pure pleasure to read. 🙂👍
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  3315. Seems a bit high, but everything's possible. Ukrainian losses have been 5:1 and 7:1 pretty regularly since January.
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  3316. ​ @iriemon1796 Huh?! Assange has been in a British prison for years now!
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  3317. +Rose K Another genocide denier. In my country, we just made that a crime -- as we did attempts to justify war crimes in general.
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  3318. Absolute nonsense. If you had real Marxist instruction, you'd at least know a great deal of history, including cultural history. You'd thus have a profound, informed appreciation of the achievements of the different eras of human history, precisely what postmodernism derides and denies as a value. But then, a person who writes "If your going" for "If you're going" and "you better" for "you'd better" is clearly only semi-literate.
    3
  3319. 👏
    3
  3320.  @Rwswal  And Slovakia's Fico.
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  3321. Yes, your numbers are more realistic.
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  3322. Any resolution of NATO's proxy oroxy war in Ukraine that leaves the West any room for fantasies about defeating Russia in the future would be criminally irresponsible. And that's what any compromises with the West would mean. This is why I must strenuously oppose Marcouris's apparently peace-making calls for negotiations.
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  3323. ​ @GeraldBeagan-ee6se  Oh yeah? Show us the log, please. 😅
    3
  3324. Child? She's 20. 😂
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  3325. The best analogy so far.
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  3326. September-December 2022. That was the last time the Russians were on the back foot.
    3
  3327. Let's hope so.
    3
  3328. You mean, the Russians have held 20% of Ukraine for more than two years of heavy fighting. Yep, they have and are.
    3
  3329. You don't have to watch two interviews with the same guest in a single day.
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  3330. What's a construction market?
    3
  3331. ​ @Theone-bc7tr  Yes, true.
    3
  3332. I took that to be the shorthand for "which hospital".
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  3333. Greetings and support from Canada.
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  3334. Not surprised to learn that the Pink Floyd led by David Gilmore would end up playing Nazi collaborationist songs.
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  3335. Our geniuses should have listened to the man back in 2007, and again in 2013, and again in 2014 and 2015, and finally in December 2021. Maybe they're starting to listen to Putin now. Maybe.
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  3336. I've only spent a day in Shanghai on a stopover a few years ago and am now planning a trip of several months in 2026. I'm retired, so spending 3-6 months travelling is no problem. And China is both gorgeous AND safe!
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  3337. ​ @donnydoit7678  What could he do to be worse on Israel and Palestine than the current administration? What has Biden done vis á vis Israel that distinguishes him from Trump?
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  3338. I thought you were French and was wondering what it is you want less of. 😅
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  3339. 😅
    3
  3340. Lost it? They've been doing this for the past 100 years, from before the founding of the state of Israel.
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  3341. Nope. The right to self-determination is enshrined in international law. And that's exactly what those four regions, formerly parts of Ukraine thanks to Lenin, have done, voting to re-join Russia.
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  3342. ​ @rexisnox  I think the Russians have already said Lvov can go to Poland.
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  3343. The latter. Bulgaria doesn't have the industrial base 1/3 of that of Germany or even of the largely de-industrialized UK. It simply can't pull that off.
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  3344. You're living with your own sins: Germany is arming Nazis.
    3
  3345. I'm a lot more bothered by the fact that she's a Banderite, enthusiastic follower and supporter of an organisation created by Nazi collaborators.
    3
  3346. ​ @Anchor75  Why pay all that money for their processed products when you can do it yourself at a fraction of the cost?
    3
  3347. They do have an illegal immigration problem from the many -stans in central Asia. And yes, Russia does deport them even though its economy is growing so much they need immigrant labour.
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  3348. The EU was directly involved in the EuroMaidan "revolution" and the association agreement it forced on Ukraine directly violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum, this putting paid on Ukraine's post-1991 territorial integrity. That our MSM never told us about this just shows what their true role is. The EU has been knee-deep in engineering this 💩 from Day 1.
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  3349. For making a couple of tactical retreats in a war it's fighting single-handedly against the whole of NATO? 😂
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  3350. ​ @bumble-g2j  Pointing it at a presidential candidate? Yeah, that's rather unusual and rare in the US, too.
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  3351.  @moonraker978  YouTube's silently deleted my comment in the meantime. To refresh your memory: Russia's and Putin's international standing have never been higher while the world's sneering at the West, whose time has run out.
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  3352.  @kateoneal4215  They knew how to stage a EuroMaidan, so they have no excuse for sitting pretty for 8 years while their forces were selling Donbass civilians instead of launching even larger street protests against both the Poroshenko and the Zelensky regimes for failing to implement the Minsk Accords. They deserve much worse than what they're experiencing right now.
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  3353.  @klaasvakie  No, there was no subtext to my question. I was genuinely curious what a more accurate translation would be, and Ivan the Formidable sounds just right. Btw, I'm originally from former Yugoslavia, from Belgrade, Serbia. The West has more blood on its hands than any other group in world history, including the Mongols.
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  3354. Freedom of speech is irrelevant?
    3
  3355. To be fair, she didn't steal the bikes, she only borrowed them, took them without asking for permission and then returned them.
    3
  3356. ​ @revagreen2303 Not even close. Not in the top 20, even. 40% of all new immigrants to Ontario leave Canada and return to their home countries within a year of landing here.
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  3357. As a cradle Orthodox who spent 4 years in Catholic boarding schools attached to monasteries, I can tell you there's no real difference between Orthodox and Catholic monasteries. I understand that some Protestant ones, as in the UK, are also lovely but I haven't visited them yet.
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  3358. ​ @Freetheworkers  Another Canadian about to decamp, too.
    3
  3359. ​ @strange4you  Oh, grow up.
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  3360. Not blaming him but pointing out his (bewildering) naiveté.
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  3361. Of course it can.
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  3362.  @kingsbrace3736  Not for the sake of right principles and ethics but for the sake of the real interests of the American people. For example, even the IMF is frantically trying to explain to the people in Washington that the illegal seizure of Russian foreign currency reserves and the attempt to steal the interest accrued will only hurt the US, in both mid- and long-term. Alienating 86% of the globe out of sheer conceit and arrogance is economically a crazy policy, bound to boomerang at the States themselves.
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  3363. And you believe that? 😅
    3
  3364. Why wouldn't they offer to negotiate, knowing that Zelensky and these European idiots will reject the negotiations? They've said very clearly, and repeatedly, that a ceasefire is out of the question. Peace negotiations, however, are more than welcome.
    3
  3365. ​ @peterlee2895  Reality check: 7,000 Russian losses in liberating Avdeevka.
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  3366.  @marialuisamoneghini7180  In theory. There's no chance of Ukraine ever paying back any of that money, though.
    3
  3367. And to rub it in further, Russia has displaced Germany as Europe's #1 economy (this according to the World Bank) and has now displaced Japan as the #4 economy globally (again, according to the Western-dominated World Bank).
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  3368. Try honesty for a change.
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  3369. ​ @hongry-life Where did you hear that?
    3
  3370. The inflation rate in Russia is 3.3%. The IMF and the World Bank forecast that the Russian economy will GROW 2+% this year. Both forecast a further shrinking of UK's and Germany's economies.
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  3371. ​ @SamsRussianAdventures Oh Sam, but they do. They expect everyone to speak their language instead of trying to learn even the rudiments of the language of the country they're visiting.
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  3372. ​ @michalzajic8602 Nobody's lying, my friend. Ukraine's been losing between 3 and up to 9 soldiers for every Russian soldier. It's absolutely heartless and in my view criminal that the Ukrainian officials have been lying about this to the people of Ukraine. 😢
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  3373. I wish Mercouris would restrain his tendency to logorrhea when interviewing others. He should take a leaf out of Prof. Glenn Diesen's book.
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  3374. Avdeevka was THE most heavily defended town/city in Ukraine, even more than Bakhmut. It's from Avdeevka that Ukraine kept shelling Donetsk civilians for the past 9 years.
    3
  3375. They used to be called transvestites.
    3
  3376. China has never defeated them, whereas Russia kicked Western ass big way first in the 19th century, driving Napoleon's army all the way back to Paris, and once again in the 20th century, when it defeated Nazi Germany and drove the Germans all the way back to Berlin. That's why the West hates Russia: they were never able to subdue and dominate it except during the first decade of the post-USSR period.
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  3377. Come off it, Alex! This second attack on Engels is beyond embarrassing. It speaks of something VERY wrong about how Russia's approaching this. The West has just made Russia a laughing stock. The US would never allow such a second attack on its own territory! If you can't bring yourself to admit that openly and squarely, you're clearly less than an objective analyst. The same goes for your rationalisations of Putin's shockingly inept statements on negotiating.
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  3378. That's exactly the conclusion you're meant to reach.
    3
  3379. Yes, it is.
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  3380. That's all you got? 😅 Cope harder.
    3
  3381. May God forgive you in the fullness of time, but not before you've sincerely repented of all the harm you've done to others.
    3
  3382. ​ @monichat  They can suggest it, not offer it. Yes, that's the level of hypocrisy we're dealing with
    3
  3383. 😂
    3
  3384. ​ @mnemonija  Serbia has a NATO office in every one of its ministries.
    3
  3385. His father was from Kenya, where he returned after Obama was born (in Hawaii).
    3
  3386. Israel wasn't merely accused of assassinating Hamas's chief peace negotiator while he was visiting Iran. Israel has admitted doing it.
    3
  3387.  @zenlei8258  Good God! It's not just common knowledge by now but a matter of public record, discussed in numerous articles by US authors!
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  3388. Phenomenal! Huge congratulations to you! 🎉
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  3389. Why? You long to be deceived, as you were then?
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  3390. Check out Weeb Union, a Dane who does very accurate, objective and very brief updates 2-3 times a day.
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  3391. Don't despair. You and I won't see it, but the grandchildren of today's toddlers will live in a world in which the US is just a regional power, unable to spread death and destruction to other continents, not even to South America.
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  3392. Good for them!
    3
  3393. Plenty like hundreds?  @statinskill 
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  3394. Beyond tragic. Criminal.
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  3395. I'm a little stunned by how out of touch Prof. Wolff seems to be even on something as elementary as the real size of the Russian economy. It's now officially surpassed that of Germany's, but even before the start of the SMO, it was, in real instead of ludicrously rigged up GDP terms, at least 3 times the size of the German economy! Also, the notion that either Ukraine or the West are in the position to "offer" Russia to keep the four regions that voted to rejoin it last September is ridiculous. Neither can prevent Russia from keeping them, and unless Russia's stated terms are accepted -- full neutrality for Ukraine and a new security architecture in Europe, with NATO going back to its 1991 or at most its 1997 borders -- Russia will simply fight Ukraine to the point of unconditional surrender, with Russia dictating the terms of any post-war settlement. That Prof. Wolff doesn't seem to understand that speaks of just far deep in the belly of the imperial beast he actually is, how affected he himself is by the wall-to-wall propaganda that reigns in NATO-sphere.
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  3396. 🤣
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  3397. There should be no organizations (like the African Union, the EU or NATO) on the Security Council.
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  3398. ​ @radmilamiljanic5977 Vaistinu vaskrse! 🙂
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  3399. He can try. The Russians won't be deterred from achieving their national security aims.
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  3400. ​ @GonzoJohnny  I don't see the Duran as propagandists, but I do agree that they're absurdly self-blinded about Trump. I also find their studied failure to speak up about the genocide in Palestine morally despicable. 🫤
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  3401. ​ @johnsmith1474  Why does critique bother you so unreasonably?
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  3402. Wow!
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  3403. But they announced they captured it a few weeks ago, too! 😵‍💫
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  3404. 😮
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  3405. Excellent point. It never ceases to amaze me that most analysts commenting on the accelerating move to multi-polarity leave out the KEY event that's triggered this: Russia's gutsy decision to take on the collective West in Ukraine and show up NATO for the paper tiger it is. All of China's first-class diplomatic successes of the last year are directly predicated on that. Russia's evident success vis a vis NATO has simply emboldened others to begin decoupling themselves from the exploitative, ever aggressive West.
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  3406. ​ @PeterFairhurst-v3e  Not according to the World Bank and the IMF, both of whom tell us otherwise. In 2023, the Russian economy displaced Germany's to become the #1 economy in Europe. This year, in 2024, it displaced Japan and is now #4 globally.
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  3407. ​ @well9179 A lot less than EU states, all of whom are still buying Russian gas and oil.
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  3408. Subscribed from Canada.
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  3409. Lots of apartments of that size in Paris, too. I'd find living in such a cramped space claustrophobic.
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  3410. No male infant has the slightest chance of developing a female body. And vice versa.
    3
  3411. ​ @jackb8469  Xi has more style than that.
    3
  3412. To Monsanto.
    3
  3413. Or Native.
    3
  3414. ​ @MrAbdoman  In most cities. You can make it on $50,000 in towns and small towns, but that's about it.
    3
  3415. Serbian liberals in a nutshell.
    3
  3416. Shocked, frankly.
    3
  3417. Human trafficking and blackmail are not industries. They're criminal activities. People who can't tell one from the other aren't worth listening to.
    3
  3418.  @OutragedPufferfish  Yes, Ukraine was a national Soviet Republic because Lenin made it into one by chopping off Russian territories (all of Novorossiya) and annexing them to the Borderlands (ukraina). Had it not been for Lenin's well-known anti-Russia animus and his ideologically driven program of encouraging all nationalisms except the Russian one, Ukraine would never have come into being at all.
    3
  3419. How on Earth do you minimize your tax obligations by taking a weeklong vacation abroad?! 😅
    3
  3420. No, it occurs both before winter frosts in October/November and immediately after the snow starts to melt in February/March. This year, the autumn was exceptionally dry, so they'll probably have just a couple of weeks of rasputitsa before the snows come.
    3
  3421. ​ @honkytonk4465  This is the Anglo-Saxon, definitely pre-English era. You wouldn't understand the language those folks spoke, and it would take another 400 years before anything resembling English (i.e. the Middle English), anything you might be able to parse out with some difficulty, arose.
    3
  3422. He's protected by British special forces. And with the money he's skimmed off the 158 BILLION dollars he got from the US alone, he'll be able to buy the best protection services to be had.
    3
  3423. ​ @peetsnort Russia's been open for peace talks since the very beginning.
    3
  3424. I remember Russian tourists in former Yugoslavia way back in the 1960s, so this idea that only KGB personnel were allowed to travel abroad is another of those anti-Soviet myths the West soecializes in.
    3
  3425. ​ @tertiusduplessis2581  Russia gave Finland its state, its independence from Sweden.
    3
  3426. Who's the lunatic in our attic?
    3
  3427. ​ @BOZ_11  Turkey used to have a huge empire, including 20% of Europe and all of the Middle East. An empire that lasted 500 years and fell apart only in the early 20th century.
    3
  3428. They had the chance and the opportunity to spare all these lives in March of last year, in Istanbul, when Ukraine was ready to sign a peace deal with Russia. The West prevented it, flying UK's Boris Johnson to Kiev to tell Zelensky the West would abandon Ukraine if it agreed to peace with Russia.
    3
  3429. You seriously saying the West has a quality advantage?! It's American and German tanks that are on display in Moscow as war trophies, not the other way round. The Brits had the sense to tell Ukrainians none of their tanks could be used on the battlefront. 😂
    3
  3430. ​ @spicesmuggler2452  That will be a very hard slog indeed. I doubt Ukraine can recover from this idiocy even long term.
    3
  3431. ​ @hudhinton8243  And, believe it or not, they're right.
    3
  3432. ​ @alexhayden2303 Germany would have been more than happy once this proxy war in Ukraine's over. That's why the Yanks blew NordStream 2 up.
    3
  3433. As a single person, I bought a townhouse duplex in this mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada some 23 years ago. Today, I'd never even qualify for mortgage on my college professor salary. We now have a report from our security services advising our federal government to expect social unrest over the next 5-10 years as most young Canadians will never manage to own a home from now on. I see the situation seems to be the same in the US.
    3
  3434. So what's the point of sending any Abrams to them?
    3
  3435. Oh yeah? 😅
    3
  3436. That's not shoplifting, that's looting.
    3
  3437. But he does need to help lay the ground for Vance four years down the road.
    3
  3438. ​ @raymondmentor4924  You should watch it again because you were clearly projecting the first time round, which caused you to hallucinate.
    3
  3439. In Rome, yes.
    3
  3440. All of the Founding Fathers were deists, not Christians.
    3
  3441. And the Germans.
    3
  3442. What a grotesque farce, except for the Skripals themselves, who may well have been offed by MI6 by now.
    3
  3443.  @flickingbollocks5542  Within Ukraine, on the battlefield as Levan said
    3
  3444. ​ mcnuffin1208 😂😂😂
    3
  3445. He was 31 eight years ago. He's matured since.
    3
  3446. You'll have to force them to do that, and I don't see your compatriots staging a revolution. Ever.
    3
  3447. My guess is they're mortified by him and glad he's out of their lives.
    3
  3448. In brief, Ukraine will not be able to defeat Russia and retake Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson no matter what it does.
    3
  3449. And it's kicking NATO's ass in this proxy war in Ukraine all by itself.
    3
  3450. I'm sure both he and Motorola will get a statue each once this is over.
    3
  3451. ​ @Laozi75 From your lips to God's ears.
    3
  3452. Yes, please!
    3
  3453. The Budapest Memorandum is the only document that guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity after the dissolution of the USSR. It was violated back in 2013, by the EU, when the latter presented Ukraine with an economic ultimatum motivated by geopolitical goals, something expressly forbidden in Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum.
    3
  3454. ​ @qleap499  I wouldn't trust Ukrainian/Western claims about that.
    3
  3455. Fantasists. 😂
    3
  3456.  @patrickvanmeter2922  Are you always so literal minded?! Loving everyone means treating people with basic decency, humanely! And yes, Netanyahu and the over 90% of Israelis who support his genocide of Palestinians could do with developing some basic humanity and decency towards their fellow men and women of other religions and ethnicities!
    3
  3457. Dream on. 😂
    3
  3458. 100%.
    3
  3459. The political arm of NATO.
    3
  3460. Pretty much so.
    3
  3461. Way too melodramatic and anthropomorphized.
    3
  3462. All psychopaths are also narcissists, but only a small percentage of narcissists are also psychopaths.
    3
  3463. 👍😅
    3
  3464. Yeah, let's reassess this in mid-September. I bet the situation will be even worse for Ukraine, but let's revisit this a month from now.
    3
  3465. Sounds like you can't.
    3
  3466. How many children have you birthed recently?
    3
  3467. Thanks, I'll check it out now. History Legends' videos are usually very reliable and thoroughly researched.
    3
  3468. Ukraine Matters has already taken that niche. 😉. I just saw the title of his new video, posted in the last few hours: "Ukraine Maintains Control of the Frontline." His audience is living in a parallel world.
    3
  3469. Narcissism is notoriously resistant to treatment. Don't expect the West to change its ways until it's become economically incapable of harming the rest of us.
    3
  3470. ​ @brkctrl A mother without an ounce of integrity.
    3
  3471. The ruins of some hamlets.
    3
  3472. That's what political parties in the West are like. Look at the US alone, for example.
    3
  3473. Without a doubt.
    3
  3474. ​ @steveosborne2297  You thought wrong.
    3
  3475. Go Russia, from Canada.❤
    3
  3476. I'm so glad you managed to make it out of that situation. God bless!
    3
  3477. Nah. This will end on Russia's terms and the bear's stronger and better fed than ever before in its long history.
    3
  3478. Prisoners of war.
    3
  3479. 😅
    3
  3480. In a nutshell. Biased as they come.
    3
  3481. Thank you for saying this. Of all of the independent analysts I follow (5-6 altogether), Scott Ritter is the only one who's been absolutely upfront about just what an embarrassment this has been for Russia.
    3
  3482. So objective, you can't even name the center. 😂
    3
  3483. It takes a lot of cosmetic surgery and great make-up skills to look as they do.
    3
  3484. So do I.
    3
  3485. 😂
    3
  3486. ​​ @myview5840  Hard copium with you. India's on the ascendant, while the UK's not only lost its former empire but simply doesn't count anymore either economically or militarily. Nor did you ever lead the world: you merely plundered it.
    3
  3487. Yes, he is. Shameful.
    3
  3488. 😮
    3
  3489. A non-starter. Crimeans will never agree to go back to Ukraine.
    3
  3490. The people are not the problem.
    3
  3491. Lionesses are among the very few animals who routinely help nurse and raise one another's cubs. This lioness is probably an aunt to at least half of those cubs as they normally max out at four cubs each.
    3
  3492. Those scenes are filmed in the wealthy parts of town, where young men's daddies pay out the asking price for keeping their golden youth off those conscription lists.
    3
  3493. In your dreams.
    3
  3494. Nobody.
    3
  3495. Nah. This is not even close to what a Judgment Day would be. Let's hope the Ukrainian regime wises up and sues for peace instead of tempting fate any more.
    3
  3496. Amen.
    3
  3497. ​ @efeocampo  China has 56 official ethnic groups, and their languages are protected by law. It's an old multi-ethnic civilization.
    3
  3498. Many of them are anti-Russian, though.
    3
  3499. No, it's the other way round. The oil cut was announced weeks after they promised tanks to Ukraine.
    3
  3500. Merry Christmas, gentlemen of the Duran!
    3
  3501. The Russians have identified one of the terrorists as the man who was scoping out Crocus City Hall on March 7. They have CCTV footage of that.
    3
  3502. Coalition governments are common in many countries.
    3
  3503. They're terminally corrupt, actually.
    3
  3504.  @DwayneABryan  God will not be mocked, or at least not for long.
    3
  3505. Gonzalo Lira isn't a Ukrainian dissident but a foreign national with legal residence permit in the country. To learn how Ukraine treats its dissidents, please consult Mr Lira's videos posted yesterday, in which he gives us a glimpse of that, too. In contrast to the Ukrainians, the Russians haven't arrested any of the Westerners blogging and vlogging from inside Russia. And some of them are quite hostile (not merely critical).
    3
  3506.  @KingMickeyMouseOoO  🤣🤣🤣
    3
  3507. Cyprus, I believe. Travel within Europe is not expensive.
    3
  3508. ​​ @EduardoArtistaDeIavega  What isolation?! 😅 Over 140 countries signing huge deals with Russia just a few weeks ago at the St Petersburg Economic Forum. 🎉
    3
  3509. Whoever let poor Smudge get so obese?! 😢 Glad she's doing better now.
    3
  3510. As a matter of fact, Russia did ask to join NATO in the 1990s and was turned down. Also a matter of record: the USSR had also asked to join NATO, was turned down, and only then formed the Warsaw Pact.
    3
  3511. ​ @billybond4148  Perfectly healthy street food is so cheap in Asia that in Thailand, for instance, Thai people (except for those who live in villages) rarely if ever cook at home. An excellent system that supports the local economy and frees up people's time.
    3
  3512. 😂
    3
  3513. I suppressed that last from memory -- it was beyond shocking when it happened.
    3
  3514. Yes, really.
    3
  3515. Why should we, who are not German, believe that?
    3
  3516.  @kiwifrankie  Napoleon knew what month it was when he fell into Kutuzov's trap and entered an empty Moscow. He simply hadn't prepared his supplies properly.
    3
  3517. Novorossiya includes the four regions where the referendums are being held, plus the Odessa and Kherson regions. Given that Putin repeatedly specified in his most recent speech that Russia is liberating and taking Novorossiya back home, and given the demands of the Russian public that Odessa be repatriated at last, it's reasonable to conclude that Russia will not leave Odessa (and Kherson, I hope) to the most un-tender mercies of Ukrainian nationalists.
    3
  3518. All of the adults had had prior military experience and were reservists in the IDF.
    3
  3519.  @loris9744  Of course it is. Nobody in Moscow would answer his phone calls, let alone see him! 😂
    3
  3520. Exactly what Paul Craig Roberts was told by his State Department source, too.
    3
  3521. ​ @281992pdr Merely repeating your earlier assertions doesn't make them any more true than the first time you made them. The fact remains that the 72% of Ukrainians who voted Zelensky into power did so believing that he would implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish good relations with Russia.
    3
  3522. There are rumours (from Sy Hersh and elsewhere) that NATO will become directly involved in the next 4-8 weeks. I hope the West rethinks this.
    3
  3523. How would that be a fair trade? The territory Russia's taken is Russian lands the communists annexed to Ukraine without asking the people if they agreed to it. In contrast, the territory Ukrainians are running around in in Russia has never been Ukrainian.
    3
  3524. Exactly. 💯
    3
  3525. Brilliant summary of post-WW2 economic and financial developments!
    3
  3526. 😅
    3
  3527. ​ @innercynic2784 In this case, it does: they actually elected another member of the Marcos family mafia and are getting exactly what they deserve.
    3
  3528. You're a perfect illustration of that last statement.
    3
  3529. Part of the reason Russia didn't collapse economically because all of Europe's still buying its gas and oil, only at a much higher price, from India. More importantly, Russia turns out to have a larger economy than Germany and is #5 globally in PPP. China had nothing to do with that.
    3
  3530.  @goodlife6277  I wish it were not so myself.
    3
  3531. Don't be silly. No country, ever, has seen its economy grow by 19.3% in one or two or even three years. The Russian economy did grow in both 2022 and 2023 and is growing again this year, an astounding achievement given the sanctions the collective West has been throwing at it, so there's absolutely no need to exaggerate its accomplishments.
    3
  3532. Yes, that's the idea.
    3
  3533. Bah. Adolescent "wisdom".
    3
  3534. BRICS, maybe?
    3
  3535. ​ @brunischling9680  Georgia is an independent sovereign state. Those kids you know need to sober up.
    3
  3536. Watch the first two parts.
    3
  3537. Medvedev says a lot of things, but we'll see. At least now the Kiev gang are on notice what awaits them if they don't behave themselves and stop this nonsense.
    3
  3538. What did Filipinos expect when they elected -- gave power to -- yet another member of the Marcos family mafia? Prosperity and good relations with their neighbours? 😅
    3
  3539. ​ @ImperativeGames  The Republicans were fully in on it.
    3
  3540. Only for war-related industries.
    3
  3541. 😂
    3
  3542. It's his job to attend all large international summits.
    3
  3543. It looks like Hungary's Orban's the only honest head of state in the entire EU.
    3
  3544. This is normal for the US, not a matter of a particular administration. The US has been stirring up, staging and provoking coups d'etat, wars, invasions, annexations, and regime change operations almost from its inception. Never stopped doing it in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries.
    3
  3545. They will.
    3
  3546. Great analogies 😅
    3
  3547. I had very much the same experience switching from the Yugoslav school system to the British system back in the 1970s. And it wasn't just the maths but history, geography, biology, physics, and chemistry too.
    3
  3548. No, that's not the role of the church. That role is Christ's alone.
    3
  3549. Same here, in Canada.
    3
  3550. And frightening in its unimaginable size and the sheer violence of natural processes.
    3
  3551. You don't want to retire to the Dominican Republic anywhere else but in Las Terrenas. Too much crime, too unsafe anywhere else. As for Bali, it dioes get boring after a while. Thailand, Crete or Malta are much nicer alternatives, especially if you prefer swimming in calm seas to surfing.
    3
  3552. Didn't know that men can give birth. She has 3 kids from her first marriage.
    3
  3553. I doubt I'll live that long, but it's nice to know it's coming. And the sweetest thing of all is that it's entirely self-inflicted and self-caused.
    3
  3554. 😂
    3
  3555. Except that a full 61% of Americans now support further funding of Ukraine.
    3
  3556. The narrative began circulating as early as May 2022, so...
    3
  3557. Yes, I can. It was Trump who decided to give heavy weapons to Ukraine.
    3
  3558. Let's just hope it doesn't turn into a jealous ex-husband because those types really go mental and homicidal out of sheer spite.
    3
  3559. ​ @LouCurri  Keep it real? Talk to the World Bank, then.
    3
  3560. That may be true of many Westerners, but they're a minority among the peoples of the world. I'm originally from former Yugoslavia (Serbia) and am blown away by China's progress, hoping to spend a few months visiting your beautiful country in 2026.
    3
  3561. Or from the heads of the Korean minority living in Russia. 😅
    3
  3562. I feel for you. As a Christian, this makes me want to cry. It's just chilling, such sadism, such will to destroy the other man. No matter what race or nationality or religion we might be, all decent human beings will condemn this evil creep of a man.
    3
  3563. ​ @barneymagee3285  Do please list just 3 of his failed predictions.
    3
  3564. A sizable number of Americans can't find the USA on the map!
    3
  3565. 😂
    3
  3566. Because a large percentage of the electorate may support far right policies. How many people think something's good or right doesn't make it so (and obverse, of course). Le Pen is not far right, but not because many people are voting for her.
    3
  3567. 😮
    3
  3568. ​ @danl5592 And then gave birth to 3 children. She has 3 kids from her first marriage, you know.
    3
  3569. Drop Trump, or you'll lose in 2024.
    3
  3570. Zelensky got a UK passport out of Boris Johnson, and who gives a fig about Ukraine?! Certainly not Zelensky.
    3
  3571. ​ @christinaru7004  Fortunately, the sanctions have overturned all that. Russia is free now. 🙂
    3
  3572. It was diabolical.
    3
  3573. Prostitution is entirely about sex. The Japanese seem to be very good at lying to themselves about all sorts of things.
    3
  3574. No. Mutually exclusive positions.
    3
  3575. Google is fully controlled by the Deep State.
    3
  3576. ​ @scallen3841 😅
    3
  3577. More like, some British and American military comedians, to be honest.
    3
  3578. It's absurd and dishonest.
    3
  3579. Dream on.
    3
  3580. Orthodox Christians still fast several times a year.
    3
  3581. It should be illegal for US politicians at any level of service, including those in the Congress, to accept any money, gifts or favours from foreigner countries and their reoresentatives.
    3
  3582. Makes sense.
    3
  3583. Does the US want a string of broken countries as its allies, asks Alexander in apparent dismay. Of course it does: just look at its history in Latin America if you doubt it.
    3
  3584. ​ @skaruts All psychopaths are narcissists. In fact, psychopathy is on the extreme end of the spectrum for narcissism.
    3
  3585. How many Native Americans are there left? 5 million, almost 80% of whom live outside the reservations and are more or less 100% assimilated.
    3
  3586. Last year's counteroffensive was a total flop, too, costing Ukraine even more in men and equipment than this adventure in Kursk.
    3
  3587. Just waited 8 and a half hours to see a doctor at my hospital in Canada. Some friends of mine had to take their toddler in and they waited over 10 hours.
    3
  3588. I'll be moving from Canada to your neck of the woods, Serbia, as soon as I sell my house here. The climate's hugely better and you don't get thrown in jail for refusing to pretend that your daughter's a boy.
    3
  3589. Stop being a jerk. The man's been seriously ill for some years now.
    3
  3590. Alex, is the water still warm enough for a comfortable swim?
    3
  3591.  @geraldfleming8761  I've just checked the sea temperature in Cyprus (different locations), and there it's still a balmy 26.7C!
    3
  3592. 😅
    3
  3593. She has no regard and no respect for her fellow Vietnamese.
    3
  3594. Yes.
    3
  3595. They can apply for parole, but that doesn't mean they'll be granted it.
    3
  3596. Nice! 👍
    3
  3597. The same to you! 🙂
    3
  3598. So, Serbia is very much like the US, then. Way more votes than there are voters, etc.
    3
  3599. Interesting that Candice doesn't even mention that at 39, Macron's wife had had three children with her first husband. Everybody's ignoring that, which tells me, at a minimum, that no one's so much as bothered to check the birth records of those three children to ascertain their mother's name. A strange omission.
    3
  3600.  @ewalker1057  That's awful. And unconscionable of the West.
    3
  3601. You think Galloway cares what the Arab world thinks? 😅
    3
  3602. Absolutely, but what does piety and God have to do with American war-mongering?!
    3
  3603. ​ @jeffreiland7463 Sounds like you had an ordinary flu. I've had the bad luck to have had covid, officially (i.e. confirmed by testing) 3 times. The first time I had it (lost my taste of taste and smell) was in January 2020, before it's supposed to have reached North America. Well, it had. Took a whole month to recover. The second time, in May 2021, was the worst as I had to be hospitalised and was then kept on at-home oxygen use for another 5 months. Because I live in Canada, whose federal government required we take two shots of the vaccine in order to travel outside the country and I wanted to see my family in Europe, I got vaccinate in late 2021 and within weeks developed high blood pressure that eventually resolved itself some 8 months later. This was replaced by a severe case of histamine intolerance, which I'm still dealing with. Initially, with both the high blood pressure and histamine intolerance, I made no association with the vaccines -- until I learned that both can be caused by the Pfizer shots. I've known two people who've died of covid, one morbidly obese, true, but otherwise with probably another 20 years of life in her, and a gentleman in his late 40s in robust good health. My point is: this thing can take a very mild form, as in your case, or it can be seriously awful as I experienced it twice, or it can kill. And it can do so both to vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
    3
  3604. ​ @calicocat8213  Zelensky got his UK citizenship from Boris Johnson back in 2022. I don't know if he has a third or even a fourth one, as his oligarch mentor Kolomoisky is said to do.
    3
  3605. The Ukrainian side has been lying 24/7 since before the start of the SMO, let alone since, and only a fool or a propagandist would bother to cite their imaginary numbers.
    3
  3606. ​ @davidlazarus67 I don't think so. Putin was too palpably furious during the security council meeting at which Gerasimov first reported the incursion.
    3
  3607. ​ @lArtemislll  You should do a bit of research on that before stating speaking with such unfounded self-assurance.
    3
  3608. Please stop shooting down Russian planes and breaking your word on the agreements you make. Handing those Nazis back to Ukraine was low.
    3
  3609. The West will be committing a grave mistake, then. Even Russian patience and forebearance have a limit, and you don't want to be around when Russians really get mad.
    3
  3610. 😂
    3
  3611. Yep. The Banana Republics of Europe.
    3
  3612. ​ @asdg2271 None of our churches, including the Orthodox ones, bears resemblance to the original Christian community (ecclesia, church) in Jerusalem. Not even to the first generations of churches around the Mediterranean.
    3
  3613. Is that you again, Napoleon? 😂
    3
  3614. Generosity?! 😂 Try learning a little about French imperialism and colonialism in Africa.
    3
  3615.  @aprescoup  I've not caught Ben Norton going neoliberal yet (I may have missed it), but I fully agree with your description of Salon Marxists and Jean-Luc Melenchon.
    3
  3616. ​ @homeguardster  Ukraine just lost 2500 men in Liman. Russian forces simply withdrew.
    3
  3617. ​ @fabianschrotter  You should be reminding Ukrainians and Israelis of that.
    3
  3618. 👍
    3
  3619. You can bet the life of your first-born that he will do exactly that, just as he did in his first term.
    3
  3620. Shows the state of morality, of ethics in Israel.
    3
  3621. You ain't seen nothing yet.
    3
  3622.  @tynao2029  BS on stilts. We have neoliberal capitalism in Canada, and that's been the case for the past 30 years, regardless of the party in power. If you want to call neoliberal capitalism "socialism," at least have the honesty to call it socialism for the corporations and the rich. In a word, oligarchy.
    3
  3623. You were required to read that in school?! Public funded school?! 😮
    3
  3624. Addressing the US Evangelicals only.
    3
  3625. That water is incredibly clear! Time to visit Cyprus at last.🙂
    3
  3626. In Ontario, Canada, houses selling for under $1 million are considered starter homes. Rents, in towns and cities of over 200,000, are so high that young people are sharing apartments with strangers in order to be able to afford shelter (living 5-6 in 2-3 bedroom apartments). A few months ago, our intelligence services submitted a report to our government, warning of social unrest in the coming 5 years or so due to high costs of living and especially high costs of housing. The report assesses that the majority of Canadian youth will never own a home of their own.
    3
  3627. ​ @LVArturs The World Bank and the IMF have downgraded the German economy from #1 in Europe to a #2, displaced by the Russian economy. They have also downgraded it from #5 in the world to #6, and Japan from #4 to #5, with Russia's economy jumping to #4, globally. Nothing about this is "normal"
    3
  3628. Yep. Lost my respect with that piece of political theatre. If he can stoop that low on one topic, I see no grounds for trusting him on others.
    3
  3629. ❤ from this expat in Canada, soon to return home.
    3
  3630. A lot of us Canadians enjoy holidaying in Cuba. Too bad the US feels the need to bully an island nation that can be of NO conceivable threat to it.
    3
  3631. She's one of his underlings.
    3
  3632. Anglo-Saxon linguistic hegemony, too, now?
    3
  3633. In the new video posted on the Col. Douglas Macgregor YT channel, the colonel says that Russia has amassed 540,000 troops "stationed around the outskirts of Ukraine, preparing to launch one of the major offensives" that he thinks "will probably end the war in Ukraine". And then he repeats that number, adding: "540,000 Russian troops, 1,000 rocket artillery systems, 5,000 armoured fighting vehicles including at least 1,500 tanks, thousands of guns, hundreds and hundreds tactical ballistic missiles. Ukraine's now going to experience war on a scale we have not seen since 1945." It will be interesting to see who turns out to be right in his forecast about how Russia will proceed over the next month or two: Alexander Mercouris, who doesn't expect any major offensives by the Russians, or Col. Macgregor, who does. It won't be too long, I think, before we find out.
    3
  3634. And in those 20 years, the USD has lost 20% of the global reserve market. That's how it happens, gradually, almost imperceptibly, bit by bit....
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  3635. Yes, we all know the propaganda.
    3
  3636. Psychopaths do have feelings (anger, rage, envy, desire for revenge, etc.).
    3
  3637. Same in Ontario.
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  3638. He? You really think this is the work of one individual?!
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  3639. Thank you for your important input. It's given me a more nuanced view of what's happening in Spain.
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  3640. You know why.
    3
  3641. I think they may take Odessa in peace negotiations, i.e. as part of Ukraine's surrender terms.
    3
  3642. I hope most Italians will vote "No" in such a referendum.
    3
  3643. I fear that all of these warnings to Russia not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine are neither a misunderstanding nor a projection but a way to set up a false flag, using nukes. May I be totally wrong on this As for Meloni, she'll fold. The moment I saw that Hillary Clinton had endorsed her, I knew Meloni would do nothing to create an independent foreign policy à la Orban. And yes, the referenda need at least a 50% turnout for Russia to consider them valid.
    3
  3644. ​ @Chaldon-hl6yk  Russia produces an over-abundance of STEM graduates. As for her technology, it's enough to recall that the Russians were the first to put man in space and that for something like the past two decades, the US has had to rely on Russian technology to get its astronauts up to the International Space Station (ISS).
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  3645. ​ @Maria-bd2mm  This has been true for quite a while now, i. e. for some decades before Trump ever came into the scene.
    3
  3646.  @marcokunz3350  Are you paid to write such nonsense on the internet, or do you regurgitate Ukrainian delusions on a volunteer basis?
    3
  3647. ​ @luisekjeldsen1515 You can't adapt to a problem that concerns ammunition.
    3
  3648. They most certainly are.
    3
  3649. Postmodernism is nihilism. Moving away from it will be very difficult indeed.
    3
  3650. Avdiivka is being liberated. 🙂
    3
  3651. Alexander has vision problems and can't do maps.
    3
  3652. Nice.
    3
  3653. How so?
    3
  3654. ​ @alsteeves2044  GDP is a meaningless metric, ridiculously deceptive. PPP, or purchasing power parity, is a much more reliable measure. Btw, Russia has displaced Germany as Europe's #1 economy, and #4 in the world as a whole. Just last year, Russia also became one of the high-paying countries in the world. Odd that you don't know this.
    3
  3655. ​ @stephennair2318  Prof. Hudson is right ONLY in reference to Ottoman rule in the Middle East. The Ottoman invasion and colonization of south-east Europe (which, by the way, never colonized anyone and is guilty of no crimes against any Asians, Africans, Americans, etc.) was a very different matter, on par with what Israel's doing to the Palestinians and worse, and your attempt to whitewash it by reference to what some Englishmen or Frenchmen, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgians, and Germans did to the peoples they colonized in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas speaks only of the nihilism that's swept over the West.
    3
  3656. The EU would be defeated in no time at all. Remember, the Russians are still fighting the SMO with gloves on because these are their Slavic relatives. Any EU or NATO forces, however, will be treated VERY differently.
    3
  3657. I take that as the dryest of sarcasms.
    3
  3658. Jeremy Bentham.
    3
  3659. I thought he was referring to Sirhan Sirhan.
    3
  3660. Sounds about right.
    3
  3661. ​ @alexstoyanov6108  Russia kept Ukraine afloat to the tune of $200 billion between 1991-2014. The figure comes from the then head of the IMF Christine Laguarde. They won't make that mistake again.
    3
  3662. That's horrific! Surely their treatment qualifies as cruel and unusual?
    3
  3663. ​ @CosmicSeeker69  We don't use Blockchain technology here in Canada, yet our government had no difficulty in freezing people's bank accounts for questioning and protesting some of its more controversial policies.
    3
  3664. You must have missed its launching of the SMO in Ukraine and its single-handed defeat of NATO, currently in progress.
    3
  3665. Why would it?
    3
  3666. True. 😅
    3
  3667. I think the best indicator of their losses relative to Ukraine's is the admission published in Washington Post and NYT that on average Ukraine's suffering losses 6:1 to Russia's. In some places, the ratio goes as high as 10:1.
    3
  3668. Russian popular music stars are very big in China.
    3
  3669. Yes, he is of Croatian ancestry.
    3
  3670. What do you think?
    3
  3671. They very clearly don't. No use lying about it.
    3
  3672. 😂
    3
  3673. I agree. This whole notion that Russia can afford to take its time is delusional. Brian Berletic fully expects NATO to go into western and possibly central Ukraine pretty soon.
    3
  3674. 😅
    3
  3675. Oh, that was hilarious! 😂
    3
  3676. For example?
    3
  3677. Some FACTS in response to the guy in whose opinion "declining population, low productivity, and corruption" will continue to "impact the country's [Russia's] economic prospects" in the future: Using Purchasing Power Parity as the by far more accurate measuring tool than raw GDP figures, in 2023 the World Bank upgraded the Russian economy to the #1 spot in Europe. Germany fell to #2. Last year, in 2024, the World Bank again upgraded its evaluation of the Russian economy, which now stands #4 globally, having displaced Japan from that position. This despite the fact that ALL mainstream economic and geopolitical analysts in the collective West predicted a total collapse of the Russian economy under the hundreds of sanctions it had placed on Russia starting in 2014, and then hugely accelerated in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Facts. Not opinions.
    3
  3678. ​@VAU6119 No.
    3
  3679. It's such an adolescent mannerism.
    3
  3680. Not the Greeks.
    3
  3681. Confirmed. It's on RT, too.
    3
  3682. Corporations and the political parties they've bought.
    3
  3683. Wow!
    3
  3684. The fact that you can use that phrase -- the 3 day SMO -- with a straight face tells me that you've completely bought our media narratives, stories with less than a tangential relation to truth and facts.
    3
  3685. Russia doesn't seem to be running out of anything needed to win this artillery war of attrition. When that happens, and there's no indication of it happening this year or the next, if it ever does happen, we can then expect it to start buying ammunition from North Korea and/or China. A completely hypothetical situation, though.
    3
  3686. The US has very strict laws about that.
    3
  3687. I bought my house long ago and have no concerns about my mortgage, but I do sympathise with anyone and everyone in that predicament. People are not to be blamed for the insane excesses of financial capitalism.
    3
  3688. 😅
    3
  3689. They're mad.
    3
  3690. ​ @DrLuke49 The Australian justice system is evidently a mockery of a real one.
    3
  3691. Ura!!!
    3
  3692. Just keep of telling yourself such stories.
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  3693. I grew up in a country governed by a Communist Party, and it was my primary school history teacher who first told me (told the class as a whole) that I should read the Bible. An uncle of mine had a degree in theology and had trained for priesthood (we're Orthodox) and he married a woman who was a member of the Communist Party. I'm mentioning these facts from my own personal experience because the idea that communists are inherently and invariably hostile to religion simply isn't true. The best example of a harmonious blend of Christianity and communist thought I know of is Liberation Theology as it was practised in South America before the Vatican cracked down on it. A direct result of that reactionary and unwise Vatican move is the tremendous growth of Evangelical churches and missions to South America.
    3
  3694. I don't think we're there yet.
    3
  3695. ​ @michaelk8532  You engineered it and have been running it from the beginning.
    3
  3696. He said no such thing.😂 Not even remotely.
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  3697. If that were so, all of our MSM would be jubilant.
    3
  3698. That would be good. Ais in sensible.
    3
  3699. 100%.
    3
  3700. It's, astonishing watching them lie to themselves so brazenly.
    3
  3701. How about putting them to work on building housing for America's homeless?
    3
  3702. There's nothing the West can do to reverse its Ukrainian debacle. That's why there are no diplomatic initiatives to end Ukraine's agony: doing so would require admitting that the collective West is completely outmatched by Russia alone!
    3
  3703. The United States of LGBTQ2S+
    3
  3704. ​ @amjidalam5248 He seems to be exactly that.
    3
  3705. ​ @tidik73  Sure. The same NATO that ran away from Afghanistan. And, no, it wasn't the Americans alone.
    3
  3706. ​ @bobandthewolfdogs  In the wild, she'd be eating 2-3 meals a week, though. Definitely not a meal every day.
    3
  3707. 😂
    3
  3708. ​ @dinf8940  You really think they wouldn't welcome a second Oreshnik strike to collect more information on it, if possible?
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  3709. I feel no special respect for Japan, though I like its wonderful cuisine and some of its traditional aesthetic (not the contemporary infantile and infantilizing schlock), but like you, I find the society depicted in this short documentary so alienated and alienating that it's scary. And sad. I have no inclination to even visit Japan.
    3
  3710. Oh no! God help us all!
    3
  3711. By the end of November, I expect.
    3
  3712. ​ @tigading2177  In all those respects, Chinese cities are similar to cities in Russia, except for their much higher populations.
    3
  3713. 😂
    3
  3714. ​ @The_Touring_Jedi  Naravno da niste. Pozdrav iz Kanade.
    3
  3715. Except that Milley didn't say that. He said the West itself would collapse, which is hyperbolic to the point of hysteria. Meant to frighten the population, no doubt, who are getting fed up with throwing good money after bad in Ukraine.
    3
  3716. 👏
    3
  3717. The two adult huskies aren't too happy about having a puppy in the house. I hope they've accepted the little one by now! 😍
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  3718.  @nbrown4205  I understand that the silent majority in Kiev are hoping for that, but I still don't get the impression that the Russian leadership has made any such decision yet.
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  3719. ​ @isn0t42  I'm originally from Serbia, and have also been putting off seeing that film. 😢
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  3720. Why? It pales into invisibility in comparison with American military corruption, with its trillions "unaccountable" and "missing". The Russians, at least, are removing their bad apples, while the US just follows in its corruption.
    3
  3721. Why the quotation marks? Whom are you citing?
    3
  3722. Fine questions from Prof. Diesen.
    3
  3723. A storm in a teacup, as we say in English.
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  3724. I'm so glad you're addressing Col. Macgregor's tendentiously revisionist presentation of WW2 history which, as you say, reflects the influence of German Nazis the US airlifted out of Europe in 1945/6 and placed in prominent positions in American universities, corporations, and think tanks. There have been moments, more frequent in the last little while, when I've found myself thinking the US and Europe will finally sober up from their clinically alarming self-aggrandizing delusions only after they're roundly defeated militarily by the Russian Federation. The thought of the amount of human suffering and destruction this would involve horrifies me, however, so I pray they just continue destroying themselves economically and spiritually, culturally, as they seem bent on doing. I believe that we are witnessing a kind of civilizational madness in the collective West, and I don't see how that can end well.
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  3725. Should have seen the islands 40 years ago. Aesthetically, they've gone totally down the hill since then.
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  3726. Bad news, indeed. 😢 Thai courts should have dissolved these opposition parties regardless of Western support for them. Thailand needs to protect itself instead of giving way to blatant outside pressure.
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  3727. Indeed. Zelensky was elected on the promise to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish friendly relations with Russia.
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  3728. Talk about delusional. Scary levels of craziness among Western leadership.
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  3729. I understand that the Ukrainian forces have been retreating for the last 48 hrs.
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  3730. I don't think that Putin's speech has made the world a more dangerous place than it was a day or even 10 years ago. on the contrary: thanks to Putin and Russia, we can now sleep soundly in the knowledge that our future is NOT, after all, global fascism with a liberal grin painted on it.
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  3731. Likewise.
    3
  3732. ​ @andrewphilip3308 Konstantin Malofeev is not Jewish. He's Russian Orthodox.
    3
  3733. Let me whisper these three little words in your ear: Responsibility to Protect.
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  3734. Varoufakus? Talk about being self-serving ...
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  3735. 15% is too high, yes. Especially if many of those who make up that 15% also refuse to integrate.
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  3736. I don't recall the USA shelling it's ethnic German and Japanese populations in the 8 years preceding those wars. (Your analogy doesn't hold.)
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  3737. Germany's said that the delivery of its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine will take 3-4 months. As for the Abrams tanks the US has now pledged to Ukraine, they will have to be manufactured from scratch, which is why they won't be in Ukraine this year. I think the US is reluctant to have the world see Russia destroying its tanks with ease.
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  3738. The title cracked me up: Zelensky gives Russia one last chance. 😂
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  3739. The latter.
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  3740. 😮
    3
  3741. The Empire of Lies remains true to itself. The United States of Pinocchio.
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  3742. Only for the rich, though. The cost starts at $8,200 a month per person.
    3
  3743. 😂
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  3744. Mexico has already said that because of its geographic position and the realities of geopolitics, it won't be joining BRICS.
    3
  3745. ​ @trevortrevortsr2  When did Boris Johnson talk to Putin? I don't recall them meeting at all.
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  3746.  @lowersaxon  It certainly doesn't give that impression these days. I understand that there's a great deal of discontent in what used to be East Germany.
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  3747. I'm 67 and about to move from Canada to Serbia (where I was born): a perfect spot for me for extensive travelling and long stays in Russia. Am looking forward to visiting China, too.
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  3748. You wish. 😅 It's Nima's own hair.
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  3749. 40% of new immigrants to Ontario return to their home countries within a year of arriving in Canada.
    3
  3750. ​ @JCX-9  Except that she doesn't look the clueless type in the photos presented here.
    3
  3751. I believe in gravity. I believe the Earth revolves around the Sun. These are merely ways of speaking, and you're clutching at straws.
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  3752. He's as bad as the comedian.
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  3753. Exactly! 🎯
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  3754. Now that's interesting, if true. I'd not heard of it before.
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  3755. Why on Earth would he?!
    3
  3756. The US spent 5 BILLION dollars on fomenting unrest in Ukraine and engineering the Maidan coup d'etat.
    3
  3757. Exactly. I see NO advantage to Georgia in joining the EU.
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  3758. I think it has to do with the testosterone they can sniff out in men even more than with the naturally deeper male voices.
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  3759. Remember Mariupol? The Russians have already rebuilt it. So it will be here, too.
    3
  3760. And Reuters is a well-known conduit for MI6...
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  3761. ​ @ruzgar_adam 🎯
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  3762. We in the West don't realize -- because it was important to keep such facts from us, so our media made sure not to tell us -- that 75% of the people of the USSR voted against its dissolution.
    3
  3763. Good to know!
    3
  3764. Ukrainians had spent the previous 8 years working hard on bolstering Bakhmut's defenses, making it well nigh impregnable. Rabotyno is not even inside the Russian defense lines!
    3
  3765. People are using VPN programs to get around that.
    3
  3766. It's been doing so for the past year.
    3
  3767. No. Minimal losses since Gen. Surovikin took over.
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  3768. Great to know this. I'm so glad she was able to have a good life despite her illness!
    3
  3769. Yep.
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  3770. Arguably Gorbachev's key error.
    3
  3771. Both matter.
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  3772. ❤
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  3773. Oh dear. If I were you, I'd take this video down asap. The Russian MoD has just announced they're pulling all their troops out of Kherson city. Kherson is being abandoned to the Ukrainian army.
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  3774. They simply don't have the forces for it any longer. That they're being used so irrationally is a crime in itself.
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  3775.  @ananikolic6374  Definitely.
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  3776. Not even close to it, yet.
    3
  3777. Same in Canada.
    3
  3778. Unquestionably.
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  3779. The 190 ethnic groups in the Russian Federation would beg to differ.
    3
  3780. Dream on. 😜😂
    3
  3781. Barring any unforeseen health problems, I also expect him to serve the next two terms, i.e. until 2036.
    3
  3782. You wish. 😅
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  3783. If you used to be a heavy smoker, you do understand. Before I quit with the help of anti-smoking medication and laser therapy, I smoked 2-3 packs a day. It took me about 30 years to finally quit.
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  3784. John Mark Dugan is excellent.
    3
  3785. Yes, but how much gas does Ukraine have at this point?
    3
  3786. The Russians are moving westward village by village, practically all along the 1500 km frontline.
    3
  3787. The largest economy in Europe (it overtook Germany last year), and 5th largest in the world. And growing.
    3
  3788. Russia won't drag this out quite that long. Another 2-3 years, max, I think.
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  3789. France can easily switch to buying more uranium from Canada, but not even close at the price it's accustoned to in Niger. Niger has been selking France uranium at a fraction of its market price. The guy who just got deposed in Niger is the equivalent of a Yeltsin: that's why France and the US are so keen on overturning the coup and returning him to power.
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  3790. What's left of it.
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  3791. No. If a country enters into a conflict with another country and is not itself invaded or directly attacked, Article 5 doesn't apply. And in any case, as TonyP has already pointed out, Article 5 isn't binding. All it states it in the event a NATO member state is attacked by a non-member, the other NATO member states will consider what actions, if any, to take in its defense. This applies specifically to the defense of the North Atlantic area only: "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." The language seems a lot stronger than it actually is.
    3
  3792. 🎯
    3
  3793. That's quite separate from the system for making payments, which this is about. BRICS has repeatedly said that it won't be developing a new currency to be used in general circulation and for everyday transactions, but it's still interested in creating a new, gold or commodities-backed currency which would be used only for country-to-country trade and transactions.
    3
  3794. 😂 I take that as sarcasm.
    3
  3795. Assange is with his family and friends, and no longer inside a maximum security prison in the UK. I'm celebrating his return to freedom.
    3
  3796. He announced yesterday that he won't be running for president again.
    3
  3797. ​ @davidj4662 😂
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  3798.  @nicolasbouyiouclis4726  He. Michael is a man's name.
    3
  3799. MTG did NOT say that Democrats are pedophiles but that they support and enable pedophiles. Which is true.
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  3800. Within weeks of getting my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, I developed high blood pressure. I was lucky in that it resolved by itself about 14 months later, but once that was over, I developed severe histamine intolerance. There are days on which I can barely walk from the weakness associated with it.
    3
  3801. Algeria is the latest country to apply for BRICS membership. De-dollarization is expected to take 20-30 years.
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  3802. The city will be rebuilt and it's residents will return.
    3
  3803. He's always been one.
    3
  3804. The turning point took place over a year ago, with the utter failure of the much touted Ukrainian offensive that didn't even get to
    3
  3805. We know from officials on the US team who witnessed the giving of those assurances that the Russians are right, so why would I give credence to some former Russian minister who's lost all influence in Moscow and will tell the MSM what they want to hear rather than give credence to American officials who actually stand to lose from telling the truth inconvenient to the US?! 😅
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  3806. Defend?! 😂
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  3807.  @FrankKurian  He means Russia but can't say it because it would be too absurd for words.
    3
  3808.  @SyntaxOverflow  Pearson was a mess 15 years ago, too. It's simply horrifically badly run.
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  3809. Thank you! 🙂👍
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  3810. It's absurd.
    3
  3811. ​ @arostwocents  Where can I find out more about the Soviets ever calling for the total destruction of Germany?
    3
  3812. 😅
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  3813. Yes, our healthcare system in Canada is shamefully bad. You were lucky to have found a family doctor within 6 months, actually. As for diagnostic imaging, my doctor in Kitchener (Southern Ontario) referred me for a brain MRI a year and a half ago -- we're still waiting! If I had a brain tumour, I'd be dead by now, as I'm sure has happened to who knows how many people here. Now that I'm retired, I'm moving to Serbia, Europe, as even a tiny impoverished Serbia's healthcare system is way, but way better than what we have here. Plus, the quality of food and the climate are incomparably better at a much lower overall cost of living and the rest of Europe is just a stone's throw away! 🙂
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  3814. ​​ @Tootsie806  Yes, I am. We should all be, especially those of us who profess either Judaism, Christianity or Islam as those three religions command us to care for one another and particularly the poor(er).
    3
  3815. They're not even close to reaching an agreement. They've just agreed to start negotiating.
    3
  3816. A Russia-China-Iran alliance (I don't know if India would join it) would be a total game changer in geopolitics.
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  3817. ​ @Theone-bc7tr  Many more injured. The usual ratio of wounded to killed in any war is at least 3:1.
    3
  3818. I wonder if the people who say such things actually believe them.
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  3819. They should have figured that out back in January 2021, before the SMO even started.
    3
  3820. Anyone in this or a similar situation should talk to the local media and invite them to do a story about them. Nobody should be expected to put up with this fir more than a week!
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  3821. I don't recall even the Ukrainian side claiming thousands upon thousands of Russian soldiers' corpses around Kharkov or Kherson.
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  3822. No one should be above the law. But we aren't there yet: we aren't even having a public discussion on how to ensure this principle is respected, how to enforce it.
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  3823. I click on my Subscriptions and always see your new ones. Occasionally, YT will suggest a new video by you without me having to check my Subscriptions. I hope that whatever games the algorithms are playing with your work, you can continue creating and posting your truly unique work! Best of luck! ❤️ P.S. Some of the channels that post interviews with Major Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor have started using video titles that claim the opposite to what Ritter and Macgregor are saying precisely in order to get around blacklisting by algorithm. Maybe you can try that for a couple of weeks and then reassess the effect.
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  3824. 😅
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  3825. Divide that by 10, and we might be close to a realistic assessment of Russian losses
    3
  3826. Spare change that $200 million loan or grant or whatever it is. Ukraine apparently needs at least $1 billion a month to survive as a country.
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  3827.  @V_for_Vovin  I'm sure. The social worker was aghast.
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  3828. ​ @adrianterrell8499 All African nations need to do is compare Russia's record with that of the US and every other Western country to know who their friends are.
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  3829. I'm having no trouble following him.
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  3830. Not a people, but a country.
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  3831. It's craziness.
    3
  3832. She influences hundreds of millions of young people.
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  3833. The EU engineered the Maidan "revolution" in Kiev and violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum in the association agreement it tried to force on Yanukovich in 2013. It wasn't the US who did that.
    3
  3834. ​ @keith6032  Yes, at least 1 year for every year he deprived Menqqi Ji of. At least 50 years behind bars.
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  3835. VSU -- Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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  3836. It's worse than that. The NYC employs this guy NOT to teach history and Classical philosophy, literature, mythology and culture but to offer to his students his musings about how the Classical works is represented in popular culture, i.e. in our movies, TV series, and music: in entertainment. That's what his students are taking courses on.
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  3837.  @klubberzvonhatzenbuhl563  You forgot fiddlesticks. 😘
    3
  3838. ​ @CURTISEDWARDS-i3l  An interesting understanding of democracy.
    3
  3839. Armenia never applied for help from the CSTO in the first place!
    3
  3840. Who's supplying Ukrainian military with those mines?
    3
  3841. Which Biblical prophecy are you referring to?
    3
  3842. Are they, though? Better than they've shown us again and again they actually are?
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  3843. Yes, but much less and at a much higher price than it enjoyed before it decided to be unfriendly to Russia.
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  3844. So are the administrators.
    3
  3845. It's simply disgusting.
    3
  3846. I hope India understands what being friends with the US means. Indians should consult Henry Kissinger's writings on that.
    3
  3847. Not funny at all.
    3
  3848. ​ @SterileNeutrino  😂
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  3849. Sober up, already! US debt is not repayable and there's no way on Earth Trump can fix that.
    3
  3850. True. 😂
    3
  3851. 😅
    3
  3852. It's not a matter of accountability, which would be impossible to enforce in a system such as ours, but the system itself that makes accountability a no go.
    3
  3853. 😂
    3
  3854. His periods haven't resumed?! His?! This sort of gaslighting or deliberate, conscious pretense makes me very angry because it perpetuates the lie that the girl who was initially placed on puberty blockers and then taken off them had in the meantime become a boy, a young human male. I find it outrageous that this woman can sit there calmly and apparently with no inner conflict, no pangs of conscience and no reluctance continue to suggest to the public, including the gender-confused adolescents who may watch this video, that a girl can turn into a boy, can become a he, and vice versa with the help of some chemicals.
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  3855. Another detailed, factual, brilliant analysis by Brian. Thank you so much for the work you do!
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  3856. Glad to see you recognize those territories as Russia.
    3
  3857. Because the surviving troops are trapped there, unable to retreat and getting killed off by the day.
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  3858. I think the US will be compelled by the new economic reality of the Russia-China-India grouping and the rise of the global South to give up its imperial reach and become a regional North American power, with economic hegemony over the collective West.
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  3859.  @Herc11355  Semantics is the branch of linguistics that deals with meaning (as distinct from sound -- phonetics -- or grammar).
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  3860. The late Stephen F Cohen, America's premier Russia Studies scholar, complained about that as well. It was bad enough in the 1970s, but it got rapidly much, much worse from the 1990s on.
    3
  3861. Brilliant observations.
    3
  3862. It's about to station nuclear-capable missiles right at the border with Finland and is creating new army divisions that will be permanently stationed there.
    3
  3863. ​ @vladimirvico2506  😭
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  3864. ​ @ФёдорИванов-с5б  What power do they want? Any examples so I can get a picture of what you mean?
    3
  3865. Shame on Canada for so, so much, including this.
    3
  3866. ​ @BoleDaPole  The entire UK army can't fill even a football stadium, that's why. 😅
    3
  3867. ​ @nuclearstarr Sweet.
    3
  3868. Nazi-loving Russophobes.
    3
  3869. That ship sailed back in April 2022, when, pressured by the West, Ukraine chose war rather than the incredibly generous deal Russia had offered it, the one Ukraine had agreed on in principle and initialled in Turkey.
    3
  3870. ​ @jayceontalylor4244 By blindly obeying the US and destroying the excellent trading relations they enjoyed with the unquestionably most advantageous energy supplier Germany's ever had.
    3
  3871. No, they've not had enough time to create proper defenses around and in Artemovsk/Bakhmut.
    3
  3872. It was hilarious! What was the captain of that one ship doing?! 😂
    3
  3873. I assume this is sarcasm. The Ukrainian MoD admitted last summer that the Ghost of Kiev was pure fiction.
    3
  3874. 👍❤️
    3
  3875. ​​ @jiks270  A nation with a civil war raging in it cannot join NATO. That's why Ukraine's not been able to join since 2014. That and the fact that NATO countries don't want to fight Russia.
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  3876. ​ @peterc4082 Living on $2 a day is classified as living in extreme poverty. It's not a world standard of any kind, except the standard of extreme poverty.
    3
  3877. ​​ @Gunni1972  Russian has many synonyms for nincompoop: e.g. Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Barack Obama, etc.
    3
  3878. Rio Tinto is notorious for its destruction of the environment wherever it's allowed to dig for minerals.
    3
  3879. And Denial is a river in Egypt.
    3
  3880. Everyone mentions the Napoleonic and Nazi Germany's invasions of Russia. But no one talks about the Polish, Lithuanian, and then Swedish invasions and attempts to destroy the Russian state. Or the British attempt to grab Crimea, or the US invasion of Russia following WW1. And what business does the US have in South CHINA Sea?!
    3
  3881. I think this apocaptylicism blasphemous. Such thinking blasphemes against God by idolizing the Bible, the Book.
    3
  3882. ​ @Russiawithlove9189  Say that in front of a mirror and you'll be right.
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  3883. So much for the French "left".
    3
  3884. I'd love to see a debate between Paul Craig Roberts and Scott Ritter.
    3
  3885.  @mickeyoshea2035  Yeah, that's the party line. It was true even as late as 50 years ago, but today it's class all the way.
    3
  3886. I wish.
    3
  3887. Please drop the smileys when referring to the dead and the wounded. I support Russia, btw.
    3
  3888. In June 27% of UK citizens reported skipping meals because they could no longer afford having 3 meals a day. Just yesterday, I came across the results of a poll done last week that shows their number has risen to 50%. I don't see how the Brits can put up with this much longer.
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  3889. ​ @RaiseyDaisy No, a teen is not a woman (adult human femake). A teen is a (young) girl.
    3
  3890. It would remain what it currently is: a US colony.
    3
  3891. 😅
    3
  3892. Poor innocent Germany.
    3
  3893. Ukrainian forces killed a pregnant woman shelling the area around the Donetsk cathedral during the holiest Orthodox services of the year last night. They've never considered the people of Donbass "their own," such are the Nazi ideology and lies they've embraced.
    3
  3894. He's the least awful option on the Serbian political scene, true, but Vucic made a cardinal geopolitical mistake of turning down Russia's offer to open a military base in Serbia just last fall.
    3
  3895. ​ @LVArturs  Unbelievable naivety!
    3
  3896. Probably more.
    3
  3897. It's the same in Judaism. In the Talmud.
    3
  3898. B.s.
    3
  3899. About the terminology used in this video: katoy are NOT transsexuals (an extremely rare genetic disorder in any human group) but transgender. It's important to maintain that distinction since one condition is grounded in a verifiably biological glitch and the other is not. Very often, transsexuals don't see themselves as transgender. Their inner experiences seem to be markedly different.
    3
  3900. Via Jewish oligarchs, I should imagine, but I'm really not sure.
    3
  3901. Maduro has just been invited to the next BRICS+ summit in October.
    3
  3902. Freedom, you know.
    3
  3903. He's biased, and an ideologue.
    3
  3904. 😂
    3
  3905. No worse than Canada or Scandinavia, when it comes to long, cold winters. With the difference that Russia actually has a warm south!
    3
  3906. ​ @summerlake356 Close to that.
    3
  3907. If this winter turns to be relatively mild in Europe, as may very well be the case, that gambit won't work out for Russia.
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  3908. Can you also cite the article or the website you allegedly took this quotation from as I'll believe it only when I see the source itself. I know that Brzezinski wrote something similar (about betrayal being a feature of Ukrainian culture) but I'm not aware of any CIA statements from that effect.
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  3909. Africa was definitely involved -- do go and read some history because you're seriously misinformed.
    3
  3910. A telling glimpse into his soul.
    3
  3911. Like a Nuremberg Rally in the 1930s.
    3
  3912. You're right: among other things, it's a class thing, too.
    3
  3913.  @Bronson37848  There's not a single -- not one -- toponym or a historical structure, building, or mere remnants of one in Kosovo that indicate any Albanian presence there before Slavs arrived in the Balkans and the establishment of the Serbian state.
    3
  3914. When Germans grow a spine, that's when.
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  3915. Sovereigntist, not nationalist. ❤️
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  3916.  @soler225  Why should I? I earned my CPP as much as all the other Canadian retirees who choose to spend their golden years abroad.
    3
  3917. Poor boy! May he be spared!
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  3918.  @jessicaandtrains7768  Not if the symptoms were not present before the vaccination.
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  3919. 84%, to be precise.
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  3920. ​ @tatianalyulkin410  Nothing to do with Putin's ego. The Chinese too knew the Obamas as absolutely graceless.
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  3921. 😂
    3
  3922. The MSM are doing their job exactly as intended. We are meant to be kept in the dark about these developments.
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  3923. ​ @helendavies5252  Just reading about this is making me anxious. Not only did he go off dating another woman, but he's now ignoring your text messages. I probably wouldn't even care to hear his explanation for that, I'd just block him. But it'd be interesting to hear how he responded to the questions you were going to put to him.
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  3924. The extent of the debacle has to be concealed as much as possible.
    3
  3925. For the algorithm.
    3
  3926. Col. Douglas Macgregor is just as impressive. So is Brian Berletic of The New Atlas channel. Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté are also excellent, especially Blumenthal.
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  3927. That's quite optimistic. Without cheap energy and with de-industrialization, Europe has nowhere to go but down into gradually increasing poverty and decline. Its tourist industry will keep it afloat for a while, but Europe will never again experience the prosperity it knew between 1965 and 2015. Those times and that standard of living is over, for good.
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  3928. Was the capitulation acceptable to Germans in 1945?
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  3929. Russia's assisting both Syria and Turkey. The West, no so much.
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  3930. Russia and India, yes.
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  3931. 😂
    3
  3932. It's a concept in international law, but it certainly doesn't apply here.
    3
  3933. Million. Not billion. There's quite a difference
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  3934. Mossad is not known for either incompetence or negligence.
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  3935. ​ @АлександрЧерняев-л6щ  It's a crime against humanity that it was ever dissolved.
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  3936. ​ @MrBrindleStyle  BlackRock has made a statement acknowledging that. He was one of the highschool students in the background of a shot.
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  3937. Yes, and it's up to the populations of individual EU countries to do so.
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  3938. The regions which held referendums to join the RF are never going back to Ukraine. The only question is how many other regions Russia intends to bring back home.
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  3939. Yemen is a lion among the Arabs!
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  3940. ​ @corinayuen2487  Which ones? A genuine question (I'm in the Netherlands).
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  3941. 😉
    3
  3942. Its roots remain inextricably, essentially Christian though you're right -- Europe's in many ways already post-Christian, as are the US and Canada.
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  3943. She sold out long before Steve Cohen's passing. They were already miles apart politically in the last decade of his life.
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  3944. Moscow's one of the safest cities in the world. Cope with it.
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  3945.  @michaelgnit8476  I know. I'm a Canuck, too.
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  3946. 😂
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  3947. 😂
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  3948. I'm not familiar with this channel, but a little reality check is in order. According to the IMF and the World Bank, over the past twoand a half years, the Russian economy has displaced that of Germany to become the #1 in Europe, and, more recently, that of Japan, standing in the 4th place globally. Both institutions forecast continued growth for it.
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  3949. I don't hate religion. Only some forms of it.
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  3950. If you want to use the Bible in this context, then you also have to add that God gave the Promised Land of Canaan and Palestine to Israelites.
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  3951. 😂
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  3952. It needs to bend the knee and do much in the way of public acts of repentance before the Russians should even consider re-establishing friendly relations with the EU. Better yet, Russia will ignore the EU and leave it to its own devices for the next several decades, long enough for the EU to destroy itself economically by its cravenness towards the US.
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  3953. I'm torn on that because I think Odessa has to be repatriated if Russia's to ensure its security from NATO.
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  3954. And you're trying to say it isn't?
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  3955. Vaistinu se rodi! 🙂
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  3956. I agree. His rhetorical expressions of doubt and cynicism are getting tiresome.
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  3957. Happy New Year to you and your family, Mr Martyanov! May sanity and common decency prevail in 2023. If not, may Russia crush its enemies to the ground!
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  3958. 🎯
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  3959. I did, a few months ago. The best decision I've ever taken.
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  3960. Not in Canada.
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  3961. Ain't gonna happen anyway.
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  3962. Amen. ❤
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  3963. 😅
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  3964. ​ @knurft886  This, however, happens to be true. Russia's keeping its enormous volunteer force (over half a million men by now) for a possible direct conflict with NATO, should the West completely lose its mind. In the meantime, it's willing to use convicts in the proxy war. Btw, Ukraine emptied its prisons back in 2022....
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  3965. Absolutely.
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  3966. Correct
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  3967. You need to take back London!
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  3968. The cop who shot that teenager dead should be charged with murder and put on trial. There's no conceivable excuse for shooting a driver point blank for refusing to stop. He could easily have shot his tires, thus forcing him to stop. This was unjustifiable and vicious.
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  3969. Most analysts believe Russia will get Odessa as part of Ukraine's capitulation deal. We'll see.
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  3970. ​ @LyubomirIko Which will make exactly zero difference.
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  3971. Good for Hungary!
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  3972. That's awful! Thank you for cutting that paragraph from The Spectator.
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  3973. You saying a bloody showdown would have been the wiser move?! 😂
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  3974. In a nutshell, yes
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  3975. Ah, the myth of saturated fats being bad for you.
    3
  3976. Spot on!
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  3977. ​ @РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т  🎯
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  3978. 😅
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  3979. Same in Canada. Last Spring, our federal police submitted a report to Ottawa warning of possible social unrest in the next 5 years due to the conditions you've described.
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  3980.  @dancroitoru364  🤣. With a slice out of the 80-85% of their military capacity they've not bothered to apply so far.
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  3981. But you've still managed to convince yourselves that you owe it to Ukraine because the last time you attacked Russia, you failed to "liberate" Ukraine. A fine Nazi continuity in German foreign policy.
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  3982. 🎯
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  3983. No. What did he say?
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  3984. Why should he start inventing things now? It is a war of attrition, whether you want to admit it or not.
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  3985. 😂😂😂
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  3986. True, but it also looks like this winter may be unusually mild, which will help offset the results of EU's political idiocy and indifference to the peoples of Europe.
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  3987. Their bedroom. That was their bedroom, which makes it creepily disgusting.
    3
  3988. Amen.
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  3989. I doubt Andrei Martyanov would accept wasting an hour or so of his time on appearing in a show with Dima.
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  3990.  @dmp1520  That's my understanding: that the majority of Odessans are waiting for the Russian army to come and liberate them from Ukrainian terror. The city was founded by Russia, by Catherine the Great, and to this day it's a majority Russian speaking city.
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  3991. Please just don't start any wars over your dream of a Greater Poland
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  3992. I've learned in the last two years that Russians fight their SMOs on their own schedule entirely so I no longer fret over the when of it.
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  3993. If you're tired now, just think what your life would be like if the West got its way. Their plan/ambition for Russia is identical to the one the moustachioed Austrian had 85 years ago: destroy the Russian state, kill off as many Russians as is feasible, and enslave the rest. So be careful what you wish for, my tired Russian friend.
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  3994. It's not a new currency but a new system of making payments between countries.
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  3995. That's a joke, a bit of sarcasm, right?
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  3996. I cannot imagine continuing to love a man after he'd cheated on me. You can't hurt me so deeply without me losing my feelings for you. I think many women prefer to blame "the other woman" rather than their own partner for the infidelity because it's far more painful to admit to oneself that it was your partner who betrayed you.
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  3997.  @montanawhite5699  You may want to read up on the use of Omega-3 oils in the treatment of depression. I understand they help a fairly high percentage of people.
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  3998. 🎯
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  3999. He was referring to Sirhan Sirhan.
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  4000. ​​ @qwertyasdfgh1014 I don't know how you missed it, but prosvet is right. Russia offered to open a military base in Serbia last fall and Vucic, in a move of astonishing geopolitical idiocy, rejected that offer, claiming that Serbia doesn't need and will never host a foreign military base in its soil! Forgetting, or pretending to forget, Bondsteel.
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  4001. Ukrainian maths.
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  4002. Great decision, Sam! You're as brave as you're generous! Best of luck with your YouTube projects! 👍🙂 A suggestion: if you create a "buy me a coffee" account (I'm sure I'm mangling it, but you probably know what I'm referring to), we could send you a few dollars a month in appreciation. Think about it. 🙂
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  4003. Ukraine's just lost its #1 military pilot, the absolute star of its tiny air force. Killed in a training session.
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  4004. Of course not.
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  4005.  @TheMasterInDisguise  You seem to have forgotten that the RF' entry into Donbass on February 24 prevented a genocide. Ukraine was on the brink of launching a massive attack, forestalled only by this SMO. Your calling the men who've been risking their lives for the past 8 years to defend and protect their families from Ukrainian aggression "brainwashed" reflects on you, not in them.
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  4006. For some reason, YouTube keeps deleting my reply to someone who's comment on this video is to say he's finding it hard to know whom to believe. When I find Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-Marine Brian Berletic, ex-Marine Scott Ritter, ex-CIA Larry Johnson, ex-CIA Ray McGovern, and internationally renowned economists such as Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sachs on one side all telling me essentially the same thing, I have no trouble figuring out whom to believe, them or the paid propagandists and professional liars, aka politicians, who've been telling me patent lies day in and day out for years now.
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  4007. In order to cover up the much longer history of Western aggression against Russia.
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  4008.  @RSingh100  They've already had their second chance.
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  4009. Little children do evil? Then why did Christ tell us to be like them?
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  4010. Exactly so.
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  4011. Why the scare quotes? A referendum on an issue is THE quintessential definition of rule by the people, of democracy.
    3
  4012. Bertholdt Brecht said it almost a hundred years ago now.
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  4013. ​​@@robertmartin3688Support for the government, Putin specifically, has gone further up as a result of Prigozhin's adventure.
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  4014. The West has just confirmed that it's the realm of sociopaths, but I think it's also kind of despicable of other countries who could be helping Syria to go begging the West to first suspend or end its *illegal" economic war on Syria before they find the courage and the integrity to send in some aid.
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  4015. All?
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  4016. Weeb Union does a very good job of that. Short, objective and to-the-point updates complete with relevant maps. He often does 2-3 such updates a day
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  4017. 🎯👍
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  4018. Tracey sounds mad, demented. It's so hard to fully recover from such abuse. Tony waa lucky that he had such staunch, unflagging support from his friend Maxine. Without her, he may easily have ended up dead at Tracey's hand.
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  4019. Ok. 😅
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  4020. Patriotism is fine and no, it's not "political nationalism".
    3
  4021. I'm not an American, but if I were, I'd make sure to vote just to get Biden out of the White House.
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  4022. ​ @prosvet123  You misinterpreted it. Tricky punctuation.
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  4023. The Duran guys have been doing it superbly well, too. Alexander Mercouris, in particular.
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  4024. The idea that Russia made some deal with Trump, etc. is beyond silly. Russia's winning in Ukraine and has no need for any deals with the US. Bealey is out of her depth here.
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  4025. Hindus are Aryans and have an excellent relationship with Russians.
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  4026. Alexander's looking so incredibly glum today. I hope it's just in reaction to the insane arrogance of the collective West.
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  4027.  @JamesGale1  The State Department. Seriously.
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  4028. Brian's analyzed it at length in a previous video.
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  4029. Where's the Arab world to put a stop to this?!
    3
  4030. ​ @davidlazarus67 Did he really specify that the command centres would be the ones in the US? I don't remember him saying anything about sending nukes onto targets in the US.
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  4031. Focusing on Wuhan alone doesn't account for the research in Spain that found covid-19 in sewage from the Spring of 2019. In many parts of Eastern Europe, physicians were also reporting an unusual form of pneumonia (subsequently associated with covid) as early as the Fall of 2019.
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  4032. BS.
    3
  4033. ​​ @varusnorway I'm an old-fashioned feminist, a socialist and an Orthodox Christian and I, too, share much more common ground with both conservatives, other Christians, and Marxists than with contemporary liberals.
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  4034. A propos Chamberlain: Britain and France had another option available to them which would have prevented Nazi Germany from invading most of Europe. The Soviets had approached both the UK and France with a proposal to form a defense alliance with them, which they turned down. The result was WW2.
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  4035. ​ @dspirea About 86% of the world. You're welcome.
    3
  4036. Yep.
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  4037. The IMF has just announced that the UK's economy will shrink by 0.6% this year, in contrast to Russia's 0.3% growth.
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  4038. There's no need to destroy Odessa's port. The Dardanelles are closed for the duration of the conflict, so Ukraine can't ship anything by sea without Russia's agreement.
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  4039. 😂
    3
  4040. I'm not a fan of Hamas or any Islamist group, but in all fairness, many of the atrocities attributed to Hamas turn out either to be lies or the work of Israeli forces. Just yesterday, for example, I saw an interview in Hebrew (with subtitles in English) with an Israeli woman who had been taken hostage by Hamas and has since been released. She insists that Hamas did NOT target civilians at all. Ske claims, and since she's a Jewish Israeli eyewitness to this I have no reason to doubt her, that the civilians who died were caught in the crossfire and were often victims of IDF fire. That such facts are being suppressed by our MSM reflects the moral degeneracy of our part of the world (I'm in Canada).
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  4041. Tulsi Gabbard would make a fantastic VP. But it's too much to hope that Trump would pick a woman as his running mate.
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  4042.  @terintiaflavius3349  Because a future rump Ukraine cannot be allowed to be anything but neutral, and that will be achieved only by Kiev's unconditional surrender.
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  4043. It can never cease to amaze me how some Russians seem to forget what life in their country was during the 1990s compared to what it is today. Also, Russians should try to have a little bit more of self-respect and stop spitting on their (exceptionally capable) leaders and their country as a whole. Just a suggestion.
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  4044. God bless you and you family! 🙂
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  4045. We all know who's to blame for that.
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  4046. Keep telling yourself that. 😅
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  4047. ​ @ajstyles5704  I bet you that the Russians will be welcomed with open arms in both Karkhov and Odessa. If they decide to take Kiev, too, we'll see some surprising scenes there also.
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  4048. You can find some Georgian wines in Canada: they're excellent.
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  4049. Only if he's paroled. Let's hope they keep denying him parole for decades.
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  4050. I don't know what the young ones do, but when I was dating back in the 1980s and 19090s, we split the bill. The guy may occasionally insist on treating the woman, and that was okay if not done too often. It would normally be linked to an occasion like her birthday, for instance. There were many differences among us women who supported and embraced feminism. Some objected to small gestures of courtesy such as opening the door for a woman, but I could never see anything but well-meant courtesy in that. Some feminists embraced ideas I think absurd and ludicrous (the moral superiority of women, for example), but that was usually in reaction to the psychological abuse of centuries of abuse by our cultures (witness the equally absurd and ludicrous idea of the moral inferiority, moral debility even of women, an idea that lived on in the culture for over 2000 years!). In any case, women in that part of the world achieved formal, legal equality and independence decades before their Western counterparts. The equality of men and women, in law and with sensible provisions for their biological differences, was actively supported by the early Soviets and encouraged by the state (universal access to education for girls and women, for example, was their achievement). As a result, Soviet and Russian women never had to fight our cultural battles or go through what we in the West call the second wave of feminism, the one between roughly 1960 and 2000, and often don't think themselves feminists while they naturally take for granted and continue to benefit from the social and legal legacy of precisely that , i.e. Soviet type of feminism.
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  4051. Possibly. I find the same happening with my comments, too. Very annoying.
    3
  4052. And yet, it didn't and doesn't have to be so. He doesn't mention it here, but Paul Craig Roberts has written about it in his blog. When he asked a friend in the State Department about 10 years ago why the Europeans follow the US so blindly and so obviously against their own interests, Paul Craig Roberts was told that the US has literally bought up the top echelon of the entire European political class. Every month, according to his source at the State Department, the State flies suitcases full of money to various European capitals. And it is well known the the CIA has at least one agent inside every major European media. The former editor of FAZ (Frankfurter Algemeiner Zeitung), perhaps THE key German newspaper, published a book revealing these things the year he died of cancer. Facing certain death, and being childless, he felt safe enough to finally spill the beans. The spread and depth of corruption in the West is unimaginable to regular citizens.
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  4053. He lacks intelligence, period.
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  4054. Grow up. 😂
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  4055. 80,000 volunteers.
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  4056. ​​​ @Aisatsana1971  Sex and gender, as you correctly state, are two different realities. Sex is biological, while gender is cultural. In English (but not necessarily in gendered languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Russian), the pronouns "he" and "she" refer to and denote the sex of the person we're talking about. This is one of the reasons why it's been so important for transgender activists to elide the difference between sex and gender, a rhetorical move that allows them to claim that the pronouns we use for people denote their gender. This is false. As for the claims concerning the brains of people who experience sex dysphoria (even the term gender dysphoria is misleading, a misnomer), whatever differences that may be detected at a certain stage of their lives can rightly be understood in terms of brain plasticity, i.e. they're due to their psychological and thought patterns established over time, and not to any inborn, genetic causes. If the latter were true, the brains of adolescents who experience sex dysphoria but 80% of whom grow out of it by the time they're 20, would still exhibit supposedly trans-specific, inborn morphological differences. They don't. As they move away from thinking of themselves as the sex they aren't, their brain morphology also subtly changes. All talk of sexed brains is pseudo-science at best, and political charlatanry at worst, since we know that human brains exhibit far more intra-sex variability than variability between the brains of the two sexes. Men's brains vary far more among men than they are different from women's brains, and vice versa. There are conclusive research data on this.
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  4057. Macgregor's said nothing of the sort. You're confusing him with someone else.
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  4058. Liberated. 🙂
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  4059. Exactly. And most people watching this are pretending not to understand that, or pretending that everything that happens to people is the result of their choices. Are most Americans that easy to brainwash? Because it sure looks that way, brainwashed into thinking people end up ill, homeless, addicted to drugs or alcohol, mentally ill -- because they chose it, because they "made bad choices"!
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  4060. Yes. 😠
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  4061. The one thing he can never get.
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  4062. He should be apologizing to the people of Ukraine.
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  4063. 😅
    3
  4064. Exactly so.
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  4065. ​​ @Girbie1973  It's stronger today than at any point since the dissolution of the USSR, its economy humming along and overtaking Germany's. It's now the #1 economy in Europe. Poor, weak Russia. 😂
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  4066. And with levels of poverty in Africa and in Cyprus.
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  4067. They've already rejected it.
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  4068. I feel sorry for a nation so deeply deluded and so gullible after all this.
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  4069. Inside Washington, this offensive is being referred to as the Vicky Nuland offensive. Ukraine lost its sovereignty back in 2014.
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  4070. Correct.
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  4071. The US has a force of 1,000 men in Niger as is.
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  4072. He knew what he was doing to his own brother.
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  4073. ​ @Србомбоница86  Ima ih, nazalost, pogotovo u Beogradu.
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  4074. They didn't recapture it, either. Just walked in AFTER the RF forces (and 2/3rds of the residents) had left.
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  4075. ​@Blair-e7h 😂
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  4076. ​@@robertmartin3688You're such a barrel of laughs! 😂
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  4077. Why are you lying? The majority of Greeks support Russia.
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  4078. Sounds like you, her family, neglected her for a long time and stepped in only when you were about to lose out on her inheritance.
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  4079. It got really, really nasty in 2014 and has never let up.
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  4080. 😂❤️
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  4081. That's why G7 media are blacking out the summit.
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  4082. ​@tomcurran8470 Gogol spoke and wrote in Russian and considered himself a Russian.
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  4083.  @JLSMaytham  It's happening as we speak. On the advice of Gen. Surovikin, Shoigu has ordered the pull-out of all Russian troops from Kherson city and to the eastern/left side of Dnieper.
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  4084. Ne anche mio.
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  4085. I can see videos of what's already happening there, and it's sheer horror.
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  4086. Well, none of those countries is committing genocide as we pontificate here.
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  4087. Ukraine has no economy. Since the start of the SMO, and according to the Western-dominated IMF and the World Bank, the Russian economy has first displaced Germany's to become the #1 economy in Europe, and more recently, displaced Japan to become the #4 globally.
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  4088. As a single person, I bought a townhouse duplex in this mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada some 23 years ago. Today, I'd never even qualify for mortgage on my college professor salary. We now have a report from our security services advising our federal government to expect social unrest over the next 5-10 years as most young Canadians will never manage to own a home from now on. I see the situation seems to be the same in the US.
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  4089. "And then, it will declare us a terrorist state, after which we'll become the next Chechnya."
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  4090. ​​ @hauntedshadowslegacy2826  It's terrible that people have been and still are shamed or called to task for stimming, being hyperfocused, fidgeting, etc. That's just insensitive and cruel. I understand now why the word "normal" would have strong negative associations for anyone on whom it was used as a cudgel to beat into "normalcy" with. Thank you for having the patience to explain these things to us so calmly and graciously. I'll leave my previous comment standing because it records the thinking I started with, as this comment records the shift in my thinking in response to your explanations and your kindness in not getting angry with those of us who've been rather insensitive towards you. I get it now and will be using neurodivergent and neurotypical in future. God bless.
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  4091. That's exactly how it is: 85% of humanity is watching this and shaking their heads in a unanimous NO. No, we don't want a world dominated by the West any more.
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  4092. Why are they restricting the use of the new currency to Asian and BRICS countries alone? Why not open it for use all across the world?
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  4093. This channel deserves a much wider audience!
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  4094. 😢
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  4095. I thought he said the problem was all sorted out last week.
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  4096. Roughly 10 out of those initial 30-32 million left Ukraine in February 2022.
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  4097. No country involved in territorial disputes qualifies for NATO membership.
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  4098. If sabotaging their energy supply is not enough to make the Germans wake up and realize that the US is NOT their friend, I doubt anything will. Sometimes whole nations develop neurotic positions, just as individuals do, and can't snap out of them no matter what.
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  4099. Ukraine's had a huge problem from the very start: it chose to fight Russia.
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  4100. ​ @danielgriffith8911  It's there now. Just watched it.
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  4101. ​ @geograexperts1554  Not quite. I visited Sri Lanka in 2021 and got mugged in Mirissa. The police had video tapes of the area and did absolutely nothing to find and arrest the thieves while playing nice with me. Then, on leaving the country, I discovered I couldn't exchange the Sri Lanka rupees back to a Western currency, which cost me several hundred dollars. I met many very nice people in Sri Lanka, and the country is very beautiful, but the security situation for tourists is not good. Btw, the locals themselves told me that such muggings have become relatively common over the last decade.
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  4102. Don't be silly. Ukraine's finished.
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  4103. ​ @scottn1405  I can only hope so, but it seems to me that as long as Europeans are shackled by the EU, no change is possible.
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  4104. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  4105.  @MegaRafaelloco  And the same holds for men.
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  4106. Check the comments yourself and you'll find the answer in one of them.
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  4107. Objective reporting in this proxy war died on Day 1.
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  4108.  @magicroundabout5081  Just the major ones: 1. Withdrawing from Kiev as a good-will gesture for which there was no ground whatsoever 2. Failing to press ahead hard as soon as the Zelensky regime pulled out of the negotiations in Istanbul last April 3. Going into Ukraine with a ridiculously small number of troops in the first place 4. Letting the SMO basically run itself, with no overall, unified command until now (even now, the Wagner Group forces and the Chechens are doing their own thing and have still not been subsumed under Gen. Surovikin's command) 5. Wasting the whole summer dithering around (Putin refused to authorize a partial mobilization in June, although his General Staff had argued strongly for it) 6. Failing to destroy the Ukrainian railway system, which is being used to transport NATO weapons and munitions to the front lines A totally shambolic approach, due mainly to Putin's unaccountable softness.
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  4109. ​ @mahannaidu5228  No country that imposes sanctions on a BRICS member is allowed to join. That rules out all EU states except Hungary.
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  4110. Didn't occur to me, but it's a possibility.
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  4111. ​ @RAndrewKReed Oh sweetie, don't let it upset you so! 😂
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  4112. Nobody's forcing you to watch.
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  4113. What's wrong with the Dutch?
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  4114. An old excuse.
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  4115. I'm afraid not yet.
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  4116. This is becoming grotesque. The funny part is how these bozos can't even see it.
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  4117.  @studiobauhaus7740  Lenin, I think.
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  4118. 😂
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  4119. Evil, not mad.
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  4120. It never was about Ukraine itself.
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  4121. No, she can't, but that's no reason not to vote for her, as I'll be doing.
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  4122. ​ @daveyjuice7710  I think that land offer programme is still ongoing.
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  4123. There's no maybe about it. Amnesty International determined this to be the case some 6 months ago!
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  4124. 😂
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  4125. The Europeans will have to rein the Poles in if they want to avoid a continent-wide war with Russia, which Russia will definitely win. At a huge price, no doubt, but one much higher on their than on Russia's side. The use of chemical weapons is just one of the forms of nastiness Russian forces can expect from the losing Nazi side. I'm beginning to think that Ukraine doesn't deserve to exist, but then I remember that Ukrainians were deceived into electing this criminal government with promises of Minsk 2 and a renewed friendship with Russia. A people betrayed by their own nationalists and the collective West as a whole.
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  4126. Ever heard of boys and their toys? 😜
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  4127. Yes, and 37% in the second, more than either of the other two parties/coalitions.
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  4128. Absolutely not. Odessa is too beautiful and historically important Russian city to be destroyed.
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  4129. Lazarus was revived, not resurrected. Btw, where does that legend come from, about Lazarus moving to Cyprus and dying there?
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  4130. Almost, right. 😉
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  4131. Nazis will be Nazis. At least now the whole world knows who's who and what's what
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  4132. Why is womanhood alone up for grabs? How come manhood is not being contested by trans people and trans activists, as well as their allies? Btw, as a lifelong feminist and socialist, I diverge significantly from Matt Walsh on matters political, or at least on a good number of them. But I deeply admire his critique of trans ideology and trans activism, his intelligence, eloquence, his seriousness and his palpable decency. Matt Walsh is a mensch. I'm grateful to him for standing up for us women!
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  4133. That's exactly what the footage the BBC and others are showing suggests.
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  4134. ​ @shuttze Russia achieved its biggest revenue surplus ever in 2022. The IMF expects its economy to grow 2.4% this year, while the economies of Germany and the UK continue to shrink.
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  4135. No. It has equally powerful conventional hypersonic missiles that can the job equally well, with no fallout whose spread nobody can control.
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  4136. So?
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  4137. I found the whole thing riveting. The 2 hours just flew by.
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  4138. What's wrong with supporting Iran?
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  4139. I'd love to see more of everything you listed! 🙂
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  4140. When did Putin say that Russia has no borders? 😂
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  4141. ​ @Sleepy_Holl0w  That's way too simplistic. Sure gets a lot of people off the hook, to.
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  4142. ​ @jbhk7977 Sorry, but it's we who elected those people. And let's not forget that all of them, the Liberals, the NDP and the Conservatives have a standing ovation to an SS member! I'm sick of our do-gooder hypocrisy and our complacence, which we use to cover up the truth about ourselves!
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  4143. Historians have known this for half a century now.
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  4144. 🤣
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  4145. ​ @tomb9625 I don't deny it. I also don't deny or pretend not to see that evil is being done to Palestinians on Palestinian land every day. Every day, for the past century.
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  4146. ​ @dennisreed6345  If Russia's to make itself dependent on China for consumer goods, there has to be some balance in the relationship: China will have to depend on Russia for its military technology.
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  4147. A brigadier general with a wicked sense of humour. 😅
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  4148. He did, in a brilliant reaction statement that all the MSM are studiously blanking out. I saw it in n a video by Col. Davis, I think.
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  4149. When you state a fact, you're not making a mere claim. Macgregor's first statement is a fact; the second statement is based on information we can't presently assess and deserves to be described as a claim.
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  4150. Exactly.
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  4151.  @StofStuiver  There's nothing shocking in that. That people always and invariably choose what is beneficial to them is just a liberal/libertarian myth . People can and do choose what is harmful to them for many reasons: they can be deluded, mistaken, misled, etc. Being messed up psychologically is well known to be one of the key reasons why people choose what damages them and may even destroy them. This is an incontrovertible fact of actual human experience, of human reality.
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  4152. We can only hope.
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  4153. Ukraine's already rejected Moscow's latest peace proposal.
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  4154. Another 5-10 years. That's when our intelligence services here in Canada expect serious social unrest to break out due to plummeting living standards and growing poverty especially among the young.
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  4155. Nuland's retired from the State Department once before, so her current retirement doesn't mean she won't be back yet again. She was passed over for promotion just a few weeks ago and is probably furious about it. Hence this second "retirement".
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  4156. ​ @nxs6musique140  Seems to have been. Not the first time Prigozhin lied about things.
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  4157. Kursk was a blunder born of desperation. Ukraine (and NATO) lost the war the moment Putin finally agreed to a round of conscription back in September 2022. From that point on, it was always just a matter of time since the Russians chose to go for a war of attrition
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  4158.  @Ken-ol2kx  And we all look the same to them. 😅
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  4159. Which Western countries were ever colonized by a non-Western power? Cite just one if you can.
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  4160. Have a look at a map of Russia, by far the largest country on Earth. Then study the climate zones across the Russian Federation. Most of that vast, vast land is frozen solid for 6-9 months a year. In such conditions, the infrastructure needed for a sewage system and water pipes simply cannot be laid down. Interesting how those who babble about indoor plumbing in the Russian countryside never mention any of this, no?
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  4161.  @akol_YT  Ditto in Norway.
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  4162. 100% so.
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  4163. This channel deserves a million subscribers!
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  4164. Too many people are taking your excellent elucidation of some of the facts the woke (and the conservatives as well as the liberals before them) routinely suppress as a vindication of colonialism. Be careful about pandering to the type who'll say the Nazis couldn't have been so bad because there were Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht.
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  4165. Same here.
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  4166. You don't put your enemies in key policy positions.
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  4167. ​ @JaneFleesTexas Oh it is. Matt Walsh is a remarkably reasonable, articulate, fearless, and compassionate man. As a feminist and a socialist, I don't agree with all of his views, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover just how decent and thoughtful Walsh is by watching a number of his DW videos.
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  4168. How horrible and how disgustingly twisted. It's terrible that so many young people didn't have the strength of character to resist the manipulation and leave immediately as you did. Kudos to you.
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  4169. ​ @ChrisRedfieldNY  Is RT hiding under your bed, too, eh? 😅
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  4170. I don't know the exact figure, but I've seen reports that Zelensky has instructed the Army NOT to accept more than 500 bodies a day from the Russian side. This suggests that Ukraine's been losing more than that on a daily basis.
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  4171. I listen to Brian's sober, factually based analysis and want to tear my hair out at Lavrov's giddyness in Rhyad. He's all but calling Americans "our partners" all over again. “I believe the discussions were highly productive,” Lavrov said, adding, “Not only did we listen, but we genuinely heard each other.” He further stated that he had reason to believe the American side “now has a clearer understanding of Russia’s position,” as it had been “thoroughly detailed” using specific examples drawn from President Putin’s numerous statements." I can only hope he means: the Americans have finally understood what's non-negotiable for us.
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  4172. *shat (past tense and past participle of the verb to shit)
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  4173. ​ @luisnunes3863 I believe there are US troops in Saudi Arabia too.
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  4174. 😅
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  4175. You let them in, then you destroy them. Simples.
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  4176. German politicians' words are worth nothing. Merkel, and her failure to get Ukraine to implement the Minsk Accords, as well as her failure to protect Nord Stream 2 and get it up and running before she left office, have not been lost of the Chinese. As Xi pointedly emphasized, political trust, once lost, is hard to regain. In other words, you must be delusional, Herr Scholz, if you imagine we're going to trust Germany on anything!
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  4177. The BRICS nations are doing it. It's not that complicated.
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  4178. ​ @YoreHistory Yes, I don't believe the boy. He told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. Finally, doctors who assessed him before trial said that at 6 years old, he was developmentally at the stage of a 4 and a half year old, an age at which children confabulate a lot.
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  4179. 🎯
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  4180. Why? It's admirable.
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  4181. ​ @michaelkatz275  And yet, oddly enough, the Russian economy now stands #4 globally, having displaced both Germany (first, in 2023) and now also Japan (in 2024). Source: the World Bank
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  4182. ​ @Go4Broke247 You could, if you wanted to. Launch a Second American Revolution.
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  4183. Option #3 would be the least painful for everyone involved.
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  4184. I no longer believe that it's possible to reform the US. As an old leftist, I welcome the future dissolution of the US into a number of smaller states, none of which will be capable of establishing an empire ever again.
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  4185. Odlično.
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  4186. It's already doing so. Mariupol looks amazing these days!
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  4187. I'm heartened by the fact that every few days Pentagon comes out with a statement that it cannot confirm the latest wild propaganda claim being made in Western media. The generals who spout nonsense on US TV networks are well paid to keep reassuring the public that Russia's weak, its forces poorly equipped, etc. and have no concerns about how such palpable lies will affect their careers as the American public has the attention span of a hummingbird and will just move on to whatever the media serve them next. And while this is going on in public, the solid professionals in the Pentagon are busy trying to convince the Kiev regime to pull it's forces out of Donbass (something they've been recommending for the past two weeks, minimum) and are being ignored by Zelensky and his Nazi goons. For which lunacy on their part, I thank God.
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  4188. These are not people one can negotiate with.
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  4189. ​ @PassivePortfolios  They offered to revamp his army, and Assad refused the offer. Tragically, as an Arab, Assad was deceived and played by his Arab neighbours, who armed and financed the forces against him. The Americans starved his country of its sources of income by invading and illegally occupying Syria's oil fields and forcing sanctions on the country. And so Syria fell.
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  4190. Why not impose a naval blockade of Odessa? Especially now, when everyone but the collective West knows that the shipments of grain from Odessa have overwhelmingly gone to the wealthy countries of the EU, and not to the countries actually facing existentially threatening food shortages.
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  4191. He understands that alright. He just lies 24/7.
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  4192. Invariably.
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  4193. From primary school level all the way to graduate school.
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  4194. Check again. They're all there.
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  4195. Definitely (rather than likely).
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  4196. You worry for Europe? You, plural, shouldn't have destroyed the key element of its energy infrastructure and forced it to forego inexpensive Russian gas for US LNG, sold to Europe at 3 to 4 times the price in the US.
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  4197. No, of course not.
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  4198. He's looking very handsome these days.
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  4199. One can only hope.
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  4200. To ANY American president, actually.
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  4201. Cui bono.
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  4202. 😂
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  4203. I hope he manages to explain to the Serbian leadership that it's to Serbia's advantage to join the BRICS+.
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  4204. 😂
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  4205. 😂
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  4206. In your part of the world, yes.
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  4207. Indirectly, yes, but I don't believe that's what Russia's thinking about.
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  4208. Good for Russia. They've been way too patient and too kind towards the dastardly West.
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  4209. Nobody does it better than Brian!
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  4210. He's not mocking the workers but the economy and those who turned it into a financialized service economy.
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  4211. No doctor and nurse may be forced to perform acts which go against their conscience. Assisted suicide also just happens to be prohibited by the Hippocratic Oath itself.
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  4212. But never on Israel.
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  4213. ​​​ @TokyoXtreme  You've just demonstrated your ignorance of history.
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  4214. Deliberately, 100%.
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  4215. You're overestimating the ability of the US MIC AND the ability of the economies of the collective West to cope with the actual needs of a war of attrition. Just as you're completely ignoring the stupendous, literally unmatched amount of corruption inside NATO, the US military, and the MIC itself. Russia's problem is not so much incompetence and corruption within its army, as the lack of the political will on Putin's side to unleash the army on Ukraine. Things would never have come to this pass had Putin listened to his General Staff back in June and called a partial mobilization then -- something they'd urged on him, but he refused to do, still imagining his softly-softly appeasement approach would bear fruit. I can only hope that Putin's now agreed to step aside and let the Army do what the General Staff decides is best, as Andrei just said is the case. Time will tell.
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  4216. Thank you for your bravery and your tireless work! God bless you, Patrick!
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  4217. It won't be another single power. That paradigm is over. What's replacing it is multipolarity, and that's already in the works. We're at least half way there.
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  4218. He asked for them back in January 2021. That and the huge amassing of Ukrainian forces just outside Donbass is what was the last straw for the Russians.
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  4219. As ever.
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  4220. Yep. The same thing they share with Jesus and Einstein.
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  4221. ​ @RobHel  Yes. In WW2. This is a historically well established fact. "According to Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg, thousands of full Jews and more than a hundred-thousand part-Jews joined the military of the Third Reich.". The Tablet
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  4222. Both affect your day-to-day life enormously, though it's only petty corruption that does so visibly.
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  4223. They also gave it to Mother Theresa, who never did anything for peace.
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  4224. ​ @noyou404 Yes, a small minority. The lands and the people were historically Russian, and there have always been only a few self-identified Ukrainians there.
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  4225. ​ @aquilarossa5191  Exactly. These facts are silently covered over in the West and never acknowledged in Eastern Europe.
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  4226. Oh, please! Grow up and pay attention. 😅
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  4227. Be careful in assuming that you can coexist and cooperate with the US and the EU. You really should have learned better by now.
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  4228.  @williamnicholson8133  You're making a fool of yourself.
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  4229. Asking for permission from Uncle Sam signifies independence and sovereignty?! 😅
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  4230. I know. And a bad one at that.
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  4231.  @samnass  Thanks. I didn't know that.
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  4232. In short, the Tiger turned out to be inferior for the job it needed to do.
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  4233. Hvala vam, sestre i braco iz Rusije!
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  4234. Her eyes are dead.
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  4235. This is pure corruption, nothing to do with being stupid.
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  4236. You have only yourselves to blame. Ethnic hatred comes at a price.
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  4237. 93% wolf = wolf
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  4238. Thanks for that update. It simply reassures me that any compassion one might be tempted to extend to that lot of obedient conformists would be utterly undeserved. Germans deserve everything this lot is bringing to them.
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  4239. I would suggest reading Scott Ritter's two-part article from April 2022 analysing the Russian SMO in the light of international law. I think it's published by Consortium News.
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  4240. ​ @brkctrl  Except that it's perfectly possible to re-member but by bit, in a totally calm, safe environment and over a few hours to a couple of days, the details of a traumatic event. I don't think the daughter ever allowed herself to go through such a process, with a firm, unwavering determination to recover the truth of what she saw, regardless of the consequences. She betrayed her mother in choosing to remain in denial about her dad.
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  4241. What total BS! 😂
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  4242. I can't find that segment of the show! I'd love to see what Jimmy Dore aired on this today.
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  4243. Golda Meir was born in Ukraine. The pogroms she might have been remembering were committed by the same Ukrainians who in WW2 sided with Nazi Germany and who helped Germans kill over 100,000 Jews in Kiev alone. Today, the street through which those poor people were matched and dragged to the execution grounds bears the name of the notorious Nazi Collaborator Stepan Bandera. The execution grounds have been paved over and there's nothing there to commemorate the dead. Even when it came to her memories, Golda Meir couldn't and shouldn't be trusted.
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  4244. Yes, they are -- to remove the civilians from the areas Ukrainian forces keep on shelling. Once the city's been cleared of civilians, the Russian army will be able to deal with the Ukrainian forces without risk to civilian lives.
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  4245. Russell was in effect torturing his younger brother, repeatedly waking him up in the middle of the night, depriving him of sleep. The kid needs therapy as he's well on his way to becoming a young sadist in his own right.
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  4246. It's irrelevant.
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  4247. And there I was, planning on spending my winters in Cyprus. Goodbye to that now. 😢
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  4248. I've had precognitive dreams, too -- several, in fact. But never a warning dream. That came from God, via your guardian angel.
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  4249. Hillary Clinton has just endorsed Meloni, which makes me wonder about the latter.
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  4250. It would take Europe 10 years and massive social unrest to put together a trained army -- and the Russian nuclear doctrine allows for first use of nuclear weapons should Russia be faced with a numerically overwhelming enemy. Which makes the whole idea of Europe fighting Russia a non-starter.
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  4251. Keep safe and stay strong! I continue to pray that you, too, will be liberated soon! ❤
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  4252. ​ @amo29812  Those are the internalised voices of one's family and, more broadly, the culture at large.
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  4253. ​ @vlads7774  Says someone living in THE war-monger and repeat invader par excellence! 😂
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  4254. One can only hope.
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  4255.  @danieljoseph4625  Ukraine started with well over 1,000 tanks of its own. In the meantime, it's already received several hundred tanks from East European NATO members. These new deliveries seem purely symbolic.
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  4256. ​ @jeffreyhutchins6527  The 1920s. Read some Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe.
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  4257. And then he learned facts that made him change his mind. That's what intelligent people who aren't slaves to their egos do
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  4258. Empires can take centuries to die.
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  4259. To begin with, the ship was not destroyed. Secondly, the ship has been out of commission since last year, when it was damaged -- why the Ukrainians chose to waste some more long-range missiles on it is anyone's guess.
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  4260. A Christmas truce is entirely in the tradition and according to the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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  4261. I'd like to know more how this was financed. It's a beautiful transformation of a previously drab, depressing urban scape.
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  4262. ​ @geminiwoman0 Every one of them is.
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  4263. The US had solid intelligence in the weeks preceding its decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the Japanese were on the point of surrendering.
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  4264. ​ @tinasvensson5295 😂
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  4265. As Gilbert Doctorow explained on Judge Napoletano's channel yesterday, Putin's new military alliance with North Korea has saved the world.
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  4266. That's brilliant!
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  4267. ​ @katrinweigel3796  People get the leaders they deserve.
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  4268. A Russian official said just today that he expects the war to go on for another three years. The Russians don't want to crush Ukraine and finish the whole thing in one fell swoop, so it's really up to the Kiev gang how long they want to prolong this agony.
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  4269. UK's.
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  4270. ​ @foxyelen1203 Erdogan is nothing like Atatürk, one of the truly great statesmen of the 20th century.
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  4271. It's possible?! No, it's certain.
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  4272. They're paid by the State Department to do Washington's will. I mean, literally paid in cash from the dozens of suitcases the State Department flies to various EU capitals every month. As Paul Craig Roberts, undersecretary for commerce in the Reagan administration, says he learned from his source at the State.
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  4273. ​ @bozo5632  The US public is responsible for what the people they elect to represent them do in their name.
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  4274. Brian, you're attracting quite a few Ukrobots these days. The order must have come to pepper your comments stream with their bs.
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  4275. Not.
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  4276. Poroshenko had admitted it several months before her. And François Hollande has admitted it, too.
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  4277. Good God! American fundies are on par with Kali worshippers, say.
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  4278. ​ @50_Pence Sarcasm, I hope.
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  4279. I fervently hope so.
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  4280. ​ @frankpeter6851 In the context of reporting it as a violation of their rights to freedom of speech, duh.
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  4281. That's literally part of the definition of what a state is for: the state has monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. It's a principle endorsed by every form of political thought save anarchism that there is.
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  4282. That's just silly. Or deliberately disingenuous since we all know how differently the two armies operate. When you have to ignore or actively deny what even Ukrainian high officials are admitting, and then expect people not to notice it, one simply has to chuckle a little at the attempted sleight of hand you just failed to pull.
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  4283. A great review of what led to this war. May I just point out that the deal breaker for Yanukovich was the economic ultimatum the EU had smuggled into its 600-page association agreement, requiring of Ukraine to give up trading relations with the Eurasian Economic Union founded by Russia. This was in direct violation of Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum, something the drafters of that agreement must have known and a deliberate attempt to separate Ukraine from Russia. It was in fact Moscow who alerted Yanukovich to this clause in the association agreement, an ultimatum Ukraine should have rejected out of hand, in fact. A few months later, in March of 2014, just weeks after Yanukovich had been ousted in a bloody coup d'état, Christine La Garde, then head of the IMF, stated publicly that the only thing which had kept Ukraine afloat economically since 1992 was Russian largesse (to the tune of 200 billion dollars of grants and direct transfers).
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  4284. 😂
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  4285. ​ @TheNemorosa  😂
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  4286. Sorry, Slavoj, but just because you cannot conceive of something being real and true doesn't mean anything beyond your inability to do so. Btw, I have considerable sympathy for your position because I used to think very much as you do.
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  4287.  @marinkovacevic8732  With what soldiers will Ukraine fight?
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  4288. He was pumped up with a cocktail of drugs.
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  4289. In English, we capitalize only the first word in a sentence, the pronoun I (symptomatic of Anglo narcissism), and proper nouns like names. 🙂
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  4290. ​@@DallasTexas-et8wzOr Kiev. Or London. Or Paris. Or Berlin. New York's also big enough to qualify. 😜
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  4291. They don't read anything any longer.
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  4292. And a UK passport, too. Courtesy of Boris Johnson.
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  4293. Even if they got the 300 tanks Zaluzhny asked for a few weeks ago, Ukrainians could not defeat the Russians. Any idea that they might was nonsense from the get go. That's why egging Ukraine on to provoke and fight Russia was a cynical, massively callous thing all along. Ukraine could not only have avoided all this death and destruction and its loss of its most productive, economically key regions but could have put itself on the path of prosperity if it had chosen neutrality, implemented the Minsk Accords and resumed its previously friendly relations with Russia.
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  4294. ​ @ericjohnson7234  Bogdan's in the grip of irrational passions and will never grasp or acknowledge any of that.
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  4295. Oh yes, they can. I hope they'll fail, but it'd be foolish to bank on it.
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  4296. No. Only the bits that cast him in a good light.
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  4297. I think you just made that up. For obvious reasons. I've never heard him praise US soldiers, only the Marines.
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  4298. That's what multipolarity is all about. No more global hegemons and no more imperialism, in any of its forms.
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  4299. They could send in their own forces, but then, they could do so now, so ....
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  4300. Why the world? We have nothing to do with this caricature of a human being!
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  4301. ​ @tonir6532  No, he isn't. Croatian Nazi collaborators did their deeds with the full approval of the Catholic church in Croatia -- deeds so barbarous and horrific and German SS officers stationed in Croatia wrote cables of concern about it to Berlin.
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  4302. No problem. Just contact the Russian Embassy (or Consulate) and take it from there.
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  4303. Yes: all those who enabled such things should be facing criminal charges because what they did to those women was indeed criminal.
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  4304. What did you expect of someone whose entire first campaign consisted of the "Hope and Change" slogan?
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  4305. ​ @MrWebster 😠
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  4306.  @jasonmiller5369  It's reassuring to learn that I'm not the only one who's noticed it.
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  4307. Russia offered to open a military base in Serbia a year ago. The Serbian government rejected the offer and Serbs just let it go.
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  4308. ​ NikolaJokerMVP15  You really are a joker. Romania is a NATO member and will never allow Russian troops to cross its territory to get to Serbia.
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  4309. ​ @AnthonyKypros  Don't lie! Armenia -- its leader -- declared that Nagorno-Karabakh is a part of Azerbaijan.
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  4310. 😂
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  4311. ​ @Milan1096  Has to be a little less than that since the collective West itself makes up only 14% of the global population, and that includes the non-whites in the US, Canada and all across the EU.
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  4312. The worst international airport I've ever used. And that's including 4 continents.
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  4313. Brecht's central image or metaphor for them was that of a gang of gangsters. 100% right.
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  4314. What a joke. This is what DW calls journalism?!
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  4315. Hewing Enterprise Agree entirely.  The task is enormous, but there must be -- there are -- millions of us who are gathering the knowledge, who are willing to face it, and who refuse to be slaughtered without protest or resistance or even outright rebellion. 
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  4316. Some of the stuff the MSM here in the West won't show us.  Thank you, Vice News.
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  4317. Twice during the interview, the camera shows a photo of Vladimir Putin hanging on a wall.  The photo doesn't appear in any of the shots showing the either Zakharchenko or Ostrovsky, the interviewer.   It first appears spliced into the video immediately following a shot of the artwork hanging on the wall right behind Zakharchenko.  The next shot is of a photo of Putin -- which appears once more, late in the interview, but again without any visual placement inside that room itself.  Where was that shot taken, and why did Vice choose to insert it into the interview video?
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  4318. Shutuz Most of the propaganda in the US+EU is dished out by the private MSM -- which, by definition, present the views their owners and advertising corporate clients want the public to have.  Unless you make an effort to follow alternative news outlets in North American, where I Iive, you'll end up believing Russia actually invaded Crimea, for instance -- when, in reality, nothing of the sort ever took place. 
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  4319. inka9 I'm not Russian.  If I were, given my name, I'd be a guy -- which, I think evidently, I'm not....
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  4320. Unlimited? I doubt it. China is simply smart to resist provocations.
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  4321. Exactly. And we're not even close to that at present.
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  4322. But the EU's been telling us for months that we don't need and don't want Russian oil and gas! What's changed now that even Siemens has confirmed that tourbine is leaking and can't be operated safely, so NordStream 1 has to cease operations at this time?
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  4323. I knew of and had read Pearl Buck, André Gide and Herman Hesse, but the others are new to me.
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  4324. This was done by Cambodia, not Malaysia!
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  4325. ❤❤❤
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  4326. If so, is the UK Parliament likely not to approve it?
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  4327. ​ @dwarslaeven4035  You're hallucinating.
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  4328. 🎯👍
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  4329. Could it be that Poland's getting ready for a "coalition of the willing" that would go into Ukraine under US leadership?
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  4330. Clayton and Natalie Morris read out the whole list of countries (about a dozen) that make up that + in OPEC+ just yesterday.
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  4331. The USA has been an aggressor nation almost since its inception. Just have a loot at what they did to various countries in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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  4332. How come the world's population has tripled over the past 80 years? 😂
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  4333. Yes! A dead give-away.
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  4334. 😂
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  4335. They were ordered to stand and fight while Zelensky's on his begging visit in the States.
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  4336. I think History Legends and Hindustani Times have already posted visual evidence of this. I saw it a few days ago. It's extraordinary how some people still think if Western media haven't reported it, it hasn't happened.
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  4337. Each one of them has about half the books in my library.
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  4338. Frankenstein was the creator of the monster. The EU is Frankenstein, and Ukraine its monster.
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  4339. So, according to the presenter, the issue is whether these 13 Russians tried to influence the outcome of the US presidential election. Why is that a crime? And, why is it fine for the USA to go around the world interfering like crazy in other nations' internal affairs, demanding "regime change" in various countries, staging coup d'etats in South America and now even in Europe (e.g. Ukraine) -- but it's not fine for other countries to attempt to influence US politics?! Talk about hypocrisy and double standards. Look to yourself first, America!
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  4340. Biden didn't pardon Assange either, so there's that. As for Trump, he got talked out of pardoning him -- Trump is weak and easily manipulated by Washington insiders, alas. And, like all other politicians, he's lacking in that old fashioned thing called integrity.
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  4341. No, the Bible says no such thing. Christ himself tells us that he will judge us according to our works. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, “I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” (NIV)
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  4342.  @Thomas...191  Use your own head. I watched the video 8 days ago and have no intention of watching it again.
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  4343. But it's so much more fashionable to be scared of Russians! 😉
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  4344. ​ @MFK1967 😅
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  4345. No doubt about it It. He has not one but two portraits of Bandera and one of another Nazi collaborator in his office.
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  4346. Putin's not giving Lvov to Poland. Russia simply isn't interested in western Ukraine.
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  4347. 😂
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  4348. That's it, in a nutshell.
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  4349. Very rare these days.
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  4350. 😂
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  4351. Good God! 31 hours to go from anywhere in Germany to anywhere in the Netherlands?! That's worse than a Third World standard! 😮
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  4352. Repression. I think that's what it is.
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  4353. ​ @joman563  And we learned from NYT and WaPo that the Ukrainians suffered between 3:1 and 10:1 losses in trying to defend and losing Bakhmut. At a minimum, they lost 60,000 men there.
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  4354. It's also aesthetically pleasing. I had to teach myself highschool level mathematics because I'd switched to a school system in a language I didn't know and was just beginning to learn, so I couldn't for the life of me follow the math teacher who just mumbled things into the blackboard at 100 miles an hour, and was amazed at how satisfying it was to figure out math by myself. I've always been predominantly verbal, so it blew my mind to discover that a theorem can be just as beautiful as a Shakespearean sonnet!
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  4355. I don't see how Russia can prevent it except by carefully tracking British supplies and destroying them the moment they cross the border into Ukraine.
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  4356. That's already being done. Saudi Arabia's decision to accept the RMB/yuan for oil is an example of that, as are the use of local currencies in India-Russia trade.
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  4357. Without doubt.
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  4358. @Appleby That's not even funny. There's a whole encampment of homeless people in my neighborhood park in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. If you need to see a medical specialist, and are referred to one, you'll be immensely, uncommonly lucky to see him/her 3 months down the road. The usual waiting time is 9-12 months, time enough to die due to lack of treatment. When a prominent public intellectual in Canada falls seriously ill, and after seeking treatment both here in Canada, and in the USA, only to have the doctors in North America bring him to death's door, he goes to Russia, whose medical specialists save his life and put him back on the road to full recovery. In June of this year, 27% of Brits reported having to skip meals as they could no longer afford having 3 meals a day. By late October, that number has risen to 50%. If asked, I suspect Russians would tell us they're relieved not to have such realities in their country.
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  4359. Ex-Wagnerites incorporated back into regular RF army units.
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  4360. This comment will not age well.
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  4361. ​ @Fluke2SS  And yet an AI drove a man in Europe to suicide. Advised a depressed guy to kill himself and impressed on him the idea that suicide is absolutely the best solution to his predicament.
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  4362.  @andrewschneider2121  Where do you live?
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  4363. There's still time for Germans to reject this insanity and turn things around. They seem to be hobbled by their apparently inborn submissiveness to "authority", though
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  4364. More likely a US biolab or an organ-harvesting operation.
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  4365. This needs to stop. F*ck the US and EU and f*ck Zelensky -- callous greedy monsters sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men to die for the greater glory of the f*cking American Empire and its insane lust for power! (Excuse my language, but the West are the true barbarians. May the world be free of them soon!)
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  4366. He's just evil. Through and through.
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  4367. 😂
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  4368. I'm so glad I'm moving out of North America in 2023.
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  4369. ​ @cb3514  Nothing to do with Chinese law. It's the US laws that prevent her Chinese grandparents from having full custody. It's inherently unfair and to the clear detriment of the child. 😢
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  4370. Exactly!
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  4371. What's funny about that?
    2
  4372. Cohesive or not, is totally irrelevant. This was an act of international terrorism done by or on behalf of the USA. I see it as an opportunistic act of revanchism organized by the ethnic group that runs the State Department and US foreign policy, people who would (kind of understandably) love to see Germany and all of Europe go down for what it did to them in recent history. When Blinken says that this act of terrorism is not in anyone's interest, he's lying and covering up the tracks that lead back to the State Department.
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  4373. How can you be angry that someone doesn't click with you and isn't interested in having a relationship with you?! Disappointed and sad, yes, but angry?! Definitely a red flag. You should ask your doctor to refer you to a psychiatrist.
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  4374. Fortunately, the law disagrees with you, so people don't get stiffed.
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  4375. We call that the sea in Europe. The Mediterranean Sea. 🙂
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  4376. He wasn't going on 6 holidays -- he was there as a journalist.
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  4377. ​ @wedgeantilles8575  200,000 😂
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  4378.  @mezjean5966  The US can't even get enough men to sign up as is. It's had to lower the basic educational requirements for joining the army and STILL can't get enough people to fill the ranks. The American military's in a woeful state.
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  4379. 😘
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  4380. So how would you translate "Grozny", then?
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  4381. On your last point: I'm a Christian and I don't automatically trust my fellow Christians to be able or willing to distinguish between the ethical and the unethical parts of the Bible for the simple reason that many Christians still believe in the inerrancy of the Biblical text. Just like Muslims, most of whom would outright reject any independent ethical assessment of the Qur'an, a great many Christians cannot bring themselves to read the Bible critically.
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  4382. No more unilateral, illegal sanctions!
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  4383. Why despair? Just shave off what's left and sport this cool look, like Varoufakis.
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  4384. It's positively criminal
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  4385. Why? Who set that schedule, pray?
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  4386. The US is directly responsible for this entire sorry mess in Europe. It engineered and paid for the coup in 2014. It collaborated with Ukrainian Banderites. It put its own man in power in Kiev in 2014. It then went on to train and arm Ukraine, explicitly demanding that it provoke and fight a war with Russia as the condition of its eventual membership in NATO (as Arestovich revealed in a 2019 TV interview). It dispatched Boris Johnson to Kiev to scare Zelensky off the Istanbul peace deal. It kept telling Kiev it would support Ukraine to the last Ukrainian. It placed hundreds of sanctions on Russia in the hope of weakening it. It trained Ukrainian forces for and devised the whole counteroffensive business of 2023 that in effect broke the back of the Ukrainian army. It still kept egging Ukrainians on. And now, all of a sudden, the US never had anything to do with it?! Hypocrisy doesn't quite cover it, really. This is psychopathic level of gaslighting, my friends. Of course the US should tell Kiev off and make it absolutely clear that WW3 will NOT be fought over Ukraine. But that's all the Yanks are entitled to tell Ukraine and Europe.
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  4387.  @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086  Nor should that be at surprising since Christian monastic culture developed before the schism, i.e. is shared by both the Catholic and the Orthodox.
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  4388. ​ @Wasp239  Child murder is normalized?! 😂 Tell me you're a narc without telling me you're a narc!
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  4389. That's phenomenal! Huge congratulations to you! 👏🎉
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  4390. Arguably questionable?! This is why the restbof the world is laughing at the US.
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  4391. But it doesn't. Russia's military doctrine allows for first use of nukes only in these two situations: 1. If Russia is attacked by an overwhelmingly numerous conventional enemy force (and Ukraine can't raise anything even close to that) 2. If the very existence of the Russian state is at stake (again, Ukraine can pose no threat to the Russian state as such), but Western talk of dismembering Russia may indeed qualify as such a threat. We should all be writing to our elected representatives to demand immediate peace talks with Russia and a public rejection of any intention to undermine Russia or Balkanize it.
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  4392. He's a writer of detective stories. Very enjoyable to read (I love them!), but by no means a serious novelist, let alone a great writer.
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  4393. I agree. Something's seriously wrong with this SMO.
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  4394. I agree. And yes, Putin's first degree is in law.
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  4395. Not even remotely close. Yemen, Syria, Libya: every one of them is and has been vastly, immeasurably worse than Ukraine.
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  4396. The Russians have been calling it an SMO from the very start.
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  4397. What do you think is happening there? 😅
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  4398. Doesn't deserve wasting one's time on, does it?
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  4399. Well, they thought Bakhmut would be taken a year before that finally happened, but that's the only slip up I can think of. Remarkable, really.
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  4400. They've already admitted those were Ukrainian missiles.
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  4401. I read yesterday the statement made by the head of the German Bourse, their stock market: "Germany's becoming a developing country ".
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  4402. *oligarchs
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  4403. ​ @skydragon23101979  I wouldn't rely on that happening at all. People who call everyone but the West uncivilised will renege on their agreements and cheat anytime it suits them. Wait for the next government and, in the meantime, let it be known in Argentina that you're ready to help them once they elect a trustworthy government that shows due respect for others.
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  4404. The West almost pulled it off in the 1990s and it's never given up on its project to take over Russia to dismember it and exploit its huge natural riches.
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  4405. It should be, but evidently not.
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  4406. 😂
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  4407. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  His interview with Judge Napolitano, today.
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  4408. What are you on?! China and India have NOT voted against Russia. As for Finland, stupid is as stupid does: it takes real idiocy to give up neutrality in exchange for a NATO membership!
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  4409. Seems gratuitously nasty to me.
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  4410. ​ @scotland638 And wouldn't that be a joy.
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  4411. I'm so glad you managed to escape!
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  4412. My online research into this topic -- the Chinese education system -- led me to conclude that your statement is seriously misleading. I would call it tendentious, even.
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  4413. Prof. Wolf romanticized the Europeans too much, making them into mere victims of US bullying. Paul Craig Roberts's source at the State Department explain European voluntary subservience like this: every month, the State Department flies suitcases full of money to various European capitals, to keep the European political elite sweet.
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  4414. ​ @Ash-cb8qu  That you can't live on, right? Because those are the only jobs available.
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  4415. Such a state, landlocked and much, much reduced in its population numbers, will never be a threat to Russia.
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  4416. Absolutely!
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  4417. From their own mistakes, which they could still rectify but won't because their arrogance and will to power won't let them.
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  4418. Good thing you didn't. Ukrainians mostly just leave their dead to rot in the fields. Last Spring, Russian soldiers would take a break from fighting to dig improvised graves for the poor Ukrainians as Kiev and the Ukrainian army couldn't be bothered.
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  4419. Stems from greed and power lust.
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  4420. At its peak, Ukraine used to produce only 2% of the global grain demand.
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  4421. ​ @G0DJET 😂 (300, max.)
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  4422. ​ @MysteryKmt TeleTruth and Hindu Telegraph channels.
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  4423. Well said
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  4424.  @andrewcarlson2178  Ukrainian casualties, just the Kia's, are currently about 35,000 a month (over 1,000 a day).
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  4425. Keep telling yourself that. 👌
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  4426. Ukraine did. Claiming the two missiles had strayed into Poland but were shot in defense against incoming Russian missiles. Total fabrication as the Russian missile attack was over HOURS before the Ukrainians shot their missiles into Poland. A failed attempt at a false flag, that's what this was. Ukraine living up to its despicable standards of behaviour.
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  4427. Sorry, but there's absolutely nothing positive to say about Israel. Deal with it.
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  4428. ​ @BDee3126 You don't know what you're talking about.
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  4429. And why do the geniuses in Washington and Berlin imagine Russia might be interested in doing them any favours now?!
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  4430. 🎯
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  4431. ​ @mrwong8584  Just look at what's happening to European economies as a result of EU's geopolitical insanity.
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  4432.  @mrwong8584  You can look these things up yourself. Germany's economy has been replaced by Russia as the #1 economy in Europe, while 25% of UK citizens have had to start skipping meals since the summer of 2022. All the data are out in the open -- why our MSM are not reporting them is self-explanatory once you understand their role in our "democracies".
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  4433. Yes, insight itself doesn't get you very far. You've described this very well.
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  4434. Ooooh, so scary! 😂 Af if Finland counts! 😂
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  4435. You're right about that last: except that the overwhelming majority of the population in those 4 regions see Russians as liberators and protectors, not as occupiers The analogy simply doesn't hold, but your point is a key reason why Russia doesn't want to take all of Ukraine.
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  4436. Properly built and maintained, nuclear plants are extremely safe. France has relied on them for up to 50% of its energy needs for decades and has just scrapped the 50% cap as it starts deploying a new set of nuclear plants. Egypt's also gone nuclear, and the Chinese are currently building 24 new nuclear plants.
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  4437. Not paranoid but justifiably concerned and wary.
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  4438. They got greedy, perhaps?
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  4439. A Ukrainian general actually said as much a week ago!
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  4440. Keep telling yourself that.
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  4441. It's so sick we should just shut up about it, right? (A sickeningly corrupt attitude.)
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  4442. ​ @FugueSt4te  You need to pay more attention to what's going on in Europe, as against what you think is going on. An example of what I mean: The average Brit is already skipping meals because he can't afford 3 meals a day anymore. In June, the number of Brits forced to skip meals had already reached 27%. By the end of last month, it had risen to over 50%.
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  4443. They're openly arguing that they need to go to war with China asap, so I don't think they're at all concerned about finding excuses for ramping up ammo production.
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  4444. Not according to the laws of war, i.e. international law. Thus, hitting hospitals (where wounded soldiers may be tended to) or media buildings (whose broadcasts may be used for war propaganda purposes) is off limits.
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  4445.  @Dirtdabber1972  I think you misunderstood me. I was referring to real, functioning hospitals and not to any of the buildings (such as schools, kindergartens, hospitals, shopping centres, theatres, etc.) the Ukrainian Army has taken over either as weapons and ammunition depots or as their barracks and fighting stations. All of those automatically become legitimate military targets for Russia to hit.
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  4446. Oh yeah? 😅
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  4447. Except they aren't fighting anyone in Russia. Or in Ukraine.
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  4448.  @TheSparrow320  They weren't fighting Bolshevism but trying to exterminate Slavs, more specifically Russians.
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  4449. Tell me you're a racist without telling you're a racist.
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  4450. Serbia has practically no army left. We effectively allowed our governments of the past 20+ years to disarm the country and render it defenseless!
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  4451. Most Europeans don't bother voting in EU parliamentary elections, knowing that the real power in the EU lies in the hands if the un-elected Commission.
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  4452. I find statements by Ukrainian officials on a range between ludicrous and stomach-churning.
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  4453. Modi shouldn't have run back home so soon.
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  4454. Tulsi Gabbard is head and shoulders above the other candidates, including Vance but Trump didn't even consider her for his running mate. A major mistake from the start.
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  4455. 😂
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  4456. ​ @anthonymorris5084  You haven't offered a single fact, just your opinion.
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  4457. It will. But it will never again trust the West at least for the rest of this century.
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  4458. Absolutely.
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  4459. ​ @halfacanuck Naturally.
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  4460. Thank you for keeping us properly informed! You're doing important work.
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  4461. Near peer? If so, why is the consortium of 40+ countries the US has string-armed into financing and arming its proxy army in Ukraine incapable of defeating the Russian Federation, fighting alone and with one hand tied behind its back?
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  4462. Yes, and it's a very, very rare genetic abnormality.
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  4463. Holodomor, the claim that Ukraine suffered exceptional losses due to Stalin's artificial creation of a famine and refusal to send them grain, was the invention of a US conman and a bigamist who'd been jailed for forging cheques before he realized how lucrative political fakery can be. I discovered this by reading a Canadian historian who's written the definitive book on the invention and use of the Holodomor myth. Btw, historians of that period agree that during that last famine on the territory of the USSR, the heaviest losses of life were in (1) Kazakhstan, (2) Russia proper, (3) Ukraine. In that order. The opening of the old Soviet archives also brought to light documents that Ukraine was especially favoured in the distribution of emergency grain, which Stalin took away from Russia, which was far more affected by the famine, and gave to Ukraine. They also agree that the famine was a natural occurrence, not a man-made one, and that it was the last such catastrophe following the introduction of better farming techniques and agricultural policy by Stalin.
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  4464. Just so.
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  4465. ​@Татьяна Ивлева Many of the homeless in the USA are just middle and working class people who either lost their jobs, and with that everything they owned, or working and middle class people whose income is too small for them to be able to rent an apartment. There are highschool teachers in San Francisco living in their cars because they can't afford an apartment! Whole families, too.
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  4466. Negligence, eh? 😂
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  4467. They were in the G20, not in the G7, which is a racist, imperialist club for whites only.
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  4468. ​ @olimmultipado6438 Russia's flourishing. There's not a single country in the West one could say the same about with truth.
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  4469. Someone should let them know what the Russian response would look like.
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  4470.  @NotMagnusCarlsen7082  I live in the real world, not in the alternate reality of Ukrainian and Western false flag operations. Enjoy your delusions, though.
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  4471. I don't know the exact number but it was well over 1,000 tanks. It's also received a few hundred Soviet era tanks from other East European countries.
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  4472. What the war in Ukraine is all about.
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  4473. A small difference, right? 😂
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  4474. It's certainly beginning to look that way.
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  4475. ​ @bumble-g2j  Only a psychopath can say that with a straight face.
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  4476. #3 If you can't ensure negotiating from the position of strength, sue for peace so as to preserve what you can of your forces and your territory.
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  4477. The bipartisan ideology of the empire.
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  4478. Not all of it, but a very large chunk of it.
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  4479. You mean his coverage of NATO's proxy war on Russia.
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  4480. So, the Anglos want another pan-European war in continental Europe, a third in a century, and judging by the comments here, many Europeans are also longing for one. I suggest that everyone who's in favour of this guy's idea first go and join our proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
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  4481. To call him insecure is to invite sympathy for this disgusting misogynistic murderer. He's a sociopath if not a full blown psychopath. Probably the latter, actually.
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  4482. Macgregor was wrong on that. Yes, Russia did come to Serbia's aid in 1914, when it was attacked by Austria, but it wasn't due to any influence he imagined Serbia had on Russia. It was motivated by Russian pan-Slavism, which goes back to the 19th century.
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  4483. ​​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  Apartheid is a good word for it. Ethnic Russian citizens of Latvia are not permitted to vote in the elections. They're deprived of basic civil rights.
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  4484. Greece is a beautiful country, as well as the cradle of Western civilization. It's sad to see so many Greeks running it down, speaking badly of it.
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  4485. Putin.
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  4486. ​ @hermitoldguy6312  Russia's holding elections this March.
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  4487. How could you forget Annalena 360?! 😅
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  4488. Hope springs eternal, but I wonder what you'll be telling yourself a year from now....
    2
  4489. Yes, a different coronavirus, though.
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  4490. ​ @JamesRobertSmith Correct. His father is Jewish but not his mother, which means that the only way he could be considered a Jew is by formally converting to Judaism.
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  4491. ​ @Lupi33z Vying for that place with Canada.
    2
  4492. Cope harder.
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  4493. ​ @johanmetreus1268  No, he means when the EU blatantly violated the Budapest Memorandum in 2013 by presenting Ukraine with an economic blackmail for its own geopolitical ends, as prohibited in Article 3 of that document. The Budapest Memo was the only international document that guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity, and since Ukraine's never registered its borders with the UN, once the EU violated the Budapest Memorandum, the question of Ukraine's actual territorial rights on any of the regions then included in it was blown right open. Oops!
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  4494. ​ @stanpesotskiy3524  Russia won't accept freezing the conflict under any conditions whatsoever. It's simply not on.
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  4495. Bisexual for sure. And not particularly bright with it.
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  4496. ​ @hathawayrose2183  I wouldn't rush into forgiving the West, not for the next 2-3 centuries at least. One can trade with the West, strategically, without either forgiving or forgetting anything.
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  4497. 🤣 I know what you mean and share the exasperation.
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  4498. Lady?
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  4499. Absolutely pointless, useless sacrifice of human lives. 90% of these deaths could have been avoided had Ukraine signed the peace deal reached in Istanbul last March.
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  4500. ​​ @OO7sMom  Oh no! I pray for Thailand to escape the Empire's clutches! 🙏
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  4501. I don't understand why the prosecutor thought a jury might not find him guilty once Paddington's wife had changed her testimony, this depriving him of an alibi. As for the family's search for a reason, a good therapist might help them understand that a violent misogynistic sociopath -- and this man is unmistakably one -- doesn't need what you or I would consider a reason to attack an unprotected woman.
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  4502. It's a lot more cynical than that. They *know*.
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  4503. January 26, 2025.
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  4504. Assad was never cut out to be a president. And yes, he did betray the minorities in Syria his family dynasty had protected for many decades. The Russiabs had offered to revamp, retrain, and rearm the Syrian army in 2019, offering also very generous loans to Syria -- and Bashad rejected it all as he tried to curry favour with his Arab neighbours. Iran warned his 3 months ago that a big takfiri offensive was in the works and urged him to take action -- he ignored the warnings. In the end, it looks like he simply couldn't carry on any more, having been betrayed by both Turkey and the Arabs. It's a terrible tragedy for Syria, but especially for its minorities, who are now at the mercy of head-choppers who burn people alive. I'm not Syrian, and I'm devastated by what's happened.
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  4505. Alas, most still do!
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  4506. 😂
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  4507. ​ @Bakair-b1d  To defend itself from the US. Americans have been absolutely open for years now about wanting to go to war against China.
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  4508. Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten that.
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  4509.  @kamrankhalid2153  Germany lost its army in Russia. It got obliterated by the Soviets, the real victors of WW2.
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  4510. 🎯
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  4511. Depends on how severe or how mild this winter turns out to be.
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  4512. ​ @thediamondsinger1113  Doctors are trained to keep a very cool head. I'm sure nurses are, too, but there's a difference between a 4-year and a 6-year training, plus 2 additional years of residency.
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  4513. There was nothing about nuclear weapons in Putin's speech. He was talking about "going to the end" (a common Russian phrase that means going all the way to victory) in Ukraine.
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  4514. What happened to the Responsibility to Protect?!
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  4515. ​ @HandleWhat.  You're excusing infanticide with the mother's "struggles". Nicely done. 🤮
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  4516. They do understand Germany quite well, actually. It's Germany that's acting totally irrationally, and not for the first time in recent history either.
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  4517. Wow, you managed to completely elide centuries of anti-Jewish pogroms all over Western Europe and Poland!
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  4518. Only if they end with -ic or ić.
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  4519. It's called persistence, perseverance. Not for the childish minds.
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  4520. A development fervently to be wished for.
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  4521. Yes.
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  4522. ​​ @dutchboynl2082  Vanga's been remarkably accurate on too many things to dismiss lightly.
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  4523. 😅
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  4524. They can't do realistic and pragmatic. The choice doesn't exist for them.
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  4525. I don't see how what's being pushed as equity amounts to equity at all.
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  4526.  @nutsynutsy4352  They lie so much and so routinely that there's no point in paying them any attention any more. Except to see what nonsense they're serving the public, that is.
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  4527. So would Pierre. 😠
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  4528. This woman was engaged to the psychopath for two years, enough time to get to know another person.
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  4529. I hope you're getting paid well for this stuff.
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  4530. Who he?
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  4531. The Russians have since then fought the Chechens Islamists financed and armed by the West, and won; fought ISIS and annihiliated it; are fighting Ukrainian Notsees and the collective Westerns fascists who installed the Notsees in power in Kiev, and are winning hands down.
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  4532. The court seems to be covering UK's back, giving it cover for what it plans to do: to hand a man over to be persecuted and discriminated against, to be subjected to judicial murder, essentially, by the American injustice system. British courts are playing Herod to the American Pontius Pilate.
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  4533. ​ @nativespirit4942 It's been Kiev for centuries, well before Ukrainian developed as a dialect of Russian.
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  4534.  @alanedwards6491  Russian liberals, you mean, who'd suck at any Western dick and proclaim it delicious. Lukashenko never said that Russia's aim in going up to the outskirts of Kiev was to take it. You've been deceived by an obviously disingenuous, propagandistic translation of his words. Every competent (plus honest) military expert in the US, Europe, and Asia understands that what we saw in the early days of the SMO was a "fixing operation", a move that kept the Ukrainian forces in and around the capital fixed in place, ready to defend the capital city and thus unable to move east to Donbass, where the real fighting was going on. This is so elementary that every "expert" and military honcho featured in our MSM who's been telling you the Russians tried to take Kiev is lying -- they know better, but it's imperative to keep the public believing in the official narrative of an incompetent, losing Russia, etc.
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  4535. Reported by RT, I think. Either RT or Sputnik.
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  4536. ​ @woodytobiasjr8265  Lenin didn't what?! He chopped off Novorussiya (Donbass+) and annexed it to the borderlands (the real meaning of the word Ukraine) in order to create a new country. This is a matter of historical record, totally non-controversial.
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  4537. Good for you! Bravo! 👏
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  4538. Indeed!
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  4539. I can't take seriously anyone who's himself still peddling a version of the "North Korean troops in Kursk". Or who refers to the democratically elected president of the Russian Federation as a dictator.
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  4540. @@badofi If that was her long-term plan, then it's backfired as could in fact have been expected since letting the Nazis loose in Ukraine over the last 9 years has turned a substantial part of Ukrainian nationalists into Nazis. The Azov have been decimated, true, and Ukraine's lost a lot more than a hundred thousand men, but there were already 15 other Nazi militias in Ukraine back in 2014/15 (as per the 2015 Amnesty Report on the country). All she's achieved is the Nazification of a large sway of the Ukrainian public, some of whom (no telling how many at this point) will no doubt sober up once Ukraine capitulates, but a lot of whom will remain Nazis for life.
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  4541.  @BoleDaPole  Victoria Nuland is a citizen of precisely two countries: the USA and Israel.
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  4542.  @bobobobfellerann4765  Thank you once again. Unfortunately, according to the Amnesty International report of 2015, the Azov are just one of at least 15 such formations in Ukraine. Ironically, what Nuland and her colleagues at the State have achieved by embracing and supporting the Nazis in Ukraine over the last 9 years is the Nazification of a great sway of the Ukrainian public, starting from primary schoolchildren on up.
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  4543. ​ @Lina_Antoniou  What do most Greeks think about all this?
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  4544. Much ado about nothing. All they have to do is apply for residency. What hardship! 😅
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  4545.  @StefkeBoxingScience  Baš ste me iznenadili. Takođe! 🙂
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  4546. Good thinking.
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  4547. Brian Berletic also has a much more sober take on what these recent actions and statements by the Trump administration mean.
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  4548. You can learn great football from South Americans, Italians, the Dutch, and the Spaniards. Germans play technically accomplished but unimaginative football. No creativity, no panache.
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  4549. The message being, we'll sacrifice our best trained and equipped reserves for a PR stunt. Very scary. 😂
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  4550. ​ @jerkysasquatch9256  No, we no longer go by the primitive "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" law.
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  4551. I don't trust the judgement of anyone who claims to have been profoundly surprised/shocked by Russia's February 24, 2022 launch of the SMO in Ukraine. A diplomatic historian who found that surprising after how the West responded to Russia's draft treaties submitted in December 2021 and Putin's clear, public statement that should the West fail to respond adequately Russia would take technical military measures to ensure its security lacks both objectivity and sound analytical skills. Either that, it this gentleman is too cowardly to admit that Russia's move was utterly predicable and indeed announced in advance because the official narrative in the UK is virulently hostile to admitting the true cause of this conflict. His book on Stalin may still be worth reading and I intend to do so shortly.
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  4552.  @Hazelnut_surprise  If so, they're doing a signally poor job of reaching that public, but given the degree of censorship in the West these days, they can't really be blamed for it.
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  4553.  @patrickvanmeter2922  Sorry, but you've gone completely incoherent.
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  4554. Trump is definitely a liability. You'll lose 2024 if you don't drop him.
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  4555. You're an innocent mind, taking words for reality. Nazism was fiercely opposed to socialism and communism.
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  4556. 😂
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  4557. No friend of Ukraine would counsel that course of action.
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  4558. Correct.
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  4559. Not yet. We're not remotely close to that yet.
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  4560. ​ @loopmantra8314  He's stolen it (and a couple of other comments) from another person. Imagine how pathetic his life must be to try to get YouTube likes with stolen comments! 😂
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  4561. ​ @lorenzomagazzeni5425 Pedantic trivia.
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  4562. Russia offered to do so last year and Vucic rejected the offer, claiming that Serbia will never allow any foreign military bases on its soil. Which is a bare faced lie as we have the largest US military base in Europe right smack in our province of Kosovo.
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  4563.  @NotAPacifist825  Alexander does convey real and important information and, for the most part, quite reliable analysis. But he's clearly too enamoured of his own voice and far too verbose. I do follow his videos although I find them annoying for the above mentioned reasons. He's also less than objective: Alexander never engages in a critique of the Russian political and military leadership even though there're valid grounds for some criticism of both (unrelated to the lies and nonsense we find in our MSM).
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  4564. We Eastern Europeans are woefully naive. And misinformed. We should have heeded Henry Kissinger's famous warning that "To be an enemy of the US is often dangerous; to be its friend is frequently fatal." I forget right now who also said that the US has no friends (doesn't recognize or treat anyone as a friend) -- it only has interests.
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  4565. Having to withdraw from the capital city of a region you just took cannot be construed as a victory. If this had been done by the Ukrainian side, we'd have no difficulty in seeing as the defeat it is. It may make good sense operationally, etc., but it's still a huge embarrassment, a considerable humiliation for Russia.
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  4566. 😂😂😂
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  4567. You mean the West is. And yes, the world understands just how evil the collective West is.
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  4568. How's that any different or worse than what one finds in the US or the UK?! At least China doesn't have tent cities of the homeless or 23% of the population (as in the UK these days) who have skip meals because they can't afford 3 meals a day!
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  4569. ​ @hh-kv6fh  Some feat, that, managing to carve out some pieces of territory from a country in the grip of a civil war, following a revolution! How pathetic to even mention Pilsudski. 😂
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  4570.  @Ola-1114  I have no time for Russia haters either, but there's a difference between not liking a country and hating it. I don't on the whole like India, for example, but I'm not even close to hating it. I mean, I absolutely do not hate it. Andrei Matryonov would not consent to appear in a video with a Russophobe, with anyone who hates either Russia or the Russian people.
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  4571.  @Ola-1114  I'm sorry. I didn't know that. Disappointing.
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  4572. Fully expected. I don't understand the physics of it, but many in Russian scientific and military circles expected it to fail and wrote about it at least a week ago. In the meantime, the US still has to rely on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from the ISS because the West lacks the means to do so. 😘
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  4573. Crime against humanity as this type of ammunition is intended to harm the civilian population for decades and even hundreds of years after the particular conflict. The US of Psychopaths.
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  4574. Budet! Privet iz Srbije! ❤️
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  4575. Yes, it is. It's horrific out there.
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  4576. And genes have nothing to do with it? 😂
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  4577. It's most definitely z rather than s in American (and Canadian) English, which are influencing Britain too. (I also happen to be a trained linguist.)
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  4578. Well, that's what Kiev's calling them.
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  4579. Why aren't the Clintons on trial for all this corruption?
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  4580. Let's hope Bojo doesn't manage to claw his way back to 10 Downing Street.
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  4581. The French are set to deploy a whole set of new nuclear plants and have just scrapped the 50% cap they used to have on how much of their power needs can be supplied by nuclear energy plants.
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  4582. And they're not even fighting what they understand as a full scale war.
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  4583. You're an empath.
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  4584. Well done, RF forces! 👍❤️
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  4585. Why on earth would you tell an election official who you're going to vote for?!?!
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  4586. 😅
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  4587.  @olgatarasova-chelpanova1109  Totally brainwashed by Western propaganda, then. Unbelievable!
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  4588. Slovakia's Fico is very alarmed by what the crazies are planning and has just stated publicly that Slovakia will NOT let any of its troops join the fight in Ukraine.
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  4589. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  A slogan made necessary only because of the bellicosity of all US administrations since Reagan.
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  4590. Integrity is the key difference, I think.
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  4591. The Russian economy is still doing great. This measure is simply there to cool the economy down because it's expanding so rapidly, it's overheating. Btw, just a week or two ago, the Western-dominated World Bank upgraded the Russian economy to #4 globally. It has displaced both Germany and Japan by now.
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  4592. We Europeans and European-descendent peoples don't really handle difference well. There's nothing religious or Christian about that: it's simple narcissism, combined with arrogance and aggression and it always, invariably boils down to our greed and our lust for power.
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  4593. Jesus Christ is the Lord of all Creation.
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  4594.  @exu7325  It may be compelled to learn it by the rest of the world.
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  4595.  @bakfixx  It's not a matter of a few corrupt politicians but of an imperialist mind-set that's entrenched itself over the past 600 years.
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  4596. And ridiculous.
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  4597. It's showing up in Europe, where vaping isn't fashionable.
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  4598. They may besiege it OR get it as a part of Ukraine's eventual capitulation. But they will not take the war to it because it's too beautiful to damage
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  4599. Ludicrous academese: 18th-century (Trump) vs 20th-century (Biden) style of diplomacy.
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  4600. Carp is practically a delicacy in Eastern Europe.
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  4601. Didn't your mama teach you it's naughty to lie? 😜
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  4602. ​ @ElenaMorell-v7e All of it, sweetie. All of it.
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  4603.  @johnblackwood1337  I've had several students who write really well tell me the same thing, so you're not alone. And apart from teaching college English, I've also worked as an editor, so you can trust me. 🙂
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  4604. 😡
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  4605. The EU (including the UK) and the USA, in the same measure, more or less. First the EU violated the Budapest Memorandum back in 2013, thereby blowing open the whole question of Ukraine's territorial integrity (see Article 3 of the Budapest Memo), and then the US and the Brits did the rest. We (Canada) helped them along, too.
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  4606. I'm praying Egypt stands firm on that.
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  4607. They can dream on....
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  4608. 😯😥
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  4609. 😂
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  4610. We love driving through Quebec.
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  4611. ​ @GlynDwr-d4h Work out what? Most married men are older than unmarried men, have more work experience and are further along in their careers -- hence the difference in earnings. Absolutely irrelevant to the fact that the man who replaced this person's mother got a salary 4 times hers!
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  4612. There can be no open borders in these circumstances -- for obvious security reasons.
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  4613. If he's alive, he's the only human being in medical history whose blue eyes turned brown as a result of extreme body trauma.
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  4614.  @SamsRussianAdventures  It's scary enough in broad daylight. The year we lived in California, my husband and I stopped to photograph some cows in Marine County (he's a photographer), only to find a police car stop and the cops use the PA system to question us. They left us in peace soon afterwards, but I was quite discombobulated by the encounter.
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  4615. You think the country that defeated Napoleon and Nazi Germany is losing to today's NATO? 😅
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  4616. ​ @dmitriyosmantsev7603  Militarily, it is. Economically and diplomatically, anything but.
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  4617. No. They're doing it deliberately.
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  4618. Several of us corrected him yesterday, but to no avail.
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  4619. The late Stephen F Cohen did a much better job than his friend Mearsheimer, who remains a liberal hegemonist at heart. Cohen was America's greatest Russia scholar and one of the founders of the policy of detente, a man of enormous scholarly and political credibility, and he was completely sidelined and blackballed by US mass media in the last decade of his life for speaking out against the insanely irresponsible, war-mingering US/NATO policy re. Russia.
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  4620. Amen.
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  4621. Like you can't believe the EU intentionally and deliberately violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum in 2013?
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  4622. Can't fault your analysis.
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  4623. You've just very nicely regurgitated Western propaganda and lies. The story you've retold here is based on the FIRST of the faked-up intelligence dossiers NATO and the US have used in the wars they provoked. This one was the creation of the German secret service and is hilariously sloppy, self-evidently false.
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  4624. ​​ @DANA-yc9wq  That's Wikipedia, yes. Google The etymology of the word bistro, however, and you'll find that the French bistro got its name not from Persian but from Russian.
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  4625. It was an economic genocide.
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  4626. I agree that collapsing is not quite the word for what's happening to/in Europe. Self-created rconomic degradation is more like it.
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  4627. They fell for his lies, and I for one can't blame them. They were sick and tired of their own local Nazis and believed Zelensky when he told them he would implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish friendly relations with Russia. Zelensky callously betrayed their trust
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  4628. Crooks. US Democrats must be in the top 10 most corrupt political parties *in the world*.
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  4629. The Dependency Theory and Wallerstein's World Systems theory still strike me as fundamentally correct: the combination of the two best accounts for what we're seeing today under the guise of "geopolitics". The USA is blatantly stealing Syria's oil, for example, as it openly stole Iraq's. The whole idea of "a rules-based order" (replacing an order based on international law) also speaks for itself.
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  4630.  @kirikoo9981  Logic's not your strong suit.
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  4631. ​​ @Damn6real  I get your point, but the S300, S400 and the newest S500 are supposed to be the best in the world. And they are. People simply don't realize just how long the battlefront is; no system yet devised by man can defend all of it, plus.
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  4632. I don't know, but I know it could suspend it. "A Member of the United Nations against which preventive or enforcement action has been taken by the Security Council may be suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council."
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  4633. *rare 😊
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  4634. I feel sorry for all the Ukrainians conscripted into this madness and forced to serve as cannon fodder by their own government. My understanding is that most of them have been against Kiev's war on Donbass for years now, which is why they elected Zelensky. Unfortunately, he lied to them, betraying the promise he'd made to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish friendly relations with Russia.
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  4635.  @ivandovranic5834  Given your own name, you should know that Ira is short for Irena, the Greek goddess of peace.
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  4636. ​ @goldleader6074  Putin. He kept ordering the army to go easy and to keep falling back and wouldn't even allow a conscription round until some 6 months after the Istanbul talks.
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  4637. We do. ❤
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  4638. Grow up rude boy.
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  4639. Alex is a reputable financial analyst.
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  4640. Yes. Unspeakably, criminally insane.
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  4641. 21% of heterosexual men and 44% of heterosexual women are abused by their partners. 29% of homosexuals, and 67% of lesbians report partner abuse. We need to speak up and against intimate partner abuse much more vocally and consistently. We should also teach our adolescents about the red flags in relationships and how abuse changes the victims and makes it difficult for them to leave an abusive partner.
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  4642. It's only 2 and a half years now. Compared to other recent wars (Afghanistan, Syria), it's hardly even begun.
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  4643. You've said it all, in three sentences. Brilliant!
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  4644. 😂
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  4645. Zelensky deserves Mussolini's fate. I won't be surprised if he gets it, too, but he'll most likely run before Ukrainians get a chance at dealing him some well deserved rough justice for destroying their country and sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men to their death.
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  4646. ​ @healyourgutguy  No Nazis in Ukraine? 😂 Sure,and both the EU Parliament (whose report on this warned the EU to stay away from the then opposition in Kiev in 2013 because ALL of it was fascist) and the 2015 Amnesty International report on the over 15 Ukrainian Nazi militias, plus all the articles in Western newspapers warning of this issue before 2022, when they suddenly started to deny it -- all of that never happened? 😂
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  4647. I hope to God not.
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  4648. He's made billions out of this war.
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  4649. Europe shared things with the rest of the world?! 😂
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  4650. I agree. Let Russia continue to respect and uphold international law. We will want to have the rule of law in future, so let's protect the laws regardless of what the West does. Besides which, Western POWs can be used in exchange of prisoners deals.
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  4651. You forgot to mention that Lula's trial and imprisonment were a travesty. The judge only rectified those acts of politically motivated judicial malfeasance.
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  4652. I applaud the headlines editor, too, who let that article title stand.
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  4653. ​ @TeunisMarinus  That was before Avdeevka was turned into the most heavily fortified town in Europe. The battle for that fortified Avdeevka started four months ago.
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  4654. Always! ❤
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  4655. Do men universally like and support one another? 😅
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  4656.  @blue_diamond_gem  All that stuff left over from the Soviet Union days
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  4657. It's clearly both: an embarrassment to Russia and a death trap for the 9,000 Ukrainian troops Kiev sacrificed for this desperate move.
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  4658.  @sergisalabertquintana6567  In a recent poll, 41% of Canadians thought that assisted suicide should be offered to the homeless and the unemployed as a way of "dealing with" their program.
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  4659. ​ @openomniverse446  It's absurd to claim that Trump will trumple on the Constitution, violated the church/state separation, or proclaim himself a dictator. All of these ideas are literally laughable, Rachel Maddow territory of nuts.
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  4660. And the German public? You'd think they would have already taken to the streets in their millions, but no. Too happy indulging in an orgy of Russophobia their Nazi ancestors would be proud of.
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  4661. I think Pentagon knows that would be totally humiliating. The Russians, apart from having the sort of battlefield experience no American soldier has, and thanks to geography, have the advantage of incomparably easier logistics and wars are won on logistics.
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  4662. What possible future can a party named for its founder and leader have? How could it possibly outlive her?!
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  4663. His confidence is fake -- it's constantly propped up by others who keep telling him he's a woman. Really self-confident people never tell others "I'm pretty awesome, I think I'm cool."
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  4664. Ask your doctor to get him a psychiatric evaluation.
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  4665. Way too premature. Six months from now, though, and it may well be doable.
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  4666. RIP Gonzalo Lira Jr. My deepest confolences to his family and children. I see Gonzalo's death as the result of the homicidal vengefulness of one Victoria Nuland. May God treat her as much mercy as she's shown to others.
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  4667. *cast iron
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  4668. This isn't half as bad as I expected. I'm still not moved to visit London again.
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  4669. Why? What is he going to do? Send US troops in? 😂
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  4670. No. He means exactly what he says: oligarchs.
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  4671. ​​ @pharaohavalon8566 e has no idea how damaging it is to grow up with both parents trapped in a destructive marriage. Or with both parents, where the dad is an alcoholic. Or physically abusive. Or a control freak. Or psychologically abusive. Or emotionally unavailable. Or demeaning of his mother. He only has a fantasy (the same fantasy so many of us have) of a happy, harmonious two-parent family with understanding, supportive, emotionally stable and available dads who are also good at communicating with others. Of course we all want that. Only a very small percentage of us has the luck to be born in such families because, in reality, they're quite rare. I'm sorry he had such an abusive mom to grow up with, though. It must have been hellish at times. 😢
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  4672. Exactly! Georgia is squarely in Asia. An Asian country.
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  4673.  @냥곰폴리  Their populations are increasing in size, a fact which speaks for itself.
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  4674. Is that what those who support Russia are being accused of in Germany? Why would you have to hate Ukrainians in order to realize that the Russians have justice and truth on their side?!
    2
  4675. Except that Assange isn't a spy and didn't sell the information he obtained to another state.
    2
  4676. The Western (i.e. US) "rules based order" most certainly does. Not to be confused with international law.
    2
  4677. Try harder. 😅
    2
  4678. China lacks the means to project power abroad because it lacks the will to do so. If you want a fair, multipolar world order, China, you have to fight for it.
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  4679. Please do elaborate on this foreign interference thing. I'm aware of Israeli and Saudi influence: is that what you're referring to?
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  4680. Lvov was a part of Poland pre-WW2. It was also the birthplace of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborationist movements and the area where Ukrainian Nazis massacred a hundred thousand Poles. Most Poles remember this very well and are, for that reason, not at all fond of Ukrainians.
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  4681. Alexander seems to be totally unwilling to so much as contemplate the possibility that all of this demented talk of a nuclear war on the part of the US and UK is in preparation for a nuclear false flag somewhere in Ukraine. I hope it isn't, of course, but this is exactly what the West was doing in the weeks preceding its false flag operations in Syria.
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  4682. Boycott any airline that adopts this policy.
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  4683. Ben, could you occasionally go over the comments to your videos to weed out the ones advertising financial advisors, i.e. the ones spamming us?
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  4684. You're partly right, but everyone should read up on anthropological literature about how changing material and social condition can shape a whole population and drive it into several forms of psychopathology. This process is visibly, sensibly under way in North America (I live in Canada) and it seems to be starting in Europe, too. Culturally as well as sociologically, the West is in accelerated decline, seen also in the incredible shrinking and stifling of public discourse. Recent polling done both across Europe and in the US and Canada shows that a majority of people no longer feel safe to voice their real opinions not only at work but even among their friends. A clear sign of just how repressive our societies have become is the fact that in several European countries any public expression of support for Russia is now punishable with fines AND prison sentences. Note that these new laws were passed without us being officially at war with Russia! For posting what may be considered pro-Russian information and views on Facebook, I myself was visited at my home by two officers of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Services (our version of the CIA) last June and "advised" to set my posts to "friends only" -- i.e. to practice a form of self-censorship intended to make sure that the information I was sharing would NOT reach members of the general public. The amount, intensity, and viciousness of anti-Russia propaganda in my part of the world is reminiscent of nothing else but the anti-Semitic propaganda during the 1930s. Cultures that deliberately instigate such strong feelings of hatred against an ethnic group or a whole nation are invariably hotbeds of other kinds of pathologies too. Sorry to be the harbinger of such bad news, but I believe it's essential that we all look reality in the face even when or especially when that reality contains too much of what should not be. Best wishes from Ontario!
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  4685. Exactly! Btw, the International Women's Day is March 8.
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  4686. 😅
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  4687. 880k, almost 900,000.
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  4688. He also has a Doctorate in Social Work. No degree in economics.
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  4689. Well said.
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  4690. As Bismarck put it, slow to saddle but fast to ride.
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  4691. I don't believe these are projections. They're bold-faced lies, imo.
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  4692. I haven't been able to listen to any of them, starting with Clinton.
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  4693. ​ @askorutin2576  Palestinians have suffered almost 100 years of Zionist terrorism, first, and then Israeli aggression.
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  4694. Shame especially on all Arab countries.
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  4695. Well, not half the world. Just the 41 most developed nations, all of the collective West plus a few other US satellites. They represent about 18% of the world. In economic terms, considerably less than a half since China alone now outproduces the US and EU combined. The once mighty West is in irreversible decline both economically and militarily.
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  4696. None of Trump's posturing in Ukraine is in the least serious. Just a few days ago, Rubio let slip that the conflict in Ukraine is a US proxy war with Russia. How can a major party to a conflict then pretend to be a mediator between its proxy army and the country it's fighting?
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  4697. This is not the US. We don't refer to our government as "this administration".
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  4698. Well, this proxy war has already cost the US its hegemony and the West its credibility while boosting Russia's reputation all over the world (minus the Golden Billion, of course, but the world no longer cares what the entitled West thinks).
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  4699. Low flying objects such as drones can't be detected by any air defence system, including the best ones in the world (i.e. the Russian ones). This was discussed widely when Houthis attacked Israel with low flying drones -- I'm surprised you missed that.
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  4700. Are you that naive or just pretending?
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  4701. "Brno is a city in the Czech Republic. It’s known for its modernist buildings, like the restored Villa Tugendhat, completed in 1930 by architect Mies van der Rohe. The medieval Špilberk Castle houses a city museum, gardens and a former prison with vaulted tunnels. The Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul has baroque altars, a 14th-century statue of the Madonna and Child, and city views from its steeple." Ignoramus.
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  4702. ​ @klada000  To je do vas da shvatite.
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  4703. Plus the Grayzone, Brian Berletic and Scott Ritter. For economics, Michael Hudson.
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  4704. Any ideas why Putin's preventing the military from finishing the job without further delay?
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  4705. 1.5 works fine for me.
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  4706. Amen. 🙏
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  4707. 😂😂😂
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  4708. Exactly. What's more, Putin, Shoygu and Lavrov have all individually warned Kiev of precisely that.
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  4709. Psychopaths have no problem sleeping at night.
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  4710. 😂
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  4711. Neither France nor Germany has come out to deny Putin's version of events, so I have to conclude there's a record of their requests that Russia withdraw the troops that had encircled Kiev.
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  4712. ​ @djoledjole5007  Because Tito didn't want the Red Army in Croatia.
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  4713. 😂😂😂
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  4714. I hope the British hosts don't start snitching on their Ukrainian guests.
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  4715. Occasionally.
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  4716. Solitude is not natural to human beings. We're social beings and the need for social interaction, friendships, family life is a biological given for us. Alienation is unhealthy for us, not a lovely freedom.
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  4717. Polygraphs are so unreliable that their use as evidence is not permissible in both the US and Canada.
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  4718. 😂
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  4719. The US has never had a culture, while Europe today is in the state of cultural degradation and a decadence not seen since the last couple of centuries of the Roman Empire. China, too, has gone through periods of decadence and regression, most recently due to the enormous cultural destruction wreaked by Mao's Cultural Revolution. For the moment at least, China's cultural achievements lie in the past.
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  4720. 😂
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  4721. Much more likely, yes.
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  4722. ​​ @derekmarlowe522  Most North Americans and Europeans still think of China as backward, whereas in reality in many things it's decades ahead of us. But you know this.
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  4723. She's Max's wife.
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  4724. She displayed total contempt for both democracy and for her own compatriots and voters. Some German media are already denying she ever said that -- the Empire of Lies evidently includes ALL of the collective West.
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  4725. That's been their role to date, but the era of American hegemony is over.
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  4726. There's far more democracy in China than in the EU. For real.
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  4727. Putin did not even refer to Zelensky. It was Medvedev who said that the war won't end for as long as Zelensky's in power.
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  4728. ​ @HisDudeness2023  I very much hope you're right
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  4729. Possible.
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  4730. ​ @jimturpin6503  You forgot Serbia.
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  4731. The Persian Empire died a long time ago.
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  4732. Israelites said no to Jesus a long time ago.
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  4733. ​ @TL-fe9si  Germany announced last week that they can't afford the planned expansion of their military....
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  4734. The Russians have been talking peace since 2014.
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  4735. It would first have to declare a state of war. And no administration wants to declare war on Russia, which is why the US is using Ukraine as a proxy.
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  4736. 😮
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  4737. ​ @PMT525  Can you tell us a bit about it?
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  4738. Been so ever since the very beginnings of capitalism. Both the UK and US had protectionist policies in place throughout the 19th century.
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  4739. ​ @michaelh878 They just overtook Germany and are now the largest economy in Europe and #4 in the world.
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  4740. Let's hope it's not something else.
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  4741. Not the first time Ukrainians have done this, killing their own rather than allow them to surrender. The truth about this nation and this regime is blood-curdling.
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  4742. In Jesus's name, amen.
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  4743. EU values.
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  4744. You mean the best.
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  4745. 😅
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  4746. This has been a tragedy for Ukraine from Day 1. What I find fascinating is that everyone is studiously ignoring/covering up the degree to which Ukraine is a Nazi state.
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  4747. Back in 2019, Russia had offered to reform and completely revamp the Syrian army. Assad refused their offer.
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  4748. Russia's on excellent terms with 86% of the world. I guess our MSM forgot to tell you that.
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  4749. ​ @Must_not_say_that  On the contrary.
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  4750. How exactly are they twisting the truth?
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  4751. It was the South American countries who told the EU it's either them or Zelensky, that they won't participate if he's invited.
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  4752. Horrific as those numbers are, they're probably very close to the actual figures. It's just awful.
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  4753. What a handsome good boi! 😍
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  4754. Neoliberalism and the hegemonic arrogance of its ruling class are the reason for the decline of the West. It produces a leadership that reflects this.
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  4755. I don't think he committed suicide, but cui bono? It's ludicrous to think that the Kremlin would have bothered offing a guy who never managed to interest more than 2% of the Russian electorate.
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  4756. DSM became a joke a while ago. It should be scrapped as it now stands and reconstituted at 1/4 of its present length (if that).
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  4757. Ooh, that'll show them! 😂
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  4758. I saw that. An Ahmat guy, a Chechen.
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  4759. 😅
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  4760. ​ @ConnorJane ?
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  4761. The collective West also shares a common culture. Degraded as it is, it's still something that connects its members in a way they are not connected to other nations.
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  4762. Nice, if true. 👍
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  4763. Or surrender.
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  4764. The story about Syd's sister telling Waters not to visit Barrett doesn't ring true. Syd famously turned up in the studio, uninvited, while the other 4 were recording something -- Waters didn't even recognize him but David Gilmour did. And Gilmour most certainly did visit Barrett in Cambridge after his psychotic break.
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  4765. ​ @watchfairies7845  US administrations serve the oligarchs (the CEO, corporate and billionaire class). It's amazing (and sad) that Americans continue to refuse to face that fact.
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  4766. ​ @truthseeker2222  Christian nationalism is an oxymoron; it's self-contradictory.
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  4767. I suspect the Russian strategy is to let Ukrainian reinforcements get to Zaporozhye so as to decimate them right there. The two birds with one stone tactic: this way, they get to destroy both Ukraine's weapons AND forces at once.
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  4768. Dispensing opioids to addicts was no doubt expectrd to reduce the amount of crime involved in the selkingband buying street drugs. What's awfully concerning are the stats from London, though, showing increased incidence of overdosing and increased use of street drugs. Why not, instead, dispense street drugs to addicts, removing the crime involved with street drugs, and removing the temptation to sell opioids in order to buy street drugs with the money thu obtained? Or is this whole "safe supply" progtsm just another way our federal and provincial governments serve as a sales force for Big Pharma?
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  4769. I agree.
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  4770. Disgusting bs.
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  4771. To be fair, both Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor have been expecting it for the past few months. Brian Berletic is the only independent analyst I follow who's retained a healthy agnosticism about the plans laid out by the Russian General Staff.
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  4772. It wasn't Trudeau who let members of the SS into Canada! We're ALL complicit in what has transpired as we fully tolerated Ukrainian (and Baltic and Croatian) Nazi collaborators here for decades on end.
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  4773. Both o's in Otpor are pronounced as the o in the British pronunciation of "stop". (Neither is flattened to the US o in "cop" or "stop".)
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  4774. ​ @carltonwalton9819  Sounds like you might be rather fond of it yourself.
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  4775. 😂
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  4776. Strictly speaking, it's not even racism proper as Jews and Palestinians are of the same race: they are both Semitic peoples. The Jewish attitude to the Palestinians is the narcissism of small differences, a situation in which a party that has aggressed against another very similar group, often one to which it is genetically or culturally related, founds its sense of identity and self-worth in denegrating and disparaging the group it is most similar to. Jews hate the Palestinians precisely because they know full well that they've done them and are doing them a great wrong, a people they otherwise share more characteristics with than with any other group of humans.
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  4777. Russia offered to restructure, retrain, and rearm the Syrian Arab Army back in 2019 and Assad rejected the offer. Since then, it's chosen to let things take their course in Syria.
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  4778. The European anti-nuclear movement of the 1950s-1970s was entirely about the bombs. France has relied for up to 50% of its power needs on nuclear plants for decades now, without a single accident and has just removed that 50% cap as it's about to start deploying many new nuclear plants.
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  4779.  @CarlJohnsonTheCJ  They crossed over to Europe from Egypt -- hence the original name. There's nothing pejorative about the word Gypsy.
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  4780. What do we have to be proud about these days?!
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  4781. Keep telling yourself that.
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  4782. Not surprised. Contemporary dance is the epitome of neuroticism.
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  4783. Satan and Archangel Michael, I think.
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  4784. Excellent!
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  4785. We the consumers are about to be hit with much higher prices on all the items we import from the US. And that's what you're applauding?!
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  4786. Rejoice, then. Clearly, Ukraine and NATO will manage to push Russia back to the pre-February 24 borders, so there's no reason for you to worry or pay attention to The Duran guys. 😘
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  4787. I can only hope you're wrong.
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  4788. What doesn't kill you, is the original version. And what doesn't kill you can break you. It's exceedingly rare for it to make you stronger.
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  4789. ​ @ellisduckworth5908  😂
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  4790. Correct.
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  4791. Russia.
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  4792. Not to the tune of 100,000 troops.
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  4793. ​ @magicponyrides Who's been saying that for the past 200 years? 😅
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  4794. Yeah, that was ridiculous. I guess he takes us all for idiots.
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  4795. And why not?
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  4796. They've talked about that and nauseam in many previous videos.
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  4797. ​ @MelittaFilter-c4g  As far as anyone can see, Germans have supported their government in all of its anti-Russia actions over the past decade. They're so spineless or so complicit -- or both -- as to accept the US destruction of their own energy infrastructure without demur!
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  4798. You just didn't notice it then, but many celebrated it back in the 1990s too.
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  4799. So you had to pick the single nastiest, most blatantly anti-Semitic passage in the New Testament, forgetting that Jesus Christ was also a Jew.
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  4800. ​ @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  Try learning some history.
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  4801. The decline began under Reagan, when not just California but all the other states started closing down mental hospitals and chucking the patients out into the street.
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  4802. ​ @usul573  You must be joking! 😂
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  4803.  @usul573  Your idea that China's hallucinating threats from the US.
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  4804. ​ @KlaunFuhrer-du7fr  I don't know how things are arranged in your country, but in Ukraine the civilian population needs both electricity and gas.
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  4805. It was the Persians (Iran) who invented chess. And then they brought it with them to India.
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  4806. ​ @sheilamiller8390  Malta's become way too expensive for what it offers. Sicily, Greece, and Spain are much nicer -- and less expensive too.
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  4807. No. Why should it? It's already trading exclusively in rupees and rubles with Russia
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  4808. They couldn't join the sanctions because the Serbian part, Republika Srpska, would not allow it. Credit where credit is due, please. 🙂
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  4809.  @Shadowless_Kick  I agree: Europe could have chosen the path of co-operation and partnership with both China and Russia, who in turn would treat it MUCH better than its US "friends" and overlords are doing. There is still a (slim) chance that Europe may -- following what is set to be a clear defeat for both NATO/US and the EU in Ukraine, and in view of recent American industrial terrorism against Europe's energy infrastructure -- decouple itself from the US and work out a rapprochement with Russia and China. I personally don't see this happening for as long as the US retains its economic clout over the collective West, and that means for as long as the dollar is the world's main reserve currency. I think Europe will drop the US only when both its economies and that of the US become visibly weaker and powerless to derail China's economy and the BRICS+. Also, please don't underestimate European racism and arrogance, two traits that Europe will have to give up in order to earn the trust or even the respect of the continent it belongs to, Asia.
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  4810. Please, stop! What an image you've just put into my head! 😅
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  4811. This is how things are or used to be done in South American dictatorships masquerading as democracies. Democrats have turned the US into a banana republic.
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  4812. Pretty much. 😂
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  4813. ​​ @WeebUnionWU  You mean, very little's happening in Kursk?
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  4814. Brazilian.
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  4815. Here's what the bone of contention is: "Owner Jamie Sanchez, who was at the Drip on Friday — along with a Christian DJ group made up of people he described as "visually handicapped" — has been calling for a truce between the LGBTQ+ supporters and his business, saying the protesters have the "anti-gay" thing all wrong. "We stand on Scriptures that mention homosexuality being wrong and a sin, but that's also mentioned among a list of things that we believe the Bible holds to be sin," Sanchez said. "So it's not that they're being singled out. ... In my belief, we're all guilty of sin, including myself. I don't hate anybody. And [LGBTQ+ community members] are all welcome in here. We serve LGBTQ people all the time — almost every day." Under the "Who We Are" tab on its website, the Drip's parent company — the nonprofit Recycle God's Love, which Sanchez also owns — discusses its "doctrine." A section titled "Homosexuality" reads: "This organization holds that a homosexual lifestyle is contrary to God’s Word and purpose for humanity and is sin (I Timothy 1:10). ... Moreover, this organization is instructed to Love those living such lifestyles. 1 Cor. 6:9 We Believe that showing hate towards people in these communities is not the way Jesus would respond. Therefor [sic], although disagreeing with the lifestyle, we must show love."" From Westword
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  4816. ​ @flintb6559  Horrible. 😢
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  4817. Mearsheimer is a liberal imperialist. He's written a whole book about liberal hegemony.
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  4818. There's no evidence whatsoever that Hamas has infiltrated the flood of illegal immigrants to the US. None.
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  4819.  @danl.4743  My experience, too. The mumbling's so annoying.
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  4820. So, in Australia, it's perfectly legal to impersonate someone else and use his photo to cement the deception?! It must be for the police not to have charged Camilla with identity theft.
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  4821. ​ @youtubesucks1499  You have no evidence, just bigoted assumptions.
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  4822. That's sarcasm, right? I mean, take a look at how well the US has rebuilt Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Libya, to whom it promised the world!
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  4823. It's not even apples and oranges. The Fab Four were actual musicians; Taylor Swift isn't one.
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  4824. They already have. It's called the EU.
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  4825.  @arthurtane6505  Ukraine counteroffensive in Kherson has just petered out in utter defeat -- top Ukrainian official.
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  4826. First they refuse to sign long-term contracts but prefer to buy on the spot market (smart, right?), Then they sanction their energy provider to the max, and then they whine and moan about how that energy provider is screwing them over! 🤣 Talk about behaving like a bunch of tantrum-throwing toddlers! As for all the people thinking Trump was altruistic in trying to scare the Europeans from buying cheap gas and oil from Russia: all he wanted, and Viđen has now achieved, is to destroy European economies by making them non-competetitive due to high production costs.
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  4827. 😂
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  4828.  @mikei7498  Just keep telling yourself that.
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  4829. The only difference between the original n a z i s and the West today, as regards Russia, is that this lot of Western übermensch has learned over the past 80 years to tone down the language of ethnic supremacy. Ukrainian n a z i s and Ukrainian nationalists, being less sophisticated and a lot less inhibited, are totally open about it.
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  4830. 😅
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  4831. Prof. Michael Hudson explains the GDP scam best in one of his own YT videos, which are essential viewing if you want to understand the economics of the US empire (and its European satellites).
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  4832.  @noelbartley1084  🤣
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  4833. Yes, Ukraine's never formally registered its borders with the UN.
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  4834. Disappointing, that, about Vijay Prashad.
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  4835. 😅
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  4836. So what are the Romanian people going to do about it?
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  4837. I'm sure that's very much on his mind these days. But why should he care? Boris Johnson gifted him with a UK passport, and he's robbed Ukraine blind -- as long as he gets out in time, life will be sweet for Zelensky until one of his Nazis catches up with him.
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  4838. ​ @JessicaB1982 If you pay close attention to his parables and saying, you will discover that Jesus loved nature, the Creation, too.
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  4839. Putin's regime? Chris Hedges just can't help himself.
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  4840. He said things just to hurt you because a narcissist can never be wrong, you know. Start a new hobby, join a group that shares an interest you have, fill your life with activities so you don't sit around replaying endlessly the nasty things that man said to you. And when the memories come, imagine a huge big mirror in front of you, facing his way, so everything he said reflects back on him, without even reaching you. Try this a few times -- it really does help.
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  4841. ​​ @JustMichael51083  No, Slovenia is among the unfriendlies. Slovakia, Hungary and Turkey are the exceptions.
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  4842. Absolutely not. Europe has soooooo much more to offer than Canada.
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  4843. We the people need to start acting as people and not as sheep.
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  4844. 😂
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  4845. 😅
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  4846. ​ @meisteryoda276  Why don't you advocate for translating his books into English, instead? I'm not interested in learning German, but I might read his books if they were available in English.
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  4847. There are no good treatments for schizophrenia today either (other than very lengthy, dedicated one-on-one psychotherapy of the kind only a handful of patients ever receive).
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  4848. It's simple: the West just can't admit defeat. All of the collective West acting together cannot defeat Russia, who's defeating their proxy. This is about the West's pathologically inflated ego.
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  4849. The word out of Poland is that Zelensky's ready to sue for peace.
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  4850. Bonobos don't deserve that.
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  4851. He lied on so many points, I don't know how Trump and Vance managed to keep their cool for as long as they did!
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  4852. ​ @jackklugman107 A century and a half, actually.
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  4853. Mostly homemade. Sure. 😂
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  4854. ​ @thisoldgoat3927  And even then, they didn't dare put boots on the ground to actually fight the Serbian army.
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  4855. ​ @mikelee7318  Simple: what the Soviets did to their own was and is their own business. What the Germans did to others is a different matter and concerns those others, too. Very much in fact.
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  4856. ​ @grisflyt I agree. The whole of Europe is genocide-complicit too.
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  4857. Likewise. And for the Russian soldiers who've sacrificed their lives to liberate Donbass.
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  4858. 😅
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  4859. Anthony Blinken is proof that being able to play rock guitar and sociopathy are two perfectly compatible things.
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  4860.  @bozo5632  He keeps collapsing the two, so his new skepticism seems to pertain to all of the "attacks" (direct quotation) Ukraine's been making on that NPP.
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  4861.  @christiana1223  Thanks, Kristianna. I hadn't realized there were, or the Russians are claiming there were, at least two such attack attempts.
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  4862.  @torgnyhansson7409  I've just checked all the major English language MSM (Reuters, NYTimes, etc.) Plus the IAEA website itself, and can only assume you imagined that bit since IAEA has refused to lay the blame on Russia or so much as imply that Russia has been shelling its own troops at the NPP.
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  4863. Who's threatening you? Canada? Mexico? Who? 😂
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  4864. It's a crime scene.
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  4865. I'm not familiar with the details of the issues Max Blumenthal got wrong here. Can you please elaborate?
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  4866. Correct.
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  4867. Accusations of US involvement? The US engineered and started all this in the first place and is actively providing military support to Ukraine!
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  4868. ​ @stchan8569 None of his three degrees is in economics. His first degree is in music, and his Master's and Doctorate are both in Social Work.
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  4869. The spokesperson for Milei has already stated that Argentina won't be joining BRICS and that it will stay away from China and Brazil. Reported by RT seven hours ago.
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  4870. 😂
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  4871. Entirely fact-based and accurate, which is what's triggering the propaganda warriors assigned to this channel. And to make things worse for them, the IMF itself officially announced just yesterday (Jan 31, 2023) that they expect the Russian economy to GROW this year, while UK is facing a contraction or what Western economists in the best Nazi fashion, in which words mean the opposite of what they say, "negative growth".
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  4872. This hasn't aged well, has it? 😂
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  4873. It's the 10th in his part of the world. Brian's based in Thailand.
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  4874. Sure. That's why they invaded France, Denmark, Holland, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary -- none of which were communist or even majority communist at the time. Stop with that revisionist Nazi-whitewashing 💩
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  4875. ​​ @LVArturs  Usual? Normal? A reality check is in order. The World Bank and the IMF have downgraded the German economy from #1 to #2 in Europe, it being displaced by the Russian economy. They've also downgraded Germany from #5 in the world and Japan from #4, both being sequentially displaced by the economy of Russia, which is now #4 globally. Three out of the top 4 largest economies in the world belong to BRICS countries: #1 China #3 India #4 Russia The US economy is #2. None of the EU economies appears among the top 5. None of this is "normal" nor "usual".
    2
  4876. It's Ukraine that's lost 20% of its now former territory, not Russia.
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  4877. I don't feel sorry for the German people. You couldn't find a more conceited bunch of self-righteous virtue signalling Russophobes if you tried (well, perhaps I exaggerate: the Brits probably top them in all that). I'm not Greek, but I'll never forget or forgive what they did to Greece a decade ago.
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  4878. They mocked the survivors of the Holocaust who moved to Israel in the late 1940s. That's the sort of people they are.
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  4879. Don't let the Yanks intimidate you, China! From now on, the US is just one country among many.
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  4880. Well, things aren't exactly rosy right now. Oil revenues have declined by 45% compared with a year ago, and "Russia’s current-account surplus shrank by a whopping 73% over the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, according to central bank data released on Tuesday." RT I'm certain Russia will pull through, but it seems the economy is in for a somewhat bumpy ride this year, even with the IMF and World Bank forecasts of 2+% growth. If oil prices pick up, as they're expected to do and as you point out here, things should improve quite a bit by the end of the year. In the meantime, Europe can't find a sufficient supply of gas (and oil) anywhere and at any price, even while purchasing Russian gas via third party sellers, and at a much higher price than it enjoyed just 16 months ago.
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  4881. Are you crazy?! Who'd want that job after what she's been through?!!!
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  4882. 😅
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  4883. ​ @zloymyx2486 A huge mistake on the part of the Soviets, compounded by a ridiculously soft policy Putin also followed until September 2022, when he finally approved the mobilization. That Russia was still ready to abandon the people of Donbass back in March 2022, when it offered to have Donbass stay in Ukraine during those peace talks in Turkey is very disappointing. A great many otherwise Russian-friendly Ukrainians are still keeping their heads down because they can't tell what concessions Russia will eventually give to the West as part of a future peace settlement.
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  4884. Aaron asks good questions to get as much clarification from Baud as possible, but the question on possibly reviving the Minsk Accords was simply crazy. The people of those four regions have chosen to rejoin Russia (keep in mind that all of Novorossiya are simply parts of Russia annexed to Ukraine by Lenin) and it would be criminally insane on Russia's part to leave them to the un-tender mercies of a N a z i Ukraine or to trust Ukraine to honour ANY promises it might make! And no, Putin's words cannot be interpreted in away that goes against Russia's military doctrine. It's that military doctrine that provides the essential context for interpreting Putin's speech, and it does NOT allow for first use of nukes merely because Russian territory has been attacked.
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  4885. A scary, revolting thought.
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  4886. All of the independent Western military analysts I follow said the same: Major Scott Ritter, Col. Daniel Davis, Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-Marine Brian Berletic. All of them.
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  4887. And a Ph.D. in economics.
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  4888. Yes, including a nation with a civil war raging in it.
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  4889. Too deep to be drained.
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  4890. Should never have started sending them in the first place!
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  4891. 😮
    2
  4892. Why does Japan have a military base there? 😂
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  4893. ​ @porter4216  Purely symbolic. Ukraine can't come to UK's help, and the latter can't put together even an army of a hundred thousand. The whole thing is ridiculous nonsense.
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  4894. What a ridiculous claim. 😅
    2
  4895. 😂
    2
  4896. ​ @tooth8551  Oh dear. 😂 Georgia is the English name of a country that calls itself Gruzia.
    2
  4897. What's the problem with monitoring the health and safety impact on human populations living in the vicinity of extraction sites? Surely it's something we'd want to do, especially as it's simply a matter of data collection.
    2
  4898. 😮
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  4899. Of course he cares. He's still a jerk, though.
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  4900. 😮
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  4901. Russia didn't enter into this with its hands clean?! What on Earth can Mr Mercouris mean by that, given that the Russians have not only behaved with utmost probity and reliability in their dealings with the West, including incredible patience and forebearance, but have sunce the start of their SMO made every possible effort to minimize Ukrainian civilian losses? What dirty deeds and what perfidy can he accuse Russia of?
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  4902. It's absurd to think that engineers, mathematicians and physicists lack creativity or the ability to "think outside the box."
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  4903. ​ @SILVERCAT22  Not at all. One has to face reality fair and square: Trump has shown us that he's just another denizen of the swamp. And you know what they say: believe people when they show you who they are.
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  4904. Correct.
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  4905. Stop with the hypocrisy. Three words: Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  4906. Not yet. They like the billions in transfer payments they get from Brussels.
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  4907.  @BenJamin-rt7ui  Very imaginative. In reality, 115,000 of the locals (out of 180,000 in total) have already been evacuated to protect them from Kiev's savagery, and the evacuation of the rest is still under way.
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  4908. ​ @flyinpug3791  There are videos of Russian Far-East soldiers, yes, being pushed as NK forces by Ukrainian/Western propagandists, yes. It's easy to mislead people about this as most don't know about the 150 ethnic minorities in the RF.
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  4909. You can gauge their views by the facts that Russia has not had to have a second round of mobilization since the one in September 2022. For the past 18 months, it's seen a steady flow of volunteers, to the tune of 30,000 a month. Another way of assessing the Russians' views is their degree of support for Putin: steady at 78-80% (it varies a bit depending on the month the poll is taken).
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  4910. It's the Jewish connection that took Chomsky there -- there's never been even a smidgen of a hint of anything salacious about Chomsky all his life. Very different from the Clinton and Trump types.
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  4911. I'm coming to the conclusion that Arestovich is simply an opportunist. Shouldn't be trusted with the time of day.
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  4912. Who can tell? I'm sure Ukrainians are wary of expressing their true feelings and views to anyone but their closest family members.
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  4913. ​ @JoeSmith-sl9bq  For most of history, there were no nations. There were kingdoms and tribes and even empires, but no nations. The very concept of a nation is a 19th century European invention used to concentrate power centrally.
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  4914. That's exactly what's going on there. 💯
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  4915. Whatever it was, Ukrainian defenses screwed up, its own rocket coming down on that apartment building.
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  4916. Looks like the Europeans have completely forgotten the power they actually do have: the power of a General Strike. Amazing how such a thing focuses the minds of those who don't otherwise pay any attention to what we, mere ordinary people, think and want.
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  4917. ​ @ryanbyrd3835 Not necessarily.
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  4918. After training and equipping the Ukrainian armed forces for 8 years to fight a war against Russia, 40 Western countries have combined their military equipment, ammunition, and know-how and they still can't defeat Russia in Ukraine. Fiasco doesn't begin to describe it -- and all of this is unfolding right before the world's eyes.
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  4919. Paul Craig Roberts, who served as undersecretary for economic affairs in the Reagan administration, has been saying for the past 10 years that his inside sources tell him the State Department flies suitcases full of dollars to various EU capitals each and every month.
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  4920. Never heard of Mongolia?! What were you doing in your geography class?
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  4921. They were fully aware of what was about to go down and failed to act to prevent it. The latest cal governor seems to be a Bolsanaro man.
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  4922. These are geopolitical, not geographic terms.
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  4923. Oh do stop with these paranoid idiocies! Russia's not interested in sweeping across entire Europe!
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  4924. They want victory in Ukraine.
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  4925. They're trying to. Doesn't seem to be going so well for them, though. The Georgians can see what happened to Ukraine....
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  4926. ​ @supersayianjim2 Or trigger the kinetic phase of WW3.
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  4927. I find Lukyanov's choice of words disturbing, and even ominous for Russia. Here's what I mean. For as long as people such as high-ranking Russians continue to refer to the leaders of the countries that explicitly want to destroy Russia as their president's "partners" -- as this Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy did at the 19:33 min mark -- Russia's security and future as a state will remain in question.
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  4928. Only in Europe.
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  4929. I'm sure you know better.
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  4930. They're noting the comments we make online.
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  4931. Yeah, I've seen all of that happen on my smartphone, too. It's real and it's not you alone.
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  4932. Germany is both spineless and totally lacking in integrity.
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  4933. He's factual. If facts strike you as bias, you'll need to talk to a professional about the reality principle.
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  4934. So glad your brother was able to kick the habit and rehabilitate himself! It's a real accomplishment. Respect.
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  4935.  @nicholasoneal1521  Not only was it unforced but in addition to the 300,000 called in, another 80,000 Russians have volunteered to join them and are being trained for combat as we speak.
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  4936. Just a coincidence. 😅
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  4937. I wouldn't compare the two: unlike the 2020 elections in the US, the Russian elections were fair and square.
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  4938. 😂
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  4939. Brian Berletic of the New Atlas Channel has been showing for mobths that this was coming and was a US action, with Israel acting as its proxy. Donald Trump's statements yesterday and today make that clear (unless you really insist on being fooled by his duplicitous denials). Btw, Brian has backs his analyses with US position papers, think tank papers, and publicly available documents.
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  4940. Truth hurts, eh? 😜
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  4941. Luna???
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  4942. They committed the largest, worst genocide in the ancient world. In 2nd century Middle East, in Judea.
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  4943. He probably loves his dog. So did Hitler.
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  4944. I was never attracted to or persuaded by historical materialism itself, but I see no tension or contradiction between being a Christian and being a socialist. Christ expects nothing less of us.
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  4945. For the algorithm.
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  4946. I support Russia.
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  4947. No. Where did you get that idea?!
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  4948. Poor Borrell, first he admits that Europe's prosperity was based on cheap, affordable, and secure gas and oil from Russia, and then, realizing how inconvenient that truth is, he immediately paddles back on it. 😅
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  4949. Which way is that?
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  4950. Wonderful work. Well done!
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  4951. Russians have been vacationing in Thailand for years! 😅
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  4952. Because they don't want to engage the bear. They know the Russians are using less than 15% of their military capability in the SMO and will take the gloves off when it comes to fighting non-Slavs.
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  4953. I'd love to see that. These entitled little narcissists need to be made to answer for their actions.
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  4954. Huh? 😅
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  4955. 🎯
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  4956. 🎯
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  4957. Europe's choice is either to be a colony of the US (and the role of the EU is to ensure that) or for European states to take their independent positions in BRICS+, equal to all the other BRICS+ members. The idea that Europe would become a colony of China is worse than absurd: it's demonstrably Sinophobic. Or will Prof. Wolff now claim that Brazil or Saudi Arabia or Ethiopia are Chibese colonies for having joined BRICS+? The one new thing I learned from the Putin interview is that France and Germany had asked Russia to withdraw its troops from around Kiev at the end of March 2022 as a goodwill gesture to, supposedly, pave the way to the signing of the peace deal hammered out in Turkey. This is an important piece of information as it puts paid on the new narrative that was being tested out just a few weeks ago, viz that Ujraine had managed to retake 50% of the territory Russia held at the start of the SMO.
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  4958. I don't know what it means in Bulgaria and Germany, but I understand that neither has the homeless problem we in North America have (Canada as well as the US).
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  4959.  @rattlehead999  I'm in Canada, where, except in small towns, people on a minimum wage are also reduced to sharing apartments and more often rooms with strangers. A bed (not a bedroom, just a bed) in Toronto goes for $1,000 a month!
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  4960. ​ @gunwu9084  Maybe that's what you've been told, but if so, you've been lied to.
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  4961. His wife must be a monster to allow her husband to humiliate himself in public week after week after week.
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  4962. 😂
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  4963. ​ @georgecarmel6114  It's selling plenty enough, via third parties like India.
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  4964. You've missed the real issue here.
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  4965. Fortunately, this has NOT happened in all schools, orphanages, and other institutions.
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  4966. What a monstrous civilization the collective West really is! After centuries of invading, genociding, and mercilessly exploiting all corners of the planet, they're still at it while hypocritically strutting around and congratulating themselves on their "morals" and their "values" and their "democracy".
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  4967. Good afternoon from Canada!
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  4968. Nonsense. The whole thing started with another US+EU sponsored colour revolution in 2013 and the US-staged coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014, followed by the new fascist regime's attack on its own ethnic Russian citizens in Donbass.
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  4969. It's great to see Prof. Wolff here. I hope Rachel will also invite Prof. Michael Hudson to her show, too.
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  4970. 😅
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  4971. You think? 😘
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  4972. The idea that Shelley influenced feminism is itself ludicrous. 😅
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  4973. And much more real, too.
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  4974. I feel as sorry for them as I do for the Germans of the 1930s and 1940s. Selectively and not very much, that is.
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  4975. They were promised about 300 tanks.
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  4976. Pyatt suggested Klitschko but Nuland shot the idea down, preferring Yatsenyuk (or Yats, as she called him) for the post of interim leader.
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  4977. He's a first class analyst and an ex-Marine himself, like Scott Ritter and Brian Berletic.
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  4978. He has excellent reasons for feeling paranoid, though.
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  4979. 🎯
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  4980. So they lived in her house, i.e. he didn't contribute towards buying the property, and she still agreed to sell it and give him the proceeds even though he was supposedly an IT professional, some who should have been making a very good income himself. Why didn't she insist they go to the police if, as he claimed, someone was threatening their children?! I'm just trying to point out to the many red flags this woman ignored. When she says in a previous segment that she had no clues of his psychopathy, I think she's simply telling us that she was extremely gullible and vulnerable to manipulation.
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  4981. Dima is from Belarus.
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  4982.  @MusaA  Those days are gone.
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  4983. Turn on Auto-translate and select French from the drop-down menu. The translation you'll get will be wonky and occasionally incomprehensible, but it will still help.
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  4984. Yes, it is.
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  4985. ​​ @fred6319 That was 66 years ago. Technology has advanced since then. The French have relied for 50% of their power needs on nuclear energy for decades without a single accident. They've just removed the 50% cap and passed a law to speed up the deployment of new nuclear plants. Egypt's got two plants in the works, one completed and one being built as we speak, and the Chinese have announced the construction of 24 new nuclear plants.
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  4986. ​ @neilba1  Small town, eh? 😅 THE most heavily fortified town in all of Ukraine and the centre from which Kiev's been shelling Donetsk for the past 9 years, that "small town" you mean. 😂
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  4987. And that same population is set to vote an even more pro-war set of idiots to power.
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  4988. He suffers from life-long depression. It tells you how pathetic both the Canadian and the American health systems are that he had to turn to Russian doctors to save his life.
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  4989. How?!
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  4990.  @dekartmagomedov  So what?! Russia's now protecting those civilians at the expense of the ones in Donetsk city! How does THAT make any sense???
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  4991. I think his father (or grandfather) is from Croatia.
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  4992. ​ @novaace2474  Aren't they supposed to have migrated from Siberia?
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  4993.  @timkbirchico8542  I've no idea what that "No" is doing in this thread because I agree with yuchichan's statement. I think it's a YT glitch (I've seen it happen a couple of times before).
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  4994. ​ @abdalehassan4598  Neither secularism nor atheism is a religion.
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  4995. He has. He's running as an Independent.
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  4996. I think teacher bashing is almost universal in the West. It's certainly a national sport both in Canada (where I live) and in the US.
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  4997. There's nothing new or realistic in this supposedly new development. Russia will never accept a ceasefire, which can only be a pretext for the re-militarization of Ukraine. It will have to be a lasting peace or complete capitulation by Ukraine. Ukraine still has a chance to negotiate real peace with Russia, but to do so it first needs to change the law that forbids any peace negotiations with Russia.
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  4998.  cynthiademario7331  Ukraine never had nukes. They belonged to the USSR and were always managed and administered by Moscow, who'd produced and paid for them. Once the USSR was dissolved, the nukes went to its successor state, the Russian Federation. As for its borders, Ukraine has never registered them with the UN. Not in 1991 and not at any point since. Too bad that the EU, in its inimitable arrogance, chose to violate Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum back in the fall of 2013, thereby destroying the ONLY international memorandum of understanding that had up until then guaranteed Ukraine's post-Soviet territorial integrity. Once that was rendered null and void by EU's violation of its Article 3, which expressly forbids the use of economic ultimatums for geopolitical purposes, the territories that made up Soviet-era Ukraine were up for grabs. Ukraine has the EU to thank for that.
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  4999. Exactly.
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  5000. To avoid a hangover, take a big dose of Vitamin B complex before going to bed. Tried and true. Btw, Milei takes advice on economics from his dead pooch, via a medium.
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  5001. It can't. Only UN Security Council resolutions are binding. Those passed by the General Assembly are not and cannot be enforced but only complied with.
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  5002. Patrick should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!
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  5003. Azerbaijan is incontrovertibly the aggressor, not just this time but the time before this.
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  5004. ​ whitmanmaleman BS
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  5005. ​ @jaypeedesuyo662  I took it for sarcasm, but I guess you recognize the author from previous comments?
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  5006. ​ @AlexDrastico380  Butter and cheese, I think.
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  5007. Not really. The West is still keeping all of its good weaponry for itself. Economically speaking, the EU sold Europe out to the Americans, but Russia's go-slow strategy had nothing to do with that.
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  5008. 🤣
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  5009. German? They both speak it fluently.
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  5010. ​ @ronsmyth2005  That's some serious cope, that. This and the first half of the next century, at the latest, more likely.
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  5011. In a nutshell, yes.
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  5012. Russia's military doctrine allows for first use of nukes only in these two situations: 1. If Russia is attacked by an overwhelmingly numerous conventional enemy force (and Ukraine can't raise anything even close to that) 2. If the very existence of the Russian state is at stake (again, Ukraine can pose no threat to the Russian state as such), but Western talk of dismembering Russia may indeed qualify as such a threat. We should all be writing to our elected representatives to demand immediate peace talks with Russia and a public rejection of any intention to undermine or Balkanize it.
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  5013. Poland, its political class, and the Baltic chihuahua states are straining at the leash to be allowed to start a Europe-wide war. One of the consequences of EU's crazy eastward expansion.
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  5014. 😅
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  5015. ​ @ericpts6811  Ok.
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  5016. 😂😂😂
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  5017. For the Democrats, whomever they nominate for 2024.
    2
  5018. 😢
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  5019. 😮
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  5020. And the UK.
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  5021. Exactly: austerity is a choice. We should stop voting into power those who impose austerity on the rest of us.
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  5022. What's this nonsense about Ukraine offering a peace agreement to Russia in Istanbul?! 😂 It was the exact opposite, in fact.
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  5023. 😂
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  5024. Fort.
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  5025. Standard practice? Can you name just three other individuals of similar background as Ritter who've had their passports confiscated without explanation.
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  5026. Areas occupied (by their own residents) since 2014?! Nuts, just nuts.
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  5027. 🎯
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  5028. You still think ANY of your representatives actually care?!
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  5029. With a senile man in the Oval Office, things are only now getting a bit too clownish?
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  5030. ​@JeffreyGlover65 It may mean something to you, but the rest of the world's not impressed.
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  5031. Well done, Russia!
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  5032. Google Patriot Act.
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  5033. As a retired OPSEU member, I agree 💯%.
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  5034. Yes, they are. All of them are also IDF reservists, not simple civilians.
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  5035. Pentagon might not think that such a good idea. But we'll see.
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  5036. He's fluent in both German and Russian and can quote reams of poetry in Russian.
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  5037. The latter. And yes, you're right: treating them as a separate force is either silly or tendentious.
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  5038.  @nautyseilor6402  There's never been a single country in the world that exemplifies communism. Some countries have been run by their communist parties, true, but that's a quite different matter. In any case, we agree on the main point, viz. that governments should serve us, the people.
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  5039. Cope harder. 😂
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  5040. It's a demographic catastrophe for Ukraine, and they have only themselves and all of NATO to thank for it.
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  5041. Yale, the breeding ground of neocons.
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  5042. The stats for the US are that 75% of married men and almost 50% of all married women will cheat on their partner at least once.
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  5043. I don't think she does anymore. She said some seriously genocidal things back in 2014-2016 or so, some so monstrous that I don't see how the Russians could work with her ever again.
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  5044. No F16s.
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  5045. I agree. Russia should have taken care of things back in 2014, when Ukraine had no army to speak of and the whole thing could've done in a matter of weeks and at a tiny fraction of the human cost on both sides. Putin himself has publicly admitted that he was wrong not to have done so.
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  5046. I agree. Russia should have taken care of things back in 2014, when Ukraine had no army to speak of and the whole thing could've done in a matter of weeks and at a tiny fraction of the human cost on both sides. Putin himself has publicly admitted that he was wrong not to have done so.
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  5047. Apparently so.
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  5048. You really think this is what mayors do, that it was her decision?! 😂
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  5049. You don't need to be a Stoic to know/understand that.
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  5050. The comedian's turned into a subpar clown.
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  5051. Shelling civilian structures, people's homes -- the act of cowards, of people with no morals and no pride.
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  5052. Putin's doing just fine. It's the quality of the brain and not the height of the man that matters.
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  5053. ​​​ @ljones98391  That's silly. As if the future of Christianity depends on the behaviour of the members of the American political class! 😅
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  5054. ​ @olgaluna6447  Yes, but Germans now pretend not to know it. I'm disgusted with Europe.
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  5055. Go to sleep, child.
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  5056. Well, of course they would -- naturally! They're trying to save their lives. It's a war, isn't it?
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  5057. What a lovely story! 🙂
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  5058. ​​ @bobilaforce8252  Ha! Koliko nas ima srba-makedonaca! (Ja sam rodjena u Beogradu, skoro celi zivot sam provela na Zapadu, i sada se smatram srpkinjom mada sam se kao mala osecala jugoslovenkom.). Moj otac je takodje bio iz Makedonije, iz Kruseva, a mama iz Srbije, Beograd. Tata se preselio u Beograd sa 5 godina, i nazalost, nikada nas (mene i sestru) nije odveo u Makedoniju. Izvinjavam se za ovaj spontani zivotipis! 😅
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  5059. A bit of levity in this dark, dark world: love the jacket, Mr Galloway! And may the devils lose.
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  5060. That was so when the UK and the States still had a strong manufacturing sector. Times have changed.
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  5061. I don't see Poland ever agreeing to that, but who knows
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  5062. Why the emphasis on the word Jews, especially now when a large number of Jews outside Israel openly and strongly oppose Israeli Zionist genocide in Gaza?
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  5063. Not included in the KIA number.
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  5064. Maybe he's pissed off at the incompetence of his own side?
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  5065. This gentleman is the most embarrassingly banal German politician, whose interview on here has revealed the utter idea bankruptcy of German nationalism. Let me just remind the hyonotized masses that the good old 19th century Germany Krah repeatedly evokes us the Germany that produced the ideology of race supremacy and cultural supremacy that pervaded the German academia, fed the young Nazis and issued in full-blown German fascism. Ugly city centers and a spineless, venal managerial culture?! Just like the Germans of that good old Germany who'd only followed orders, you know....
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  5066. How did the French police allow this to happen in the first place?! Disgusting! Can you imagine the reaction if some Westerners burnt an old, historically unique mosque anywhere in the world?
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  5067. Germans are arming Nazis.
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  5068. At the moment, he is. Alas.
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  5069. I think we've all been brainwashed on this topic.
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  5070. Undoubtedly? Thus spake the bigoted ignoramus. Go to any Muslim country and check it out yourself: their medical systems don't discriminate and don't separate people by religion or ethnicity.
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  5071. 😂
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  5072. Are you kidding?! Keeping your wallet visible in the US is a direct invitation to be robbed! 😂
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  5073. People need to start organising for a general strike or a series of them. It's the only thing that could make these Masters of the Universe back away from their interminable wars and the impoverishment of the rest of us.
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  5074. Great glasses, looking great on you! 😍
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  5075. Russia's been selling its oil and gas at favourable prices to its Asian partners for months now. Alexander's mentioned it numerous times over the past 8-12 weeks!
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  5076. Car traffic has resumed and the first train has also passed over it. Scott Ritter's channel has a video of it.
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  5077. I'm hoping Ukraine surrenders by March 2023, say. Russia might even give Ukrainians a face-saving out by not calling it an unconditional surrender but just referring to successful peace negotiations.
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  5078. I understand that behind the scenes, everyone agrees the two state solution is no longer viable, that it ain't gonna happen. Which leaves us with the one state solution, the dismantling of Israeli apartheid and the granting of full citizenship rights to all Palestinians, including those driven into exile by Israeli violence. Rename the country into Israel-Palestine, and have done with it. The problem is, most Israeli Jews would have conniptions at the very thought of sharing a country with Arabs, i.e. Palestinians, whom they view as sub-human.
    2
  5079. Snyder is a propagandist masquerading as a historian.
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  5080. Didn't know that Brazil and South Africa are in the east. Or Saudi Arabia. 😅
    2
  5081. Is the Pope Catholic?
    2
  5082. What's PM?
    2
  5083. Yes, he suffers from serious vision problems.
    2
  5084. Nah.
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  5085. That's a barefaced lie. My niece returned by bus from Montenegro the night of March 14/15, and there were no problems at all.
    2
  5086. Yes, and remember: all those regions were a part of Russia until Lenin chopped them off in the 1920s and annexed them to the borderlands to create Ukraine.
    2
  5087. ​ @alicem-m8g  Rubbish.
    2
  5088. The way this SMO has been run from the start -- with no unified, Central command until just 4 weeks ago -- has been a joke. And it's only now that the Duran guys are noticing it!
    2
  5089. A public (private) school in the UK.
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  5090. Too late for that. Ukraine had 8 years to implement them but chose instead to prepare for a war with Russia it then provoked.
    2
  5091. We know. You're wasting your time.
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  5092. Both Major Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor say that the claim of 2,000 Russian soldiers killed in a day is pure fantasy, pure war propaganda. As for the extension of the grain deal, the news of which also initially angered me, I think it's done to show good will towards the Chinese peace plan. Given that Xi himself is personally involved in negotiating it, Moscow probably feels it best to play extremely nice at this juncture in order to preserve its special relationship with China. That said, I'm still not happy about it.
    2
  5093. The Russian military never made that claim. They've been very careful not to lie.
    2
  5094. 😂😂😂
    2
  5095. These people have gone nuts with their arrogance and conceit. I hope China stands its ground and dukes it out with the US economically. Russia's defeating all of NATO single-handedly, so it's time for China in particular to flex its economic muscles and put the US in its place. India and other up-and-coming developing economies should join China in that. Enough is enough!
    2
  5096. From different parts of Norway, perhaps? Stoltenberg sounds more Swedish than Norwegian to me
    2
  5097. "moving towards" means nothing.
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  5098. 😂
    2
  5099. And you find what Brazil did funny?
    2
  5100. True.
    2
  5101. ​ @terefefeyssa877  You really don't understand what "I'm sorry you feel that way" feels?
    2
  5102. I think you're reading things into Berlusconi's words that simply aren't there. He seems to be basically right: Putin was extremely reluctant to commit to Donbass and was criticized for it in Russia for 7 years straight. The scandal in Italy is that Berlusconi's going directly against the official Western narrative that Putin woke up one day and decided to invade poor innocent Ukraine just because.
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  5103. Brian, there's a 4th possibility you missed regarding Prigozhin. Just a week or two ago, he said in an interview that Wagner's now losing up to 90 men a day and that with adequate amounts of ammo, this number would drop down to 20 or so. There's no reason to think that he was either lying or exaggerating or playing some political games. Russia lost about 27 million people in WW2, and one cannot overstate how much each human life means to the Russians, how much determined they are NOT to incur even one death/loss more than is inevitable. Prigozhin waited at least a week (more like two) for the RF army to react and supply Wagner with the ammo needed to minimized the loss of human life in its ranks. His video the other day was the gesture meant to shame the army bosses and force them to do the right thing. And it worked. RT reported about 18 hrs ago that Wagner will from now on be supplied with ALL the ammo it requests, it deems necessary. I don't know why Alexander Mercouris feels the need to call into question Prigozhin's motives and credibility, his good faith, but it behooves those of us who support Russia and are sympathetic to its cause to recognize (and not keep silent) about the corruption and nepotism in and the mistakes made by the Russian army.
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  5104. The same. Totally compromised and apparently totally shameless, too.
    2
  5105. She was appointed.
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  5106. It's morally obscene to make such a claim. None of us has any experiential notion of what it's like to be a slave.
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  5107. Keep telling yourself that.
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  5108. It's a charmed or perhaps cursed circle of mutual wishful thinking and disinformation: with the assistance of Bandera Ukrainians, neocon think tanks produce their ideologically motivated delusions about Russia, which are then fed to the Russian liberal 5th column, which recycles it to the Ukrainian secret services, which then return the whole skein of fantasies and wishful thinking back to their sponsors in the West.
    2
  5109. Not for Ukraine and the collective West.
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  5110. 😅
    2
  5111. In the last two years, and according to the World Bank which has certainly been keeping an eye on the rouble too, the Russian economy first overtook Germany's to become #1 in Europe, and then Japan, to become #4 globally.
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  5112. Dear Alexander, please do take a day or two off to recover from this lingering, returning flu or chest cold. The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to believe that the decision to pull out of Kherson city was already made at the time Gen. Surovikin was put in charge of the SMO. His announcement straight off the bat that he's ready to make some "difficult decisions" and the fact that the Russian troops spent the past 4 weeks evacuating the civilians and removing historical monuments from Kherson city suggests that the decision was taken at least a month ago. In this context, Surovikin seems to me to be the man appointed to take the flak for the series of bad military decisions made by the political leadership that resulted in the losses and embarrassments Russia has suffered since the beginning of September. I heard today, either in your Duran video with Alex or in Andrei Martyanov's latest, that Putin has now given free reign to the Russian General Staff and will no longer interfere with the running of the SMO. For Russia's sake and the sake of all of us who want to see a genuinely multipolar world take form, I hope that's true.
    2
  5113. ​ @NeoCynic1  Where? The Ulysses or?
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  5114. 😅
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  5115. Which it has the right to do in international law.
    2
  5116. The way GDP is measured all across the West is a joke. It's the most misleading matrix imaginable, but that's precisely what makes it so useful for our rulers.
    2
  5117. Algerians are not Arabs. They're Berbers.
    2
  5118. Yes, it is. I'm surprised that none of the independent analysts I follow has addressed it yet. They probably will, in time.
    2
  5119. Since 2008.
    2
  5120. ​ @Catfordprepper665  ?
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  5121. EU countries are on their way down. It'd be the height of stupidity for us to join the EU when there's an economically better alternative.
    2
  5122. 😂
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  5123. This is about trying to preserve Western hegemony, the world domination by the 14% of hunanity that makes up the Collective West: with the division of labour between the EU, hemming in Russia militarily, while the US prepares for a war against China. You and Ben Norton are the only independent analysts here who did not fall for Trump's theatre.
    2
  5124. Just look at the stats.
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  5125. I wouldn't dismiss out of hand the possibility of a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Bakhmut. Zaluzhny spoke on the phone with Lloyd Austen just two days ago, and while we don't have an official statement on the contents of that phone conversation from either Ukraine or the US, it may well be that Zelensky had coerced Zaluzhny into trying to explain to the Americans the rationale behind Ukraine's attempt at a counteroffensive there. Brian Berletic has addressed this possibility in the video he's posted today, in which he points out that even a successful Ukrainian counterattack in Bakhmut will mean nothing and will be quickly reversed as long as the basic conditions that led to the Russian encirclement of Bakhmut are not addressed and remedied. He also explains why Ukraine and its Western sponsors are unable to reverse those basic conditions and offers the analogy with what happened in Aleppo when Western-sponsored jihadists made a temporary breakthrough before being decisively ejected from the city. In short, even if Ukraine manages to pull off a breakthrough in Bakhmut, while this will be touted as a great victory by our media, it will amount to but a flash in the pan.
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  5126. Way too much speculation at this point. Reduce it by about 50% or it will begin to erode your credibility, Alex.
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  5127. US Secretary of the State Department, i.e. their minister of foreign affairs.
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  5128. Ukraine never had a population of 52 million. At its peak in 1991, its population was some 42 million.
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  5129. Why do you think France refused to allow the UN Security Council to discuss this?
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  5130. That's a lot more tanks (but in what condition) than I thought.
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  5131. Our media are a part of the NATOstan propaganda machine. Amazing how loathe we're to recognize that
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  5132.  @Sayid-al-Furat  Not so. The regions in question were a part of Russia itself until Lenin chopped them off and annexed to the Borderlands in order to create Ukraine. This is why they're still populated by ethnic Russians, direct descendants of the Russians whose land Lenin had arbitrarily alienated in the 1920s.
    2
  5133. 😂
    2
  5134. 😮 If the French follow him, they'll have no one but themselves to blame.
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  5135. ​​ @BabaYaga-i3f  It's not just one small group. It's a pervasive phenomenon in Ukraine, which has been analysed by both Amnesty International and the Jewish-American magazine Algemeiner.
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  5136. ​ @AFLOVEable  Most host countries don't pay for the US troops -- South Korea is an exception, contributing 44% of the cost of the troops.
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  5137. Zelensky has a British passport and can move there any time he likes.
    2
  5138. It was insulting to our intelligence and morals.
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  5139. I agree. France and possibly Italy are the only two major European countries where resistance to Antlanticism may develop.
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  5140. Stop being so touchy and so narcissistic. He wasn't talking about you
    2
  5141. ​​ @samchandler7747  The only ones from that list that couldn't have emerged elsewhere are the blues and rock 'n roll. We're still reading Ancient Greeks but I wonder if people will be listening to rock 2,500 years from now. Bach and Tchaikovsky have a much greater chance of living on that long.
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  5142. She's an American Zionist who, after moving to Israel, moved again, this time to Sweden to start pushing a specific form of multiculturalism in Europe. I have NO doubt that she's part of an Israeli revanchist project aimed at destroying the European civilization for its many historical sins against Jews.
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  5143. That's a moralizing piece of fiction we tell ourselves to satisfy our sense of justice. In reality, many a happy, lasting second marriage starts off as an extramarital romance. I don't like it myself -- people should separate and divorce their spouse decently before they embark on a new relationship -- but facts are facts.
    2
  5144.  @Grammichal  The stats on both first and subsequent marriages NOT based on adultery by (at least) one of the partners are not that great either. But you know that, right?
    2
  5145. It's easier to forgive and to continue to love someone who clearly didn't act out of hatred or malice. As his stepfather put it, he could see that Sonny's body was there but that he wasn't. A terrible tragedy.
    2
  5146. Better yet, write "NO war with Russia!"
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  5147.  @robertscott961  The Budapest Memorandum was violated (and thereby rendered null and void) by the EU back in 2013 when it issued an economic ultimatum to Ukraine (see Article 3 of the Budapest Memo).
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  5148. I believe you're morally obliged to vote Biden out of office. He's made the US an accomplice in Israel's genocide in Gaza and is by now late in the 2nd stage of senile dementia. The condition is irreversible and it's beyond madness to have a man as mentally compromised as Biden in charge of our nuclear arsenal.
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  5149.  @mjkittredge  It's funny how some Americans can't but think in terms of their rotten duopoly and imagine everyone else does the same.
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  5150. Thanks.
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  5151. The British establishment has had an anti-Russia policy for centuries now. Read the Swiss MP Guy Mettan's magisterial "Russophobia" for details.
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  5152. ​ @paulbattenbough1002  Except that you no longer own the world. Europe, maybe. The world? A definite nah.
    2
  5153. ​ @liuj88  True, but try providing geopolitical analysis and analysis of the proxy war in Ukraine day in and day out, with at most 5-7 days off in the entire year.
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  5154. I remember that, too.
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  5155. America's delusional about many things.
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  5156. If only they'd never left.
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  5157. 😅
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  5158. His connections as a school kid? 😂
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  5159. ​ @chocomilo1628 They're now sending more of their soldiers to Kosovo, just to intimidate Serbia. Serbia itself, all of it, is just a NATO colony of course. 🫤
    2
  5160. Nice to see a handful of people out in the streets, but the Germans should be out there in their millions. Where are they?!
    2
  5161. Congratulations, Mr Galloway! 🎉 I was rooting for you from Canada! 🙂
    2
  5162. It was a Leopard.
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  5163. ​ @screamingmonk Autocorrect, probably. I keep having to go back over my comments to correct Autocorrect idiocies in them. 😅
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  5164. The US is not your friend, India.
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  5165. They're jumping from the proverbial frying pan into the fire, then. Mind-boggling craziness.
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  5166. Sounds like desperate Ukrainian cope.
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  5167. Ukraine will eventually be compelled to capitulate. It's appalling that Zelensky and those around him are too greedy and too indifferent to the fate of Ukrainian men they're sending to a certain death to do the sensible and honourable thing and surrender.
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  5168. Jack's the chillest cat I'ever seen! What a sweetheart! ❤️
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  5169. Defending Bakhmut itself, upwards of 30,000. Absolute crime by Kiev.
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  5170. Meters. Not kilometers.
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  5171. ​ @TheTigerQuoll  Exactly. It created nothing.
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  5172. Americans didn't rise up during the Great Depression either. A nation of turkeys imagining they're eagles.
    2
  5173. My impression is that Putin's still opposing it.
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  5174.  @AtharvVaidya-wz2yb  None is so blind as those who will not see.
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  5175. The Russians offered to open a military base in Serbia just a few months ago. Vucic the Idiot turned them down. He's a fully bought-up Western puppet who's resisted applying sanctions on Russia only because he'd be run out of office by the Serbian public if he tried to do it.
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  5176. 😂
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  5177. Where's the irony? The guy's shown himself incompetent/inefficient, and in such a case, legal scholars agree, the president has the authority to fire him. Btw, it's exactly what Germany's Scholtz has done to his finance minister.
    2
  5178. ​ @Kimmaline  Your ex MIL certainly beats the responsibility for the consequences of her child rearing style. She sounds like a narcissist mother with her golden narcissist son. I'm glad those people are out of your life.
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  5179. ​ @yvonnerahui8729  So, you advocate not judging murderers, defrauders, rapists and child molesters but just letting them walk around free, because only God can judge them?! I don't think you've thought this through really. (And I happen to be a Christian myself, by choice.)
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  5180. ​ @laquethaobongo  If you call shelling your civilian neighbours for 8 straight years humane, yes
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  5181. Get yourself into an air-conditioned café and do the videos from there.
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  5182.  @stephendgreen1502  The way I phrased my comment was confusing: I was referring to cultural analysis, not to clinical psychotherapists. Christopher Lasch published "The Culture of Narcissism" back in 1979 and it's still an essential book on the topic.
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  5183. This is getting scarier and scarier by the minute. Unless the public in the West (but especially in Europe) rise up against NATO and the USA, we're in for a conflict that will simply destroy Europe.
    2
  5184. ​ @Fighter4Street 😂
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  5185. 😂😂😂
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  5186. Russia ain't doing diddley squat to ruin anyone's economy. The pain and the destruction the West is experiencing are entirely self-inflicted. Hoisted by its own petard.
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  5187. Why so passive? You can always take to the streets in your millions and demand new elections.
    2
  5188. You pinned your hopes on an avowed fascist?! 😅
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  5189. All very true, but it strikes me how readily we tolerate age-inappropriate behaviour by 80-year-old male rockers like Mick Jagger to strut on the stage and gyrate his hips as he was doing in his 20s.
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  5190. He's just shown us he's another denizen of the swamp.
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  5191. Lavrov just met with Lula in Brazil.
    2
  5192.  @fit4u679  Some Quebecois do speak with a proper French accent.
    2
  5193. And when will American people do something about that?
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  5194. ​​​ @AlexanderMisaThiefandLiar I hope it's true. Why should Ukrainian men let themselves be killed for Zelensky's unimaginably corrupt regime and its equally corrupt and callous sponsors in the West?!
    2
  5195. It has a lot of it. The Yanks are still buying loads of uranium from Russia.
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  5196. 😉
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  5197. ​ @tnuggyz And because we're passive and atomized. There's no organized force to threaten them with a potential overthrow, and the state institutions -- the army, the intelligence agencies, the security apparatus -- are all compromised and rotten to the core. The US needs a Second American Revolution, but how likely is that?
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  5198. Biden lies -- he simply, brazenly, knowingly lies. So I take that as one of the absolutely typical Biden lies, in which reality is 100% inverted.
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  5199. 😂
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  5200. I agree. I was born and grew up in Europe and am terminally disappointed and disgusted with Europe now. Whatever economic misery their boomeranging sanctions against Russia may cause them, it will come to a no more deserving a set of people than the sainted Europeans.
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  5201.  @kwakuba9167  Same here in Canada. I still suspect the comment was meant ironically.
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  5202. Nah. You're sprinting into it.
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  5203. ​ @mydancinglife730 😂
    2
  5204. The Zelensky regime and has already publicly rejected Orban's proposal.
    2
  5205. But that's exactly what we've had for decades!
    2
  5206. ​ @Down_the_Wind  You make basic respect for factual accuracy seem somehow odd and perhaps a little impolite. 😅
    2
  5207. He has a PhD in economics, specialising in the economics of energy industry. And a degree in law.
    2
  5208. She's NOT an ethics professor. She's some kind of a psychologist.
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  5209. ​ @PeterNolan-009  Then you deserve the kids you have.
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  5210. Greeks celebrate Christmas on Dec 25.
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  5211. Isn't that an insult?
    2
  5212. Unfortunately, US corporate media, whose owners are themselves a part of the military industrial complex, have done their propaganda job so well that the percentage of Americans who now support further funding and arming of Ukraine has risen from 46% just a few months ago to 61% now.
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  5213. So, Trump agreed to this? Another hypocrite misleading and manipulating his followers. Americans really do need a Second American Revolution, this time to get rid of their militaristic oligarchy and secure a real democracy for themselves and none of this "representative" democracy scam!
    2
  5214. So, what are our options?
    2
  5215. On my side, usually.
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  5216. Dear Prof. Diesen, I think we've all heard quite enough from George Beebe. Inviting him for a third time may not be necessary.
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  5217. Exactly. The Pilgrims were already full of it.
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  5218. Another brilliant presentation of how the US funds and uses Islamic terrorists against its economic rivals. It's really no more than a mafia state.
    2
  5219. 😮
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  5220. ​ @Ultra-Violet  No problem. Homosexuality is legal in Russia and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is banned.
    2
  5221. They're delirious.
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  5222. It's not a rumour. And it's not just The Guardian. The BBC, too. Looney Tunes over there in the UK. 😂
    2
  5223. Biological woman here, old-time feminist, and insulted and disgusted by this mysogynist movement and its "feminist" allies.
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  5224. A most interesting backgrounder about the Wagner group. Am looking forward to Alexander's analysis of Shoygu and Gerasimov.
    2
  5225. ​ @verar5844  Is that supposed to be an example of Shoigu's corruption? Because if it is, it's just one of the many perfectly legal things the moneyed classes do to minimize the taxes and other duties they pay.
    2
  5226. This is a US propaganda channel. Yemen has been the target of appalling Saudi and Western aggression for over a decade. That's all.
    2
  5227. History Legends guy's reliable.
    2
  5228. You wish.
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  5229. Of course we can (hold them to account). The French showed us how it's done back in the late 18th century.
    2
  5230. Yeah, right. 😅
    2
  5231. Russia, China and India are doing just fine.
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  5232. 😅
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  5233. True, except that the original key neocons were all Anglos.
    2
  5234. True. 😅
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  5235. Doubt it. Zelensky will keep sending Ukrainian men to their deaths regardless.
    2
  5236. Surely those summits with presidents of various African countries include one-on-one meetings that last a lot longer than 2.5 minutes. Asia is a continent, too, but Asian countries do diplomacy and make economic arrangements individually. The same is true for North America, South America, and even Europe. The EU doesn't make economic deals for France, or for Italy, or for Bulgaria, etc. Each country negotiates such things individually, for itself.
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  5237. Why should they talk about us?! We're not members of the EU, and right now the EU is not interested in staging a colour revolution/regime change in Serbia. If we had any sense, we'd demand of all our political parties to commit to withdrawing our application for EU membership or we'll end up like Bulgaria, a colony of the West with even lower standards of living than we currently have!
    2
  5238. ​ @arthurtane1557  Give it up, sweetie.
    2
  5239. People with the bipolar disorder can be hell to live with. Knowing that, I think his parents were glad to have someone take him off their hands and didn't care about the ethics of the situation.
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  5240. You'll have to make that clear to European governments, circumventing the EU altogether. In fact, none of this would be happening had the EU not expanded eastwards, incorporating countries whose Russophobia and revanchist dreams are what's pushing us all to WW3.
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  5241. Not a patch on the recently deceased Stephen F. Cohen, America's premier Russia Studies scholar, who kept warning about the disaster the US was leading Ukraine into for the past 10 years. Look him up here on YouTube and elsewhere on the internet.
    2
  5242. Reagan was a Hollywood actor....
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  5243.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  I know 🙂 It's also highly unusual for ordinary Americans, Canadians, or Swedes to have such an amount saved.
    2
  5244. Exactly.
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  5245. Putin's perfectly aware that an endorsement by him is the last thing Trump needs. Hence the pretense of preferring Biden.
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  5246. You can always count on Brian Berletic for excellent, honest analysis of real data.
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  5247.  @lordboci  When did Russia ever say anything about taking Kiev?! 😄 It's elementary military knowledge that you don't go to occupy a country without an army AT LEAST 3 times the size of the defenders' army. The Russians had sent in only a small contingent of forces not into Kiev but encircling it, in part, and again it's elementary military craft that what they were doing was a pinning operation, pinning Kiev's forces in place to prevent them from joining other Ukrainian forces in and around Donbass. I know that our media never explained any of this to you, but you do seem to follow some of the independent analysts online and should have understood this by now.
    2
  5248. ​ @garryw-vc6qm  It's not going well for the EU either.
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  5249. ​​ @Intel-i7-9700k  But the same holds for all of NATO. We know this from Petro Poroshenko, Alexei Arestovich, Angela Merkel, and François Hollande. The decline of the West is getting close to terminal.
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  5250. ​​​ @CatOfSchroedinger  I don't see a military definition among those. Armies collapse slowly, gradually, and then all of a sudden. The gradual part can take a year or more.
    2
  5251. Even before these protests, there were over 3,000 people in UK prisons for posting unapproved opinions online.
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  5252. How so? The war is great for the US and any other Western country whose military industries are making huge profits from it. It's the sanctions they put on Russia that are killing Europe, but the leaked RAND report/plan from last January makes it absolutely clear that the destruction of German economy was a major goal of its "friend" the USA. So, the longer the war lasts, the more fucked-up the Europeans are going to be, but it's the work of their own political and media elites working in behalf of the US.
    2
  5253. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  5254. Holodomor was the invention of a US fraudster and bigamist who'd served time for forgery! 😂 As for the rest of your hallucinated "history", Putin's exactly right to call the West the Empire of Lies.
    2
  5255. As a rule, I do my best to avoid flying with Air Canada. Their service is seriously sub-par and is simply not worth it. Better pay a little more for a flight with a decent airline than have to put up with Air Canada rudeness and poor service.
    2
  5256. You're fantasizing that one person holds the strings. It's a whole web of neocons, army, EU, and NATO careererists.
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  5257. Let's hope Pentagon follows this channel and draws appropriate conclusions from the information Mr Martyanov has presented.
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  5258. So, what's new in all this?
    2
  5259. The US advised its citizens against travelling to the Russian Federation just days before this atrocity took place.
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  5260. Anyone not brainwashed by the MSM. This was always only a matter of time.
    2
  5261. Russia gave grain for free to Africa in 2022.
    2
  5262. The US Middle East policy is dictated by Deep State Zionists -- it has little to nothing to do with American interests.
    2
  5263. He's suffered from depression all his life.
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  5264. ​​ @cf2851  Subjugation?! When half the population favours reunification. 😂
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  5265. The second of those.
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  5266. That time will come, have no fear on that score. It will take this century and possibly even some part or the whole of the next, but that time is sure to come.
    2
  5267. Did the Dems have debates to select a candidate when Obama was running for his second term? Do Republicans hold conventions to pick a presidential candidate when a Republican incumbent announces intention to run for a second term? I'm a Canadian, so these are genuine questions (i.e. I don't know the answers to them).
    2
  5268. Cyprus.
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  5269. ​ @walkertongdee Only to a point.
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  5270. In a nutshell.
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  5271. I think you'd probably like Serbian style barbeque and "sarma", our cabbage rolls. I'm Serbian and I LOVE Chinese cuisine! 🙂
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  5272.  @damn6  😂
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  5273. ​ @kaythomas5884  I second that and hope Putin thinks the same.
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  5274. Yes, some of the neocons who control the State Department and the American foreign policy do believe that they can wage a limited nuclear war against Russia (and win). They keep pretending not to be aware of Russia's dead-hand system, which will automatically send all of Russia's nuclear missiles flying to the US should they attack Russia. And Russia's hypersonic Sarmat missile cannot be intercepted by anything because it's programmed to change its course and dodge anything thrown at it.
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  5275. Why would they?
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  5276. THE most underrated album I know of.
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  5277. China's just started building 24 new nuclear plants. The construction on Egypt's second new nuclear plant is also about to start.
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  5278. The entire West has become the Empire of Lies. I have no words to describe the disgust our media elicits in me.
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  5279. The Danish analyst Weeb Union also does good daily updates on the developments across the battlefront. He's often more up-to-date than the Duran guys, whose forte is geopolitical analysis.
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  5280. ​ @nicolegillespie4704  Quite a few of them do, actually. Seriously delusional people don't know they're delusional, but this woman wasn't and isn't delusional. She's perfectly sane in her ability to be reality-oriented and knowing right from wrong.
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  5281. The psychopath who got his ass kicked by Russia? Yeah, he was really smart. 😂
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  5282. No, we aren't. The Great Lakes region is on a major fault line, and we're guaranteed a big one some time in the future.
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  5283. I value your perspective over that of some of the much larger independent analyst channels, so thank you for keeping going. As for those demos in Washington DC and in Europe: they were miniscule (even the 10,000 in Berlin is negligible), are being completely ignored by the European and North American media, and don't really signify a thing. Most Europeans are still very comfortable indeed, and until that changes, I don't expect much from them.
    2
  5284. Now that's true!
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  5285. Ukraine's recaptured 1.2% of the territory it's lost since February 24. Whoop di doo, as Scott Ritter puts it. As for what Africa thinks about Ukraine and Russia was made perfectly clear when Zelensky tried to address the African Union: only 2 African states sent their representatives! When Lavrov visited Africa just a couple of weeks earlier, everyone was lining up to shake his hand and take photos with him. Mr Varoufakis must be aware of this, which tells me that these days he's in the business of propaganda rather than in the business of honest, fact-based political analysis.
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  5286. During the 2010s, PRC wrote several blog posts in which he bewailed the passivity and the counterproductive conciliatory posture of Russian leaders, warning time and again that such an attitude is only perceived as weakness in Washington and that it will inevitably lead to a hot war. He's been proven right, and I trust his integrity and his judgment without reservation.
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  5287.  @MegaSockenschuss  And I bet more than half of Germans believed it!
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  5288. A simple, straightforward pan-European free-market zone?
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  5289. Yeah, after first postponing them. They were originally scheduled to take place in August, if memory serves me.
    2
  5290. Ruling over us.
    2
  5291. Mercouris has eyesight problems, which is why he doesn't present maps. He's mentioned it in several previous videos.
    2
  5292. 😂
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  5293. Given his public admission, my guess is the number of killed alone is now approaching half a million.
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  5294. ​ @nikitakuznetsov8446  False news, aka wishful thinking. The IMF now rates the Russian economy as #4 globally, ahead of both Germany and Japan.
    2
  5295. Can someone explain to me the difference between CBCD and debit/credit card type of payments or wire transfers from one bank and one country to another? What are the CBDCs supposed to do that the already existing payment systems can't?
    2
  5296. At least for the next 80 years, for the rest of this century.
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  5297. Nice!
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  5298. The West pushed Ukraine into this, is using Ukrainian men as its proxy army, so it owes it to Ujraine to keep arming it with whatever it needs to conduct this proxy war for the West.
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  5299. ​ @ronniebx4664 😂
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  5300. If anything, their standing has risen immeasurably.
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  5301. ​ @theresatodd6935 More than half a century ago.
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  5302. ​ @shakalpro Prigozhin's been shooting off his mouth again. We'll see if there's any truth in this.
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  5303. If only it were just he. Our entire political elite in the collective West is sick in the head.
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  5304. Nothing. Russia cannot be defeated.
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  5305. Awful for the poor cannon fodder on the Ukrainian side.
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  5306. Just like in Canada: that's exactly how our local, provincials, and federal elections are carried out. Congratulations to the people of DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson!
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  5307. No; otherwise the Russians would have told us so by now, as they always do when they hit such installations.
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  5308. 😂
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  5309. 🎯
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  5310. ​ @MnemonicCarrier I'm pretty sure the Russians can handle 90,000 NATO troops without breaking a sweat.
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  5311. Coincidences do of course happen all the time. The question is, was this one a genuine coincidence or a manufactured one.
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  5312. That's no use to those they're getting killed here on Earth.
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  5313. Why not? SU25 are clearly doing a fine job on their own.
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  5314. It's also, and always, important to out the fakes like Bono who can and do influence the unwary.
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  5315. Yes, it was disgusting.
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  5316. Sober up, friend. 😅
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  5317. And how do you propose to bring about this end in the West?
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  5318.  @condoguys9166  The US had been causing trouble -- wars, dictatorships, etc. -- in South America long before then.
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  5319. Solidarity is great, but it can only be based on local action such as this protest by the Czechs. The most effective action of all are General Strikes, though. Especially since our governments have got rather good at totally ignoring street protests themselves.
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  5320. Nice.
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  5321. With what troops?
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  5322. Good points.
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  5323.  @drmodestoesq  Unwilling, but by no means incapable. It's a mistake to confuse the two.
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  5324.  @kishanchali8752  I love Andrei Martyanov's videos and the analyses he provides on his blog. It doesn't, however, mean that I agree with him on everything. Putin's refusal to call a partial mobilization last Spring, and in June at the latest as his General Staff was urging him to do, has resulted in unnecessary loss of life and territory. The latter can be regained, but the lives of the Russian soldiers who died because their numbers were insufficient to the task, to borrow Scott Ritter's military phrase, are lost forever. This entire operation could have been finished by now had it not been for Putin's dithering and Shoigu's failure to stand up to his boss more forcefully.
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  5325.  @tricsi95  Both Chechnya and South Ossetia are irrelevant in this context. One was an insurrection inside the Russian Federation itself and the other a swift and decisive military operation in a majority ethnic-Russian enclave in Georgia, which did not receive even 1/50th of foreign military and financial support Ukraine's enjoying. What matters are Putin's decisions regarding this SMO, and there's no question that Putin's been putting the brakes on things in Ukraine. His refusal to call a partial mobilization last Spring, as soon as Zelensky pulled out of the agreement reached in Istanbul and initialled by the Ukrainian delegation, or at the latest by June, when his own General Staff was urging him to it, is directly responsible for the unnecessary loss of Russian soldiers' lives over the past 4 and a half months, losses due to the fact that their numbers were seriously insufficient to the task. Scott Ritter raised the alarm about that last April/May and was vilified and ostracized by some of the YouTube channels we both seem to follow. Territory can be regained, but the Russian men who lost their lives because their commander-in-chief dithered and refused to give the necessary orders in time can never be brought back to life. I'm also concerned that with all the rumours about secret US-RF talks in Turkey, we may be looking at an agreement on Russia's part to freeze the conflict where it stands and leave Odessa to Ukraine, in return for Kiev's recognition that Crimea and the 4 easternmost regions belong to Russia in perpetuity. Should Putin approve such a deal, Russia's security problems will remain unaddressed because leaving Odessa to Kiev is a recipe for another war 10-20 years down the road. In his Q&A session at the Valdai Conference in Sochi held just a few weeks ago, Putin said that the fate of Odessa depends on what Ukraine does, indicating a willingness to barter it away. If such a willingness really does exist, the West will be given another chance to attack and destroy the Russian state, as its political leaders have told us is their real aim.
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  5326. Oops, we did it again?
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  5327. Sadists.
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  5328. These politicians are not the people who're paying anyone's salary. It's the other way around, actually: we are the ones who are paying their salaries. And yes, those who destroyed Libya and tried to destroy Syria should also be indicted.
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  5329. If Russia used such recruitment tactics, you can bet that videos of them would be all over our MSM, as would expressions of outrage and condemnation.
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  5330. All empires contribute to or directly cause their the own downfall.
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  5331. ​ @adw6894  Oh yeah? Please do show us your source for that assertion.
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  5332. ​ @lindsaybeadle2559  Yes, we all should do so. Not only break diplomatic relations with Israel but suspend its membership in the UN AND apply stringent economic sanctions on it.
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  5333. You mean because the West is desperately trying to cling to its hegemony, which died in Ukraine a while ago.
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  5334. The ship was definitely hit, but I'm not sure if it was sunk.
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  5335. There was nothing impulsive about what he did -- it took premeditation and preparation. The very title of that ballet should have alerted everyone to how out to lunch it must have been: In the Dutch Mountains?! 😅. Nothing could be flatter than Holland!
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  5336. ​ @KARADJORDJIJE Reality check for you: Europe itself is but the westernmost peninsula of Asia. Geographically, Europe isn't even a separate continent, which it pretends to be only out of European arrogance. 😂
    2
  5337. No hardcore Hindu would be impressed by Islam. You're culturally a Hindu, yes, but spiritually you seem at sea.
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  5338. Anericans really have some cheek! First they drop nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians just as Japan was about to surrender (as Washington knew through its wartime information services). Then they occupy Japan for over 80 years now. Next, when the hard-wirking, ingenious Japanese people create an economic boom, the US forces the country to commit economic self-mutilation from which it's never recovered, and, as icing on the cake, they top it all by producing YouTube videos in which they blame Japan for it! Don't believe me? Google how the US destroyed Japan's economy in the 1990s.
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  5339. As Jeffrey Sachs said the orher day, both Trump and his advisors don't have a clue about economics and international trade.
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  5340. Liar, liar, pants in fire! 😂
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  5341. Why should diaspora Indians be any different than diaspora Jews or diaspora Ukrainians?
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  5342. ​​ @Deadlover323  At the height of his popularity, Navalny attracted the support of 2% of the RF electorate. That was before the party he himself had co-founded threw him out for racism.
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  5343. Nah. His wife has 3 children from her first marriage, and while he's either bisexual or homosexual, this is no big deal anymore. His problem is the loss of francophone Africa, the horrible social problems created by massive Muslim immigration, and the insane economic policies the EU has imposed on itself to spite Russia and China.
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  5344. I wish the inflation rate in Cabada were 5% (even 10% would be an improvement). I've just paid $60 for 1 kg of ribeye (a very rare treat as we haven't had it in months).
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  5345. Nah. You're assuming they fear Trump. They don't.
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  5346. I can't express how sorry I am for your loss and your suffering. And I'm so sorry for your daughter, who was misled into something she couldn't break free from which destroyed her. RIP Yael. And may you find peace in your heart knowing she knew you loved her so dearly. God bless you.
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  5347. It already is.
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  5348. He started saying that only AFTER they took away his passport....
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  5349. Thank you!
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  5350. Prigozhin is perfectly right. This channel, like practically all other independent analysts I follow, have completely underplayed the extent and amount of corruption inside the RA and Russian institutions of state, Russian leadership.
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  5351. We have the same noun, stasis, in modern English. It entered the language via Latin, but is, of course, thoroughly Greek in origin. sta·sis /ˈstāsəs/ a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium Wirds such as stationary, and station derive from the same root.
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  5352. The meeting is being held today and Ukraine has nothing to show now that its vaunted counter-offensive has petered out into nothing.
    2
  5353. They still haven't done the right thing.
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  5354. They can always apply to join. Right now, BRICS+ isn't accepting new members, but that's only a temporary pause while it integrates the countries that joined in the past couple of years.
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  5355.  @zonedout6432  Any doctor who works in a hospital and most who don't work in high-stress situations.
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  5356. The US and Russia have NOT broached the Ukraine question yet. Their meetings to date have been exclusively about repairing bilateral relations.
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  5357.  @cirrus393  Labour has been a centre-right party ever since Tony Blair took it there.
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  5358. Such brave, courageous people! May God bless and protect you all! ❤️ May there be lasting peace in Western Russia this time next year!
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  5359. 😅
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  5360. 😂
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  5361. I listen to him at 1.5 speed.
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  5362. As if they need saving from Russia!
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  5363. It was an assassination, I think.
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  5364.  @jerrywright5411  I was wrong! He died in a car accident. My bad.
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  5365. ​ @fairyprincess911 You should. For emergencies.
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  5366. Has always done.
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  5367. I very much doubt the last part. There are no signs of working class organising in the West.
    2
  5368. ALL of Bulgaria's Jews were protected from the Nazis on the orders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Although Bulgaria was a Nazi ally, the Orthodox Church insisted that not a single Jew was to be handed ovrer for deportation. And the Germans complied.
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  5369.  @belikovdimitri2251  I found the answer on Google in under 10 seconds: 5 mosques and many prayer houses besides. You're welcome, but let's not harass Levan for information we can easily and quickly find online.
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  5370. Trump seems to be working towards it, too: he apparently worked on Mike Johnson's "compromise" that just gave Ukraine another 61 billion to send the rest of its men to death.
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  5371. True. An excellent image. 😅
    2
  5372. Call it Israel-Palestine.
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  5373. I hope Georgia's acting in good faith now, but I'm skeptical about it.
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  5374. It's pronounced as Ar-esh-nic.
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  5375. Just saw "Irony of Fate", both parts, on their channel a couple of days ago. Charming and delightful. Strongly recommending it.
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  5376. ​ @GaryGraham-sx4pm  Brian is completely un- and even anti-ideological.
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  5377. Zionists will never agree to it. That's why nobody's talking about a one-state solution.
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  5378. II was never promiscuous. On the contrary. It was my ex-husband who gave me genital warts.
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  5379. ​ @castorpollux3389  Do you?
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  5380. 😂
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  5381. That's exactly what Russia is advocating and working on: a basket of currencies to use as a substitute for the US dollar.
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  5382. Within hours of Zelensky's speech and his "facts", NATO came out to say it cannot confirm his claims about North Korean forces fighting for Russia. NATO as good as called him a liar. 😂
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  5383. ​ @lidbass The church, any one of them, is not God.
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  5384. 🎯
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  5385. How about respecting the sovereignty of other countries and not lecturing anyone on anything.
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  5386. A lot of them don't see it, though, and are in a swoon over "their" Rachel.
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  5387. We've been sheltering Ukrainian Nazi war criminals for decades. So why the surprise now? Our own Deputy Prime Minister is an open supporter of the Stepan Bandera legacy and the organisation he headed.
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  5388. ​@tashalorm4313 Love it! 👏 The great Tolstoy's great-grandson. 🙂
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  5389. Too late. Trump's already picked a woman for that post, and not even Tulsi Gabbard.
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  5390. They just happened, did they?
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  5391. It is indeed treason, a complete callous betrayal of every single of the 71% of Ukrainians who had voted for Zelensky because he had promised them the implementation of the Minsk Accords and the resumption of friendly relations with Russia only to lead them into this senseless, unnecessary slaughter as soon as he got into power.
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  5392. It's seriously awful. I think someone once suggested it's a William Morris design, but it's so ugly, it really doesn't matter who it's by.
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  5393. That nation chose those leaders.
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  5394. So have their parents.
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  5395. Lucifer, the father of lies.
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  5396. ​ @fatdaddy1996  The program is a part of the city's public transportation system and is run by the government.
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  5397. They're now using men in their 70s, as reported by one of the Western MSM the other day.
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  5398. The colonel was wrong on ex-Yugoslavia, but is usually one of my favourite analysts.
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  5399. Try doing so anywhere in the West: the US, Canada, the UK, France, etc. Good luck, because you'll need it!
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  5400. ​ @jackneuman5108 Yes.
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  5401. ​@musehtaicho🎯👍
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  5402. YouTube's now shadow banning my comment, and I can't recall what I wrote here. 😔
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  5403. A Russian convert to Hinduism calls Orthodoxy nonsense! 😂
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  5404. Nice intro music 🎶🎶.
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  5405. ❤️
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  5406. They created the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the late 1970s, out of whom came Al Qadea. They financed and armed ISIS for years. Not to mention over 100 years of right wing terrorism all over South America directly financed and engineered by the US. Even Wikipedia has a whole entry on "United States and state-sponsored terrorism".
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  5407. Far higher than 10%, in reality.
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  5408. Here's a socialist.
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  5409. In the final analysis, yes, alas.
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  5410. I think it's a deliberate editorial policy, actually. Sputnik does offer more detailed, in depth info and updates, though, but my impression is that the Russians have made a conscious choice to tone down the coverage of the SMO in Ukraine in their foreign language media. RT still published articles by people like Scott Ritter, so it's not as if they are as useless as our MSM are.
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  5411. Poor souls.
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  5412. 👍❤️
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  5413. ?
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  5414. That Prigozhin needs to send such a letter to Shoigu means that there's something very seriously wrong inside the Russian army, that some of its high- and medium-ranking officers are for all intents either criminally incompetent or (more likely, since such a degree of incompetence is hard to credit) traitors to Russia. A lot of Russians also believe the latter to be the case.
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  5415. China seems do be doing well, and Russia's prospering.
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  5416. They spent months pretending everything was perfectly in Russia's control, endlessly repeating how Russia has all the time in the world, etc., and are now floundering how to explain and account for the many evident failures of the Russian military to do the logical thing. As, for instance, its failure to completely destroy Ukraine's railway system, used to transport Western weaponry to the front lines. In Russia itself, this failure is now being attributed to the influence oligarchs still have on Kremlin and even on the Russian military as the oligarchs need the Ukrainian railway to keep exporting Russian uranium to the West!
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  5417.  @peterc4082  Those are outdated figures (a good 10 years out of date) -- no idea why the UN is still quoting them. People living in extreme poverty on another continent has no bearing on people skipping meals on another continent to make ends meet.
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  5418. 60,000-100,000 Tamils are still missing -- killed by the Sinhalese -- and the Buddhist and Hindu mob here pretends that it's the Sinhalese Buddhists who were facing an existential threat from them. Shame!
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  5419. ​ Pasta_watcher  As much as he is Zimbabwean, Iranian, English, Chilean, French, Russian,Chinese, American, Mexican, Pakistani, etc.
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  5420. It's incredibly stupid.
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  5421. They don't have any supply lines. Ukrainian soldiers have been looting supermarkets and local corner stores instead.
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  5422. Some people somewhere. Sure. 😅😜
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  5423. Forty-eight hours later, and this hasn't aged well....
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  5424. Oh, except that it is. The US is fully responsible for it in the first place.
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  5425. Russia's winning NATO's proxy war in Ukraine, and without so much as breaking a sweat, either. 🙂
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  5426. ​ @tayclift5322 Nice try.
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  5427. They're the only ones who may be fooled by that.
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  5428. ​​ @peterpipe9015  25% of Russians (and 18% of Americans) live in rural areas. Moscow and Saint Petersburg, by far the largest cities in Russia, account for less than 19 million, out of a total population of 150+ million.
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  5429. So, are you saying you ARE after all going to vote for that in 2024?!
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  5430. ​ @fulanichild3138  So, she was 21 when he was 60! 😮
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  5431. No, it's not a choice in conservative Muslim families and countries.
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  5432. ​ @emmanuelwinner4149  Childish propaganda.
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  5433. That's exactly how the entire collective West thinks. They can't even hide it any more.
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  5434. And who's going to trap them? 😅
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  5435. Read some books and get used to relying on the media a little less. Global temperatures were 2C higher than today some 6000-8000 thousand years ago, exactly during the period of first human civilizations. The conmen of today are trying to sell us the idea, made possible only by our ignorance, that such temperatures are incompatible not with human life but with human civilization. Patently false. We've also been sold the story of a putative "scientific consensus" on climate change even though science doesn't work by consensus. Etc.
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  5436. ​ @100c0c Oh please.
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  5437. I'm so moved by your decision to speak publicly about the Shroud of Turin. I'm Orthodox and have never felt one way or another about it, but your presentation has convinced me. Awe-inspiring stuff. 🙏
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  5438. Omsk looks really nice!
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  5439. 😮
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  5440. Why? You've been fine with us sheltering thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators for decades now. For the past decade, we routinely voted against a UN condemnation of glorifying Nazism and fascism. So let's not pretend this is anything new. This is who we are.
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  5441. Good God! Learn some history before you speak! Those lands are precisely the parts of Russia Lenin annexed to the borderlands to create Ukraine. Given Ukraine's treatment of the, duh!, ethnic Russian population of those lands, the Russians have just come back to protect their people and reclaim what's theirs.
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  5442. ​ @Theone-bc7tr From your lips to God's ears!
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  5443. He has not one but two portraits of Bandera in his office.
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  5444. Just so. 🎯
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  5445. Let's keep in mind that none of this would be happening without Russia's immense courage and self-sacrifice in standing up to the entire collective West -- and winning.
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  5446. I finally tried to listen to some Taylor Swift songs a few weeks ago, only to conclude that she's a very pretty young woman who sing-speaks utterly forgettable pop kitsch. I'm now baffled about what's made her so popular.
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  5447. ​ @carlosgarcao2847  You're displaying a terribly spotty knowledge of history. The USSR was the LAST European power to sign a peace treaty with Nazi Germany! Stalin was forced into it by the repeated refusal of France and the UK to form a defense alliance with the Soviet to DETER Hitler from attacking anyone at all. Instead, the Brits caved in and signed a peace and friendship treaty with the Nazis YEARS before Stalin finally did the same in 1939 to buy the Soviets a little time to prepare for the Nazi invasion everyone in Europe knew was in the offing. The shameful truth is that most of Europe, the UK included, preferred the Nazis to countering them in conjunction with the Soviets. Who would eventually go to liberate most of that same wretched Europe from those same Nazis Europe just a few years down the road.
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  5448. ​ @niblet112  😂
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  5449. 😅
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  5450. ​ @mayamichelle6741  Brian the Debonair. 😍 His self-presentation shows respect for his viewers. Much appreciated.
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  5451. The colours and patterns on women's skirts remind me the style of dress favoured by many South American natives, especially those living in similarly mountainous regions.
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  5452. ​ @СергейКеримов-т7з  How did he betray his own people? Could you please explain what you mean.
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  5453. Has the UK police been protecting organized gangs of white English groomers and rapists of underage girls, as they did the organized gangs of Pakistani-born men? The answer, which has nothing -- zilch, nada, zero -- to do with Tony Robinson or any of his followers, is a resounding no. It was ONLY the organized rings of overwhelmingly Pakistani-born criminals that the local authorities all over the UK protected for years and years for the sake of "multiculturalism", and at the expense of working-class English girls as young at 7 and 8 who were ststematically groomed, raped, and forced into prostitution. Anyone who denies these facts or tries to discredit them by invoking scum like Tony Robinson is himself, morally speaking, scum, i.e. his equal.
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  5454. 💯
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  5455. Absolutely.
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  5456. Not all. The buck stops with US on Ukraine.
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  5457. Europe, too, is part of the Empire of Lies.
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  5458. There's nothing "simple" about forcing others to cater to one's delusions and psychological disorders.
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  5459. These are not rumours, at least regarding Prigozhin. RT has confirmed that Prigozhin is not in Belarus and is still somewhere in Russia. Peskov claims that the Russian state doesn't know or care where he is!
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  5460. ​ @4everfreethinker  Mother's lie for their sons all the time.
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  5461. Except that it is. True.
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  5462. 😂😂😂
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  5463. 😮
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  5464.  Mitrovic FFC  If he's smart, he'll prefer the wrath of the West to the wrath of the Serbian people. But when I said it's up to us to make him change his mind, what I really meant is that it's up to is to force the Serbian political class (because it's not just a matter of Vučić) to shift us towards the East, as it's quite clear now that the West's future is relatively bleak. The fact that they look down on us -- and this will not change for the rest of this century at least -- and would treat us simply as another East European colony of theirs is another reason NOT to join the EU.
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  5465. Arrogance tends to backfire, yes. Western ruling elites, especially the ones in the US, have been blinded by their fantasy of exceptionalism.
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  5466.  Anni Runaway  Millions of people worldwide have indeed died of COVID, however skeptical you may be about it. A lot of medical personnel, more doctors than nurses, also lost their lives treating covid patients, especially in the first half of 2020, but also in the later stages of the pandemic. That the vaccines Western pharma corporations have come up with to ameliorate the effects of the infection and save lives happen to be not particularly effective while being medically iffy in other respects -- a huge concern in itself -- doesn't negate the nastiness and the mortality rate of this virus.
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  5467.  Anni Runaway  When you have a health issue (a comorbidity) that isn't the cause of your death, that you could have lived with for another 2-5-15 years, and you die because you got covid, you died from covid, not from your one or several comorbidities. The term "died with covid", although adopted in some countries, is actually meaningless as it's the effect of the virus on your already weakened system that caused your death. That said, I agree that we were taken for a ride by our governments, who are quite clearly working for big business and not for us.
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  5468. Europe won't be re-industrializing itself any time this century.
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  5469. 👍😅
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  5470. Thank you for such a thorough response to the video, giving us a broader insight into the situation on the economic front.
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  5471. How is cancelling the second round of elections constititional?!
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  5472. It's way past time Russians accepted that sentimentality about their enemies doesn't serve them well.
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  5473. It's not just Biden. It's the ENTIRE political elite in both the US and the EU. Also in Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
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  5474. ​ @gorantomic7150  You mean, when Russia was on its knees. And even so, that same Russia managed to get its forces to Kosovo before the West, to ensure NATO couldn't simply chop it off Serbia.
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  5475. 😂
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  5476. Great point!
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  5477. You wish.
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  5478. The discrepancy comes from the different types of economies crude GDP can't reflect. The UK's is a finance (including insurance) and services economy, which creates great turnovers in financial transactions (great appearance of growing wealth) but comparitively little of productive value.
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  5479. Both figures are a fantasy. There are at most (and that's a huge lot by itself) 10 million Ukrainians in EU countries, and perhaps that many in Russia, including the Ukrainians who've been working there for the past couple of decades.
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  5480. 100% support for Danielle Smith.
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  5481. YouTube keeps casting my critique of the collective West as hate speech and banning me from commenting for 24 hrs at a time without once telling me what exactly its censors interpreted as hate speech. Very Kafkaesque.
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  5482. And it's a bunk. 😂
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  5483.  @coffee6783  Not by our governing class. They willingly support him.
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  5484. ​ @JeffreyGlover65 A lot of countries recognize the Palestinian right to statehood and host Palestinian embassies.
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  5485. ​ @JJ-te2pi Paid to do it on behalf of Ukraine. That's where they were fleeing to, in expectation of getting the second and last installment of their pay.
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  5486. The next time they meet, Putin should make sure NOT to lean in Trump's direction. Not after Trump armed the Ukrainian army for a proxy war in which some 100,000 Russian men have been killed. From now on, the president of Russia should let others lean towards him.
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  5487. Zelensky has been calling for it since January, ffs!
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  5488. 😅
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  5489. ​ @calicocat8213 I agree.
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  5490. They've been saying it's not happening all along, so my guess is that they will ignore it as long as possible -- and will then downplay its significance before moving to ignore it altogether.
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  5491. ​ @cheesepuff65  The beginning of Rome's descent into terminal decadence and the consequent fall of the empire.
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  5492. It is your war -- you caused it.
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  5493. Macgregor knows that very well.
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  5494. Sachs has been 100% sidelined and blackballed.
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  5495. Exactly.
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  5496. This is way beyond any single personality or politician. Trump, if allowed to return to the White House, will have to fight the same people who created this mess.
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  5497. Appalling
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  5498. It's only since I began to follow your analysis of what's been going on in Myanmar that I've managed to get a clear sense of who's who over there and what the apparently completely local, domestic, internal conflict has been about.
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  5499. Bravo, Brazil!
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  5500.  @jillwklausen  I believe my lying eyes -- as you would have it -- and the video we have of her standing in that police station before she collapsed.
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  5501. And who do you imagine is really running this this administration?!
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  5502. Same difference. He's clearly bribable. Another bought man.
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  5503. Smart people, thinking for themselves, not like the brainwashed sheep in Finland and Sweden.
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  5504. Fantastic research, Brian! Thank you for the work you do to bring truth out from under the pile of lies the West is burying it under.
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  5505. That's beautiful. I don't think we can really comprehend Christ's greatness and his love for us.
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  5506. ​ @daviddesert3132  It was a deliberate choice by early Christians, who were perfectly well aware that they did not know the exact date on which Jesus was born.
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  5507. Where is this "ferocious media war" Chas Freeman imputes to Russia?
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  5508.  @fixitright9709  We're all told what to believe. Is that supposed to be an excuse?
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  5509. It won't be quick, but it will be lasting.
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  5510. Waaaay too much story telling and speculating about Zelensky's motives, with no evidence at all to support it.
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  5511. Bob is her boyfriend.
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  5512. 😮
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  5513. ​ @azmary1 But that's exactly what OPEC is doing, sticking it to the West. And quite rightly, too.
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  5514. OPEC+ includes the following countries in addition to the original OPEC members: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Russia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Russia is just one of the 10 extra member states.
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  5515. It wouldn't have started had Kiev implemented the Minsk Accords. Let's not forget that.
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  5516. The US has just carried out another nuclear arms test, so I expect Russia will mirror it pretty soon.
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  5517. What a beautiful baby, and what an amazing man! Respect!
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  5518. It could keep it afloat, just barely, for another 5-10 years, but to what end and purpose? It'd be throwing good money after the bad, while Russia gets economically and militarily stronger and stronger each day.
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  5519. Omg! That's appalling. If true, it's simply unforgivable.
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  5520. There are also reliable Telegram channels like Slavyangrad to get around propaganda and censorship. Here in the West, the regular mass media have been pure (often hilariously ridiculous) propaganda 24/7. Absolutely useless.
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  5521. Yes, it is. We know they've been selling weapons to Mexican and South American drug gangs, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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  5522. So now Engels was a Jew?! 😂
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  5523. Probably?! 😅 Even Biden's admitted it was Ukraine. Btw, the story that it was two Ukrainian missiles that accidently strayed into Poland while defending against the Russian missile attack is also a fabrication. The Russian attack was over HOURS before the Ukrainians sent those missiles into Poland, and did not include the area close to the Polish-Ukrainian border at all. This was a desperate, despicable, DELIBERATE attempt by the Zelensky regime to drag NATO into a direct as distinct from a proxy war with Russia.
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  5524. Woah, Alexander! This amount of cope about the Kursk incursion is enough to embarrass Russia all over again! Trying to deny, as you do here, that crucial distinction in Russian minds betwen Kursk and the Novorossiya territories that rejoined Russia coming on two years ago now is not bordering on the pathetic but positively embarrassing to anyone who does actually support Russia. Much better to admit that the incursion was a short but sharp humiliation for Kremlin and leave it at that.
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  5525. ​ @patrickmulroney9452  Take care of that ego of yours -- sooo fragile, poor you.
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  5526. ​ @michaelkatz275  Sure.
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  5527. Because you can be fooling yourself about your intentions, and many people do.
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  5528. I'm surprised he chose Die Linke and not the Greens. Die Linke is usually far more sober and rational.
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  5529. Well said. These men at best present parodies of womanhood.
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  5530. According to the Russian MoD count, about 800,000.
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  5531. Perfectly normal, actually. Throughout the past 100+ years, Russian and before that Soviet defense ministers regularly came from the civilian side of things. Shoigu's a civil engineer and a manager by training and has been extremely successful in organising and ramping up Russia's military production, so much so that it now outpaces that of the US and the EU combined. The guy who's replacing him is also known as an exceptional manager.
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  5532. No.
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  5533. Too many people are refusing to acknowledge that.
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  5534. Two weeks later, even Washington's starting to admit the Ukrainian offensive's failed.
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  5535. So you fell for the propaganda with which the West regularly covers up its evil ways. Why are Russians so naive about the West?
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  5536. It's criminal. (The whole Ukrainian political class are just a bunch of thieves, sociopaths, and murderers.)
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  5537. What a beautiful girl cub! 😍
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  5538. ​ @callthespread  Read the Amnesty International's report on Ukrainian use of civilians as human shields. Russia's done an incredible job of sparing the civilian population.
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  5539. ​ @LevanGudadze If that were true, I would expect the Russian public opinion and it's support for Putin to reflect that. The fact that his support remains at about 80% suggests otherwise. I also understand from both Western analysts with a strong military background and from the news coming from Serbian volunteers who've been fighting in Donbass since 2014 and who say that the slow pace is absolutely being imposed by the General Staff (they report that the fighting units they're in as well as other fighting units they're familiar with have been told to stand down over and over again precisely at the point when they were about to completely overtake a specific Ukrainian position) that the reason Russia is going so slow is a deliberate policy, one aim of which is to drain NATO of its ammunition, something it's certainly achieving. I have no doubt that Putin and the rest of the government should finally start doing something real and effective to root out corruption from Russian state institutions, though, and can barely imagine how frustrating it must be that they seem to have no inclination for it. Such a problem can definitely sabotage Russia's success in any number and kind of endeavours.
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  5540. Yes, please! Leave the rest of alone, will you?!
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  5541. Silly.
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  5542. Those who want to weaken China by going to war against it imagine that China's victory over them will not deal a blow to the US, and especially to its standing and influence worldwide?! Can these people in the State, the White House and Pentagon be as stupid, as short-sighted, as incapable of seeing the US through others' eyes as that?! There's some sort of a group insanity going on in Washington. Seriously.
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  5543.  @СилвияИванова-з1р  The US alone has an army of internet propaganda and disinformation providers that counts in tens of thousands.
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  5544. You should also watch the interviews Oliver Stone did with Putin some years ago. Even more detailed and broad ranging than Tucker's interview.
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  5545. Blatant provocation. The Yanks are behaving like small children now. Ridiculous.
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  5546. And so much more stupid of the Slavs to be fighting one another, but that's what happens when one group swallows the Nazi cool-aid of ethnic superiority. In the last analysis, Ukrainians did this to themselves.
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  5547. Not worth listening to any more. I gave up 5 minutes into it.
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  5548. ​​ @KR72534  Life expectancy in Russia includes the men who died in the Chechen wars, too, bringing the average down. Btw, life time expectancy for men in Canada is 79.8 years, a lot higher than in Russia but steadily decreasing over the past decade.
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  5549. I'm afraid Mark Sleboda's right in that the collective West leaders are delusional and arrogant enough to try to fight Russia directly, that a head-on clash with NATO is (almost) inevitable. Even if Trump gets re-elected, it will take some sane heads in the Pentagon prevailing over the Deep State and foreign policy crazies to avoid that.
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  5550. And it's over, thank God!
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  5551. 🙏
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  5552. ​​​ @FarBeyondDriven1978  Whom Sweden awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, no less.
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  5553. Another one of those American biolabs?
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  5554. Thank you. I couldn't believe it when I heard Alexander ever so confidently state it's in the US!
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  5555. No apartheid state is a democracy. Israel is a Jewish fascist state in the Middle East.
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  5556. ​ @Novusod  Not so. Not by a long shot. Europe's far better in every respect, including the supposedly quintessential American thing called upward mobility. Research shows that there's significantly more upward mobility all across Europe than in the US.
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  5557. I'd have preferred Tulsi, who's really head and shoulders above all other candidates.
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  5558.  @timbehrens9678  Please do. Show us your satellite images on Russian troops on their border with Ukraine. Please do.
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  5559. All of North Korea must be guffawing today! 😂
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  5560. ​ @helenalovelock1030  On the contrary: your insinuation that the original comment is factually incorrect is itself a lie.
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  5561. NATO can't admit NATO's lost its proxy war in Ukraine, so it's now playing up its accusations against China. I mean, there's really nothing new in its stance towards China. They've been saying this for almost two years now.
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  5562. The loosening of authoritarianism in the USSR was the direct consequence of Stalin's demise. Once he was gone, things began to change quite rapidly and without any reference to Western Europe.
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  5563. The utter inhumanity of it! Shame on Ukraine and all those who support it!
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  5564. Hong Kong is a part of China - and far, far more so than Puerto Rico or Hawaii is a part of the USA.
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  5565. Don't let Biden get away with lying by attributing his lies to senile confusion.
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  5566. This is appalling. We're becoming a nation of lunatics.
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  5567. Except that it's single-handedly defeating the 50 countries that are waging this proxy war in Ukraine against it, in the process unmasking NATO and showing it up for the paper tiger it is.
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  5568. 😂
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  5569. Why exactly would Russia even consider "freezing the conflict"? And why do Westerners persist in taking Russians for imbeciles? 😘
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  5570. ​ @jonpaul3868 Taiwan is not a state, and it's only a part of its political class who act as if they were a US colony. Taiwan is literally split 50%-50% on that.
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  5571. It's Good Friday for the Orthodox.
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  5572. If she has tenure, Prof. Gino is under NO pressure to keep publishing in order to keep her university position. Dishonesty -- the faking od data is just one form this takes --in academic research is so widespread that I remember a whole book on it published in the last 10 years.
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  5573. Because our politicians and especially our media let them get away with it.
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  5574. What else, given how gentle they were with each other?
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  5575. ​ @eriksonyw  The US won't have the means to challenge China by then.
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  5576. ​ @egay86292 Does Kremlin listen to him?
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  5577. I don't trust this guy.
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  5578. ​ @MarkNOTW  The question was about the UN, not about the USA.
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  5579. Ah, the poor brainwashed you. Here, I have a bridge to sell you too. 😂
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  5580. It's a lot of worse than mere arrogance and paternalism. It's outright exploitation.
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  5581. China's lifted 800 million out of deep poverty, so yes, it CAN be done. What India lacks is the political and moral will to do it. When you have a culture that teaches you the poor deserve to live miserably (that it's merely just punishment for what they did in some past life, that nobody can check or verify!), eradicating poverty is not something you even think about. You may say you do, but India's actions prove otherwise.
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  5582. If you could do better, you would.
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  5583.  @yaelz6043  They were not the citizens of either Chile or the USA. People did write to the AI, though.
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  5584. I think it's high time to begin questioning some of the patently irrational aspects of this SMO. Russia is not above criticism and should not be treated as if it were. I for one couldn't follow Brian's logic about those Dnieper bridges, for example, not the logic of Russian failure to take out the Ukrainian railway system. Without its railways, Ukraine could not transfer to the battle lines the military equipment it's been getting from the West, so taking out the railways should have been a high priority for the Russians for months now. There's NO rational reason or argument for letting Ukraine enjoy this advantage, and all references to what Putin said 9 months ago are worse than irrelevant now. They're a rationalisation for what is patently illogical -- i.e. the real reason must be something the Kremlin doesn't want to admit. Claims are now openly being made in Russian media that the Ukrainian railway system has been spared because it's being used by Russian oligarchs to keep exporting Russian uranium to the West! If there's even a grain of truth to these claims, there's something disturbingly rotten in the state of Russia that its civilian and/or military leadership would sacrifice Russian soldiers' lives to the interests of a handful of globalist oligarchs!
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  5585. What's the big deal? Quebec is Francophone, so it makes sense that it would want to have signage that reflects that fact.
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  5586. ​@missourimale5431 Trump doesn't need Senate approval to simply return the troops home and close down the bases in Europe, though.
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  5587. There's no need for the Chinese to fight in Europe. Russia has almost half a million (480,000) men who've already volunteered for the battlefront, most of whom are fully trained by now. That's in addition to Russia's regular troops. It's estimated, in fact, that Russia's using less than 20% of its military capacity in Ukraine.
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  5588. On the battlefield.
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  5589. "big surprises on the battlefield."
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  5590. ?! 😂
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  5591. ​​ @michelegosse7116  You're terribly misinformed. Despite the 10 years of sanctions it alone endured and the 78 day bombing campaign during which NATO war criminals dropped more bombs on Serbia than Nazi Germany had done in 4 years of WW2, despite the fact that Slovenia and Croatia have been receiving transfer payments from the EU for years and are blessed with ideal conditions for a thriving tourist industry, the Serbian economy is way ahead of them both. Debt to GDP ratio for Serbia = 50% (down from 52.7%) Debt to GDP ratio for Slovenia = 66.1% Debt to GDP ratio for Croatia = 73.2% Budget deficits as percentage of the GDP: Croatia 0.9% Slovenia 2.5% Serbia 0.15%
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  5592. My guess is that MOST of the Ukrainian soldiers never wanted this.
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  5593.  @IxGxNxI  I have. The EU violated its Article 3 back in the fall of 2013, rendering it null and void. Keep up.
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  5594. I had no idea! That's actually scary, given the weaklings and idiots who're running Germany.
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  5595. Hugely missed.
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  5596. ​ @Finlandlover-p7q Just like all those Kinzhals, right? 😜
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  5597. Did they really?! 😅
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  5598. It's probably too late for that. The US political (and economic) system makes it somewhere between "highly unlikely" and "impossible".
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  5599. 😅
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  5600. 🎉
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  5601. Total inversion. Chris Hedges says it's one of the hallmarks of totalitarianism.
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  5602. Correct.
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  5603. Well said! Love to the people of Vietnam! ❤️
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  5604. All Middle Eastern and North African countries have to import beef as there's no local cattle-raising industry whatsoever (the climate doesn't allow it). Argentina, on the other hand, has some of the best beef in the world. 🙂
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  5605. 100% right.
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  5606. And lives.
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  5607. Why do you think NATO's already said it "can't confirm" Ukraine's claims on that?
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  5608. You can count on it.
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  5609. Poland might be stupid enough to go in, but I don't believe the US will be sending its forces into Ukraine. Scott Ritter says that at present the US has neither the ammunition nor the forces for a war with Russia. It will take the US two years to ramp up their production of shells to 1/5th of Russia's current production levels. Col. Douglas Macgregor also thinks the US is in no shape to fight Russia.
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  5610. ?
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  5611. ​​ @FuelAirSparkTime  So did the ancestors of the Canadian Chinese and Japanese communities. So did the ancestors of Italian Canadians, French Canadians, German Canadians, and Canadians whose ancestors came from various parts of Eastern Europe. Our immigrants today are predominantly from Asia, and that's what bugs our home grown racists.
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  5612. I agree about your second point and have maintained from the start that Russia needs to occupy all of Ukraine (except the Lvov region, which should go to Poland) in the same way the US has occupied Germany and Italy for the past 80 years. The Lvov region is the hotbed of Ukrainian Nazis and it's best to saddle Poland with dealing with them.
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  5613. And her son, the King, pretends
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  5614. Wow! That's quite chilling, really. Good for you for checking that MRI and consulting a good physiotherapist!
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  5615. That's called raising the price.
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  5616. 😮
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  5617. What's wrong with quality immigration, which is exactly what you just described?!
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  5618. Moscow. Or Cuba. Or Venezuela. Or Beijing. Or any of the many other countries that will gladly guarantee Putin's safety.
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  5619. Addicted to drama and risk? Known for his humongous rages and for inability to accept criticism or a no? Textbook narcissist.
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  5620. We're all taught that Europe is a continent, but that's a political construct. In reality, Europe is a subcontinent, the westernmost peninsula of Asia.
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  5621. ​ @NutsNBerries  Nobody's taught to give rides to homeless men to the soup kitchen! Give him the money for a public bus, sure, but you have to be recklessly naive to offer a strange man to drive him anywhere! What a tragedy for both this girl and her family. 😢
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  5622. ​ @mommalion7028  I give money to the homeless but would never open my house to them. As a 67 year old woman living alone, I'd be a rank idiot to do so. Giving a ride to a stranger is equally foolish, unless you actually saw someone get seriously hurt and are driving them to the nearest Emergency. If they're just bleeding or limping along, offer to call 911 for them. Be a SMART Good Samaritan, not a reckless one.
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  5623. This used be very common in the ancient world, ancient Greece and Rome. It took centuries of Christian teaching and social work to end the practice if exposing unwanted infants, most often girls, to the elements either to die or to be picked up and adopted by strangers.
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  5624. ​ @npcknuckles5887  Try learning some history. The majority of women in Europe have been in the workplace since the beginning of the 19th century.
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  5625.  @44Naghavi  Sorry, I don't.
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  5626. Hitler was supported by big business and US capitalists. The first thing he did on assuming power was to order the street executions of German socialists and communists. The ones who survived the bloodbath were shipped off to concentration camps.
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  5627. Almost?
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  5628. ​ @scuba36fun  Most, if not possibly all, Serbs in Canada also support Russia. When it comes to Anglo Canadians, though, it's the reverse. They remain captured by MSM propaganda.
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  5629. Except that this time, the Russians have both technological quality and quantity on their side and its enemy (NATO) is way, way behind on either.
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  5630. We're actually coming out of a warm spell in terms of global climate cycles. What faces us in geologically not too far off future is another ice age, actually.
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  5631. ​ @Ghastly_Grinner  A different situation altogether: Russia lacks the labour force for its economic growth, which is why it's placing factories in India. US corporations moved production to China purely out of greed, for even greater profit, and not out of any need..
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  5632. Please keep your freedom, justice and democracy to yourselves. We, the rest of the world, don't want that crap.
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  5633. Andrei, I gather from Col. Douglas Macgregor that there are people in Washington -- the State Department and the White House -- who believe that Russia will balk at engaging with or attacking US forces in Ukraine (should the US go ahead and put together a "coalition of the willing" that would enter Ukraine on some fake peace-keeping mission or similar). How likely is it, in your judgement, that the US may succeed in establishing an enclave inside Ukraine as it did in Syria, where it remains illegally to this day? Can Russia afford to allow any such thing just a hundred or less kilometres from its new borders?
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  5634. ​ @imperialcitizen4811  The BSW, exactly.
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  5635. Video games, movies, TV documentaries, TV series. Plus books in translation.
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  5636. ​ @TeunisMarinus You've got the facts garbled: it's a well known military fact that the attacking side needs 3 times the force numbers of the defending side.
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  5637. The parts that choose to (re-)join Russia, no. Whatever remains of present-day Ukraine, and I doubt Russia wants to be saddled with trying to clean up that mess, yes. Not that they'll be able to do it, short of confiscating all of the wealth stolen by their oligarchs.
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  5638. And I should take their opinions as objective facts? 😅
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  5639. I think you mean Madeleine (Albright) or possibly Meloni, not Melanie.
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  5640. I put 🎯 in response to a comment and YT automatically deletes it. Not once but twice. By watching videos on this particular platform we're enriching the people who're censoring us.
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  5641. That, and American exceptionalism. The will to power and domination isn't confined to corporations alone.
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  5642. No Nazi is a hero. Period.
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  5643.  @gtengineer1967  It's the other way 'round, actually
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  5644.  @gtengineer1967  You're right! And I take my comment back. The right/western bank of the Dnieper is higher ground than the left/eastern bank! I just learned a day or so ago that the Russians had to evacuate the area they'd pulled back to for that very reason, in case the Ukrainians blow up that dam after all. My apologies
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  5645. ​ @andersonarmstrong2650 🎯👍
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  5646. Nah, this has very little to do with how US Dems perceive Starmer's election victory. The Democratic Party has been using foreign politicians in their presidential campaigns for at least a decade now. Most commonly, they use them to get the ethnic vote: the vote of the various ethic groups in the States. The Dems are incredibly well organized in this matter; I first realized what was going on when I discovered that several Serbian Atlanticists were flown to the US to assist in Hillary Clinton's campaign 8 years ago! Not that it helped her much, but this is what the Dems do. They're more like a political mafia or a violent cult than a political party. Starmer's clearly a fool to have let Labour get involved in way at all.
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  5647. Global government? 😂
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  5648.  @mw3516405  Yes, entirely thanks to the German nation.
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  5649. 🎯
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  5650. Yes, he did state that. And has indeed done it: suspended the process but not cancelled it. The EU are nevertheless having conniptions over it.
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  5651. Excellent points from both of you.
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  5652. Serbia. (Or do you still believe the official narrative on Serbia?)
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  5653. Curiously enough, the Muslim (Arab) countries that investigated reports of Uyghur repression in China found nothing to substantiate these claims. Since they're Muslim, I have every reason to believe them.
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  5654. They just want us to hate and blame the poor for their plight. Her actions shame the state for not doing enough for its most vulnerable citizens. That's why it's necessary to stop us from being kind, helpful and humane to each other. The more brutal, indifferent, ultra-individualistic and selfish we are, the easier for the powers that be to control and manipulate us.
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  5655. My guess is that the Americans had better pharmaceuticals at that time.
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  5656. 😅
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  5657. They're both very smart and very good looking people, true.
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  5658. ​​​ @rohanharridge5579  The Indians invented the concept of zero. It's one of the seminal conceptual inventions or insights of humanity.
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  5659. Gradually or in one fell swoop, it does seem to be going down. Thank heavens!
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  5660. 😅
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  5661. The only thing that could save Europe now would be a series of general strikes in every EU country as politicians no longer pay any heed to mere street protests. Btw, the EU never said that Ukraine would lose the war. I'm afraid Alexander's confusing his own analysis with what the EU (and the collective West as a whole) was saying in March, April, May, and June.
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  5662. I don't think so, alas. The US may walk away from Ukraine, but it cannot walk away from Israel. 😕
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  5663. Nah, fascism can do perfectly well without the cult of a leader and even without any firm of social conservatism. Fascism is the fusion of big business and government. That's the one essential characteristic of fascism. Everything else is mere historical accident, mere contingency -- entirely optional.
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  5664. Nice to hear that. A Serb in Canada. 🙂
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  5665. It's not China alone who's changing the world. None of these changes would be happening had Russia not taken on the entire collective West in Ukraine and shown them up for the paper tiger they are. It took that, combined with the West's stupendous arrogant idiocy in sanctioning Russia, confiscating its assets, throwing it out of the SWIFT system, that's finally woken up the rest of the world, and emboldened it, to turn away from the West. As Scott says, Europe and the States will continue to be around and be big/significant players, but the centuries of Western domination are over.
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  5666. ​ @FanoosCast  You can find videos of the Feds raiding Scott's home here on YouTube.
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  5667. China can't in all logic invade Taiwan because Taiwan is a part of China. It's like saying, the US needs to be deterred from invading Maine.
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  5668. Urrrra!
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  5669. Who does the West depend on to ferry its astronauts to and from the ISS? 😜
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  5670. 😂
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  5671. ​ @gimme88  Thus spake ignorance.
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  5672. Excellent point, that.
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  5673. How can they not?
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  5674. ​ @uneasyrider1980  The West makes up only 14% of humanity.
    2
  5675. But no one bats an eye at all the 20-year olds marrying 50-year old men.
    2
  5676. Absolutely predictable and expected.
    2
  5677. Some of it was in the form of loans. That's what lend-lease means.
    2
  5678. ​​ @einarabelc5 I don't agree with your accusation of idolatry, but I also think that what he saw was Satan pretending to be Christ. Instilling horrible fear into the boy both because he enjoys terrorising people and to try to alienate the boy from Christ. Which he succeeded in doing for a number of years.
    2
  5679. 😂
    2
  5680. Yep.
    2
  5681. Poor you. Cope harder. 😂
    2
  5682. I stopped reading The Nation 5-6 years ago. I don't have time for the fake left.
    2
  5683. Kiev has no bargaining position regardless of who the next US president is.
    2
  5684. You should read about what Germans did all over Eastern Europe during WW2, particularly in Belarus, Russia, and Serbia. Unspeakable, horrific, psychopathic sadism. There's a movie that gives a glimpse of what the Germans did; it's called "Come and See".
    2
  5685. Why should Mercouris pay attention to your fantasies?! 😅
    2
  5686. NATO was formed in 1949.
    2
  5687. Like the Czech Republic, which has just resumed buying Russian gas after boasting to the contrary, it's only a matter of time before Austria discovers what's in its own best interest.
    2
  5688.  @bertamaria-bender2889  Crazy. Smh. 😅
    2
  5689. You mean like Switzerland isn't influenced by the EU, NATO, and the USA? 😂
    2
  5690. Orban and Pico, both in Eastern Europe. Not a single leader in Western Europe, true.
    2
  5691. Hindustan Times channel has a video today showing SU-25 in action in Ukraine. It's doing the job of an SU-27/35 and doing it remarkably well.
    2
  5692. Should Russia betray the people of Odessa, who've been terrorized by Ukrainian Notsees for years and have been waiting to be liberated from Kiev ever since February 24, will constitute a scandal and a moral wrong of immense proportions. And letting NATO/US create a buffer zone in and around Odessa would amount to exactly such a betrayal. I've been very skeptical of the wisdom of Putin's soft-and-slow approach for some months now and am seriously disappointed that Kremlin has allowed things to get to this. Incomprehensible. Russia could have easily finished this months ago had the hard-liners been in charge.
    2
  5693. Do something about it. (And the land of Goethe and Schiller is also the land of all those with master race delusions and their great pride in vaunted German "kultur"! Which we're seeing in action once again.)
    2
  5694. Huh? Tens of thousands of Russian forces were sent on furlough in Russia for some weeks, starting in July.
    2
  5695. ​ @Vladthegreat-wv7sc  On the contrary. That was a very foolish, weak move on Putin's part.
    2
  5696. Because they're sparing their own soldiers while they continue to de-militarize Ukraine.
    2
  5697. She loves someone who abuses her viciously. Imagine then what her childhood must have been like because it was then that she learned whom to love.
    2
  5698. Pascal, we saw the same thing back in the 1930s. It was called "le trahison des clercs".
    2
  5699. ​ @dariuszp8119 You mean the other way around.
    2
  5700. Wilde was a writer and a very witty play right, in particular. He most certainly wasn't a philosopher.
    2
  5701. I had the same issue a few years ago. It resolved itself with time.
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  5702. Been doing so for months now.
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  5703. Psychopaths are the prime example of arrested development. Emotionally and morally, they're toddlers.
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  5704. Poor, poor men. 😂
    2
  5705. I think Putin's forcing the slow pace.
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  5706. You mean, if only the West didn't want to destroy Russia, take it apart, and feed on its corpse. And if only the Russian people understood that. The West is simply following the old Nazi plan for Russia. Russian naivety about that is nota virtue; it's Russia's most crippling weakness.
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  5707. Good! I'm so glad for the men who're managing to save themselves from this madness. As for why they're going to Poland and not Russia: have a look at the map.
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  5708. She was told that by the Muslims who were grooming her and she never bothered to actually read it. Remember, she said that for quite some time she didn't really examine or look at all deeply into Islam. She was in a pretty desperate psychological state at the time and Islam was the straw she clutched to.
    2
  5709. Serbia will stay "independent" while every single one if its government ministries is overseen by a NATO equivalent in Belgrade.
    2
  5710. Is that a joke?!
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  5711.  @lah6739  Yes, Europe included.
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  5712.  @lah6739  Yes, very much including Canada (although I'm a Canadian)and all of Europe (where I was born).
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  5713. ​ @gerardovicidomini261  I learned that from THE pre-eminent US Russia studies scholar Stephen F. Cohen, who was pointing out already 10 years ago.
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  5714. Ukraine's trapped in Kursk. It's gained precisely nothing, as will become evident in a matter of weeks.
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  5715. I agree. And I don't understand why Putin and his key advisors imagine that a slow approach will be seen as anything but weakness by the West or that it wouldn't inevitably give the West the time to reorganize its own approach and escalate things further. They saw it happen in 2022, and since then, the West has shown no willingness to negotiate in good faith a new security architecture in Europe but has only continued to escalate and escalate, at the cost of now more than half a million Ukrainian lives lost on the battlefield. I find Kremlin's attitude and approach very frustrating.
    2
  5716. Russia's economy will grow 2.2% this year, and its industrial production by 2.7%. Quite regardless of the IMF.
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  5717. ​ @frobber150 But they don't send the insane to regular prisons, do they?
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  5718. Single-handedly defeating all of NATO, yes. So weak of Russia. 😅
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  5719. Some toddlers are simply biters, with absolutely no background of abuse, etc. If the parents don't stop them, they will bite others until someone finally reacts strongly enough to shock them out of that behaviour. By a strong reaction I mean a scream by an adult, not any physical punishment. People tend to idealize children: we are animals after all, and the little ones need to be socialized not to act out their innate aggression on others. Again, this is true for some toddlers, definitely not all.
    2
  5720. Exactly so.
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  5721. ​ @psxtuneservice 😂
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  5722. They themselves are the clown show.
    2
  5723. Barbarians.
    2
  5724. 😅 Ukrainian sloppiness.
    2
  5725. I feel the same. I also grieve the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, whose lives might have been spared if Putin had agreed to intervene militarily in Donbass in 2014.
    2
  5726. I hope you manage to evade conscription. If they do get you and send you to the front, surrender to the Russians as soon as you can. They'll treat you well.
    2
  5727. Shame on New Zealand. This is outrageous.
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  5728. True, but that still doesn't get European colonial settlers off the hook for their own greed and violence.
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  5729. Unbelievable how spineless the Europeans are to let themselves be destroyed by Yanks.
    2
  5730. Some people (10-30%) do well on all of these drugs. Just monitor your moods and act accordingly.
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  5731. Three EMPTY villages, two of which the Russians have already retaken.
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  5732. How about providing subtitles in English, please?!
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  5733. I don't know how likely your scenario is, but that would be good.
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  5734. 😂
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  5735. It's not just the US. It's the collective West as a whole. The civlization that gave us science and heart-stoppingly beautiful art has devolved into this -- endless hypocricy, lies, utter lack of principle. I no longer pay any attention to what the West says on any topic at all.
    2
  5736. Copium.
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  5737. ​​ @johnadams3038  How's that winning going for Ukraine now, two months later? 😅
    2
  5738. ​ @odinbiflindi 😂
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  5739.  @rossrainwater5619  Her father disowned her decades ago. 🙄
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  5740.  @joycemanning9755  You clearly don't do yours at all. She wasn't raised by her father.
    2
  5741. What else can they do?
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  5742. As the EU itself determined!
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  5743. One can only hope!
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  5744. Australia will come to regret this, though it'll never admit it, of course.
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  5745. The 600 figure is the Ukrainian claim.
    2
  5746. Except that it's 100% nonsense.
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  5747. Sociopaths and psychopaths are especially drawn to careers in the law enforcement, the military, the judiciary, and medicine. They're also over-represented among corporate CEOs, the media elite, and politicians.
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  5748. In the early 1990s, immediately following the dissolution of the USSR.
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  5749. There's no if about it. This is the beginning of the end for Ukraine. They can drag it out, losing even more men in the process, or they can come to their senses and sue for peace. I hope it's the latter, but I'm a realist and don't expect it.
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  5750. Just yesterday, I saw a couple of people walking in downtown Kitchener (Ontario) with masks on. Btw, I'm in the process of getting my house ready for sale. I plan to leave Canada as soon as it's sold.
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  5751. According to the IMF, the debt to GDP ratio for France is currently at 112%.
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  5752. They're not in the position to do so, militarily speaking. Which is why it's super important to prevent them from de-militarizing themselves as Scholz announced Germany plans to do in violation of its own constitution, btw! Given what's in store for German industry, though, Scholz's promise/threat may never be realized because without cheap energy from Russia, there's very little chance that Germany will be able to carry out its re-militarization plans.
    2
  5753. And yet....
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  5754. Yes, of course. You have a problem with that?
    2
  5755. Stop executions in the USA!
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  5756. Pity the remaining Ukrainians.
    2
  5757. Paul Craig Roberts, formerly in the Reagan administration, says that his source at the State Department explains it as the result of bribery by the US. Every month, the US State Department flies suitcases full of money to various European capitals to grease the wheels. I have no reason to doubt either PCR or his source inside the State.
    2
  5758. Google it.
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  5759. The French did it to themselves in WW2. Entertaining Hitler's troops in Paris for the duration. It will take centuries for that to fade away from the historical consciousness of Europe and its settler colonies in North America.
    2
  5760. The arrest warrant, you mean.
    2
  5761. And not a word about the genocide in Gaza. Why is that, Duran?
    2
  5762. Bravo! ❤️
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  5763. Someone's finally summoned the courage to spell out exactly what the world should now do. Bravo, bravo, bravo!
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  5764. On some topics, yes.
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  5765. Since 2013, rather, when the US and the EU staged the Euromaidan and then the coup in 2014, setting off Kiev's attack on Donbass.
    2
  5766. They're 100% correct: the US and its European vassals are fully responsible for the mess they left in Afghanistan. Disappointing that India's behaving as if Afghanistan didn't matter and were on some other continent than in its own neighborhood too.
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  5767. ​ @user-mp3eq6ir5b  She never said that. She said, "And fuck the EU.". Direct quote.
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  5768. ​ @hanksyflamework  Poor you! When in doubt, blame feminism. 😂
    2
  5769. It has high occurrence with narcissistic parents who get gratification from parading their "trans" children as a living proof of how enlightened and progressive they are. And those who monetize their "trans" child, as in the case of Jazz Jennings, whose mother wanted another daughter and fabricated herself one. This is the first transitioning story I've come across involving lesbian/homosexual parents.
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  5770. We pray that Putin agrees to it.
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  5771. Not any more. The Russians have just confiscated his chocolate factory in Russia. 😅
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  5772. Disgusting exaggeration. You can criticise the COVID and vaccine policies our governments and the media pushed on us without desecrating the memory of the over 70 million killed in WW2.
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  5773. I must admit to some very pleasurable schadenfreude on that account.
    2
  5774. 💯
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  5775. He often speaks of his love and admiration of the high points of Western cultural heritage. His contempt is reserved solely for the contemporary decadence the West has fallen into. And he also happens to love the West coast. But of course the point of your remarks is simply to highlight the West's inability to face facts about itself.
    2
  5776. Aristotle was Alexander's *tutor*, his teacher.
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  5777. ​ @joecasey7415 It's not just when it comes to Israel.
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  5778. Really? Like the alternative was better, saner, more informed, knowledgeable, and deeply concerned with the hood of the people? 😂
    2
  5779. That's so psychopathic. Almost like the Hindu goddess Kali.
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  5780. The conquest of Kiev was never a part of it. You've been seriously misled by the spin the West put on the SMO.
    2
  5781. 🙂👍
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  5782. ​ @redsentry9785  The Kerch Bridge is NOT being used for military transports and supplies. It's an entirely civilian piece of infrastructure, so any damage to it can have NO effect on the SMO.
    2
  5783. Keep telling yourself that.
    2
  5784. Keep telling yourself that. 😅
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  5785. A war with China (or Russia) would destroy the US. Americans need to launch a new, huge peace movement all across the US. Now, without delay.
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  5786. It depends on how foolish the regime in Kiev continues to be.
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  5787. Oooh, that would be nice! 🙂
    2
  5788. They're pathetic, an embarrassment to their people.
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  5789. Odessa and Kherson need to be liberated first. Kiev can wait. 😘
    2
  5790. The priest is Eastern Orthodox, not a Calvinist. His theology and his understanding of the Christian God is very different from any of the Protestant ones.
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  5791.  @paulrand7861  They made a huge windfall on oil and gas last year. Unprecedented, in fact. And, amazingly, other sectors of the economy are growing, too. Despite the war, the Russians now expect their inflation rate to drop to about or below 5% this year. I just wish we in Canada were doing half as well too!
    2
  5792. Except that even our MSM are starting to realize that....
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  5793. Anyone who shamelessly regurgitates the "Putin is a brutal dictator" NATO talking point ipso facto loses all credibility for me. There's room really no need to and no justification for giving such types any air time.
    2
  5794. ​ @moriordan85  Interestingly, I learned just earlier this week that current research has debunked the Stockholm syndrome theory.
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  5795. I didn't know Zhukov was a fan of Wagner's music, but the Wagner Group has been around only since 2014.
    2
  5796. YouTube playing games with us.
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  5797. ​ @johnbones261  What on Earth are you talking about?! After a week of fighting, Ukrainians are still 10 km from the first of the three main defense lines the Russians set up over the past six months.
    2
  5798. I think NATO can linger on for quite a while yet. The Europeans are too spineless to call it quits and disband the whole wretched thing.
    2
  5799. 🎯
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  5800. What realistic opposition? Please name one.
    2
  5801. I should have thought that participating in it is bad enough.
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  5802. Oh, it's pretty solid in that department all by itself.
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  5803. Exactly so. Self-blinded with hatred and arrogance. 🎯
    2
  5804. He knows. It's what you do when interviewing an expert.
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  5805. Her interview with Jordan Peterson is a must see. He dies a wonderful job of explaining why adolescent girls, girls going through puberty, do naturally have a difficult time with their changing bodies and hormones, and a marvellous job explaining why girls with any degree of autism are particularly vulnerable to manipulation by trans activists. It's only about 15 min long and well worth watching.
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  5806. I wonder how you define emotional/mental health. The Yanomamo's homicide rate is (and has traditionally been) higher than that in Chicago or anywhere else in the US.
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  5807. We should be grateful an online platform
    2
  5808. Exactly!
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  5809. Less than 24 hrs after his "victory plan" speech delivered to the Ukrainian Rada, Zelensky is now demanding the right for Ukraine to have its own nuclear weapons, which he's implying Ukraine can produce in a matter of weeks! It's either Ukraine is immediately accepted into NATO, or it's given/produces its own nukes. The Ukrainian comedian is holding all of Europe -- and the US -- hostage to a culture of arrogance and entitlement that threatens to blow up all up to kingdom come. It's way past time his own military neutralise this unscrupulous fool.
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  5810. RT reports that the Russian MoD has announced a total pull-out from Kherson city.
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  5811. ​ @miraivas6203 How can you forgive unrepentant evil?!
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  5812. He's not a politician. Sachs is a world famous economist and the advisor to a number of previous US administrations.
    2
  5813. What language is the woman from the Immigration program speaking?
    2
  5814. Tito was an idiot. See what happened to the non-aligned.
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  5815. If I were Xi, I'd keep in mind the outcome of the summit Biden had with Putin -- just before he rejected diplomacy and pushed Ukraine into a proxy war with Russia....
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  5816. Which deal was that? Does it have a name, so I could look it up as I've heard of no UNSC document pertaining to Kosovo except the UNSC Resolution 1244 from 1999?
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  5817. It boggles the mind that after only 16 months, all of NATO, including the world's hegemon the USA, cannot continue to supply weapons and ammo to an ally whom they pushed into a proxy war (as the voices in the West who're warning the West will run out of supplies for Ukraine by this summer suggest). As to what Blinken et al can or cannot believe about Russia's military and productive capacity, their intelligence services, especially their military intelligence, must be able to enlighten them on these points.
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  5818. I'm about to move back to Serbia (Belgrade) and will now be able to go to Athens by train! Yay! 👍👏🙂
    2
  5819. 😂
    2
  5820. 😮
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  5821. ​ @danielbwest About 24% of what used to be Ukraine. What Russia giveth, Russia taketh away from the Naughties.
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  5822. ​ @JLSMaytham  The abandonment of Kherson city is a disgrace, doubly so in view of the partial mobilization that's bringing 300,000 fresh forces to these regions.
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  5823. No negotiations before Odessa has been liberated and has voted in a referendum to join Russia. Please!
    2
  5824. As so often in its history, Poland's playing an idiotically losing game again. Russophobia really does sap people's brains.
    2
  5825.  @kipwonder2233  And you're the same lot that laughs at safe spaces and the woke crowd. 🤣
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  5826. You wish. 😅
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  5827. Grayzone has interviewed him, too.
    2
  5828. Israel is/has become an abomination.
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  5829. RIP Gonzalo Lira.
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  5830. There's something seriously wrong with the Russian army, and the political leadership simply isn't doing enough to rectify it. Disappointing, and worrisome.
    2
  5831. Should have voted for Kamala Harris? 😅
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  5832. I agree.
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  5833. I agree. Russia's not being served well with that approach.
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  5834. I was 64 at the point when, five months after a concussion I'd had and two months after I had spent a week in hospital due to covid in 2021, I suffered an episode of transient global amnesia that lasted some 14-16 hours.
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  5835. Reality check: the Russian military's shooting down all of NATO missiles sent their way.
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  5836. 🎯
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  5837. I've always suspected that. It could have been a family friend (more likely than her father, but it's impossible to say now).
    2
  5838. He is, for a change
    2
  5839. You want excitement from your politicians?! No wonder the US in the state it is.
    2
  5840. ​ @timojin2222  Your supercilious ignorance is showing. There's nothing racist in his prayers for the religious minorities in Syria, who are the target of vicious violence now. Syrians of all religions are the same ethnic group.
    2
  5841. ​ @Pdmc-vu5gj  Not of Sunnis as such. Only of Sunni supremacists. But we are not allowed to call them that, of course.
    2
  5842. Germany has a rather bad record with that sort of thing.
    2
  5843. He's not being allowed anywhere near Trump this time.
    2
  5844. ​ @sharkkusul  😅
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  5845. Why? Better for Ukraine, too, this ends sooner rather than later.
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  5846. According to Victoria Nuland, they and the coup that followed cost the US 5 billion dollars.
    2
  5847. The NYT has always been pro-Israel! To the point of knowingly lying about Israeli and Palestinian actions. 😂
    2
  5848. Without a doubt.
    2
  5849. ​ @zoltanludvan5133  There's nothing sane or peaceful about NATO, and you know that.
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  5850. ​ @kartikeyatiwari2502  That weak country is single-handedly defeating a gang of the most militaristic 40+ countries in the world. Cope better.
    2
  5851.  @Bishop46066  Those who started the war in 2014.
    2
  5852. CPC. There's no such entity as CCP.
    2
  5853. Bulgaria and Greece, and that's only within the EU, are both formerly colonized countries. Five centuries of occupation and colonization by the Ottoman Empire.
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  5854. Not even remotely close to it. It may yet come to that, but not any time soon, not for quite a while to come
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  5855. ​ @itsmebatman  A thousand, yes. So far.
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  5856. Try to keep up. Mercouris has discussed the differences between the American MIC and the Russian military production system more than once. So have Scott Ritter and Brian Berletic of the New Atlas channel.
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  5857. Perfectly understandable scepticism.
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  5858. Max Blumenthal rocks!
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  5859. The New Atlas (Brian Berletic), the Judging Freedom channel and Col. Davis's channel, as well as Weeb Union and the Duran have been consistently excellent, too.
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  5860. ​ @ГульназРабах ❤
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  5861. disinterested = impartial uninterested = showing no interest in something or someone; uncaring
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  5862. For their sake, I very much hope The Russians are done with us. At least for the next couple of centuries, as we deteriorate further and further. We don't deserve Russia's regard or friendship.
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  5863. ​ @rachel5543  You've made that up. There's NO research suggesting that "mild" hallucinations are common.
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  5864. Why should he bother with the ridiculous propaganda lies coming out of Ukraine and its NATO puppet masters?!
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  5865. I don't believe Timoshenko would be acceptable to Russia. All through the 2010s, she openly called for a genocide in Donbass. I mean, she literally called for the annihilation of its people.
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  5866. 😮
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  5867. You okay, buddy?
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  5868. We'll see. Pompeo and Rubio, both of them in Trump's inner circle, make me think you're unduly optimistic.
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  5869. ❤❤❤
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  5870. I'm sure the Russians will leave all that to the Ukrainians themselves.
    2
  5871. What heating crisis?! 😂
    2
  5872. 😮
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  5873. ​​​ @robbielad  You should first examine how the Western countries calculate their GDP. And then look at the purchasing parity (PPP) comparisons, the only measure that gives a realistic picture. The Russian economy is today larger than Germany's and is the largest economy in Europe. But its economic might is best demonstrated by this fact: it outproduces both the US and the EU combined in ammunition.
    2
  5874. The general in charge of its Syria operations has already been replaced.
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  5875. What democracy?! 😂
    2
  5876. Scott Ritter has very frequent 2-minute updates and at least once a week a long (2-3 hr long) Q&A online sessions. Col. Macgregor is a frequent guest on the "Judging Freedom" channel (as is Ritter).
    2
  5877. Remember Biden asking the then president of Afghanistan back in July 2021 to say that everything's even although he knows it's not true. A month later, the Yanks fled Kabul. The same thing's unrolling before our eyes right now.
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  5878. I'm not buying that scenario if only because I saw the video of the Russian Security Council at which Gerasimov first reported on the Kursk incursion. I'd never seen Putin as visibly furious as there, literally gnashing his teeth.
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  5879. They knew exactly what they were doing. They were just lying to us. We must face the fact that our media and our politicians and msm-approved analysts lie to us at the drop of a hat, with remarkable shamelessness and competence at deceiving us. Moreover, we need to face the fact that this is all orchestrated, that we don't have a free press any more. Corporate media are not in the business of informing the public: their business is shaping our perceptions of reality.
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  5880.  @juzzlookin  Poroshenko, Zelensky's immediate predecessor, told us a couple of months back, in London, that Kiev NEVER had any attention of honouring or implementing the Minsk Accords. They signed it at the urging of the West just in order to buy themselves time to prepare for a massive attack on Donbass. Russia's entry into the conflict on February 24 prevented at least that part of it.
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  5881. Dream on. 😂
    2
  5882. Tell me you're brainwashed without realising that's what you've just showed me.
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  5883.  @neilclark8087  Poor thing. So easily triggered. 😘
    2
  5884. Ah, the inveterate, notorious Polish anti-Semitism.
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  5885. Nothing. The EU can do zilch about it.
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  5886. Zelensky and his gang will milk this war for as long as there are live Ukrainian bodies to thrown before Russian artillery fire. The sad truth is that the Ukrainian army echelon is so corrupt that they're in on the grift themselves and will support this regime for as long as the West lets itself be milked by Ukraine.
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  5887. All? Hardly. The collective West is losing its power and its ability to impose its will on the rest of the world, but there are always those who can be bribed into anything you want them to do.
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  5888. That's only a tiny, tiny part of the problem. The military budget is absolutely unsustainable and, fortunately, unnecessary. It's just that we're too easily manipulated to question and cut it down to at most one third of its present size.
    2
  5889. ​ @smrtrthnu1571  The sad, the perplexing thing is that God does help some people some of the time. But all too often fails to protect the innocent and the vulnerable. It's one of the most troubling things about God.
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  5890. There are reports from the international volunteers in Donbass -- I began seeing them last September -- about frustrated the Russian troops are with their orders to stand down just as they're about to overrun the enemy and liberate a piece of territory. The Russian leadership is deliberately stretching this out for reasons only they know and we can surmise
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  5891. The US can make it through this -- and it's just induced one of its three main competitors, the EU, to commit economic suicide, which will help it stay afloat another decade or two. Unless, of course, the US breaks apart in the meantime, which is not impossible.
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  5892. ​ @riodejaneiro4793  Or the Greeks, the Bulgarians, the Rumanians, the Armenians and the Georgians.
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  5893.  @hrissan  I believe that he simply lied during his electoral campaign. Kolomoisky, his oligarch patron, also financed the Azov, and all of Ukraine knows that. The Ukrainian electorate had absolutely no reason to trust Zelensky or believe his campaign promises. If they did, they were wilfully deceiving themselves while being played by him.
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  5894. Boosting the export industry is exactly the reason for this deliberate devaluation of the ruble.
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  5895. Which is what the Ukrainians should have done -- or, rather, they should have averted the war and any need for capitulation by implementing the Minsk Accords and agreeing to be a militarily neutral country. But Zelensky had to earn his billion by sending tens and by now possibly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men to their death. It's astonishing that he's not been drawn and quartered by the Ukrainian public by now, but then he's well protected by the nazi goons he's surrounded himself with.
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  5896.  @tamgosmith7529  Except that the people of Donbass didn't do any such thing. They were attacked and shelled for 7 and a half years for their minority rights and for the right to remain in Ukraine as an autonomous region.
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  5897.  @Boycott-if4eg  Don't be silly.
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  5898. China will prevail. I have no doubt about that.
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  5899.  @ParikshitBhujbal  The Taiwanese are 50%-50% split in that, so I'm totally going with China on this issue.
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  5900. Serbia has plenty of privately owned, non-state media and the opposition can use those to present its agenda and policies to the public. It also has a local branch of the CNN, called N1. As for the campaign debates, why don't you have a look at what those things look like in the West?
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  5901. Debate with a professional liar?! There'd be no point to that
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  5902. She's not a very nice human being, yes.
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  5903. Not even exiled. The guy moved to London, UK, back in 2014 and has kept his Russian citizenship and Russian passport since. 😅
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  5904. When did the Russians lose initiative in Donbasd, in the first place?! 😅
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  5905. Where did you read that? Where in Canada is this supposed to have happened? I'm opposed to the MAID program as currently designed, but it also annoys me that so many people are spreading lies about it.
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  5906. He did?! Which interview did you watch? 😂
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  5907. It's verging on incomprehensible by now.
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  5908. Plus Larry Johnston and Brian Berletic.
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  5909. You're responsible for your own actions such as electing the lot that rules you.
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  5910. Ain't gonna happen. Sadly.
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  5911. Food prices in Canada are about twice what they are in the States.
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  5912. 😮
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  5913. Not necessarily. The UK just failed to demand and impose assimilation on its non-European (and European) immigrants. The ruling class sold England away.
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  5914. ​ @michaelkatz275  His wife, actually. We know from her that Zelensky's no longer sure he wants to run for office again....
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  5915. 🎯
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  5916. ​ @FrankHarwald Aristocracy always consists of the most aggressive, most brutal thieves around.
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  5917. ​ @catalincarceanu7991  Sorry, but that won't wash: there are many things Bulgarians and other East Europeans could do to demonstrate their disapproval of the actions of their governments. Silence means consent.
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  5918. The Russians would be mad to trust anyone in the West. To any extent.
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  5919. Why should they? They're about to send 300,000 trained reservists to those four regions of Russia, and if necessary they can always send in another 300,000 for good measure.
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  5920. Don't be silly.
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  5921. Don't be silly. Not to mention disingenuous.
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  5922. ​ @vasianeokleous3985 I do follow them, but Alexander Mercouris's idealization of the US and Western Europe blunts his analyses quite a bit.
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  5923.  @MeidoInHebun  What's "304 behaviour"?
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  5924.  @ryanberry6853  He's"seeking sex from others", not trying to have a relationship with anyone.
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  5925. 😂
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  5926. You can legally change your name when you reach the age of 18.
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  5927. I still love certain aspects of it, but it was the Western civilization that gave us modern imperialism/colonialism, massive genocide (the basis of the USA), WW1 and WW2, the concentration camps, the use of nuclear bombs on civilian cities. I grew up a while ago and no longer call such civilizations great.
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  5928. Brent was clearly the problem. All those passive-aggressive vibes. No wonder he was driving both her and the dog out of their minds. With Brent mercifully out of the picture, things took a 180 degree turn for the better.
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  5929. Bound to happen, eventually.
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  5930. Don't be silly!
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  5931. I think we'll have to be patient for a while longer. I don't see the US closing down Bondsteel within the next 10 years. 20 at the earliest.
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  5932. 😀
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  5933. Yes, Mearsheimer is still a liberal hegemonist at heart.
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  5934. ​ @yingzhang7637  Yes. It's an empire in decay, a would-be hegemon (it's pejorative in English, too) that enjoyed 30 years of unchallenged supremacy during which it wreaked havoc in various parts of the world and during which Americans imagined themselves Masters of the Universe. And now it's having to face the reality of an economically towering China it cannot fairly outcompete and a militarily undefeatable Russia, with BRICS+ rising, and is losing its increasingly shrinking mind. Very dangerous times indeed.
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  5935. ​ @rotfogel  You have a perverse idea of what history is. Nazi fantasies are not it.
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  5936. It's never stopped. All of the EU is still buying gas and oil (plus coal) from Russia, only now it's mainly via third parties.
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  5937. ​ @davidlazarus67  They're far better informed than you and I. They're just liars and performers for pay.
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  5938. It was overseen by over 100 international observers, for one. And the people voted in person, just as we do in Canada, using paper ballots and showing their IDs to prove their identity and prevent double voting.
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  5939. Why is this of interest to anyone? Btw, she has 3 children from her first marriage. No biological male who turns transgender is capable of getting pregnant or gestating a baby. The whole thing is a distraction from Macron's bizarre policies.
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  5940. Scary stuff, that.
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  5941. That's almost 2/3 of humanity, and almost half of the countries in the world.
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  5942. Exactly! Very irritating, this.
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  5943. Spot on about the actual inability of most teachers to teach math, for which they have no love and thus no deep understanding either.
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  5944. The narrator keeps referring to God, while the chief monk speaks only of "the gods". Two rather different things.
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  5945. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  5946. This discussion was a waste of time. Ukraine's predicament cannot be understood or discussed without directly addressing the role of the USA, Canada and the EU in supporting extremist far-right, ultranationalist forces and attempting to force Ukraine into cutting its cultural and economic ties to Russia.
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  5947. When I lived in downtown Toronto in the 1980s, there were literally 4 people altogether panhandling, and I never saw them sleeping on the street. By mid-1990s, I could no longer count the number of people begging for money in downtown Toronto, where by that point there were minors and older homeless people sleeping rough wherever you looked. Now, there's a tent city in my neighbourhood park in downtown Kitchener. In the meantime, our healthcare system's gone down the drains, and it takes up to a year or more to see a specialist. Our food prices went up by some 20% two winters ago, and by about the same this year, too. I don't know how median-income people are managing, let alone the lower-income demographic. And most of the population is utterly conformist, and/or self-destructively passive about what's happened to this country. Our Deputy Prime Minister is a person who worships a Nazi collaborator, and that's tolerated as perfectly normal. I think I've been in a perpetual state of low-key shock about it all for the past 20 years!
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  5948. Someone in these comments asked who's invading whose land. A good question. Those lands were immemorially a part of Russia until LENIN and STALIN annexed them to the Russian borderlands (ukraina) to create a new Soviet Republic called the Ukraine. Their original name was Novorossiya, i.e. the New Russia. And they're now returning home.
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  5949. Disgraceful.
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  5950. 9/10 we don't get snow for Christmas in Southern Ontario. We get some flurries at the end of November, a sprinkling here and there in December, and then things get serious by January 10. In my 40+ years in this region, we had snow for Christmas maybe four times.
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  5951. Channels like this will still ve saying the same thing about China collapsing two centuries from now. 😂
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  5952. Lots of alternatives: China, Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Serbia, Thailand, etc.
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  5953. Not clueless -- just bare-faced liars.
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  5954. They and the other 30 Notsee militias in Ukraine the Amnesty International reported on in 2014.
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  5955. Narcissist much, aren't you? 😂
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  5956. Fascism is about unity?!!! Pretending that words in modern languages mean what their etymological roots meant 2,000 years ago. I've lost respect for Col. Macgregor. P.S. Those who also imagine that the meaning of words is to be found in their etymology may find it instructive to learn the etymological meaning of nice: silly. My first degree is in linguistics, but do check out nice if you think you I'm lying.
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  5957. You have a diplomatic superstar in Jaishankar.
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  5958. Capitalism has morphed into neo-feudalism. Americans let their democracy slip away from them.
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  5959. Keep telling yourself that.
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  5960. ​ @yurichtube1162 That would be nice.
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  5961. Indeed. Pray for peace, sanity, and good will.
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  5962. 🎯
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  5963. There are tens of millions perfectly decent human beings in Britain. The problem is the perennial English servility to their psychopathic ruling class.
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  5964. I don't think so. Unless it destroys itself, the West will remain a significant player in a multipolar world, but it'll just be one player among several, and not the economically most powerful of them as China's taking that position as we speak.
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  5965. Off topic: Vanessa has gorgeous hair! 😍
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  5966.  @ЕленаВасильева-н7щ  You're looking in the mirror and projecting what's there onto others.
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  5967. ​ @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086 Most of the US oligarchs are Anglos.
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  5968.  @lowersaxon  Very.
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  5969. Of course.
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  5970. So much of our tertiary education has become a hassle. In state or public colleges and universities, it's driven by our funding formulas that mimick the commercial/corporate world (a direct consequence of neoliberalism) and force university departments to create programs and attract students to them, knowing perfectly well that they will result in no commensurable jobs for their graduates.
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  5971. He and the German Greens. They held the ministry of foreign affairs and it was under them that the German intelligence produced the fake Serbian "intelligence dossier" purportedly planning mayhem in Kosovo. The thing was so badly faked, its very title was in Bulgarian, not in Serbian!
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  5972. Except it happens to be true.
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  5973. And you, too. 🙏
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  5974. Have we now embraced the CIA story that Ukraine blew up North Streams 1 and 2?!
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  5975. Horrendous.😢
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  5976. Sorry, Andrei, I'm a feminist (an old-fashioned one); that woman's a nut. Just another bit of intellectual flotsom brought up by the ever deepening tides of Western decadence.
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  5977. Yes, it's literally absurd.
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  5978. This is not ideological. The West is blinded by its overweening arrogance, its belief in its cultural superiority, and its abiding, rapacious greed. As Alex put it, by its imperialist mindset.
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  5979. That area has been under martial law since 2014. What Putin's decree does is make their martial law legalities harmonize with those used in Russia.
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  5980. Hamas has committed a handful of atrocities within the context and in reaction to decades of Israeli atrocities on a scale Hamas can neve hope to match. Palestinians, who as an occupied people have the right to armed resistance (as per international law) are fighting for their freedom, their land, and their very existence. Israelis are fughting to steal all of Palestinians' remaining land, to ethnically cleanse those lands of Palestinians, and establish by force, and in direct violation of international law, Greater Israel. As much as I care for my Jewish friends, I stand with Palestinians.
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  5981. How so? What does the type of tank used have to do with the long-term effect of DU on the environment and on the human beings who live in the area where it's been used?
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  5982. Subtly?! That was a clear put-down by Xi! 🙂
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  5983. ​ @razvegoida_25 Yes, really. An apartment like that would cost a clean $400,000 in a medium sized town in Ontario, and about $600,000 in Toronto. Renting just a single room in Toronto is now close to $1,000 a month.
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  5984. About 60%, actually.
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  5985. Who's crazy enough to go out in such heat?!
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  5986. Beauty is a solace. Watch on!
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  5987. Starting in the Fall of 2022, there have been persistent reports from the front that just as their forces are about to take over an area, the Russians would get orders to stand down and let it go. For the longest time I couldn't understand why this was happening until I realized what a war of attrition means and entails.
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  5988. Oh please! Christianity was the motive power of French, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and American imperialism?! 😂
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  5989. The ghost of Kiev, eh? 😅
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  5990. Because we're greedy and unprincipled and want to grab Russia's immense riches for ourselves.
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  5991. Placing mines in residential areas is a war crime, I believe. Ukrainians have no honour and no decency or humanity whatsoever.
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  5992. Zivim u Kanadi vise od 40 godina i stalno me zapanjuje koliko su ljudi I Srbiji ne-informisani i o Zapadu i o svojim najblizim susedima. Hrvatska, koja ima skoro duplo manje stanovnika od Srbije, i koja je clanica Evropske Zajednice, je zaduzena 40% vise od nas! A ima i Jadransko more koje joj donosi turizam i nije bila celu deceniju pod zapadnim sankcijama, niti je bila bombardovana od strane NATO-a. A vi i jos neki u Srbiji zamisljate da je obratno. Zapadna propaganda je fenomenalna stvar.
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  5993. They did. (Do try to keep up.) As we now know from Petro Poroshenko, Francois Hollande, and Angela Merkel, it was the West and Ukraine who only pretended to negotiate while using those long 8 years during which Kiev kept shelling the civilians of Donbass to prepare Ukraine for a war against Russia.
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  5994. Where do you get the idea that you're losing most of the Wagner forces?! Not even 1/4 of them followed Prigozhin and only about 3,000 went in his march to Moscow. 3/4 of Wagner men refused to join Prigozhin, and none of the officers, the real military brain of Wagner, joined him. All of those men will now be absorbed into the regular Russian army forces or have a special grouping within the army, under the control of the MOD! Up until now, Wagner had no legal right, under your constitution, to function inside the Russian Federation itself. From now on, your army will be able to use them without any legal obstacles.
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  5995. You've just noticed YouTube censorship?! 😅
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  5996. His day job is in industrial design.
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  5997. Of course they can -- they're women in drag.
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  5998. He's supported by his viewers. I don't know what his daytime job is, but he also gets royalties from his books.
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  5999. Brutalized?! Demeaned?! What drugs are you on?
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  6000. Greetings and love to Russia from Canada! ❤
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  6001. Trump had a chance to pardon Assange but chose, instead, to listen to Pompeo.
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  6002. Sometimes I wish the Russians were as ruthless as the Americans.
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  6003. The West has dominated and exploited the rest of the world for the past 600 years or so. Long past time that paradigm was consigned to the dustbin of history.
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  6004. ​​ @larryc1616  In your spiteful dreams. In reality, and according to the World Bank, the Russian economy has displaced that of Germany to become #1 in Europe and #4 globally.
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  6005. Z was banned in Europe last Spring. Hence Elensky.
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  6006. In talking about what provoked the Euromaidan protests, one rarely hears mention of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, THE only international agreement guaranteeing the territorial integrity of post-Soviet Ukraine. The omission conceals the fact that the West had committed itself in 1994 NOT to use economic pressure (including any form of ultimatum) on Ukraine for political purposes, i.e. precisely what it did in the Fall of 2013! Here's Article 3 of the said document (Wikipedia used to have the text in its entry on the Budapest Memo; being so inconvenient to NATO, the EU and the US, that text has since been removed): "The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to 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;" https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/s_1994_1399.pdf
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  6007. These things should be banned outright. Simply requiring that products with PFAS disclose that information to consumers would merely make sure that companies would then be legally allowed to continue to poison lower-income people. An outright ban is the only humane and ethically acceptable thing.
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  6008. Yes, it's her and her husband's family concern. Created and run by her hubby.
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  6009. ​ @lisakenton2392  Don't be silly. Of course there are those who deserve no or minimal mercy and those who deserve great mercies.
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  6010. ?
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  6011. Sure, and I have a bridge to sell you.
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  6012. Apart from the 14% of the world in the collective West, nobody else fears China. China is the only piwerful country in history to voluntarily choose😮 NOT to engage in imperialism.
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  6013. Privet from Canada! Thank you for the information you're bringing to us. Much appreciated! 👍👋 It certainly looks like the Polish elite will sell their souls to the devil just to satisfy their inbred Russophobia.
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  6014. I don't understand why she suddenly called him a POS in a message sent just a few hours after she'd exchanged perfectly cordial, friendly messages with him and asked him if he'd used a condom when they were together. What happened during those hours while they were actually apart for her to suddenly turn on him like that? It makes no sense that I can see. P.S. Both Yale and his accuser should pay Khan for slandering him.
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  6015. She's popular?! What's wrong with Germans?
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  6016. Both my sister and I have hazel eyes. Our father (from Northern Macedonia) had brown eyes and our mother (from Serbia) green. Southern Slavs, in short.
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  6017. I'm not sure that the public at home would support that just yet.
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  6018.  @bcde  You know that YouTube doesn't allow live links and deletes them as soon as they're posted. Don't be lazy and just look up Scott Ritter's channel here.
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  6019. ​ @orange1832  Poles never tell you about their own invasion of Russia and the attempt to destroy the Russian state.
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  6020. ​ @christian78478  "An imaginary line, running from the northern Ural Mountains in Russia south to the Caspian and Black Seas, separates Europe, to the west, from Asia, to the east." National Geographic International organizations -- e.g. the WHO, the Council of Europe -- which have been hijacked by the US do, tendentiously and for obvious geopolitical reasons, list Georgia as a European country, although it is geographically in Asia.
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  6021. Good.
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  6022. I'm sorry, but by this point, and in plain view of the insanity of these Western attempts to control the rest of the world by a series of mega-hypocritical market-rigging moves designed to compensate for the incompetence of its policy makers, if the European public doesn't rise up and demand basic sanity and decency from their elites, they deserve everything that's coming to them. To this day, the majority of Germans, for example, fully support their government's and EU's openly discriminatory, openly hate-filled Russophobic policies, so why should any of us feel sorry for them for what's about to happen to their economy and their lives?!
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  6023. Correct.
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  6024. You do realise that all of those baddies are controlled by the US?
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  6025. Zelensky's scared of his own troops in Bakhmut, some of whom have promised in publicly posted videos to return to Kiev to deal with not just him but all of the Rada too
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  6026. ​​ @seth101-hv4st  Trump rambles on for 2 hours, yes. Not even in the same league as Putin, and still better than Biden or Obama (who's lost without a teleprompter) or Harris.
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  6027. Re. Poland: Ania of "Through the eyes of" channel posted earlier today her translation of Moriawecki's speech at the Warsaw Conference. Moriawecki's Polish PM. The speech gives a direct glimpse of just how dishonest and demented Poland's ruling class and its foreign policy are. There will be no lasting peace in Europe until Poland renounced its age old ambition to destroy the Russian state.
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  6028. 😂
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  6029. He wants his passport back....
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  6030. You must be joking! The London underground is a dump in comparison. Even the Paris metro is much nicer than the Tube.
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  6031. ​ @PaulBunyun1954  It effectively has. Were it not for Putin's constantly putting the brakes on the military, this would have been over at least a year ago.
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  6032. I don't know about BRICS but GMO grain, fruit, and vegetables are banned in Russia.
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  6033.  @CalicoCooperFan  I'm not interested in moralising about other people's lives quite to the degree you feel entitled to do. It feels a little too judgy to me.
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  6034. Russian defense systems have proven themselves unbeatable in Syria, and S 500 is far more advanced than the S 300 being used there. India can only benefit from Russia's S 500.
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  6035. Have you watched the video? Because they work!
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  6036. ​ @aidanmacdougall9250  I was just going to say that. The EU had nothing to do with the honourable decision of these three countries to recognize Palestine.
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  6037. Not always.
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  6038. Vucic, like the rest of the Serbian political elite, is just a member of the comprador class, selling Serbia out to the West. The silence and the compliance of the Serbian public itself is a disgrace.
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  6039. ​ @lukecarroll9823 Ukraine could have been neutral and free if it had accepted the Istanbul peace agreement of 2022. It can still be neutral and free, but it seems to prefer fighting a losing proxy war on behalf of the collective West.
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  6040. ​ @lukecarroll9823 Ukraine could have been neutral and free in April 2022 but it chose to pull out of the Istanbul peace agreement. It could still be neutral and free if it accepts Russia's latest peace offer, but the gang in Kiev seem to prefer sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men to their death in a losing proxy war against Russia they undertook on behalf of the collective West.
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  6041. Fifth in the world (Australia is no.1).
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  6042. And in the meantime, the dollar's gone from capturing over 70% of the global reserve currency holdings to below 60%, and now possibly even below 50%. Give it another decade, and it will have slipped to just 30%, by which point it's game over for the USA.
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  6043. No, Great Britain is not a term in geography. Geography recognizes the British Isles, but not the political entity that used to be called Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) but is more commonly referred to as the United Kingdom.
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  6044. Dr. Ekberg, the results you've shown us are the effects of eating high quantities of beef for just 10 days. I think it's fair to ask what the results would be after 10 months of eating this way.
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  6045. 😂
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  6046. Pa-byeda.
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  6047. If that's really so, the citizens of the West should at least try to do something about it. So far, all they've shown is a remarkable readiness to jump on any Russophobic lie and piece of slander ever presented to them. Just like their grandparents and great-grandparents did about both the Jews and the Russians 80 and 90 and 140 years ago.
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  6048. Nah. Russia wouldn't have survived what the West has thrown at it if it had not been great to begin with. A fact the self-deluded West simply cannot even acknowledge. 😅
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  6049. I love both of these gentlemen, but I don't agree that the Hunter Biden scandal is insignificant and merely a distraction. Nepotism and the corruption of US state institutions such as the FBI are serious issues for any democracy.
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  6050. Brian Berletic thinks there will be one and advises against underestimating Ukrainian skill and ability.
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  6051. A false flag operation has a very specific meaning: in this instance, it would mean that Israel itself orchestrated and carried out the attack itself, letting Hamas take the blame for it. This is obviously not the case here. Israel may well have let the attack take place so as to use it as a pretext for launching a huge operation to level and ethnically cleanse Gaza, too. I think that's a very plausible scenario of what's happened, but that's most emphatically NOT a false flag.
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  6052. What do you see as missing in their discussion?
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  6053. ​ @briangbur8743  The collective West and its puppets/satellites in Asia and South America make up 16% of humanity. The other 84% are either tacitly or openly giving moral support to Russia.
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  6054. Thank you for your excellent updates! As you point out here, sooner or later, and it will probably be sooner, the West will give Kiev military jets and long range missiles, too. And then all hell will break loose as Russia responds with a massive attack, such as Ukraine's not seen yet. That, at least, is how I see all this going. The idiots in both the US and Poland and the Baltics really do seem to want to turn this into a pan-European war, God help us all.
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  6055. Eventually, yes. Too bad the West forced Zelensky into reneging the peace deal Ukraine was about to sign back in April of last year.
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  6056. The biggest mistake he made is not to honour his campaign promise to implement the Minsk Accords.
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  6057. Isn't Arestovich in the US? I'm pretty sure he left Ukraine last year.
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  6058. You must find consolation where you can.
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  6059. He can always run away with his dirty money.
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  6060. 😅
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  6061.  @chrismcintyre1836  Gandhi actually idealized the Hindu caste system and, incredibly, claimed that it was humane and kind to the lower castes. He blocked Ambedkar at every turn while publicly pretending to being concerned about the plight of the Dalits.
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  6062. I don't find that strange at all.
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  6063. ​ @mimikurtz2162  If you say so. 😅
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  6064. At least since Putin's 2007 speech at the Munich security conference.
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  6065. As is NATO.
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  6066. A good 2/3 of the EU would sigh in relief if Poland left the Union.
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  6067. Exactly.
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  6068. 😅
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  6069. Oh dear. Russia's economy is more than three times the size of Germany's. Why do you think Russia can outproduce not just the US but NATO as a whole in weaponry (high electronics and other technological stuff) and ammunition 10:1. By the time they've ramped up their production, in about 3 years' time, they'll have managed to reduce that ratio to 6:1.
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  6070.  @richardscathouse  And losing.
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  6071. Nobody's moving to Germany to retire there. To Greece, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Thailand, etc. yes. But not to Germany. The climate alone makes it unattractive.
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  6072. I feel so sorry for the poor sods who are being rounded up and sent to their certain deaths against their will all over Ukraine. Telegram is full of videos of Ukrainians being taken off the street and press-ganged -- I simply can't bear to watch them any more.
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  6073. Racist, much?
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  6074. Sure. 😜
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  6075. And you believe NATO destroys countries and kills hundreds of thousands of civilians for democracy.
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  6076. ​ @icemanvamp7433 Support for a country fighting Western-funded and armed head-choppers is no proxy war. The proxy in Syria were and are ISIS and Al-Qaeda, used by the West as the latter was created and used by the US in Afghanistan.
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  6077. 😅
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  6078. They still love Annalena?!
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  6079. I doubt that's possible.
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  6080. This seems to be the extent of your knowledge, poor you.
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  6081. ​​ @dmac6312 You really think God looked kindly on the Nazis? Or their willing collaborators? Or their present-day descendants? I strongly doubt it.
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  6082. Eight (8) replies, and all of them shadow banned by this platform.
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  6083. It's just occurred to me that an unknown number of those 1.2 million inactive SIM cards may belong to Ukrainian men who're no longer using their smartphones in an attempt to evade monitoring by the authorities, and thus evade Kiev's attempts to press gang them into service on the front.
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  6084. There are several countries in Asia with even more beautiful beaches than California.
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  6085. It's absurd reducing this to Biden's lack of interest in the region. What we're seeing is the result and the continuation of decades' long American policy. Biden's almost irrelevant to the situation.
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  6086. ​ @jfrmfrjm  That's just your anti-Russian racism.
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  6087. As Putin said some weeks ago, the Russians haven't started yet. This is not a war as they understand it; even with the partial mobilization of an additional 300,000 forces who're currently training in Russia, they're using less than 15% of their military capacity.
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  6088. 🎯
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  6089.  @holiday8473  Strong independent unions in the US? Not in decades now. As for those "high human rights", the US has the highest number of prisoners in the world and a massive crisis of homelessness.
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  6090. A mix, with the majority being poor Ukrainian recruits, most of whom never wanted to be there to begin with.
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  6091. 😂😂😂
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  6092. You say that as if he or anyone in his place had an option. 😅
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  6093. Ask YouTube. The amount of silent censorship on this platform is ridiculous.
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  6094. So these were men and a few women who died violent deaths at the hands of other men. It'd be interesting to know how many of their killers were NOT transgender...
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  6095. If working from home wasn't a privilege during the two years of covid-19, it's not a privilege now.
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  6096. Welcome back to your second home! 🙂
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  6097. In a nutshell.
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  6098. In a word: yes.
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  6099. They've had false messiahs before, who led them to perdition and exile. And they still haven't learned from that.
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  6100. Good to hear that.
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  6101. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to visit Kursk in a few days.
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  6102. Worry not and be reassured by Putin's speech as we all know the man doesn't bluff. His repeated use of the historical term Novorossiya clearly signalled to his public at home that Russia will liberate Odessa, too, as the Odessa region was a part of Novorossiya.
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  6103.  @Skanzool  They chose to stay in Canada, so that train left the station decades ago.
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  6104. Larry respects truth and facts. Too bad you've been brainwashed to see that as inhumane.
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  6105. Putin still enjoys approval ratings of ca. 70%. And Amy Goodman, who ought to know such facts and report on them, doesn't even challenge this comical claim that Russia's facing a political crisis and that Russians have no dignity under Putin or are tired of him. In the meantime, the Yellow Vests have been demonstrating for over 50 weeks now all across France, with a state crack-down that's left numerous people maimed for life and at least one fatality. DemocracyNow! has become a sick joke.
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  6106.  @christinehomer2185  Of course they are, unless and until they fight openly as NATO forces.
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  6107. 💯
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  6108. I bet she's already have that done.
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  6109. Agree 100%. Also, children need the company of their peers, need socialization. Homeschooling is by no means ideal.
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  6110. 😮
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  6111. Exactly.
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  6112. Can you direct me to a book (or article) or two where I can find more about this?
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  6113. If only the majority of Americans knew this.
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  6114. He suffered from a total media blackout.
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  6115. Well said.
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  6116. The air-alarms were there for a dramatic touch and PR purposes. All for media effect. Biden the Brave visits a war zone. Nothing those Russkies can do will stop him. That sort of subliminal programming.
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  6117.  @wrongthinker843  Israel ceased to exist as a country in the 2nd century AD, roughly 1,900 years ago.
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  6118. There are lots of other Michael Hudson interviews and talks available on YouTube.
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  6119. ​ @mikehoare6093 Russians don't see us as their children but as their brothers and sisters. They're not a condescending lot.
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  6120. Correct.
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  6121.  @D-B-Cooper  I'm interested in facts only, not in opinions, and that's NOT what UK polling is showing. What it is showing is that between March and June of this year, things got so bad in the UK that 27% of its citizens can no longer afford 3 meals a day. Since there's absolutely no reason for the UK to start making up such figures, I take them as accurate and true.
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  6122. I just saw on RT that Russia has now informed the US of its condition for talks: the US must stop supplying Ukraine with weapons and ammunition. 🙂👍
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  6123. Had you bought gold in the last 5 years, you'd have made a small fortune by now.
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  6124. Local people (smaller countries) need financing for their projects, and we all know how that goes when the IMF and/or the World Bank are involved. There's nothing exploitative about what China's doing in Africa or in the Belt and Road Initiative. I do agree, however, that the inequality that's been allowed to develop in China itself constitutes a serious problem and that China isn't doing nearly enough to counter or temper it.
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  6125. The rest of the world sees clearly that Russia has already defeated the US+EU. The only ones still deep in delusion and whistling in the dark are the woefully propagandized denizens of the EU.
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  6126. What's happened is the evident, pathetic failure of Democratic Party and neocon anti-Russia policy.
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  6127. 19th-century capitalism was the era of protectionism, of direct government involvement in the economy.
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  6128. We should also look into a possible link between vaccines and fibromyalgia, which began appearing among pre-schoolers about 20 years ago.
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  6129. Actually, that's not true. American liberals abhor the French insistence on secularism in public spaces.
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  6130. Before watching.
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  6131. For those inclined to dismiss Hudson as a Marxist: Paul Craig Roberts, senior fellow at Hoover Institution and distinguished fellow Cato Institute during the 1990s and Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, considers Michael Hudson "our greatest living economist". He's unquestionably our greatest economic historian, too. If you're new to Hudson's work, you'll find it helpful to watch a few other videos by him. Not just interviews, which are extremely illuminating, of course, but his own lecture-like videos which are available on YouTube.
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  6132. Oh they do. They just have little to no option as long as they're being terrorized into complying with orders by the Nazis in their ranks
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  6133.  @chrisatkinson4173  Isn't their taking an oath the equivalent of a verbal contract? Someone ought to test it out in courts, because there's no question that a solid legal argument could be made to this effect. Otherwise, there's no representative and no democracy in "representative democracy".
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  6134. Nothing fanatical about Ben's sense of outrage. The shocking thing is that so few of us are aware of the facts he's bringing to light and even fewer who share his righteous, appropriate outrage.
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  6135. You're right: the EU is insulting all Hungarians now, and it really is a bit too, too much coming from an anti-demicratic body run by un-elected officials answerable to no one. Like Serbia, I suspect that Hungary is waiting for Russia to come all the way to Danube before it does anything like publicly begin the process of leaving the EU.
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  6136. Bingo!
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  6137. Caps and mitogation are not enough. We need to be moving to alternatives to plastic.
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  6138. You're talking about 3/4 abandoned villages and small towns, where most of the buildings are neglected as their previous residents have moved away. Russia is so huge that cleaning up such places simply doesn't make sense. Eventually, it will have to be done, but it is as first necessary to get the country off its knees, where the Westernisation of the 1990s had left it. Today's Russia is already unrecognisable from what it was as 20 years ago. An absolutely astonishing turnaround achieved in record time.
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  6139. I'm sure he consults with some of his advisors and has them read his drafts in advance for their feedback.
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  6140. It's really the other way around.
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  6141. That's a ridiculous overstatement. Germany's nowhere close to the Weimar Republic days.
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  6142. How on Earth can you stay married to someone whose behaviour must be beyond difficult?
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  6143. It's about both.
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  6144. Are you sure of that?
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  6145.  @70AD-user45  That's what I thought.
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  6146. 😅
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  6147. Putin has the patience of a saint! Anyone else in his position would not have waited and waited for over 7 years before it became undeniable that Kiev was never going to implement the Minsk Accords and would have gone in and smashed Ukraine in a matter of weeks.
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  6148. ​ @slavking992 😂
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  6149. Empty hamlets. 😂
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  6150. ​ @LinnTractorNut  I won't be praying for the Notsees, except that God have mercy on them.
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  6151.  @lowersaxon  Both sides used that tactic. Horrifically costly in terms of human lives lost, of course.
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  6152. A perfectly typical charming psychopath.
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  6153. Or do something to make those LNG terminals in Poland un-usable.
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  6154. ​ @chuletaization  The figures you've cited pertain to the Russian *Federation*, not to Russia itself. Most of Russia is in Europe, in fact. It's extraordinary how little awareness people have of the multiethnic, multicultural nature of the RF, which is routinely identified with Russia itself, which is only a part of it.
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  6155. Reported by RT, too.
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  6156. Yes, but they're a tiny minority.
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  6157. The arrogance displayed by the Zelensky regime is not confined to it alone: it's characteristic of Ukrainian nationalists as a group and will become more and more apparent from the behaviour of some/many Ukrainians who sought refuge in Western Europe. They're already complaining about their accommodations in Germany, for example, in a language as derisory as it's rude and ungrateful.
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  6158. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  6159. Scholtz said that BEFORE this conversation was made public.
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  6160. Canadians living abroad are taxed on the moneys (investments) they make in Canada, but not on the income they earn in their respective countries of residence. Only two countries in the world have a system such as you propose, one of them being the US. It's an incredibly unfair taxation system and is rejected by 99% of the world for precisely that reason.
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  6161. Don't expect American biologists to know that or be capable of acknowledging it.
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  6162. 😅
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  6163. And then? 😜
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  6164. ​ @ivandimitrovivanov7584  I can speak only anecdotally, but my father's family is from Macedonia, spoke Macedonian all their lives (though they didn't teach it to their children) and considered themselves Serbs.
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  6165. 100% 👍
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  6166. I've not seen a single add interrupting this video!
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  6167. ​ @petervankan1  Freedom? Yeah, sure. With all opposition parties banned and all independent media forced to shut down. 🤮
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  6168. Amen.
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  6169. Fair enough. But, protection from whom?
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  6170. Amen! ❤
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  6171. ​ @Deathadder90  Sure, except that his luxury cars amount to peanuts compared to what it takes to keep an army going.
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  6172. ​ @Dahn.Baern. That's not an argument or proof of the supernatural (I say this as a Christian believer).
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  6173. Which is why we need to strongly reaffirm our support for and adherence to the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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  6174. ​ @Dee-JayW I've never voted Conservative (I'm a socialist), but I really doubt they'll be as bad as this lot.
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  6175. ​ @LVArturs  Start praying, and hard, this winter turns out as unusually mild as the last was.
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  6176. ​ @nahidhkurdi6740  Because military men can draw very accurate deductions from the types of weaponry and other supplies a side is amassing in an area, as Russia is doing in the regions that have recently reunited with her.
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  6177.  @nahidhkurdi6740  The Russians themselves have never given us a timeline, so everybody's been speculating on what and when the Russians will do and then offering their speculations as established fact. And nobody ever mentions one fact about the newly mobilized RF forces that we do actually know: Shoigu's statement made when the mobilization was first announced that MOST of the mobilized reservists will be positioned so far from the battleline that they won't be able to see it even with the help of binoculars! Was Shoigu lying? Is it wise to ignore such unambiguous statements by him?
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  6178. Why does that sound like a threat?
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  6179. No word about a general mobilization in the Russian media I follow.
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  6180. Poor Ukrainians.
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  6181. ​ @June-ns5fo Fiddling while the hegemony collapses.
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  6182. Gonzalo Lira was born in the US.
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  6183. ​ @aislebasile  He could have videoed and recorded her and presented that in court. He was terribly weak, just doing what he was told. Thank goodness he finally escaped her clutches.
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  6184. The disorganised, chaotic, shambolic Russians put the first man in space and launched our species' space for exploration program. Germans never shed, never outgrew and rejected their Nazi racist myths about Russians as the ünetrmensch, as subhumans. They've just learned to use a slightly different rhetoric of racial superiority from the one they used from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
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  6185. Totally.
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  6186. Possible. These would be the Ukrainian nationalists who refused to be evacuated from the city
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  6187. Palestinians have the right, in international law, to resist Israeli occupation in every way possible.
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  6188. ​ indiasuperclean6969  India's the dirtiest country I've ever been to. Incredibly filthy.
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  6189.  @cloudybeforerain7134  Thank you for your very informative reply. I had heard rumours that the German government was going to put the military in the streets this fall but was skeptical of them. I hope German intellectuals will rally forces and take the government to court for violating the constitution if it does proceed with that plan!
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  6190. You people should stop confabulating and face your history squarely.
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  6191. You must console yourself somehow.
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  6192. A Zionist.
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  6193. Amen.
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  6194. The Bible says? Stop misleading people with your selective quotations! I know what Jesus Christ said, and what he says in the New Testament: that he will reject many of those who call him Lord and will take into heaven only those who did the good works of feeding the hungry, healing and comforting the ill, visiting the imprisoned, welcoming the stranger. Matthew 25: 31-46 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ And, further: 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ 46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
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  6195. The basic program of "The Communist Manifesto" and the most sensible way to run things.
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  6196. 😂
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  6197. Please stop trying to take credit for what someone else has done or is: you have no right to take any pride in what Chloe Cole has done and is doing. You can admire and respect her, though. As we all should.
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  6198. I agree. Nobody has the right to such naïvety.
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  6199. Putin's speech, which was simply superb, expresses what several billion people, the majority of the human race in fact, know and feel -- and rejoice to hear it said openly and in public. The following, however, saddens me. Regardless of its strategic importance or unimportance, I wish Russian forces had managed to hold onto Liman not least because they withdrew from it just a day after Putin had explicitly promised the residents of those 4 regions that, henceforth, Russia would never abandon them. To find Russian forces leaving Liman just 24 hrs later must have been devastating for its residents (and unsettling for many others in those 4 regions). Let's hope this is the last time civilians are left to the most un-tender mercies of the Ukrainian army.
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  6200. Many Germans would say they're already occupied, by US forces.
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  6201. Correction: the Russian city of Mariupol. 🎉❤
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  6202. Ukraine's biggest mistake was to go racist and Nazi; its second biggest mistake was to trust the West
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  6203. Never going to happen. We don't have either the foresight or the guts for it.
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  6204. ​ @AbuBawa-sw1ut Dream on.
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  6205. Don't be daft.
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  6206. Same here.
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  6207. The Indian culture is a notoriously hostile environment for girls and women. We only need recall that Indian couples preferentially abort female fetuses, a practice so widespread that it's caused a seriius unbalance in the number of men and women (estimated 100 million missing girls, 100 million fewer than nature would dictate). Even so, the degree and type of abuse Nina experienced at the hands of her family are so horrific, so barbaric that just hearing about exerts a heavy psychological toll. That she then went on to experience almost two decades of further violent abuse from the father of her children is abdolutely chilling. How Nina managed to survive all those decades of torture and emerge as the lovely human being, lively woman thst she is fills me with awe and admiration. May you be well loved and cherished for the rest of your life, Nina. May life finally be kind to you! ❤
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  6208. ​ @cookml Former Congresswoman. More qualified than many a man who's held that post.
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  6209. Well observed.
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  6210. ​ @zaitcev0  Lemberg is not a Polish name. It's clearly German.
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  6211. Is this a joke?! Is the CNN seriously telling the American public that its Air Force has killed 10,000 IS fighters in Iraq?!
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  6212. 😮​ @tobiaswolff4390 
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  6213. ​ @slayer5251  All history, now. 🙂
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  6214. It's time to get down to some serious international work on getting the Robin Hood Tax passed -- globally.  It's also called the Tobin tax, named after the Nobel Prize winner in economics who first proposed a version of it.  By now even the current Pope is in favour -- so, the historical moment seems to me ripe enough for it.
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  6215. And this man, shaking hands with neo-Nazis, was just given numerous standing ovations by the members of the US Congress.  I guess the world will just have to fight the fascists all over again, even if they now include the USA.
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  6216. Yakav8r55m Really?  Cite me which EU countries have ever held a referendum to ascertain whether their citizens wanted any US bases and troops there.  And please do back that up with a credible source (i.e. NOT the State Department!).
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  6217. Yakav8r55m I really don't give a fig what the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says -- the people of Crimea voted in no less than 3 referendi and in each of them overwhelmingly that they didn't want to be part of Ukraine (which they never were until Brezhnev tore Crimea from Russia and "gave" it to Ukraine as if it had been his own private property to do with as he wished).  Now, the errors of the Soviet Era and some of the non-Russian presidents of the Soviet Union are being (finally) corrected, respecting the will of the people in those parts of the world -- not the will of a bunch of neo-Nazis in Kiev and Lvov.
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  6218. Yakav8r55m Kind of you to let me know :-)
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  6219. Yakav8r55m Deflect, deflect, deflect -- never face what you and yours are actually doing, right?  Come off it, darlin', the USofA is beyond pathetic by now.  As are all bullies, of course.
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  6220. Yakav8r55m Once again, and for the last time: you got it the wrong way round, Yakav.  There has been no Russian invasion of any foreign territory whatsoever since the Prague Spring intervention by the then Soviet Union.  That political entity no longer exists.  What is happening in Ukraine is very straightforward and unambiguous: a fascist coup d'etat, engineered with the help of NATO, took place in Kiev last February.  The inhabitants of Crimea instantly held their THIRD referendum -- overseen by 127 delegates from 26 countries, including members of the European Parliament itself -- and, as in their previous two referendums, voted overwhelminingly for independence from Ukraine, this time adding the request that Crimea be allowed to re-join Russia.  Perfectly legal and legitimate in international law (have a look at the UN Declaration of Human Rights and other pertinent documents).  Donbas and a couple of other regions in the South East of Ukraine also held their referendi, but these were not overseen by foreign observers.  Although every indication we have is that the population voted in a large majority to secede from Ukraine, Kiev refused to accept that act of self-determination -- thus breaking international law.  Instead, it sent armed troops to terrorize the population of what historically used to be Novorossiya, committing atrocities in both Odeassa and Mariupol.  The armed offensive against the residents of Novorossiya has been aided and abetted by NATO and, specifically, by the USA and Germany, both of whom have military personnel on the ground in Ukraine and have sent in military equipment to help Kiev fight the people in the South East of the country who want to exercise their right to political self-determination.  These are the facts about the current situation in that benighted and tragically misled country, mercilessly manipulated by its oligarchic warlords and their foreign allies.  I will not participate in any further discussion with you on this topic since there is no legitimate debate about the facts of a matter.  I don't debate the reality of the Holocaust -- similarly, having stated the facts, I refuse to debate the reality of what's happened in in Ukraine.
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  6221. ​ @davidrojas5319 What are you talking about?! Hedges is an ordained minister!
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  6222. ​​ @paulsPauls-i6i She's right, though. You, on the other hand, have nothing but empty insults on your side. Pathetic.
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  6223. ​ @g.christelbecker6349  Yes, Putin's Germanophilia is well known. And it's harmed Russia to no small degree.
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  6224. ​ @zeljkodrljaca2481 Mislim da je to bila ironija.
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  6225. Why is this guy so worried about life in China? "Research by Clarion Security Systems estimates that there are over 7,371,903 CCTV cameras in the UK, meaning there is 1 CCTV camera for every 11 people in the UK."
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  6226. It's the collective West that's become the Fourth Reich, not the US alone.
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  6227. You mean the Estonian state TV -- that's called propaganda, a form of deception and manipulation of the public every adult should be able to see through easily.
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  6228. I saw that, too. Unspeakably sad.
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  6229. I wonder what it was that Poland immediately thanked the US for....
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  6230. Because the US would bomb any country that attempted to indict and arrest her.
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  6231. The Universal Declaration of Humam Rights is not a Western invention or a Western document but the internationally adopted founding text of the United Nations. Western imperialism has certainly harmed the countries it affected. Islamic imperialism has been far, far more brutal and repressive of local populations, as those who experienced it know all too well.
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  6232. They're bought up by the US State Department. I mean literally bought. The State flies out suitcases full of money to various European capitals every month.
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  6233. Nah. We knew that during the tenure of the senile dementia patient you elected president five years ago.
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  6234. An interesting development: NATO ministers of defense will be meeting at the Ramstein base in Germany on March 19 for their regular monthly consultations on how to proceed with their proxy war in Ukraine. Ukraine has NOT been invited to attend.
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  6235. Not a reliable source. They're a propaganda outlet.
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  6236. ​ @hairlessape5107 The British, too. Not to forget the Baltics and Croatia: all of whom celebrate their Nazi collaborator war criminals, so psychopathic that even the German Nazis found them "alarming".
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  6237. ​​ @testingmysoup5678 Not really. Very few countries will be interested in recognising a bunch of Nazis the West brings together as the Ukrainian government in exile. And as far as Russia's concerned, trading with the West is no longer important.
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  6238. Sure.
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  6239. ​ @louise_rose  Bizarrely, since Ukrainian anti-Semitism was horrific. Today, these American Zionist Jews support followers of Stepan Bandera, who collaborated with the Nazis and organized the slaughter of at least 100,000 Ukrainian Jews.
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  6240. This is big. Russia and China are forging a new, sorely needed counterforce to the Western bid for world domination (politely called Western hegemony).
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  6241. Aaron is a Canadian.
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  6242.  @drysia26 . Yes, it was as necessary to present Srebrenica to the Western public as an unprovoked atrocity by those nasty killer Serbs. None of the Western journalists who "covered" the war in Bosnia (and covered up what really took place there) ever revealed that Srebrenica was a revenge action for the spree of Muslim atrocities on Serbs that had been going on around Srebrenica for months. One has to read memoirs by west European colonels and generals stationed in Bosnia to learn such "details".
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  6243. I agree!
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  6244. Here's this RT shill reminding you of the new US nuclear doctrine that envisages simultaneous nuclear attacks on Russia, China and Iran. Lavrov's remarks were a response to that
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  6245. He's not bad looking and would be attractive if he lost 10-20 lbs.
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  6246. Who cares about the American fixation with minor celebrities. 😅
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  6247.  @MindsMouth  I don't think it will. Pentagon KNOWS Ukraine's simply not capable of any such thing. Gen. Milley is trying hard to persuade the White House that Ukraine's only hope is to negotiate peace with Russia but he's being opposed by State Department crazies (the Nuland-Blinken and the rest of the Kagan clan).
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  6248. Anyone supporting present-day Ukraine is also supporting Nazis, because that's who's in charge of it.
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  6249. Complete impartiality is an ideal. Nobody is ever 100% impartial.
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  6250. V p
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  6251. I suspect she's resisting it, though.
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  6252. Lots of homeless people hold full time jobs.
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  6253. Ukraine will eventually just default, and Blsckrock will be compelled to go pound sand. Not right now, but in a year or two or three from now.
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  6254. ​​ @TheHungarianOak  He calls himself a realist. Doesn't mean he's one. It's like those boys identifying as girls.
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  6255. ​ @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g 😂
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  6256. Russia showed its intentions?! You staged a bloody coup d'état in Kiev, put your people in power there, and did so having spent the previous 20 years violating every agreement you had with the Russians on not expanding an inch westward from the borders of Germany!
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  6257. ​ @R_S747 😮
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  6258. No ifs about it. We're witnessing the beginning of the end.
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  6259. So why aren't there hundreds of thousands Bulgarians out in the streets expressing their disapproval and outrage?
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  6260. I feel sorry for the Ukrainian men forced to participate in this and losing their lives, painfully, to a bunch of mega-corrupt creeps and criminals in Kiev, Washington DC, London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Brussels.
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  6261. 🎯
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  6262. ​ @Desh282  So?
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  6263. Lavrov has already said that Trump's election in 2024 won't change anything.
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  6264. Male narcissism, yes. Blatantly obvious.
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  6265. ​ @zani1106 You're taking the rest of us for ignorant, uninformed fools.
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  6266. Money, that's how come.
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  6267. ​ @MustyBastard  Apart from which, Putin also earned a Ph.D. in economics.
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  6268. Don't be daft! 😅
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  6269. ​ @ellievanderheide1926 Europe destroyed that possibility not only with its duplicity and betrayals but also with the very active role it's playing in the proxy war that's cost the lives of tens if thousands of Russians.
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  6270. We need the UN, but we need to move the headquarters from New York to somewhere in Africa, say. The rest should definitely go.
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  6271. ​​ @anthonyat2401  There's nothing immoral in killing Nazis. Btw, Kursk is an anti-terror operation. The laws of war don't apply.
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  6272. And in the meantime, the rest of the world is turning to Russia and China for leadership and co-operation. If, as you expect, we manage to avoid a nuclear war, we'll be living in a vastly different world soon enough.
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  6273. ​@hansonbiterson8464 ?
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  6274. And neither do the majority of our fellow Canadians who actually support this horror. 42% of Canadians think the homeless and the unemployed should be offered the assisted suicide "option".
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  6275. You know exactly what sort of tendentious, historically and culturally inaccurate, even false, "scholarship" will come out of this academic when you realize that his academic position is NOT to teach Classics but the use of Classical literature, thought and mythology in POPULAR CULTURE. The academic field of popular culture studies is absolute and total tosh. I remember listening as a grafuate student in the late 1980s and early 1990s to conference presentations by freshly minted professors with doctorates from Yale on topics such as Madonna or Prince as subversive cultural icons and revolutionary figures -- the field has been pure cringe from the very start. Our Humanities and most of our Social Studies departments in North America no longer have any relation to the pursuit of truth, which is in fact derided as repressive, oppressive, wrong headed, and altogether benighted. This is also one (but not the only) reason our media and our journalists have become nothing more than the stenographers of power and nihilism, mere conveyors of propaganda. This is only to be expected as most of the people who work in journalism and the media were educated by acadenics who mock the very idea of truth. A great analysis by "Metatron", as usual!
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  6276. ​ @ndabankomo4061  It absolutely couldn't have.
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  6277. As an African American, you should know that it was Muslims who sold your ancestors as slaves first to the Arabs and then to the Europeans. The entire African slave trade was established by Arab Muslims centuries before the first whites (Europeans and then Americans, too) came to Africa!
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  6278. ​ @zanza8197 Russia isn't interested in Kiev. At most, and unless Ukraine and the West do something even more monumentally stupid than what they've been doing so far, it will go to the River Dnieper, a natural boundary line, and stop there.
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  6279. To cover up for its failure in Ukraine and give itself another lease of life, NATO's now busy building up new military bases in Romania, Bulgaria, and Northern Macedonia.
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  6280. ​​ @johannuys7914 Not permitted by the Russian military doctrine. Not for merely a threat to loss of territory. That's why Russia's developed its Sarmat missile, whose conventional warhead carries enough power to utterly destroy a small-sized country or effectively sink the British Isles, for example.
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  6281. Northern Ireland is occupied territory, colonized by the UK. What its colonists want is immaterial.
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  6282. Gilmore supported the Falklands War, too.
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  6283.  @F_U23  Both of Waters's parents were teachers.
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  6284. The anima often represents the conscience, actually, something Ms Baerbock quite evidently lacks. In any case, she's utterly insignificant as is.
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  6285. Glenn, this guest is way out of his depth, mouthing Western propaganda talking points right, left and centre. Waste of time.
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  6286.  @beastmode8203  Yes, there are US neocons demented enough to think that way. Our only hope is that someone slightly less crazed in Pentagon will stop them.
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  6287. This has nothing to do with the security of the collective West and everything with its attempt, yet again, to destroy Russia.
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  6288. ​ @olliefoxx7165  Those are not your only options. Your ancestors carried out a successful revolution and a revolutionary war not too long ago, as history goes, to create a political system that no longer works, having been hijacked by your oligarchy (your lobby groups and corporations). Let your 18th century predecessors be your inspiration now.
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  6289. ​ @olliefoxx7165 Those are not your only options. Your ancestors carried out a successful revolution and a revolutionary war not too long ago, as history goes, to create a political system that no longer works, having been hijacked by your oligarchy (your lobby groups and corporations). Let your 18th century predecessors be your inspiration now.
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  6290. Germans should have no trouble comprehending those feelings. The stance taken by the German public over the past year has shown that Russia can never count on Germany to do the morally right thing.
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  6291. ​ @madhulikanegi319  At least half of the dead were killed by the IDF, the Israeli forces. It's not a secret anymore.
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  6292. Carbon dioxide is not a problem. The planet has seen much higher concentrations of the gas in its past, with no disastrous effects on its plant and animal life.
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  6293. ​ @borninussr5615  Oh please! Niger has just kicked out American troops from the military base they had there. If Niger can do it, so can Germany!
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  6294. He flew into Washington to plead that Ukraine be given expedited entry into NATO. Biden blew him off. They're signalling to Russia that they will now accept that Ukraine must be neutral (must never join a military block) and to Ukraine that that's the best it can hope for.
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  6295. Serves us right.
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  6296. Or a local snitch. According to the locals, the location of those forces was public knowledge for weeks now.
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  6297. Germany's mask is off.
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  6298. ​ @michaeljamieson5227  There's tons of research showing that fasting results in NO significant muscle loss. You can find it online.
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  6299. That's entirely self-inflicted on the part of the UK, USA, and the rest of the greedy clueless collective West.
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  6300. They bear the responsibility for electing that thug.
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  6301. I don't think Larry has any problems with homosexual and lesbian rights but with the degradation of public discourse and, frankly, sanity in the US. As for the question of illegal immigrants, let's not pretend we don't know what that's about: just like in Canada, where our federal Liberals directly benefit from a very generous immigration policy, so in the US, the Democratic Party's buying itself an extended voter base by letting millions of unvetted illegals into the country. If you don't see how corrupt and how inherently anti-democratic that is, it's only because you believe it serves you to pretend not to understand.
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  6302. Your friends are obviously Russian liberals, always ready to betray the Motherland. Bon voyage and please don't come back. Russia will do just fine, and better, without them.
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  6303. ​ @vladoparenzan3344  No, it isn't. The US won't allow it. Most of the industries that can move are moving to the US.
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  6304. Yes, and they're the proverbial fascists with a liberal face. The only mystery in all this is that at least 25% of Americans don't see it.
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  6305. A significant percentage of Palestinians are Christians.
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  6306. China, naturally. And Russia. The only countries with a genuine win-win approach.
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  6307. In the West?! You people really do live in the Empire of Lies. The Soviets were the first to decriminalise homosexuality back in the 1920s! The West followed suit only in the late 1960s, for goodness' sake. As for the B in LGBTQ+, bisexuals were never discriminated against, never had any civic rights denied. Forcing people to act an enablers to the delusions held by a tiny minority -- the transgender disorder -- can hardly be called progress, and the same applies to the creeping efforts to normalize pedophilia by referring to pedophiles as "minor attracted persons". Utter decadence masquerading as moral progress.
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  6308. About 10% of Palestinians are Christians. You should ask other Christians in Israel how the Israelis treat them....
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  6309.  @ATS_i_piss_on_G00gle  Not unless we force it to.
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  6310. I have insulin resistance, and if I adopted the USDA, I'd develop diabetes in no time at all.
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  6311. ​ @davidanderson8469 Am I counting on the sun rising in the East? 😅
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  6312. When medicine is a business. P.S. When a man who claims he's taking feminizing hormones asks to have his genitalia removed, the reasonable assumption is that he's doing this due to what he believes is gender dysphoria. Why Plume didn't subsequently retract their letter on learning that he doesn't have gender dysphoria is because "health care" in the US is primarily and preeminently a business.
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  6313. 😂😂😂
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  6314. Completely self-inflicted by the West. The cost of arrogance and hubris.
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  6315. Slow learners. Exceptionalism is a mental illness.
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  6316. To cover up for its failure in Ukraine and give itself another lease of life, NATO's now busy building up new military bases in Romania, Bulgaria, and Northern Macedonia.
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  6317.  @beyondrecall9446  Nice to "meet" another Serb here! 🙂 I've lived in the West most of my life, but being originally from Belgrade (where I still have family and plan to retire to myself), I immediately got your reference to Batajnica.
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  6318. Sweden sold its soul to the devil when it agreed to frame Assange up for rape. It's been abundantly clear since that point on that Sweden is America's bitch, as they say in the US.
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  6319. Any justice system in which money gives you an advantage is automatically corrupt. It's an INjustice system.
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  6320. That was before Chechnya. Russia has not backed down anywhere since the USSR was dissolved.
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  6321.  @donkeyshot8472  Pentagon is well aware of the Russian dead-hand system, so unless the Zionists in the State Department really want to destroy the US itself, I think nuclear war is not an option.
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  6322.  @donkeyshot8472  It's worse than that, actually, speaking of neocons. Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland's husband, wrote a paper about 20 years ago in which he argued that a "limited" nuclear war on Russia is winnable. At the cost of 20 million American lives (a ludicrous or criminally deceptive underestimate), as he tried to convince his readership in Washington. There's no indication that Kagan and his pals have faced reality and changed their minds accordingly, in the meantime. Our only real hope for avoiding the end of human civilization short-term are probably the few/some sane and courageous Pentagon heads.
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  6323. Speak the truth and shame child molesting scum, dead or alive.
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  6324. In your fantasy. Meanwhile, in reality, both Russia's and Putin's personal standing around the world are higher than ever, while the West is rightfully sneered at.
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  6325.  @moonraker978  Try following media other than the collective West echo chamber. And no, no need to rely on RT at all. Ignore them, just go and listen to what the entire "Global South", i.e. 86% of humanity, is saying. Oh, and try paying attention to all the foreign leaders making their pilgrimage to Moscow. There's been a veritable host of them over the past two years. You really have to stop exposing yourself to NATO-sphere media, until you like being lied to and deceived, that is.
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  6326. Of course NATO will try to hold on to whatever remains of Ukraine. There's no "if" about it
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  6327. Jimmy Carter concluded the same 10-20 years ago.
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  6328. Yes. And we, the rest of the world, should make sure of it.
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  6329. Like in Sri Lanka. Those IMF loans are such a blast, aren't they.
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  6330. ​ @mutnii3034  This has been a NATO proxy war against Russia from the start, from 2014 on.
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  6331. 😅​ @rcmrcm3370 
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  6332. 😂
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  6333. The World Bank has just announced that you're now a high-income country. And the #4 economy is the world (#1 in Europe).
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  6334.  @maksimluzin1121  Thank you! We should all start using Ivan the Formidable from now on. It has a nice ring to it, too.
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  6335. Which lies would that be, pray?
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  6336. Yes, they're idiots. There's no other word for them. Though traitors would do, too, I guess.
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  6337. ​ @rodiculous9464  I'm not fond of the filthy rich myself, but that's simply untrue. There are scores and scores of cases of wealthy inheritors destroying their family wealth. It takes brains and skill to turn millions into a billion or two.
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  6338. This winter's relatively mild and most of Europe is relying on the reserves of Russian oil and gas the Europeans managed to squirrel away in the first part of this year. The winter after this one will be much worse, energy wise, and a lot harder on ordinary people. Unless it turns out uncommonly mild, it may turn into a real catastrophe as a year from now, Europe won't have any Russian gas reserves to fall back on and will depend entirely on what new supplies they can get from other sources -- at prices certainly not a cent lower than they currently are.
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  6339. ​​ @seisyl4551  You (plural) have been totally brainwashed against her. The real fascists are the ones in power at present.
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  6340. ​ @lilbrother45  You, your government (regardless of who's in power) controls the WHO! You will be complying because those who run the US write the WHO rules.
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  6341. ​​ @masteryourkitchen-areyouga7237  The Russian economy's growing at 5.2% right now, diversifying. They're so awash with money, there's a construction boom all over the immense country, plus huge new infrastructure projects. It doesn't look like Russia's having a hard time despite and in the face the greatest number of (btw , illegal) sanctions the West has ever used against a country. On the contrary, Russia's on an upward trajectory.
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  6342. ​​ @MrRight1000  What diplomatic options with people, both Ukraine and the West, who've been lying and dishonouring the agreements they'd signed with her? We now know from Petro Poroshenko, Francois Hollande, Alexei Arestovich, and Angela Merkel that neither the EU (France and Germany, supposed guarantors of the agreement) nor Ukraine and its masters in Washington ever had any intention of implementing the Minsk Accords, that they'd lied and strung Russia along for 8 years to prepare Ukraine for their proxy war. And still, it wasn't Russia who rejected diplomacy in December 2021, January and February 2022. Just as it wasn't Russia who reneged on the peace agreement hammered out in Istanbul in March 2022.
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  6343. Russia should have been far more assertive towards the West 15 and 10 years ago. Paul Craig Roberts has repeatedly reiterated this on his blog: the only thing the West understands and respects is superior force.
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  6344. You think the US is in a position to pull that off? I mean, it achieved nothing in Afghanistan, from which it had to pull out.
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  6345. PTSD is not a mental illness. It's a psychological condition but it doesn't drive people to commit arson. She might be a schizophrenic or someone so embittered as to try to stage a hoax that would be blamed on a race she hates.
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  6346. 🎯 It will be decades before any significant rapprochement will be possible. A hundred years from now, perhaps. They might patch things enough for trade to resume in the next 20 years or so, but that's the most we can realistically expect.
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  6347. What would we do if there was no Russia to blame for all the bs we do? 😅
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  6348. That's absolutely not true. 😅
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  6349. About 1/10th of the losses the Ukrainian side is experiencing.
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  6350.  @ludara8697  Drone footage can be faked (easily). Ukraine has hired 150 Western PR companies to do their propaganda for them. It's also used scenes from video games, war movies, and footage from other wars, presenting them as footage of the war in Ukraine.
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  6351. In the meantime, Serbia's spineless Vucic continues to signal that his government is about to join the West's sanctions against Russia. If the Serbs accept that without launching huge popular protests, they deserve everything that's coming to them. I happen to be Serbian myself, btw.
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  6352. ​ @odinbiflindi I'm not sure about that, but I agree that Shoigu, Gerasimov, and the head of Russian intelligence should all go. Either resign or be fired by Putin.
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  6353.  @orthonews2176  Yes, I was thinking of a couple of Anglican ones that invite lay visitors.
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  6354.  @josephk4310  Again, as a cradle Orthodox who now attends liturgy (sporadically) and who's attended both Catholic masses and Anglican services, at which I also took communion, I have to disagree. But then I never had strong feelings against other Christian churches and their worship services, and while I very much appreciate both Gregorian chants and Orthodox church music (which is exceptionally beautiful), I've also enjoyed guitar masses on a spiritual level.
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  6355. I hope this woman will be in the Oval Office 8-12 years from now. She's head and shoulders above any other politician of her age, Republican or Democrat or Green.
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  6356. Oh really? Export your psychopaths to unsuspecting others? How American of you.
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  6357. I don't understand why YouTube has it in for you. Irrational and incomprehensible. 😢
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  6358. Because he wasn't. At most, and we have NO documentary proof, only historical rumours, he was about 1/16th Jewish by his DNA.
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  6359. ​ @putinwillhanginthemiddleof4866  😂
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  6360. The Yanks have since announced they're suspending their illegal sanctions on Syria for the next 180 days. The Guardian's rather skeptical about what effect this will really have: "I don’t think that this license will suddenly open the floodgates and allow for unhindered humanitarian access and delivery in Syria,” said Delaney Simon, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group’s US program. “There are just too many other access issues. But I hope that the license will ease the concerns of financial providers, the private sector and other actors, to show them that sanctions won’t be a risk for them to engage in Syria.”
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  6361. He's just a typical (American) Zionist. With the mask off.
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  6362. Try Russia.
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  6363. Scholtz fired the minister because the latter was opposed to continuing to send money to Ukraine.
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  6364. They pretend to believe their own propaganda, play acting with one another.
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  6365. ​ @amandawilliams2011  She was trying to?
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  6366. That's most probably how this will end. The Russians might even make a show of negotiating some small stuff, but this will end essentially on their terms. Ukrainians should have implemented the Minsk Accords or, at the latest, signed the peace agreement reached in Turkey in 2022. Ukraine will be remembered in history as just another textbook example of a country destroying itself by its own slavish fantasies and adulation of the West and by its own Nazis.
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  6367. Unfortunately, our entire political class consists of traitors, of people happy to sell Serbia to the West. Serbia's exhausted, demoralised and currently unable to get rid of our comprador elite and install a government of technocratic patriots who would turn away from the EU and the US.
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  6368. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074  So, to spite China, the American consumer will have to pay at least 25% more for items the US doesn't (and in many cases cannot) produce anymore?! Not a problem for the 0.1% who rule us, sure, but you'll know who's responsible when the inflation skyrockets again.
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  6369. 😅
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  6370. Tulsi for president in 2029!
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  6371. How does Mearsheimer know what Nancy Pelosi believes?! The only thing he can know is thst she's lying. And Putin's beyond being a nice guy: he's shown the patience and the probitybof a saint!
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  6372. Only the collective West supports Israel. A mere 14% of the world population.
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  6373. Germany's unquestionably the Sick Man of the EU, though.
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  6374. ​ @firebir11 That's what the price of cucumber was here, too, until a couple of years ago.
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  6375. Who produces this nonsense? Not a single police unit, not a single army unit, and not a single political figure in Russia joined or expressed any sympathy for Prigozhin's antics. Putin's standing inside Russia has only been strenghened as a result of the quick and bloodless way he resolved the problem. Btw, before Lakushenko offered terms to them, it was made clear to Prigozhin and the handful of Wagner troops who joined him in that foolish adventure that they would all die that same day if they proceeded any further. Telling ourselves fairy tales about all this won't change facts.
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  6376. Democracy doesn't entail universal equality. Only universal suffrage, which is impossible without individual liberty.
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  6377. ​​ @rafomic4210  As vicious and worse than the Galician Ukrainian SS collaborators.
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  6378. Correct. Glad someone else isn't just going along with the knee-jerk hatred of the Soviets, who liberated more than half of Europe from the Nazis.
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  6379. Like Indian mothers-in-law.
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  6380.  @FAFO4wisdom  The US has just fatally subverted the German economy (and with it the economies all across the EU) by blowing up NordStream 2.
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  6381. This guy has a first degree in music (I kid you not) and a Master's and a Doctorate in Social Work. How he got to a position that requires an in-depth knowledge of economics is anybody's guess.
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  6382. Just another use of civil society activists and journalists to engineer a colour revolution in Asia.
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  6383. Why do Ukrainians project so much? A whole nation that has problems coming to terms with reality.
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  6384. Excellent points.
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  6385. Organ harvesting, probably. Ukrainians have been cutting up their own dead and wounded and selling their organs to the West. I learned of this only recently and have seen a horrific video that confirms it. I'd never seen anything as horrific as that.
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  6386. I feel sorry for the Ukrainian men press-ganged into serving as canon fodder for a corrupt regime and is sociopathic Western sponsors. RIP
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  6387. That makes you morally equal to both the Nazis and the Israelis.
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  6388. Not before Odessa and Kharkov regions are also liberated and have had a chance to hold their own referendums about their future.
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  6389. Europe's entire political elite is fully bought up by the US.
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  6390. Repeating a lie, as you've been doing the last couple of days or longer, can't turn it into a truth.
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  6391. Slowly but surely. Keeping NATO monsters guessing all the while.
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  6392. True, but the logic of that approach is dubious at best. Does Kremlin really think that Ukrainians appreciate such good will gestures from the Russian side? If it does, why?!
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  6393. Do you mind telling me who said that?
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  6394.  @yelenazayakina1506  Thank you for the clarification. I didn't know that.
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  6395. How can people possibly afford that?!
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  6396. Paul Craig Roberts, undersecretary for finance in the Reagan administration, says his source at the State Department tells him the Europeans are simply bought off. Apparently, the State flies suitcases full of money to assorted European capitals every month.
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  6397. Sorry, but Russia's stupendous rise under Putin owes exactly nothing to the US.
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  6398. Russia overtook Germany in 2023 to become Europe's largest economy. And that despite the 1600 sanctions the collective West threw at it.
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  6399. You've just described a high-functioning psychopath.
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  6400. ​ @BrainYtreeX  That's what I'm afraid of. The docility of the population.
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  6401. More violence and destruction than when a rogue segment of a mercenary group tries to stage a coup in Russia.
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  6402. What about it? The Sochi Olympics were great in comparison with the Paris fiasco. And they were great, despite some early problems. The closing ceremony alone was among the very best in the history of the games.
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  6403. Almost.
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  6404. WW2 revanchism. You're probably aware that in its absolutely disgusting justifications for the anti-Russia position Germany took one "justification" was that Germany owed unconditional support to Ukraine because it failed to help Ukraine free itself of the Soviet yoke when Ukrainian Nazi collaborators asked for such help. Nobody in Germany stood up to say that Germany doesn't identify itself with its Nazi past and that it therefore doesn't owe a thing to Ukraine!
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  6405. ​ @Mick-iv6mk 😂
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  6406. "How are you?" is just the American version of the more formal British "How do you do?", which very few people use these days.
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  6407.  @ellisduckworth5908  😂
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  6408.  @ellisduckworth5908  You simply don't know what you're talking about and are just mouthing Western propaganda BS.
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  6409. ​​ @williamtell6750  Brainwashed. That's why.
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  6410. So, it's not propaganda. It's simply recognizing the historical reality of the West.
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  6411. You can bet that the Nazi idea is still very much alive in the West. No Russian government should trust anyone in the West at least for the next couple of centuries.
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  6412. Someone should tell them the IMF is projecting 2.5% growth for the Russian economy and continued shrinking of the economies of the UK and Germany.
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  6413. Where?
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  6414. ​ @RBLXGaming23  Can you expand on that? What cost barrier are you referring to?
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  6415.  @RBLXGaming23  Depends where. In most of Europe, university programmes are free of charge. Several years ago, Germany introduced a tuition fee of a few hundred euros a year, only to cancel the whole thing as unfair. The Italian constitution has an article that guarantees free higher education by law. Ets.
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  6416. That's why the US opposed its joining NATO in the 1990s.
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  6417. They can't retake any of the four provinces that voted to rejoin Russia last September. And most of their Western enablers know that: it's only the crazies in the State Department who're dictating policy who can't acknowledge this and adjust themselves to reality.
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  6418. You sure it's not the communists? 😂
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  6419. Carlson lost the momentum here by letting this guy get away with his bogus claim that a foreign state interfered in the last presidential election. Nothing of the sort ever happened, unless we're talking about Israel and Saudi Arabia, which no one in the US mass media ever does.
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  6420. I have no doubt about it.
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  6421. From Col. Macgregor's lips to God's ears.
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  6422. What's this about "the parent" leaving the offspring in a cave while hunting? Are you trying to imply that male thylacoleo raised the species' young?! Pease drop the anti-scientific silliness: it's dishonest and misleading.
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  6423. They can wrest control from any humans that believe they have control over them.
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  6424. The 23% is a very high percentage of clinically insane for any society to afford.
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  6425. I understand that Arestovich has since retracted his retraction. (I follow quite a few channels and cannot unfortunately recall the exact source of this info. 😟)
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  6426. 😂
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  6427. The US is trying to destroy Europe's industries. Yankee economy can't survive fair competition, hence this proxy war on Russia and all the screaming about China.
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  6428. Horrible and disgusting. And if genuine, just payback for the same done to Russian soldiers by Ukrainian forces last year. The difference is that, unlike Ukrainian soldiers who beheaded, crucified, ate the organs of Russian soldiers on videotape, and set other ablaze, these Russian soldiers will be disciplined for this. Severely.
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  6429. Totally cringy.
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  6430. NATO set all of this up and has been forcing Ukraine to keep on fighting and losing a couple of hundred thousands men since April of last year, when Ukraine was about to sign a peace agreement with Russia. Washington and London blackmailed Zelensky into pulling out of that agreement, instead. At least 200,000 Ukrainians (a conservative estimate) have lost their lives due to Washgton's and London's blood lust.
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  6431. They're being "trained" abroad, yes. Given less than basic training and sent back to Ukraine, to the battlefront, to die. It's a program of psychopathic levels of cynicism.
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  6432. In theory, all of that is still possible. In practice, the West is too arrogant, too greedy, too conceited to humble itself and change course.
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  6433. Looks that way, for sure. And the people currently in power have already groomed the next two generations of other witless ideologues to carry on in the same vein.
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  6434. Huh? 😅
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  6435. ​ @baddaddy8718  Why would a currency exchange or a SWIFT substitute devalue anyone's currency?
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  6436. Good for you that you sought a second opinion!
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  6437. 🎯 He still wants and backs US hegemony. A snake, as you said.
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  6438. 😅
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  6439. Romans calling Jewish mythology ridiculous and showing themselves as flat-footedly literal-minded in interpreting symbolic language as any American fundamentalist! 😂
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  6440. Not true.
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  6441. Poland was an ally of Hitler and helped the Nazis invade and grab pieces of Czechoslovakia.
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  6442. That would have to come from the UN Security Council and be unanimous. Russia would veto it, while China would abstain.
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  6443. Pascal, please spare us academics like this Susan W. person who lie and spout the propaganda nonsense we hear on the MSM.
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  6444. How else are they to distinguish themselves from the Dems? Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
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  6445. Fake paranoia. They need it to justify their endless warmongering and wars to themselves.
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  6446.  @richardenders6606  I think it's essential for the security of the Russian Federation.
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  6447. The Left has died not just in the UK but all over in the collective West. There's no real Left left anywhere in the English speaking wirld or anywhere in continental Europe.
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  6448. The tariffs aren't going to do it. It's your own corporations that chose to leave the US in search of even greater and greater profits: that's what's at the bottom of the problem. Making you, the American consumer, pay 25% more for foreign-produced goods will not induce US corporations to bring their production lines back home.
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  6449. No need for a nuke. A single non-nuclear Sarmat would destroy most of the UK.
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  6450. Much to its surprise, Ukraine and the West are discovering that repeating lies day in and day out doesn't affect reality.
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  6451. 😂
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  6452. ​ @carbonstar9091 When has the US been honest about its intentions?! The Empire of Lies is all about duplicity and perception management.
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  6453. Moscow's way better than any Western metropolis.
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  6454. ​ @SirMan48  A personality disorder is NOT a mental illness.
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  6455. Bravo, Niger! ❤
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  6456. Chaucer's a breeze compared to Old English! 😅
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  6457.  @michaelkatz275  Maybe you aren't aware of the fact that our aim is to destroy the Russian state and place a puppet regime in power in Moscow, so that we can loot Russia as we did during the 1990s. That's why we've been demonizing Putin for over a decade now and that's why we deliberately provoked this proxy war in Ukraine.
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  6458.  @michaelkatz275  Nice try. The West has PUBLICLY stated that this is its goal. It's even preparing a government in exile, in Poland, to parachute it into Moscow should its dreams come true.
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  6459. ​ @epiphanyx3705  No offence meant, but you don't know what you're talking about. May you never learn the truth by personal experience.
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  6460. ​ @Lilliz91  No, not really. Hitler's dogs loved him.
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  6461. Why doesn't Africa pull out of an obviously unjust, illegitimate pact?!
    1
  6462. Indeed. They should have learned from their experience in Syria.
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  6463. I saw an estimate just today of 150,000.
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  6464. It will.
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  6465. All 100 of them, to arrive in drips and drabs over the next 10 months? To get a realistic sense of this war, you have to totally ignore the MSM. The media all over the NATO-sphere have become simply one unanimous propaganda machine.
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  6466. Biden's unfit to run a gas station, let alone a country! He's clearly suffering from dementia. The US has become the laughing stock of the world.
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  6467. Strange. The videos of it are all over the place.
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  6468. Don't be silly! Arrogance and boastfulness are our worst characteristic! The Ottomans conquered Serbia and had us under their thumb for 500 years.
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  6469.  @Loonypapa  😅
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  6470. The momentum for anti-EU change is gaining strength, but it's nowhere near unstoppable yet.
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  6471. So are the people who made this video.
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  6472. ​ @barbaralegrand4300  What a silly thing to say. He prefers pronouncing her name incorrectly. 😂
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  6473. ​ @justmynickname Tell me you're a racist without telling me you're a racist.
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  6474.  @Dirtdabber1972  🙂
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  6475. Cope harder. 😂
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  6476. I had covid twice, the second time ending in hospital for it, before I had to take two Pfizer jabs in order to see my family (I'm in Canada). I then had covid twice MORE after the jabs. Ten months later, I developed an immune system disorder since then shown to be vaccine-caused. So, not only did the Pfizer vaccine not protect me from covid (two separate infections after the jabs), but it's caused me a long-term health issue that's quite debilitating and fir which there's no cure. I come from a family of doctors and research scientists and am fully in favour of vaccination as a preventative health measure, but what the Big Pharma and our governments did with covid was a criminal scam, a piece of total corporate fraud.
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  6477. ​​ @stevecoinitin7521  Who's telling such shit?! A reality check is in order: using the Purchasing Power Parity comparison of their respective GDPs as the more accurate measure of economic strength, the World Bank and IMF have downgraded the German economy to #2 in Europe, #1 now being the economy of Russia. Globally, they've downgraded Germany from #5 and Japan from #4 as the Russian economy now occupies the #4 place in the world. In brief, three of the top 4 economies worldwide belong to BRICS countries: #1 China #3 India #4 Russia The US has fallen to #2. Apart from Russia's, no other European economy appears in the top 5.
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  6478. With its economies in recession, Europe most certainly doesn't need Ukrainian refugees, who are already becoming a significant burden.
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  6479. Naltrexone blocks opiate receptors, so even if you tried to drug yourself on it, you'd not feel a thing, the drugs just wouldn't work on you.
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  6480. Brian Berletic warns against underestimating the Ukrainian side.
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  6481. ​ @randylahey8207 They lost that capacity once they chose to sanction their main supplier of irreplaceably cheap energy. Germany relied on the extremely reliable and cheap Soviet and later Russian gas from the 1960s on -- without it, there would never have been the so-called German economic miracle, the other pillar of which was foreign labour. Germany still has the latter, but without Russian energy supplies, which it forfeited by placing sanctions on Russia and then refusing to pay for gas in rubles, Germany has NO chance of retaining competitiveness on the global market. I feel no sympathy for Germans: they sacrificed their own economy and well being to their nasty revanchism against Russia, who'd defeated them in WW2. You reap what you sow.
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  6482. Russia's military history proves otherwise.
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  6483.  @patmustard1511  Keep telling yourself that. It's so comforting. FYI: The Russian economy is about 3 and a half time the size of Germany's.
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  6484. And his family, no doubt.
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  6485. 😂
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  6486. Derisory numbers in terms of the global ones. Nothing to do with any depopulation agenda. In any case, the world's population is set to plummet all by itself in the second half of this century.
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  6487. I love your work but remain baffled by your choice of terminology in referring to what's undeniably a NATO proxy war with Russia as a "Russo-Ukrainian war". Dodging around YT censorship is my best guess.
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  6488. ​ @bumble-g2j  The state. The Russian state.
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  6489. Everyone's blaming Trudeau (not a fan to put it mildly), but we Canadians have quite a record of honouring Ukrainian Nazis. Our parliament gave this same member of the SS a medal of honour back in 2006 or 2007....
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  6490. The EU quietly changed its regulations back in 2012 or 2013 so that it could start buying stolen Syrian oil from the headchoppers, so nothing about the EU surprises me anymore.
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  6491. That's all that's needed. Nobody really wants to destroy the USD.
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  6492. Your memory's playing tricks on you (or you've fallen for some propaganda). Putin's set NO deadlines whatsoever.
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  6493. Wow!
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  6494. ​ @ppetal1  A communist party has just lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Into which capitalism had thrown them.
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  6495. You can't be that naive!
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  6496.  @avisambrobro664  The West can't help but insult Russia precisely because it knows it's morally superior to them.
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  6497. He's worked for them, according to Wikipedia, which doesn't specify in what capacity.
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  6498. There are times it's wise and necessary to build walls. Doesn't mean you can't build all sorts of other things at the same time.
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  6499. A psychiatrist who calls herself DrPretty?! 😂 DrNarcissist, that is.
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  6500. ​ @redwing1214  Fear based learning? You must be joking! In reality, college students are being spoonfed and are hand-held every step of the way. They're outraged at being asked to use their own heads and actually think!
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  6501. 😂
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  6502. Raising children has always been expensive. We've just become much, much more selfish and narcissistic than the previous generations and, as a result, profoundly uncomfortable with intimacy.
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  6503. It's corruption, not ignorance. The State Department flies suitcases full of money to various European capitals every month.
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  6504. Rasputnitsa and Rasputin aren't related.
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  6505. They obviously understand the Russians have NO intention of attacking the UK.
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  6506. ​ @TP-om8of  You have to prove first that you're solvent enough to provide equal comfort for the two wives. Polygamy is not all that common among Muslims -- only well-to-do men qualify.
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  6507. What a fool. What cracks me up is that tens of millions of Americans thought this corrupt, senile, sexual pervert was an improvement on Trump!
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  6508. I'm so disappointed in the people of Ireland for failing to return both Clare and Mick. 😥
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  6509. ​ @marci3667 The US armed forces went down the tube some decades ago. You couldn't even win in Vietnam. And to cover up for that, you've been bombing much smaller, mostly impoverished nations with no air cover and congratulating yourselves on your might! 😂
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  6510.  @jackneuman5108  Russia will never use nukes first. It doesn't need to. It will, however, send its nukes on all those cities the moment it detects the launch of NATO/US nukes in its direction. It's hypersonic missiles, which can carry nukes, cannot be intercepted by any country: there's no Western technology capable of dealing with them. The ball is in the West's court.
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  6511. Maybe both.
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  6512.  @quaziz  You're right. Thanks.
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  6513. Putin's war? You mean NATO's proxy war.
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  6514. I understand they have ammo stocked up for 39 years of continuous warfare.
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  6515. ​ @leonfth Oh but it is. You forget how easy it is to black-hole this information: it's the job of our media never to report such inconvenient facts.
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  6516. What does the WHO have to do with this?!
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  6517.  @lanceburke6236  I know what WHO is. What I don't understand is how it could be involved in this.
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  6518. ​ @home769  40% of all immigrants to Canada return to their homelands within the first year of their arrival here. And who knows how many of the 60% who stay beyond the first year simply cannot afford to go back, and how many return in year 2 and 3 and 5. The future belongs to the East now as is becoming more and more obvious with each passing year.
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  6519. Empire? How's Russia an empire?! 😅
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  6520. ​ @mftb1 Mark Sleboda was in the US Navy himself.
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  6521. ​ @Soul_of_a_Robot  Australia is in Australia -- a continent by itself.
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  6522. That was the story told by Ukrainian propaganda. The truth is that the Russians knew they didn't have enough men in that region and chose to pull back, leaving the field open to Ukrainian forces to stage their fake blitzkrieg.
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  6523. 😂
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  6524. They did.
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  6525. I don't see anything disrespectful in telling your employees what you want and expect of the people you employ and offering them a relatively generous severance if they cannot or don't want to work to his expectations.
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  6526. Caring is a part of what it means to love another. He doesn't care about her = he doesn't love her. He may like her, need her, fancy her, sure. But he doesn't love her.
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  6527. Europe is actually a subcontinent of Asia (just like India, the Indian subcontinent). I, too, was surprised to learn that this is how it's treated in geography (the science, not the subject we get in school). Love your videos, btw.
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  6528. China is not among, it's THE world's longest continuing civilization.
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  6529. All of that is true, but you'll be able to cope with it all much better if you make yourself exercise vigorously at least 5 days a week.
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  6530. Yes, he does. He's mentioned it in the past.
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  6531. Not a chance.
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  6532. Alexander is very careful not to attract the ire of YouTube censors.
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  6533. So, the US is once again violating international law and UN rules. What a bunch of pathetic wankers.
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  6534. Leviticus laws are not binding for Christians.
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  6535. Day 42, you mean.
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  6536. ​​ @savvyinfo9762 They can't be scared of a world war starting in the Middle East as only they themselves would start it as Israel alone certainly can't do anything of the sort.
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  6537. The whole system has become so corrupt that their economic and military advisors are as clueless as the politicians themselves.
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  6538. Didn't Zelensky just tell a Japanese newspaper that a spring offensive is well nigh impossible because Ukraine lacks the weapons and the ammo for it? Andrei Martyanov's mentioned it in his video today and RT's reported on it, too.
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  6539. 😂
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  6540. What does FEMA have to do with any of this? The people responsible for this mess are in the White House and the State Department.
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  6541. I hope so!
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  6542. In the collective West, the regional North, yes. I don't see it present in Russia or China, or most of the Global South either.
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  6543. Small countries will always be potential pray for the predatory West. Trade with the West, by all means, but don't keep your foreign reserves in either dollars or Euros and most of all not in Western banks. These people are thieves.
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  6544. Poor man. I can see how Netanyahu could drive a shrink to suicide.
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  6545. ​ @Jagger1985able 😮
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  6546. According to the IMF, the Russian economy is booming and will have experienced three times the growth the IMF forecast for the EU this year.
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  6547.  @andrewpease3688  What you're calling bullshit comes from the British media themselves. There must be a reason you wish to conceal the truth of what's happening to a huge number of people in the UK -- tens of millions, in fact -- but that's on your conscience, not mine.
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  6548.  @andrewpease3688  I see that YouTube's deleted the response I posted yesterday. What I'm reading in the British press is that people are in a panic about the humongous price hikes which will hit their pockets this fall and winter. Your radio and TV shows are already offering as participation prize 6 months' payment of heating bills OR £1,000 -- with listeners/viewers rejecting the money and opting to have their heating bills paid for them instead. A free press is a press that presents ALL points of view, without prejudice of favour. We don't have a free press anywhere in the West any more, and this has been true for at least a decade
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  6549.  @Andy-P  There are two reports associated with the UN. The first report was not by the UN but by an American who presented it to the UN, claiming China was committing genocide of the Uyghurs, sending them to concentration camps, etc.. The media, of course, haven't bothered to clarify that, so people are left with the impression that it was the UN who came up with that report. The second, real UN report didn't find anything of the sort, so our media has hushed it up.
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  6550. The economically strong Germany had its troops train using broomsticks because they lacked the guns to go around. (Look it up -- back in 2015.) Without cheap gas from Russia, they won't be able to get up to much mischief again.
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  6551. ​ @steelgranny9027 😮
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  6552. Never mind the US-dominated EU political elites. The rest of the world sees things quite clearly now, which is why 84% of the planet has refused to join the collective West in ganging up on Russia.
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  6553.  @dn5578  The US+EU literally staged a coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014 to install a fascist government there (something the US has had so much experience doing all over Latin America), one of whose main tasks was to provoke a war with Russia. According to Zelensky's own advisor Arestovich!
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  6554. Ukrainian standard of living was significantly lower than Russia's well before 2013. By that point, and before any of the refugees from Donbass crossed over to Russia to save themselves from Ukrainian aggression, there were already about 5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia because salaries and living standards there are much higher than in Ukraine.
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  6555. ​ @RavenMobile The goal is to scare people into giving up their pension funds over to corporations to subsidize their "solutions" to a problem many in the scientific community think is a scam (but can't speak out due to a well-grounded fear of losing their jobs).
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  6556. ​ @pshehan1  That story itself is a lie. I wish I could put it more delicately, but that's exactly what is: a blatant lie. Here's why. Global temperatures were about 2C higher today some 7,000-8,000 years ago, exactly at the time first city states and human civilization as such began to emerge.
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  6557. Of course it is.
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  6558. Lack of empathy is a narcissistic trait, a sociopathic one. So are the inability to take criticism and a no well. Sociopathy and psychopathy are rife among CEOs.
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  6559. God bless and protect Russia! ❤​ @fitgirl8812 
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  6560. You all?! Both of these two are highly critical of Trump, as they should be.
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  6561. Toxic masculinity they have in abundance. It's integrity, courage, chivalry, and honour that they lack.
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  6562. Could it be an atmospheric phenomenon?
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  6563. I'll tell you what corruption has to do with the present situation. The money slated for defense lines was grabbed by corrupt officials, resulting in zero defense lines built by Ukraine. With no defense lines, the Ukrainian army finds itself defenceless. All due to corruption.
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  6564. Somebody ought to organize it.
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  6565. They can -- the Democrats just don't want to. They're importing themselves a new voter base.
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  6566. Call me cruel and unfeeling, but it's the Filipinos themselves who chose to elect yet another member of the Marcos mafia family. They've made they bed and will now lie in it.
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  6567. The voice over text is disturbingly ignorant of the symptoms of schizophrenia and the bipolar disorder. Smearing feces on walls and/or the floor is a common in schizophrenia, and the inability to sleep is typical of the manic phase of the bipolar disorder. At 17:11 the narrator even tries to cast doubt on Miller's mental health status, forgetting that Miller had been hospitalized for paranoid ideation and had been under the care of psychiatrists for those two illnesses for some years before he tried to kill his entire family.
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  6568. The West can't compete against it, so it's banned Russian athletes from the games. 😂
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  6569. 😅
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  6570. All of which is just a matter of time.
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  6571. Brzezinski wasn't Jewish.
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  6572. ​ @bojanakolak7451 Trotsky was Jewish, Lenin a Russian.
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  6573. It's way past time Americans understood they're an empire and that their political elite will continue to behave the way the elites, the moneyed folk, of all empires do. You get bread and circuses to keep you quiet, and they get everything else, including the right to dictate the country's foreign policy.
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  6574. ​ @rome8726  That's no argument against requiring physics majors to take at least one course in the philosophy of science.
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  6575. In terms of human lives, about 1/5th to 1/10th of what Ukraine's paying. In terms of its economic growth and global standing, it's only going from strength to strength.
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  6576. Germany did the same to Ukraine in 2013 as it's doing to Serbia now, triggering the Euromaidan protests and laying the ground for the coup d'etat in Kiev six months later. As for this business with US/NATO troops in Ukraine: none of it would be happening if the Russians had got their act together in July instead of playing at war and waiting till September to call its reservists in.
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  6577.  @VodeniZeka  They didn't have a critical mass in Ukraine either -- that's why it was necessary to stage a coup d'etat in February 2014. But I agree that, partly thanks to what's happened in Ukraine, Serbs have a far more sensible and wary attitude to the EU.
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  6578. Hardly the reason the Russians are winning.
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  6579. It's perfectly normal: children are very prone to fantasize things, people, various scenarios and healthy, non-accusatory scepticism is the right response to such stories.
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  6580. ​ @kirilld6206  Getting the stress in foreign words right, and getting the intonation right, too, are the most difficult things in dealing with a foreign language. It takes a lot of conscious effort to override the stress patterns of one's native tongue and most people are too lazy to bother.
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  6581. By noticing the many Jews who hate Zionism and Zionists.
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  6582. ​ @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  You like racists, I see.
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  6583. He's a Ukrainian Jew.
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  6584. Stop lying. Russia's liberating Donbass from those who shelled it for 8 years before it finally intervened.
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  6585. ​ @Tintan435 😂
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  6586. Maybe. What's certain is that he has zero integrity. A common German trait.
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  6587. ​​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  You seem to have a strange fondness and respect for the "once mighty, proud nation" of the Nazi era.
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  6588. Yes, it's the only thing that will stop these psychos: their complete economic downfall. Thank goodness, they're working very hard on destroying their own economies, for which the rest of the world is very grateful.
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  6589. No signs of that yet.
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  6590. Probably?! 😅
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  6591. Cope harder.
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  6592. 😂
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  6593. I doubt it. Russia doesn't want to be saddled with it.
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  6594. ​​ @homeguardster  No, he's referring to the 8-year civil war Kiev unleashed in Donbass in 2014. The Russians finally went in in February 2022 to fulfill their Responsibility to Protect, something the West has tendentiously named "an unprovoked invasion".
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  6595. ​​ @D4NK1  Your neighbour is an ignoramus. Romanians are the descendents of Roman divisions once stationed in that part of the world. Their language is a clear testimony to their Latin/Roman origins. Roma are originally from India.
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  6596. God bless and protect Mother Russia! ❤
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  6597. They won't do it. Pentagon's saner heads will not allow it because they know what the Russian response would be.
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  6598. Why the quotation marks around provoked? It's exactly what the West did. Try to find the 2019 TV interview with Alexei Arestovich, Zelensky's chief advisor at the time, in which he explains how a war with Russia was the precondition the West had placed on Ukraine for being allowed to join NATO. Asked when that war would start, Arestovich said any time between 2020 and 2022. In February 2022, Ukraine had amassed aforce of 200,000 poised to enter Donbass to slaughter the population there. Even the OSCE confirmed it. That's why Russia intervened at the end of February, to prevent that slaughter.
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  6599. Ethnic hatred can be expensive.
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  6600. I'm proud of what I've achieved in life. I'm proud of what my grandparents did in WW2. I'm ashamed of some of the things I've done. But being white? The colour of my skin is not something to be either proud or ashamed of.
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  6601. Putin didn't annex anything. Four of the 6 regions that Lenin had annexed to Ukraine in order to create a country out of it chose to rejoin their original homeland, Russia. Today, Russia accepted them back in.
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  6602. Europe caused this with its insane rejection of long-term contracts in favour of spot market prices, an idea pushed by idiots in the UK. Then it compounded the idiocy by putting all sorts of sanctions on Russia for standing up for its security interests and by doing the bidding of the USA, Europe's putative "friend". And if you think these prices are exorbitant, wait and see what happens if/when the EU puts a cap on Russian gas, too, a move they're currently discussing.
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  6603. Didn't your parents teach you that it's wring to tell porkies?
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  6604. NATO's stabbed Ukraine in the back. Both NATO and the EU. What they've done in Ukraine since 2013 is simply evil.
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  6605. Oh he will. He can't desert Ukraine now. Not yet.
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  6606. Without a doubt. 🙂 I'm just sorry for all the Ukrainian and Russian soldiers who're losing their lives because a bunch of entitled psychopaths wanted to use Ukraine to threaten and eventually destroy Russia.
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  6607. Alex, Orthodoxy as distinct from Catholicism didn't exist 1000 years ago: it was all just one thing, Christianity. So it's historically accurate to speak of a Rus conversion to Christianity (and not to Orthodoxy).
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  6608. I suspect they grabbed Durov as a hostage, to be bartered months or a year from now for some French soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
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  6609. This is why I stopped following Democracy Now! 8 years ago. Too many lies and too much mainstream propaganda about Libya, Syria, and now this Ukraine business, too. Just stopped by to check what they're doing these days -- a total sell-out to Washington's and NATO's official narrative.
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  6610. For liberalism, read the West. This is nothing but the continuation of Western imperialism which had already begun dressing itself in the garb of liberalism in the 19th century. It does so to this day.
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  6611. The great Ukrainian culture, or Nazis will be Nazis.
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  6612. Varoufakis's claim that Sahra Wagenknecht's adopted a racist agenda is a nasty piece of hot air. Her own father is an immigrant from Iran, and her platform doesn't soeak of reducing legal immigration to Germany but only controlling a reducing the influx of migrants Germany has experienced in the last 10 years. It's a shame that these days Varoufakis needs to vilify a true leftist with a degree of electoral success in order to make himself feel relevant.
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  6613. *enemy
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  6614. Aaron needs to stop partotting liberal narratives. From my perspective as a socialist and a feminist, Trump et al are conservative oligarchic capitalists, for sure, but not even close to any far right.
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  6615. ​ @TonyMidyett Germany and the UK. It was the British who thought they had the right to "give" Palestine to the Zionists at a time the Nazis didn't yet exist.
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  6616. It's literally a crime what the West, plus their own oligarchs and nationalists, have done to Ukraine. Without their meddling, Ukraine could have been a peaceful, neutral, prosperous country.
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  6617. There's no chance of it now. It should never have let itself be chopped up into little "ethnic" statelets. I've put ethnic in inverted commas since all of the "nations" of former Yugoslavia are simply Southern Slavs who shared the same language or dialects so similar that they were mutually intelligible.
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  6618. 😂
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  6619. Russia's military doctrine provides for first use of nuclear arms if the country is attacked by a numerically overwhelming enemy. Neither Ukraine nor even today's NATO itself can summon up a force large enough to qualify as that.
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  6620. Nah. It's just age-old British hatred of Russia, born of envy and simple greed.
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  6621. ​ @globallama8094 Stop lying. We support Russia unconditionally in its fight against the new generation of Ukrainian über-nationalists (avoiding the word YouTube could punish me for).
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  6622. Fully agree.
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  6623. Why are you shouting? The US has been fine with its missiles being used on civilian populations of both Donbass and the Belgorod regions, so let's not pretend otherwise. Pants on fire and all that, you know.
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  6624. Imagine the dedication and the commitment that would take, sustained over decades.
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  6625. I think you can make an accurate forecast yourself.
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  6626. Good. Now go home already and leave Europe to itself please!
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  6627. 🤮
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  6628. Serves Frye right.
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  6629. It's up to the German people to do something about it. If little Niger could throw the Yanks out, what possible excuse can there be for Germany?!
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  6630. It's up to the German people to do something about it. If little Niger could throw the Yanks out, what possible excuse can there be for Germany?!
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  6631. What's your take on it, and which blogger's do you have in mind? Dima is at a loss how to make sense of what's going on right now, so there's no point in referring to him, is there?
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  6632. Where are pious people being persecuted in secular societies?
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  6633.  @معاذمحمد-ص5ل  Please answer my question.
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  6634. China outproduces both the US and the EU combined, while Russia is currently and single-handedly winning NATO's proxy war in Ukraine.
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  6635. Putin's current approval rating stands at 85%. And that according to the Western-affiliated Levada Center NGO.
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  6636. ​ @Bakair-b1d To defend itself from the US. Americans have been absolutely open for years now about wanting to go to war against China.
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  6637. So, your heart doesn't break when a woman is abused by a man? Interesting.
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  6638. The rest of Israel supports Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza. Check the public opinion polls done in Israel. This barbarity is not Netanyahu's alone.
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  6639. Sorry everyone, but Meloni was endorsed by Hillary Clinton a few weeks ago. Don't expect anything significant from her and her party. They may reduce immigration rates to Italy, but that'll be about it.
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  6640. Perfidious Albion and its colonial offspring.
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  6641. Every single day, as they keep demilitarizing Ukraine to the tune of 500-1000 soldiers killed per day.
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  6642. And Trump is the one who started arming Ukraine for a proxy war with Russia. Trump. Not Obama, and not Biden, who merely carried on what Trump had begun.
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  6643. Alexander, not Alex.
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  6644. The winning party should do what?! 😂😂😂
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  6645. Sure. 😂
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  6646. Ursula Von Der Leyen's just announced that EU energy costs have gone up 300% over the last 12 months.
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  6647. 🤣
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  6648. Let the Poles have Lvov, and all the Nazis there. As for Odessa, I pray the Russians do decide to liberate it at last.
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  6649. NATO knows they can't defeat Russia in Ukraine. NATO leadership is already talking about "letting" Russia keep its territorial gains in exchange for a rump Ukraine being allowed to join NATO, something that's simply not going to happen.
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  6650. Whatever this is about, the fact remains that the Russian military has been caught napping, has been shown to be badly organized, and is losing territory. The least Russia ought to have done before all those victorious signing ceremonies is secure the 4 regions so that Ukrainian forces couldn't take back a single village, let alone whole towns, as has already happened and is happening. And it failed in accomplishing even that much. I find that failure seriously disappointing and not a little bewildering. I can't but feel that those of us who do support and love Russia do ourselves and Russia itself no favours by refusing to acknowledge these facts by dancing around them and indulging in largely empty irony as our copium.
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  6651. Her behaviour doesn't reflect deep-seated rage alone. Her problems developed in her late teens and early twenties, exactly when most cases of schizophrenia show up.
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  6652. Given the administration occupying the White House, it's hard to see this as a victory. It's clear now that in 2020 Americans got the government they deserve.
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  6653. 😅
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  6654. Historically, however, no Jordanian and no Palestinian suffered from anti-Semitic persecutions as Jews did in Europe. For Europeans, therefore, anti-Semitism means prejudice, bias, discrimination against Jews, specifically. You're right, of course, to reminds us Palestinians, Arabs and Jews are all Semites.
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  6655. Unbelievable absurdities. 85% of the planet is laughing at the West and its "narratives".
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  6656. More fool he. It was clear as early as the Fall of 2013 that she was totally implicated in the Euromaidan BS. By February 2014, when Germany failed to prevent or oppose the coup in Kiev, there shouldn't have been any doubt about Merkel and Germany. Putin signally failed in his duty to protect Russia's sovereign interests by indulging his baseless sentimentality about the Germans.
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  6657. Animal fables have always been used -- that's their primary function -- to make a moral point, to teach values. A cartoon series about a dog family could easily incorporate an episode or two about a family of "immigrant" dogs, and some about a puppy who's being bullied by some older puppy dogs, some episodes that feature a deaf dog, etc. This shouldn't be dismissed as woke: it's merely what any decent society would want to teach its young about: how to be kind and charitable to others. As for gay dogs and trans dogs -- no, thanks.
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  6658. America lost its credibility decades ago!
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  6659. Nonsense.
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  6660. He wants his passport back really badly.
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  6661. Another brilliant exposé of Western media lies and slander.
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  6662. 15 years?! More like 90 by now!
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  6663. Good plan.
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  6664. ​ @pong9000  Chauvinism and bigotry only make a nation blind and lead, ultimately, to its self-destruction. True patriotism is based in love, in caring for one's own country.
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  6665.  @globalcitizen995  In many parts of Christian Europe, Jews practiced medicine and were considered excellent physicians.
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  6666. It makes sense: airports are the only large, public spaces that are warm in wintertime 24/7.  @jamesgallagher8395 
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  6667.  @rhiguliedon  Russia had very publicly warned that unless NATO responded positively to its national security requirements, it would be compelled to "take technical military measures" to secure them.
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  6668.  @rhiguliedon  Not so. Go and read the documents themselves. Nowhere in them is there any mention or hint of "technical-military measures" against NATO itself. Where the measures would be taken was left unsaid, and anyone with a brain in their head understood this meant Ukraine.
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  6669. A union is an organization of the people who actually produce goods and perform services.
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  6670. Because Ronald Reagan destroyed the American mental health system 30+ years ago and nobody's bothered to fix things up since.
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  6671. ​ @tarnic4596  And what about righteous atheists?
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  6672. It's a clear reflection of the wall-to-wall lies the West has been telling itself about both the WW2 and the Soviet Union that people can even entertain the (infuriatingly false) idea that the USSR started or was responsible for WW2. Some of the lies are the lies of omission, in this instance the omission of the fact that during the 1930s, seeing a Nazi Germany openly militarizing itself and preparing to invade the rest of Europe, the Soviet Union proposed to both France and Germany a defense alliance. Both rejected the Soviet proposal, thereby emboldening Hitler and Germany as a whole in their mad drive to conquer the whole continent. Instead, both France and Britain made their separate arrangements with Hitler's Germany. Had they Had accepted Stalin's proposal, the world would have been spared WW2 as Germany wouldn't have dared invade France or attack the UK before moving to implement its genocidal plan for the conquest of the USSR. To claim that the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was anything but an obvious attempt by the Soviets to gain some time to prepare to fight Nazi Germany -- as Col. Macgregor implies -- is beyond disingenuous. It's downright dishonourable.
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  6673. He's right.
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  6674. He made that transition a long time ago.
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  6675. @termann9785 That's just Ukronassi copium -- denial of clinical proportions.
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  6676. Stoltenberg has just announced that NATO will not put a missile shield over Ukraine. It will NOT use its air defences to provide cover for Ukraine.
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  6677. Nice haircut, Alex. 🙂
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  6678. It won't. Deep down, most Germans remain as racist as their ancestors 90 years ago.
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  6679. Yes, it's intellectual and moral cowardice.
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  6680.  @Americanpatriot-zo2tk  So what? Mothers kill their children sometimes, as do fathers. They very often mess up their kids for life. And precisely because "they're still family," they continue to mess them up for decades on end.
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  6681.  @antithoughtpolice7497  It can be and I'm sure often is. Except in those cases in which the parents or a parent end up killing their child. Which also happens.
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  6682. I think reality is pro-Russian.
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  6683. ​ @rockfella1377  You wish.
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  6684.  @mariashchetynska4419  It doesn't take a genius to suss up a person you're intimate with over a two-year period (not counting the time she knew and dated him before they got engaged). There's such a thing as wilful blindness, you know.
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  6685.  @bellaluce7088  I see a lot of excuses for the wilfully blind.
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  6686. Was that pentagram for Pentagon thing deliberate? 😉
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  6687. He knows all this perfectly well. Zelensky and everyone else in his regime don't give a damn about Ukraine itself. One cannot overestimate the cynicism and venality of the Ukrainian "leadership" class.
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  6688. Ukraine has been conscripting middle aged and elderly men, too. Western media have reported on 60+ Ukrainians being sent to the front....
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  6689. This is positively anti-democratic. I'm amazed at what's happening to the US.
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  6690. ​​ @megavolt6054  You're anything but mean. Your problem is a certain abiding naivety and sentimentalism about the West, in fact. Let's hope that will now definitely change. Greetings from a Serb in Canada.
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  6691. ​ @ThoreVeldur Nonsense. There's a reason why neither Sweden nor Finland held a referendum on joining NATO. Their political elites know perfectly well that joining NATO does not express the will of most Swedes and Finns. The same holds for previous NATO expansions, gobbling up Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Montenegro. Large majorities in all of those countries was opposed to joining that geopolitical mafia gang.
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  6692. ​ @benfisher1376  Oh, it is. Jennifer Bilek has carefully compiled tons of evidence that shows the trans mania is being pushed by vested commercial interests. She runs the 11th Hour blog. An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to find information on this.
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  6693. ​ @mylessalmon2569 Wait and see: only a very small minority will eventually return to Ukraine.
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  6694.  @zoranjanjanin6308  That's how the EU rolls. It's run by a group of un-elected officials unswerable to no one but themselves and Washington. That's democracy the EU way.
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  6695. Aaron forgot to mention that the condition the EU presented Yanukovich with in 2013 violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum, which prohibits the use of economic ultimatums for geopolitical ends. The significance of this violation is as follows:. Ukraine has never registered its borders with the UN and the Budapest Memorandum (in which those borders are not specified either) was the only international document that guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity. It beggars belief that Angela Merkel, Hollande and other EU's leaders and their advisors did not know this little fact or the fact. I for one would love to know why they chose to violate the Budapest Memo (did they really think nobody would notice?!) and thereby blow wide open the question of which territories actually belong to Ukraine and which have their true home elsewhere.
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  6696. Envy. They envy women and are trying desperately to replace us. Of course, they KNOW they'll never succeed. They're playing a losing game and know it: it drives them positively nuts. Hence all the misogyny, the nastiness, the parody, the aggression, the histrionics, and the rest.
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  6697. What an excellent program! I'm so glad your brother was able to get a roof over his head through it. And shame on everyone whining about how he's a deadwight and how they are personally paying for his place! What's happened to "Love your neighbour as thyself" and some compassion? People get addicted for all sorts of reasons, and getting off drugs is horribly hard. Worry more about all the Pentagon and Washington DC corruption you're supporting! About all the money you give away to mega-wealthy corporations through your taxes. What goes to these programs for the poor and the homeless is less than a pittance in comparison.
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  6698. Nah. They're intelligent as well as sentient. Adapted to colder seas, why would they move to warmer waters instead of staying where the ocean is far, far colder than immediately off the coast of Western Europe? A few of them lose their way or are simply more curious than the herd and wander off in new, unexplored, and possibly deadly directions. We should do a much better job of relocating them back to their proper environment much more promptly, and as a matter of course.
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  6699. Not westward, the Russians never invaded countries west of them and fought them only in self-defence.
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  6700. Yeah, that's what they mean.
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  6701. 😂
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  6702. I'm a Canadian and it's clear to me the US Democratic Party is a cult. This woman is obviously a member of a cult. (And yeah, we have these types up here, too.) Btw, thanks to the Biden administration's sanctions on Russia and the grab of Russian assets, the US lost 80% of foreign direct investment in its economy in 2022. Bet most of you never heard of this from the MSM.
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  6703. Elephants will often kill any lions they come across. They positively hate predators.
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  6704. Where did you see "all that traffic"?!
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  6705. He's insignificant.
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  6706. And you think this is not deliberate? Go and check out what Mike Jones, of iEarlyGrey, has to report from his recent humanitarian visit to Donbass and the reports passed on to him by the fighters there, who are very frustrated that the Russian General Staff has been holding them back and won't allow them to finish the job there
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  6707.  @alanedwards6491  Outnumbered by 2:1 or 3:1, the Russians have managed, even at the deliberately slow pace they've set for themselves, to take and hold 20% of formerly Ukrainian territory.
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  6708.  @alanedwards6491  Amazing how many people KNOW what exactly "Putin" wanted.
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  6709. ​ @edthebumblingfool Russia was not a party to the Minsk Accords. Go check the text: it's available online.
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  6710. You never really de-Nazified yourselves, allowed known Nazis to run all sorts of institutions of state for decades on end, allowed them to train future generations of the German Deep State too, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
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  6711. Europe's, including its eastern parts, has had an unusually mild winter, which is over now. We're already two weeks into Spring.
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  6712. ​​ @ryanwalters6184  Sure. As soon as the US shuts down its military and its 900+ overseas military bases, the greatest single contributor to climate change.
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  6713. ​​ @danielbwest  You should have a look at the actual text of the Minsk Accords, which is available online. It was the duty of France and Germany (Russia itself isn't even a party to the Accords!) to make sure Minsk Accords were implemented by Ukraine. We also know from François Hollande, Angela Merkel, and Pietro Poroshenko speaking separately on this issue that the Minsk Accords were negotiated in utter bad faith by the West and were intended never to be implemented but to serve as a screen to arm Ukraine for a proxy war against Russia.
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  6714. A fascist bewails the end of democracy?! 😂😂😂
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  6715. Your house will be amazing once it's finished!
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  6716. You mean "the history of slavery in America". There are 49.6 million enslaved human beings in the world today, about 25% or 10 million of them children. While we should never forget the heinous truth about slavery in America, we should also remember that African slavery has its roots in Arab/Muslim and local African slave trade, developed several centuries before the West European, mainly English, whites and later Anglo-Americans got in on the game, too. Most of all, if we really do abhor slavery, we should spend much more time and energy on freeing the almost 50 million people who're enslaved today. 😢
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  6717. Ukraine's been keeping units in the fight that have lost 50% and more of their men.
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  6718.  @brenoseifert  Yeah, which is why those Western weapons can't stop Russia. Get real!
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  6719.  @soniavadnjal7553  You don't have to be a Russian general to notice that something fairly big is amiss when Putin promises the people of those 4 regions that Russia will NOT abandon them just 24 hrs before Russia pulls out of Liman and abandons its residents to the most un-tender mercies of the Ukrainian forces.
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  6720. ​ @deadpoolguy283  Because it's widely known and acknowledged in Russia.
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  6721.  @adrianajones8004  European Jews were; Zionists were not.
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  6722. So has Russia.
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  6723. That's an insane price tag. Even the original $10 billion was ridiculous. Think about it: that's 10 thousand million dollars!
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  6724. I learned just the other day that Starmer's a member of the (fascist globalist) Trilateral Commission.
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  6725. How can you buy into a belief system that says a human being can be born in the wrong body? That the sex if an infant isn't recognized but "assigned" at birth? I don't question this woman's love for her children and her intention to do what's best for them. But I'm still flummoxed by the readiness to believe what's so clearly, so obviously false but that lets parents mislead and confuse their children about what sex they are. It must be so bewildering for a girl to be asked if she might not be a boy, and a boy if he might not be a girl. Such questions undermine their confidence in their own ability to perceive the world accurately and to understand themselves, yo know who they are. It undermines their sanity.
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  6726. You're allowed to mock them as a way of letting off steam. It does nothing except making you feel that you're doing something.
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  6727. I see Shoigu's phone calls to the defence ministers of Turkey, France, the UK and the US as an excellent pre-emptive move by Russia. Shoigu's warning now means that Ukraine's planned false flag and the cover it was meaning to use have been unmasked in advance, and publicly so, making it that much more difficult for Ukr. and Western psychopaths to pull it off. The world has been alerted in advance and, apart from the apparently endlessly "gullible" populations of the collective West, that golden billion of garden dwellers, it knows that any use of nukes in Ukraine will be the work of the Kiev regime and it's NATO owners.
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  6728. You're hilarious! 😂😂😂
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  6729. ​ @imrualquais5867  Nobody's making fun of the soldiers themselves but of the idiotic officers who keep trapping their troops inside these cauldrons.
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  6730. 95% of Germans blame the US.
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  6731. ​ @travkin8842 👏❤️
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  6732. She's married into the Kagan clan of Zionist psychopaths happy to do a deal with the devil (the Nutsees) to satisfy their hatred of Russia.
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  6733.  @Natalya.57.Volkova  Can't have been as he'd emigrated to the US BEFORE 1930, when Nuland's father was born (in Brooklyn). Lying in the age of the Internet is a fool's game.
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  6734.  @Natalya.57.Volkova  Hah! I catch you in a rankly anti-Semitic lie and you call me an anti-Semite for pointing it out! 😂
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  6735. ​ @braveheart2410  Read up on it first: you'll be surprised.
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  6736. He'd already asked for nukes a few weeks BEFORE the start of the SMO, at the 2022 Munich European Security Conference.
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  6737. I agree: this "analysis" is a disgrace.
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  6738. Lavrov the gentleman as ever. 👍🙂❤️ There was no humiliation there, none at all. As Lavrov said, with friends, size doesn't matter. 🙂 P.S. All of the people here mocking the Pakistani delegation and projecting their malice onto Lavrov, whose words they hear as sarcasm, reflect very poorly on India. Such malice makes you very small, and pitifully ugly. 😕
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  6739. Because they work and are cheap. Why use something that costs more when you can get the job done with less?!
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  6740. Family and old friends, you know.
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  6741. China's by far the largest economy in the world, outproducing the US and the EU combined. As for democracy, let's not pretend there's any in the collective West.
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  6742. Germans are arming Nazis again. And the world is watching them.
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  6743. You underestimate them. They're practiced, shame-free liars.
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  6744. Love to China, from Serbia. I had the opportunity to visit Shanghai very briefly a few years ago. I'm now planning to visit China again for a few months in 2026 and will start taking lessons in Mandarin in the next six months. 🙂
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  6745. Why? As if what the West says matters any more. In any case, I don't think there are any hospitals in these large villages/small towns to hit.
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  6746.  @Hazelnut_surprise  I wonder why you think Russia cares any more about any part of the collective West thinks. As for the public in Europe, latest polls suggest that the majority of Germans still support their current lot in power. I may be wrong, but contrary to many, I don't expect truly significant popular protests this fall and winter. Grumbling and economic disasters, yes, but it seems that the Europeans are far too conformist and obedient (well trained by the last few decades of Brussels autocracy) to do anything more effective than grumble and blame "Putin" as their media have instructed them to do.
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  6747. I hope you're wrong about any intentions to invade Poland. Should it come to that, let the Poles be the ones to provoke it.
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  6748.  @WeebUnionWU  For spreading. NATO-sphere MSM nonsense (a polite word for lies).
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  6749. You know who: the NGOs doing the bidding of their paymasters in the West. They're so desperate, they're now organising "strikes" by highschool students. My niece in Belgrade tells me in her school at least, the organising is being done by the worst students in the graduating class. Most parents apparently back their children getting no instruction and no classes, too. Poor Serbia with adults like that. 😠
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  6750.  @rathey7999  And the candidates Trump supported in the midterms lost. I don't have a horse in this race (I'm a sympathetic Canadian), but it seems to me you won't be able to return to the White House if Trump gets the nomination.
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  6751.  @jacobjorgenson9285  China.
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  6752. Austria's disgusting giving that swine just 15 years behind bars. Disgusting. As for his wife, Elizabeth's mother, words fail me. That woman had to have known what was going on.
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  6753. ​ @uqs57bju  Are you crazy? Or just suicidal?
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  6754. Ukrainians never wanted a war with Russia. 73% of them elected Zelensky because he told them he would implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish friendly relations with Russia. He lied, and it's the Ukrainians (and Russians) who are paying with their lives while he's working on his second billion dollars.
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  6755. Unfortunately, I expect Putin to nix that.
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  6756. Nothing new in this. We've sheltered. Ukrainian Nazi collaborators here ever since the end of WW2 without a word of protest from the public or from our war veterans themselves. It's the sort of people we actually are.
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  6757. There's exactly zero evidence of NK troops fighting on behalf of Russia.
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  6758. Those were also the percentages of civilians killed in Obama's drone warfare program. He knew it and was fine with it.
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  6759. ​ @jennacided6502 You should consider switching to another university, then.
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  6760. We know who started that, and it wasn't the Arabs.
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  6761. Unbelievable! I no longer pay any attention to our MSM, so thank you for this glimpse of the insanity of the propaganda they're pushing.
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  6762. It's a very good thing indeed that the US, NATO and the EU have been exposed and are now being seen for what they are
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  6763. @Johnny Rep Former Galicia can go to Poland. Let the Poles deal with the home of Ukrainian Nazism.
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  6764. The arrogance and greed of the West are beyond any measure.
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  6765. Trump and his supporters clearly imagine that the rest of the world needs to trade with the US. It doesn't: the US is just one country among almost 200 countries in the world and the largest markets are elsewhere (India, China, Brazil, Africa, most of Asia).
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  6766. 😂
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  6767. ​​ @jhaduvala  Palaeoclimatology tells us that global temperatures were about 2C higher than today precisely at the time of the rise of the first civilizations. We (and the rest of nature) not only survived but thrived in climate conditions we're now being told will destroy life on Earth.
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  6768.  @cherylderue336  Under 6,000, actually.
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  6769. They're still very keen on annexing Monte Negro, Kosovo, and Northern Macedonia into their perennial dream of a Greater Albania.
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  6770. Not while they're under Ukrainian rule. Nazi reprisals would be horrific.
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  6771. He who laughs last, laughs the best.
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  6772.  @MikeMW87  I think you sorely underestimate the relief Russians feel about their decoupling from the EU. Why should or why on earth would they bother about what a flagrantly racist, hypocritical (rest of) Europe may think? Russia is now free to pursue its own development, both culturally and economically. There's absolutely no doubt any more that the West, including the EU part of Europe, is in terminal cultural, economic, and military decline. The old adage needs to be revised to fit the new reality: Go East, young man!
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  6773. This needs to be fought down tooth and nail.
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  6774.  @bigbasil1908  There's a big, bitter outcry about it in Russia.
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  6775. ​ @YoungSantasGroupie  I hope you won't be offended to learn that the Holodomor was a hoax invented by an American conman with a criminal record with a long string of hoaxes behind him. There's a Canadian historian who's examined the evidence for Holodomor and concluded that the whole thing was an anti-Soviet myth with no grounds in reality. The famine was real, but it was a natural phenomenon and the Soviets did their best to alleviate the suffering it caused. The worst affected were Kazakhstan (with most deaths due to starvation), Russia (the second greatest number of deaths), and Ukraine as a distant third. Thanks to the new agricultural policies adopted by the Soviets, it was also and thankfully the last of the famines that ravaged that part of the world in the 19th and the first part of the 20th century.
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  6776. ​​ @YoungSantasGroupie  I hope you won't be offended to learn that the Holodomor was a hoax invented by an American conman with a criminal record for bigamy and a long string of other hoaxes behind him. There's a Canadian historian who's examined the evidence for Holodomor and concluded that the whole thing was an anti-Soviet myth with no grounds in reality. The famine was real, but it was a natural phenomenon and the Soviets did their best to alleviate the suffering it caused. The worst affected were Kazakhstan (with most deaths due to starvation), Russia (the second greatest number of deaths), and Ukraine as a distant third. Thanks to the new agricultural policies adopted by the Soviets, it was also and thankfully the last of the famines that ravaged that part of the world in the 19th and the first part of the 20th century.
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  6777. China skillfully benefitted from the insatiable greed and selfishness of Western capitalists to turn itself into the economic, productive powerhouse it is today. Hats off to the CPC, the wisdom of its policy makers ever since Mao's death, and the incredible work, family and education ethic of the Chinese people.
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  6778. I remember reading an article in the alternative media a couple of years back, showing exactly how the BBC and The Guardian faked-up photos of Chinese cities to make them appear smog Laden and dingy. Putin's right: we've become the Empire of Lies.
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  6779. Excellent summary of what's actually happened.
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  6780. Except that it's quite easy to rig that, too. All you have to do is buy a few ideologically suitable psychiatrists of whom there's a huge supply in the US. The country needs a deep internal cleanse and a thorough overhaul of the entire system.
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  6781. What's there more to explain?! Both Merkel and Hollande have publicly admitted that the West NEVER intended for Ukraine to implement the Minsk Accords and that the whole thing was a sham to give Ukraine time to fight a war with Russia.
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  6782. That's exactly what all transwomen are and do: men impersonating women, performing femininity or what they imagine it is.
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  6783. Trump is the one who started sending weapons to Ukraine. Greed, you know.
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  6784. Hypocrite! Where were you the 8 years dear Ukrainians kept shelling the Russian-speaking civilians of Donbass?!
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  6785. The Ukraine was the normal English usage until recently (like the Netherlands). Grammatically it makes perfect sense since the name of that territory (which the Communists turned into a separate country barely a hundred years ago) is literally the Borderlands.
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  6786.  @Ola-1114  I've seen a number of her videos (I don't follow her closely) and have never heard her say anything even remotely Russophobic.
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  6787. Looking handsome and suave. 😍
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  6788. Sorry that truth hurts.
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  6789. They don't want a peaceful, prosperous world. They want supremacy, domination over others, and prosperity for a few.
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  6790. I wonder how many Ukrainians will ever let themselves to acknowledge it, to face it.
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  6791. Well, we seem to have no problem and apparently no qualms either about having a follower of a Nazi collaborator, of a man responsible for the most hideous murder of tens and hundreds of thousands of people, as our Deputy Prime Minister.
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  6792. Nah. They're just lying and treating us as idiots. Consciously, deliberately lying.
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  6793. ​ @ihan74 In TO?! 😮
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  6794. ​ @elliekwong3180  Also on the Ukrainian side.
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  6795. The US has just committed another $3 BULLION in military aid to Ukraine.
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  6796. Not bound by the UN Charter?! Enough said.
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  6797. He's over 80.
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  6798. In Canada, these items would be at least 3 to 5 times more. Our incomes are higher, too, but not to such an extent.
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  6799. ​ @morganangel340  Hate him to infinity, Biden and Kamala beat him in senility and mega-inanity hands down.
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  6800. Why have the Russians not destroyed ALL those decision-making centres in Ukraine by now?!
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  6801.  @thiefofa1073  This article doesn't mention her or cite her name, but it does lay out the attempt to introduce Sharia law in Ontario and the pushback this provoked from Muslim women activists themselves: "Back in 2003, the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice proposed that Muslims have their own tribunals and a parallel legal system – Sharia law – in Ontario. It was then Muslim activists who took a stand and launched campaigns against these proposed Sharia courts. Iranian-born Homa Arjomand argued that Sharia tribunals would undermine women’s rights and “push back Canadian law by 1,400 years.” “Keep Sharia Law out of Canadian judicial system,” Sun columnist Tarek Fatah wrote at the time, arguing that religious tribunals trespass upon the public domain. Activist Nasrin Ramzanali said that if these Sharia courts materialized, “I (would) feel threatened here.” Ultimately the Liberal government in Ontario rejected the bid to allow Sharia courts." Toronto Sun, "Stop normalizing Sharia law in Canada"
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  6802. anti-Semitism is new?! Your ignorance is breathtaking.
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  6803. Just because Zionists and Israel-apologists are misusing the term doesn't mean anti-Semitism doesn't exist today as it did five hundred years ago
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  6804. It's over 20 years ago now that she wrote articles criticising and attacking the gentrification of old working-class Toronto neighbourhoods, while she and her husband were buying property in one of them and enjoying their gentrified loft apartment there. She's a fake, through and through.
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  6805. ​ @Khayyam-vg9fw  I'm pretty sure you haven't (read Marx).
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  6806.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  That's immaterial. You haven't read Marx, not even his most accessible texts.
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  6807. Posting that documentary and sharing links to it is a great public service. The public, especially the part that remains convinced by our official narrative about Ukraine, needs to know the truth.
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  6808. I'm afraid the collective West is getting ready to stage a nuclear false flag. Western officials know perfectly well what Putin said and did not say, so their misrepresentations of it must be motivated by something they themselves are planning.
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  6809. They are all led by political elites 100% in the pay of the US State Department.
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  6810. An act of terror done with the help of Western "advisors".
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  6811.  @JaiHylRubis  The people who committed the greatest ever genocide in history had better keep their mouths shut about others.
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  6812.  @steveosborne2297  Are you seriously citing the OHCHR as a credible source?! The Organization caught actively collaborating with the Ukrainian forces instead of monitoring the situation neutrally.
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  6813.  @steveosborne2297  The UN is completely under US domination. The phone recording in which Victoria Nuland talks about how the US will use the UN "to glue this together," referring to the coup d'etat it staged in Ukraine, is in the public domain. Sadly, the West has completely corrupted ALL of the international organizations we could once rely on for a neutral, objective perspective. The International Crisis Group may well be the last relevant body that's retained its independence and integrity.
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  6814.  @steveosborne2297  That you for your kind compassion and sorrow on my behalf. 😘
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  6815. It's Ukrainian men, not American or European ones, who are getting own to bits on the battlefield.
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  6816. The housing pods or tiny houses for the homeless should be in the immediate vicinity of all sorts of services and shopping areas as the people housed in them don't have cars and will not be able to afford public transport either.
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  6817. It has.
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  6818. If you believe in freedom, you must also protect the freedom of religious people, just like the freedom of atheists and agnostics, to bring their points of view to public policy.
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  6819. Trump supports this bs.
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  6820. No, not yet
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  6821. NATO is 95% the US. And as Biden let slip recently, it will now help Ukraine only for as long as it can, not for as long as it takes.
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  6822. You're right, and that describes the entire power elite of the collective West.
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  6823. Clearly it does, so they do.
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  6824. How close-minded, not to say bigoted, of you.
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  6825. Apart from the 14% of the most heavily propagandized population on Earth, the people of the collective West, nobody else fears China. China's the only great power in world history to voluntarily choose NOT to engage in imperialism, going so far as to burn down its own (at the time largest and most advanced) navy so as not to be tempted into military adventurism aboard. YouTube's already deleted this comment once....
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  6826. I'd be a lot more worried about a political elite that's willing to sacrifice most of the US to a nuclear war with Russia.
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  6827. I'm just reading a book by T.H.Tetens "The New Germany and the Old Nazis" published in 1962 that details the extent of openly expressed Nazi sympathies and support in post-war Germany. About 15 years ago, a group of German historians published research showing, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the German police, judiciary, and it's foreign affairs ministry was never de-Nazified post-1945. The Nazis who remained in all these institutions of state have since then trained and subtly or overtly indoctrinated several new generations of Germans into embracing their worldview, the effect of which has been clear and visible in Germany's foreign policy since 1990, beginning with the role it played in the destruction of Yugoslavia and the concomitant demonization of Serbs, who had formed the bulk of Yugoslav partisan resistance. The first of the sexed-up (false, made up) intelligence dossiers NATO used in its invasions and bombing campaigns both in Europe and the Middle East (Iraq, Libya, Syria) was the German intelligence produced fake dossier Germany that purported to show Serbian plan to commit genocide in Kosovo. The fake dossier was so sloppily done that it used Bulgarian (and not Serbian) in its title! I expect that 99% of Germans know nothing about this.
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  6828.  @lowersaxon  We have the word of Paul Craig Roberts, reporting about what his State Department insiders told him some years ago.
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  6829.  @brianbozo2447  Because Putin is constantly criticised in Russia for being fat too soft.
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  6830. It won't. The West will just have to write the whole thing off.
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  6831.  @edmurks236  I see you support genocide.
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  6832. I think Serbia and Hungary get their oil via the Turkish pipeline. If that's correct, Putin's hands are tied for the time being
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  6833. ​​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  You should promptly disabuse yourself of that idea. There's NO country on Earth that requires its foreign residents to apply for its citizenship and passport after a certain period of time. Not one. Where Americans get these bizarre ideas is a mystery for the rest of us! 😅
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  6834. Nah. Most people are peaceful creatures. It's only a minority that goes around poking others in the eye.
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  6835. You're part of NATO and your government cannot be trusted not to hand a fugitive back to Ukraine.
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  6836. She's now claiming that Biden's just fine and there's nothing wrong with him. 🤮
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  6837. The only ones "helping" Ukraine are the countries of the collective West (and even there, some states are now refusing to send any more weapons to Ukraine). 86% of the world is standing with Russia.
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  6838.  @Metonymy1979  The countries of the collective West make up 14% of humanity. They are the only ones that have hypocritically and aggressively ganged up on Russia, deliberately causing this conflict in Ukraine. The rest of the world -- 86% of it -- has not joined in Russia-bashing or in the brilliantly thought-through sanctions on Russia that have only boomeranged on the economies of those who'd love to destroy Russia. I.e. the US and it's pathetic satellites Canada, Australia, and the EU. By June, 27% of Brits could no longer afford 3 meals a day: by the end of October, that number has exceeded 50%.
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  6839.  @Metonymy1979 Grow up: "neutral" does mean backing Russia. The only ones sanctioning Russia are the collective economic idiots of the collective West. Everyone else is happy to do business with Russia, trade with it, agree on payments in roubles, etc.
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  6840.  @betrousaltaweel  Go and read Scott Ritter's two-part article on the legality of the Russian SMO that goes into great depth and detail concerning both the UN Charter and other relevant parts of international law.
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  6841. 😮
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  6842. Oh, I wish that were true. There's Russophobia, and viciously racist too, in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Baltics and Poland. Apart from the UK, that is, speaking of Europe alone.
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  6843. According to the World Bank, Russia's economy has now displaced Japan to become the #4 globally.
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  6844. I'm a retired college prof of English. You write really well. 🙂
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  6845. Nah. What we're hearing are the ravings of the world's most narcissistic nation ever.
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  6846. Probably. Putin has some (to me) inexplicable areas of naivety that have cost Russia far too much to ignore.
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  6847.  @colinwise8044  Nonsense: the EU blackmailed Ukraine in 2013, demanding that it forego its trading partnership in the Eurasian Economic Union as a precondition for its Association Agreement. A textbook example of what economic blackmail for geopolitical purposes means.
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  6848.  @colinwise8044  The text is perfectly clear in forbidding any use of economic blackmail for geopolitical ends.
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  6849.  @colinwise8044  You need to deny that the Association Agreement the EU presented Ukraine with in 2013 didn't include a blackmail clause that required Ukraine to give up its trade with the Eurasian Economic Union. Denials don't change facts, though.
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  6850.  @colinwise8044  You're either misinformed or are lying. The EU did demand that Ukraine NOT trade or accept association with the Eurasian Economic Union. This is a matter of public record.
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  6851.  @colinwise8044  As it happens, such a demand, which clearly is a piece of blackmail, is defined as impermissible and a violation of its rules by the Budapest Memorandum itself.
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  6852.  @colinwise8044 From the start, and apart from lying about the actual contents of the Budapest Memo, you've used sophistry to deny the simple fact that the EU did use an economic blackmail -- we won't give you an Association Agreement unless you drop your trade with the EEU -- for geopolitical aims, as prohibited by the only international document that guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity in the post-USSR era. When the Ukrainian government asked for a 6-months' extension to study the proposal and negotiate around that blackmail, the EU+US staged the Maidan protests (the US had spent $5 billion preparing that little move, as we learned from Victoria Nuland) and subsequently the coup d'etat which installed bona fide fascists in power in Kiev.
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  6853. Although residing in NYC, unlike her late husband Stephen F Cohen, she's always been a part of Washington's liberal elite.
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  6854. The Guardian's rather skeptical about what this will actually mean. "I don’t think that this license will suddenly open the floodgates and allow for unhindered humanitarian access and delivery in Syria,” said Delaney Simon, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group’s US program. “There are just too many other access issues. But I hope that the license will ease the concerns of financial providers, the private sector and other actors, to show them that sanctions won’t be a risk for them to engage in Syria.”
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  6855. This is what the good Jew is and sounds like. Profound respect for Ilan Pappe.
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  6856.  @petrabraham9512  YouTube's shadow banning your comment. I saw it in my notifications but cannot find it in the comments themselves. They're doing the same with many other comments.
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  6857. She's a globalist puppy in comparison with Orban and Fico.
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  6858. According to the World Bank, the Russian economy has overtaken that of Japan and is currently #4 globally.
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  6859. And the crooks are the corporations and all the companies that put their profit before the well being of their fellow Americans. (The politicians are secondary: they're just the errand boys and girls for big business.)
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  6860. ​ @erolhosdil3809 As far as I know, Palestinians, like all other Arabs, and like most but by no means all Jews, are a Semitic people.
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  6861. ​ @Nozylatten I've never seen them air fake news. If anything, they usually lag with their video clips by hours and even days, so unless they've suddenly changed their editorial policy, I suspect they have this on good authority. But we'll see.
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  6862. All three Abrahamic religions bear a very strong imprint of male narcissism. To this day, pious Jews start their day by thanking God for not having made them a woman. Extreme sexism was equally the informing spirit of Greco-Roman polytheism or paganism, even more fiercely patriarchal than either Judaism, Christianity or Islam.
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  6863.  @Србомбоница86  Either the YouTube or the owner of this channel took down my comment since I wrote it, so I no longer know what exactly you're disagreeing about.
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  6864. That same "neutral" Switzerland organized the infamous Rat Lines by which thousands of German, Ukrainian and Croatian Nazis escaped to South America in 1945-46.
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  6865. ? 😅
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  6866. ​ @AndieShpandy  That's what's happened in Canada. But not in Russia.
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  6867. Russia's getting ready for exactly that. The Russians are now producing more weapons and ammunition in one month than they did the whole of last year.
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  6868. 😂
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  6869. I've just clicked on the Like button. It's there, alright.
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  6870. The West duped Russia. Had the Russians launched an SMO back in 2014, tens of thousands of lives would have been saved.
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  6871. Absolutely no different from the Nazis.
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  6872. This will go on for as long as Zelensky and his gang stand to profit from grift.
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  6873. Just like that 14 year old who killed 8 of his schoolmates in Serbia last May and who was heavily influenced by American culture.
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  6874. Dementia is a progressive disease.
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  6875. ​ @FordFalcon1962nBlue Check out Redacted on that. There's a huge reason for the current silence on covid-19.
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  6876. You need to ban the entire lobby system! Your political representatives are constantly getting bribed, legally bribed, to work for special interest groups instead of working for you.
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  6877. Russians will never stoop to hitting civilians. They may just decide they need a much bigger buffer zone, which will cost Ukraine that much more territory.
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  6878.  @JosephBisio  Apartment blocks are military structures now?! Nice of you to try to rationalize Ukrainian war crimes.
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  6879. 😮
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  6880. ​ @lekoshaque6257 Cypriot.
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  6881. Why would a Greek celebrate the American Thanksgiving?! 😅
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  6882. Zionism isn't Judaism.
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  6883. Damn them, and damn their "non-govermental" shills! 😠
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  6884. Horrible. 😢 I support Russia, but how are these psychopathic PR moves to Ukraine's benefit? Ukrainian men are fighting very bravely and causing losses to Russian forces though at a much, much smaller scale than the losses they're suffering. And however much I do support Russia, which absolutely has the high moral ground in all this, I can't but feel deeply and pray for the soldiers on the other side, too. In my view, Zelensky's an utterly callous, self-interested, greedy traitor to Ukraine. The sooner Ukrainians themselves realize this, the sooner this fraternal bloodshed will be over.
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  6885. Alexander Mercouris thinks it was a part of the deal Erdogan struck with Zelensky in exchange for his commitment that Ukrainian ships won't try to destroy Turkey's pipeline.
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  6886. That's an amazing store -- olive oil, a variety of cheeses and cold cuts, etc. -- for just 88 people!
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  6887. ​ @kirilmazurek2843  It's exactly the other way round.
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  6888. Alex and Alexander should really check facts about the fugures the Duran's discussing instead of going on what they believe/think to be the case. According to Wikipedia, a soyrce that can be accepted to magnify any detail that could be used to tar Farage with, his broadcasting career consists of a show Fox News had signed him up for. He's never worked for RT.
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  6889. 100%.
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  6890. Half a million children, not tens of thousands: that's how many Iraqi children were killed by sanctions and the number Madelaine Albright found "worth it".
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  6891. Trump had a chance to set Assange free and he blew it. Thanks to his habit of caving in to the Republican neocons he surrounds himself with.
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  6892. ​ @TrevorCrook-c1s 😅
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  6893. Tell me you're a racist without telling me you're a racist.
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  6894. Contrary to popular belief, it was Protestant countries that burned incomparably more people at the stake than the Catholic ones. Witch burning was an overwhelmingly Protestant phenomenon.
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  6895. What an obscene 2-minute segment.
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  6896. Yes! 😀
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  6897.  @zeusc7140  Which "war crimes investigator" would that be? 😂
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  6898. ​ @237DAS Kruschev subsequently released all of the remaining Ukrainian Nazi collaborators from Russian prisons and allowed them to return home. People the CIA immediately put to good use in the Nazification of Ukraine. Yes, the Russians were far too merciful at the end of WW2 and thereafter. The readiness to forgive, inculcated into the Russian mentality, the Russian soul by the Orthodox Church over centuries is a beautiful, so very loveable aspect of them as a people, but too much mercy or mercy misapplied is a dangerous thing. It's the same proclivity to think better of your enemies than they deserve that led Gorbachev to allow the reunification of the two Germanies and duped the Soviets into dismantling the Warsaw Pact without first ensuring the simultaneous dismantling of NATO.
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  6899. It?
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  6900. This was clearly an organized witchhunt by the Zionist lobby. I hope she'll sue the college and be reinstated, with a huge settlement for the infliction of emotional harm.
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  6901. There's been a lot of rain in that part of Ukraine and it's pretty much impossible for tanks and other vehicles to move. It's not just an excuse.
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  6902. Greed never left the scene.
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  6903. No strategic value?! 😂
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  6904. Another American windbag.
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  6905. Fewer and fewer Russians are inclined to view Ukrainians as their first cousins any more. And I don't blame them for it. On the contrary, it's way beyond time Russians outgrew their traditional sentimentality about both Ukraine and Europe as a whole.
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  6906. The Greens have form on war-mongering. They also held the foreign ministry post (Joschke Fisher) when German intelligence produced a fake dossier purportedly by the Serbian security services the West then used to claim Serbia was planning a genocide in its province of Kosovo. Unlike the infamous sexed-up dossier the Brits later concocted on that German model that would provide a pretext for the invasion of Iraq, the German one is practically unknown to this day.
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  6907. 😂
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  6908. What a smooth, pathological liar Gavin Newsom is. The stuff this man can say without blushing or breaking down into uncontrollable laughter! Incredible.
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  6909. ​ @christinepeach8213  Bought off. Paul Craig Roberts, who served in Reagan's administration, write a few years ago that his source at the State Department tells him the US flies suitcases full of money to various European capitals every month.
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  6910. The whole thing was a pipe dream of crazed State Department neocons from the beginning. The idea that Ukraine could defeat Russia under ANY circumstances was sheer delusion and all competent military analysts have known that all along.
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  6911.  @hendrikvanleeuwen9110  True, but it's not just about feeding the American military-industrial complex. More important than that, from Washington's point of view, is to preserve what the US has already lost: full spectrum dominance over the whole planet.
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  6912. Much closer to James Joyce than Karl Marx, but then Weinstein has never given any indication of being familiar with the great works of English literature. It's a riff on Joyce's "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." It's also something any psychotherapist worrh his salt is trying to help his clients achieve: freedom from the burdens of the past.
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  6913. They're a union state as is.
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  6914. ​​ @liljasere  What news network, you ask. You expect known liars to tell you the truth?! 😂
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  6915. 4. Didn't shout out the "Allah Akbar!" slogan, which is de rigueur for ISIS and other Islamist groups. 5. Unlike all other Islamist terrorists, these men contracted to commit the massacre for money, with half of the payment forked out in advance and half to be paid once the deed was done. 6. Planned to escape to Ukraine instead of the much more permeable border with majority Muslim former Soviet republics.
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  6916. Standard NATO-sphere bs. Pity the French for the disinformation they're being fed 24/7.
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  6917. ​ @manuelastangier5195  Germans should stop fooling themselves. Scholz is every bit that inhumane. And so are the rest of the ministers in his coalition government. Inhumane and totally contemptuous of their constituents.
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  6918. Will have to?
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  6919. I also have to concentrate really hard to follow Michael Hudson, but God forbid he ever switches to the sound byte mode of modern politicians, media pundits, and other dumber-downs of the public at large.
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  6920. There certainly were irregularities but to claim that the result doesn't really reflect the will of the people is stretching it.
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  6921. There was never a chance that the West's proxy war in Ukraine could defeat the Russians.
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  6922. The very first LP I got, for my 11th birthday. 🙂
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  6923. It's appalling what Kiev and it's Western Sugar Daddies are doing. And appalling that apparently so few Ukrainians understand what's being done to them. 😢
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  6924.  @foleydvm  Liberators, as most of the population in those regions (rightly) see them.
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  6925.  @foleydvm  Did you see what happened to the people in Boucha who co-operated with Russian forces? I mean, how naive can you be?!
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  6926.  @foleydvm  You're in for a big disappointment if you really do believe that. Ukrainian recruits are dying for nothing, and in my book that's a crime. What Zelensky and the West are doing to Ukraine is morally obscene.
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  6927.  @foleydvm  And you're ok with Ukraine using civilians -- women, children, the elderly -- as human shields? The cowards they are, hiding behind civilians and then blaming the Russians when those civilians they've deliberately exposed to fire get hit.
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  6928.  @foleydvm  I blame anyone who uses civilians as human shields. The same thing was done by Western-financed and armed ISIS in Syria, by Muslim forces in Bosnia, and now by the Ukrainians in Ukraine. Using civilians as human shields is a war crime, and Kiev is guilty as all hell of it.
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  6929.  @foleydvm  I will never-never blame somebody who comes to the aid of a civilian population terrorized by Nazis and shelled for over 7 years.
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  6930.  @Lomnjac007  Her name is Ira, not Ivan. Ivanova is her patronymic. Ivan itself derives from the Greek Ioannes, which in turn derives from Hebrew Iohannan.
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  6931. Greenland has nothing to fight the Empire with. If Trump really moves to take Greenland, the whole thing will be over in a few days.
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  6932. Your straightforwardness about the failures and weaknesses of the Russian SMO are a breath of fresh air in the media sphere of independent analysts -- I'm thinking of the Duran guys, Brian Berletic, Scott Ritter, Col. Douglas Macgregor, etc. -- who, I feel, have been white-wadhing and rationalising them over the past year. Paul Craig Roberts has been warning Russia for the past decade or so that Putin's soft, diplomatic approach and readiness to play nice with the West (the Minsk Accords, the construction of Nord Stream 2) would only lead to a war as the West is psychologically and intellectually incapable of perceiving such a civilized as approach for weakness. In my opinion, the same holds true for the conduct of this SMO, and, in the last analysis, I fault Putin for that. We know that he and Shoigu are personal friends, and I suspect that Putin is temperamentally drawn to a kind of sentimentality (the kind he showed in his relationship with Angela Merkel, who played him like a fiddle) that works against Russia's real interests. I think that he'll still go down in history as one of Russia's greatest leaders and benefactors, but the conduct of this SMO, like his attitude towards Ukraine between 2014 and 2022, will probably constitute a black mark on his record.
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  6933.  @whitneyyahh1  In their bedrooms?
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  6934. What we want to believe is immaterial. It's obvious that the Russian hierarchy has made numerous mistakes, and the problem is that it has never addressed this openly and forthrightly, which indicates either division or serious incompetence inside the hierarchy itself. They wasted the entire summer, left the mobilization for far too late, and are still dithering. Something's seriously wrong with this SMO.
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  6935. What massive victory?! You're embarrassing yourself.
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  6936.  @tinhat_diplomat  Google it.
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  6937. We've had that since 2020.
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  6938. They've ruled out a single currency system, I think.
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  6939. Italy just showed China that it can't be trusted, that it's fickle and unreliable.
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  6940. They're dying in their thousands there. And Kiev's fully responsible for it.
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  6941.  @olsonjens5907  You're allowing yourself to be deeply misled by our MSM propaganda.
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  6942. Beautifully explained!
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  6943. ​ @MrKkvbatman  Successfully. Because the idiots in Masada preferred to let their children starve rather than surrender.
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  6944. Putin's a democratically elected president. Zelensky's a dictator. Even a child understands this.
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  6945. Copium.
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  6946. Keep telling yourself that. 😘
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  6947. ​ @BlackGoatofQohor Squandered experience. Practically all of the Ukrainian forces who'd been shelling Donbass for 8 years were destroyed in the first year of the SMO.
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  6948. 😂
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  6949. You're very much mistaken. He thinks of himself as one of God's chosen.
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  6950. Lavrov and/or Putin have quite a bit to answer for.
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  6951. 😅
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  6952. That and about 10 years of college and medical school, followed by a couple of years of residency.
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  6953. ​ @willia3r  Spot on!
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  6954. The people of Donbass, direct descendents of the Russians whose land was annexed to the Borderlands by Lenin in order to create the artificial state of Ukraine, considered themselves Ukrainians. They were never Ukrainian nationalists (very often just a euphemism for Ukrainian Nazis), but they saw themselves as Russian Ukrainians. Until, that is, the US+EU orchestrated coup d'état of 2014 which brought bona fide Nazis to power in Kiev.
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  6955. ​ @flopunkt3665 Freedom of speech in the US? Sure, if you think that being forced by law to call men women and refer to them as "she" and "her" is freedom of speech, you can have it. Just please don't spread and force your "freedoms" down the throats of anyone else. We don't want them.
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  6956. Trump, who didn't start a single new war and who tried to pull out US forces illegally occupying 1/3 of Syria, is worse?! You need to check your ethics, my friend.
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  6957. 🎯
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  6958. ​ @Imthetrolololol There's no such thing as a male or a female brain. Men's brains vary far more among themselves -- there's far greater variability among them -- than they do compared with women's brains. The same goes for women. Neurologists know this very well. There's been an appalling and shameful amount of pseudo-science and outright lies connected to transgenderism, which is itself a misnomer. What's called gender dysphoria is in reality dysphoria about one's sex. Changing one's sex, however, is impossible -- hence the fiction of changing one's "gender". We can alter our secondary sexual characteristics but not the primary ones, and not the biological givens that determine our sex (our chromosomes). Whatever the real reason or cause of your discomfort or unhappiness with being the sex you are, and I don't doubt that such self-alienation must be emotionally and psychologically very painful, very difficult to bear, it's a pity that you let yourself be persuaded that self-mutilation can solve the problem. Nobody is born in the wrong body, and without the body you were born as you wouldn't even exist. Perhaps one day you'll be able to accept and like yourself as nature made you, a woman. Even if and as you continue reject that simple, basic self-acceptance, I wish you every good in your future. What I've said here probably comes across harshly, and I'm sorry for that. I know of no other way of saying it.
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  6959. Oh they will. 70% of them want him to run in 2024, so his re-election is assured.
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  6960. Russia asked to join NATO but Clinton told them the Deep State said no.
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  6961. Germany killed FOUR TIMES as many Russians as it did Jews. More than 27 million.
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  6962. Because that's what the US thinks.
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  6963. Switzerland helped the Vatican run the notorious rat lines, smuggling thousands of Nazis out of Europe and into South America, helping them escape justice for their war crimes. Switzerland's vaunted neutrality has been a joke ever since then.
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  6964. 😅👋
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  6965. B.S. 😂
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  6966. So what threat did Putin issue?
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  6967. ​​ @antediluvianatheist5262  💯
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  6968. Instead of joining the genocider nations like Germany, France, the UK, the US, Canada, and Australia? 😅
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  6969. Endorsed by Hillary Clinton. Meloni is guaranteed to toe the EU/Atlanticist line.
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  6970. The WHO is controlled by the US, as is the UN. Trump, too, is a bare-faced liar.
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  6971. Same in Canada.
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  6972. The best trained forces were in Donbass. A lot of them are no more.
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  6973.  @kiwifrankie  I know the myth. No need to cite the mythology about Napoleon's retreat from Russia purveyed in dozens upon dozens of histories of the period.
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  6974.  @roninkegawa1804  Indeed.
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  6975.  @kiwifrankie  Now you've just descended to calling me names. No problem. Believe what you like.
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  6976.  @kenrickbautista6141  Overwhelmingly most violence, especially murders, worldwide is "brother" on "brother".
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  6977. May you be right!
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  6978.  @JOHNSMITH-if9jr  Geography's not your long suit.
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  6979. For real?
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  6980. It's frankly disgraceful, morally disgusting.
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  6981. Not trying. Has bought it.
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  6982. The longer they take, the more likely it is that the West will turn this into a pan-European war, which translates into WW3.
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  6983. He's much less of an idiot than he's a nasty POS.
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  6984.  @tranquilocomptranquilocomp19  I saw the Security Council meeting that was televised in Russia, and he said nothing of the kind.
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  6985. They have no real integrity, no conscience. Mechanical "ethics" , the only kind Germans seem to know, is no ethics at all. A nation of moral cowards.
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  6986. ​ @lukeamongthemmongols6258 Just as Nazi Germany did.
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  6987. Musk is just an oligarch. He has no business involving himself in politics, but especially in the domestic politics of other countries. (I despise both Starmer and Scholz with a passion, btw.)
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  6988. Not for everything Russia does but for everything we (the NATO-Ukrainian propaganda machine) CLAIM Russia does. FYI, right from the beginning of the Russian SMO, the Kiev regime hired over 75 Western PR companies to do its propaganda work around the world. Our media obliged, so we have masses in the West (and inside Ukraine itself) believing errant nonsense and bare-faced lies. The rest of the world, some 84% of the international community, didn't fall for it, though.
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  6989. Yoga predates Hinduism and the arrival of the Aryan tribes to the Indian subcontinent. It was subsequently taken up, appropriated and systematized by Hindus, but it was not invented by them.
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  6990. Well, why don't the Europeans put a price cap on American LNG? I'm sure the Yanks would oblige. 😉
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  6991. 🎯👍
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  6992. MI6. With assistance from the CIA, perhaps
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  6993. ​ @AnaG-pd3ym  So what?
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  6994.  @owenbruce4120  Most of it has been nationalised, which is why the West hates Putin. 😅
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  6995. ​ @PeterFairhurst-v3e  Not according to the World Bank and the IMF. In the past two years, the Russian economy displaced Germany's to become the #1 in Europe, and, more recently, displaced Japan's too, standing #4 globally now. You really should stop paying any heed to Ukrainian propaganda.
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  6996. Don't be so naive. The Kiev regime knows perfectly well that striking Russian oil refineries won't make any difference on the battlefront. Its only purpose is precisely to blackmail the West to give more and more billions!
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  6997. Their choice.
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  6998. And who really cares what the West says anymore?
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  6999. There have been over a dozen attempts at his life.
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  7000. The war began in 2014.
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  7001. It was stupid and irresponsible.
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  7002. ​ @smoothieX12 Thank you, Andrei. That's very reassuring.
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  7003. The depth and extent of popular Ukrainian disaffection from the Kiev regime and the collective West whom it serves is far, far greater than we can know or imagine.
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  7004. ​ @trumanhw  She isn't a medical doctor. Her Ph.D. is in education. 😂
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  7005. They don't want to create a situation that results in bloodshed. The opposition is very violent.
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  7006. Even a broken clock, etc. And even a liar speaks the truth occasionally.
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  7007. Scott Ritter explained in a video yesterday that Washington cannot legally give those Abrams to Ukraine and will have to newly produce the ones it's pledging to it. If so, the tanks will arrive in Ukraine early next year. Of course, Biden might decide to violate US laws instead.
    1
  7008. The shovel the US dug its grave with was made in Russia.
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  7009. ​ @Officialboss3000 You obviously don't personally know any/many lesbians. I knew a few in graduate school, and they would use men to get impregnated to have a child. Totally selfish and self-centred. The guy never knew he'd fathered a child. I lost touch with them 30 years ago and don't know how those kids turned out, but given how self-centred their lesbian mothers were, I suspect the kids didn't have an easy time growing up with their moms and their lesbian partners. Sometimes, lesbians and gay men would strike an arrangement for her to be artificially inseminated with his sperm so they could share a child -- again, I've not seen any research on the children conceived from such arrangements. At other times, straight women friends would consent to bear a gay friend's baby so he could have a child to raise with his homosexual partners. I've personally known people who represent each of these arrangements.
    1
  7010. ​ @dewolf123 Plenty of usually war widows have raised their sons alone. And nobody ever gave it a thought.
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  7011. You forgot that Poland itself had participated in Hitler's invasion and dismembering of Czechoslovakia and had rejected Stalin's offer to form an alliance to fight the Nazis together. As now, so then: the West had NO reason for any hostility towards the Soviets, having itself (in the form of France and Britain) refused to form a defense alliance with them, which Stalin had also offered them. It was only after their repeated rejections of Soviet overtures regarding the formation of a defense alliance against Nazi Germany and after the Brits and others had signed their own non-aggression pacts with Hitler that the Soviets finally did the same, to buy themselves a bit of time they needed to prepare to defend themselves from what they knew the Germans were planning.
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  7012. The US must agree to roll back NATO military installations to their 1991 positions and put in writing its commitment never to invite or allow Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. Those are the minimal preconditions for a new, fair security architecture in Europe. In return, the Russians must agree to hold a new set of internationally observed referendums in the 4 regions that used to be Russia, were then annexed to Ukraine, and are Russia once again, to determine the will of the majority of their residents as to which country they want to be a part of.
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  7013. He used DU in Iraq and needs to cover his butt.
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  7014. He should rewrite that line and totally disarm his critics.
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  7015. We ain't seen nothing yet. Russia's still using at most 20% of its military capability.
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  7016. Because they're racists. They open their doors to brown-skinned refugees and migrants because they need workers, because the Europeans aren't having enough babies for their societies to reproduce themselves. At heart, however, the ruling elites remain as racist as their 16th, and 17th, and 18th and 19th century ancestors were. Remember Josep Borrell's infamous description of the world as an EU/Western garden and the rest of the world as a jungle. He only forebore from calling all non-European peoples monkeys and apes.
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  7017. ​ @literatious308 About 10% of Palestinians are Christians, and our governing elites know that.
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  7018. ​ @Kekec237  It won't happen immediately, but give it some years.... Sooner or later, this current lot in power all over Europe will be kicked out of office and more reasonable, realistic, pragmatic people will
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  7019. 😂
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  7020. 😂
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  7021. What's this nonsense?! The US has already announced that it plans NO new sanctions on Russia! Why are the French media lying to the public about this?
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  7022. Over half a million Ukrainian, plus about 50,000 Russian lives. So far.
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  7023.  @patricksmith3432  It is.
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  7024. Norwegians will need to do that themselves.
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  7025. Absolutely unnecessary, which is why I don't believe there's any connection between the two.
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  7026. Normal fog of war and wartime propaganda. Pay attention to it only if you want to be deceived.
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  7027. Who?
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  7028. ​ @seventhuser904  Who would that be?
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  7029. Western culture, the best of it, is rooted in Christianity. Just as there are different Buddhist cultures, which are still all Buddhist, so with all the societies whose culture is rooted in Christianity. Andrei's pont is that culturally, Russia doesn't belong to the Orient.
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  7030. I think it was a move to protect Trump from all that "Russian agent" BS thrown at him the last time
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  7031. He's no longer the president of Ukraine and has no legal standing Russia can recognize. Besides which, he reneged on one agreement his negotiating team had initialled and then used another set of negotiations to attack Kursk. Putin would be mad to accept any talks with this crook.
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  7032. Unbelievable!
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  7033. Unbelievable!
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  7034. ​ @philippebergeron5821  They're doing so well, they're defeating a consortium of 41 countries financing Ukraine and providing it with weapons and military support. The public in the West has NO idea how the world views them now.
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  7035. How utterly disgraceful of Japan, not only then but also now! Never forget!
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  7036. The US was materially and deeply involved in the 60s slaughter in Indonesia.
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  7037. ​ @georgeshardy1878  Zelensky and his ilk have no conscience or they wouldn't have shelled Donbass civilians for 8 years and provoked this war.
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  7038. Surely it's the other way round! Alexander seems rather peevish and rude today.
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  7039. That's all?! 32000? Germans are spineless, then.
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  7040. Stay in your gloomy, chilly homeland, then. 😅
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  7041. This is what Scott Ritter was warning about back in April and May.
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  7042. ​ @a_l_e_k_sandra Puno nas se vraca iz Kanade, takodje. 🙂
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  7043. It's well documented by now that steady consumption of pornography literally rewires the brain. There's a psychoanalyst/psychiatrist in Toronto who's successfully treated men addicted to pornography and has written a book about it, too (I've unfortunately forgotten his name). The brain does rewire itself yet again as the addiction is dealt with. What strick me about one of the cases described in his book is that the man wasvfinally able to have a fulfilling relationship with a woman for the first time in his life once he'd overcone his addiction.
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  7044. So? 😂
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  7045. ​ @jandoerlidoe3412  Latest polls show that 82% of Swedes have confidence in Zelensky and support Ukraine.
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  7046. Never say never. Once the West definitively loses its preeminence and becomes an economic backwaters, things will begin to change. Who knows what the world will be like 500-1000 years from now.
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  7047. You have a clear memory of the stories you were told by your lying press/media. The CIA always knew better, as its mid-1950s report on the topic reveals: according to it, 80% of the inmates of the Soviet penal system were common criminals. As per CIA itself, there were never millions of political prisoners in the USSR.
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  7048. I really like content but have just unsubscribed because I can't stand the speed at which you deliver it. My loss, I know, but there's no point in being subscribed to something so irritating to my senses.
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  7049. ​ @flowpipe In the universe of reality.
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  7050. ​ @johnsmith-yk6yf He also promised that this year's Eurovision contest will be held in Mariupol.😂
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  7051. 😅
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  7052. ​@Tired of War And uranium. There's now open talk in Russian media how Russian oligarchs have insisted on the railway lines being left intact so they could continue to export uranium to the West! That Kremlin may have allowed this is CRIMINAL.
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  7053. 😅
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  7054. Lavrov has since clarified things: no EU countries can join the talks. Period.
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  7055. Sounds abusively humiliating, in fact.
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  7056. An advantage that will be more than wiped out by the increased cost of both energy that Germany will now be forced to buy from the US and the corresponding increase in its production costs.
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  7057. ​ @bryanwilliams6032  Israelis do, most of them. Very few American and Canadian Jews do likewise. Very, very few.
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  7058. Russia should care a lot more about how her behaviour's being perceived by her self-declared enemies. If the West perceives Russia as weak, it will be emboldened to further and worse provocations, every one of which risks taking us into a nuclear war. That's why it's important that Russia demonstrate to the West its implacable will and commitment to victory.
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  7059. ​​ @mrmmrm2  Cope harder. Russia is still flying US astronauts to the International Space Station and back because the West lacks the means to do so.
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  7060. The problem is that liars do sometimes, even quite often, also tell the truth.
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  7061. ​ @hawkingdawking4572  Very few Serbs speak Russian, alas Many more do speak English.
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  7062. ​ @cajaandjelkovic2975  That's not true either. More Serbs learn English than Russian in school and more Serbs speak English than Russian, yes. But to claim that nobody in Serbia speaks Russian is ludicrous -- a politically tendentious lie. Vucic's own children attend the Russian school in Belgrade, as a matter of fact!
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  7063. Ukraine had 8 years to implement the Minsk Accords. Instead, it spent that time killing 14,000 people in Donbass and getting ready to commit a total genocide there. Its choice.
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  7064. One of Putin's serious mistakes that's cost the lives of many thousands.
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  7065. 😅
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  7066. All of this was the work of both the Labour Party, under Blair, and the Conservative Party of the past 30 years. The Conservatives had a decade to deal with these problems and did absolutely nothing about them.
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  7067. Grow up! Just look at the US and whom they have in the White House. Vucic is a mere child in comparison with Western politicians.
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  7068. I hope Putin has the balls and the good sense for it.
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  7069. The puppy wants to play. 😍
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  7070. She's an entitled brat. She flies only for emergency cases?! What emergencies would that be? Joining the Davos crowd? Despicable.
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  7071. Is that the best you can do? 😅
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  7072. Tulsi would make a first class president!
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  7073. ​ @phungyi4947  Which will only hurt the US if it tries to put tariffs on it.
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  7074. Ditto for France and the rest of the EU.
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  7075. Which parallel universe do these delusionists live in?! 😅 Putin enjoys the support of 80% of Russians. 72% wanted him to run again in the next elections.
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  7076. My guess is, they're as arrogant and delusional as their ruling elite is, including their lying MSM.
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  7077. What wrongs have Russia and China ever done to Africa that you're calling in Africa to stand up to them?!
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  7078. We played more than a minuscule role in all this. Our Deputy Prime Minister is herself a great Bandera fan, a follower of a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator.
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  7079. 💯👍
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  7080. Greece certainly can't afford to host a large influx of refugees and migrants
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  7081. ​ @glamboy6657 A stupidity born of their terminal arrogance.
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  7082. This was a racist crime. The men in the security video shots are clearly white.
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  7083. Yes. 🙂 Something about who gets to have morning coffee and who gets to run. 😉
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  7084. This is difficult to follow. Use Google Translate to produce comprehensible English sentences from original Serbian.
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  7085. They'd hoped to settle this through negotiations and were close to doing so in Istanbul, when Boris Johnson intervened and forced Zelensky to cancel the whole thing.
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  7086. ​ @Sualdam At the moment, the daily toll appears to be closer to 1,700. It's horrific.
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  7087. 157,000 according to Col. Macgregor's sources. Plus at least 300,000 wounded.
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  7088. Biden just can't help himself, lying with every sentence he utters.
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  7089. Especially the European ones. Looks like they all turned into supporters of American imperialism.
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  7090. ​ @jae.m ❤
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  7091.  @seneca983  Inaccurate, not incorrect.
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  7092. Yes, it's a coastal patrol boat, only 150 ft in length.
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  7093. "But I AM a baby, Nessa!"
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  7094. 😂
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  7095. The West is no longer even trying to conceal or deny it.
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  7096. The lies are on one side only: the Ukrainian-Western side.
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  7097. That's exactly what BRICS+ are doing.
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  7098. This guy's as corrupt as they vome, just a bit more stupid to brag about it in conversations he didn't know were taped. Bad judgment on Tucker's part giving him any air time.
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  7099. It's very annoying, yes. Russians are simply atrocious at OR, and there's really no excuse for that.
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  7100. The billions you send to other countries all end up in the pockets of your corporations. America has socialism for the wealthiest 1%.
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  7101. Complicit and duplicitous.
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  7102. Where did they find all those fierce tigers and lions in 3rd-century AD Europe?! 😅
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  7103. Well, Pepe, this didn't age well -- September's long past with no major Rusdian offense taking place. Taking rumour and wishful thinking for a semi-official leak -- not a good idea.
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  7104. 😂
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  7105. There's no need for that, though. Russia can handle the Europeans on its own.
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  7106. ​ @AwakenedRaveN Sure. As soon as you guys start bearing and delivering children, too.
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  7107. ​ @terrybrown3224  This is the first nuclear drill in which all of Russia will participate.
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  7108. Keep telling yourself that.
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  7109. ​ @winstonlim8 😅
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  7110. ​​ who allowed Americans to stage a coup d'état in Ukraine (using Nazi thugs for the purpose)?
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  7111. I agree with your main points, but I think it would be dishonest or just uninformed to claim that the standards of living aren't falling, and fast, all across Europe.
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  7112. This after announcing they're sending 14/88 Leopard 2 and 1 tanks to Ukraine. Not 14/87, or 13/88 or any other combination of numbers, but precisely 14/88, the internationally recognized white supremacist and NAZI code. Just Google it if you think I'm making this up.
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  7113. Cry me a river.
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  7114. ​​ @JD-ve6kn  Self explanatory. Countries can no longer be bullied into adopting American "values" and are throwing US military out. Yankee go home, and stay there.
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  7115. Lagging behind the Russkies by about 15 years.
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  7116. Austin's despicable. The man has NO integrity whatsoever. Not an iota of it. Such blatant lies and such corruption.
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  7117. Stuff and nonsense from Western "analysts". Russian forces never intended to take Kiev. They were there on a fixing operation and withdrew as a gesture of good will. Ukraine miscalculated and will soon feel what it's like when the Russians really do mean business.
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  7118. ​ @pausereflect5911  Russia's aim is the de-Nazification of Ukraine alone. As for the rest of Europe, it's their business and their business alone, for as long as they don't try to invade Russia once again.
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  7119.  @Lilsp00  My mistake: I hadn't realized the child was so young!
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  7120. Hardly. What's so Christian about Bulgaria, Romania, the Balkan countries, Slovakia, the Czech Republic (Europe's pornography capital) or Poland? Mere dislike of the LGBTQ phenomenon does not equal Christian values or a Christian way of life. Germany's social welfare system, for example, is far more Christian in its guiding spirit than selective social conservatism is. I say selective because the public space in Eastern Europe (the newspapers, TV shows, popular music) are every bit as lasciviously vulgar as in the West.
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  7121. This is just free PR for Tony Blair's business.
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  7122.  @emperor270353  Nice try to muddy the waters. The UN and its member states recognize Taiwan as a part of China.
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  7123. It will be a mistake of historical proportions if it doesn't. Odessa left in Ukrainian hands guarantees that 10-20 years down the road (if not sooner) the Brits will try to use it to attack Crimea.
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  7124. Fat chance, as you say. The EU is un-reformable.
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  7125. Only the West underestimated Putin -- out of their habitual arrogance and hubris.
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  7126. ​ @bebec5615  Except that we can all see that it's simply not true: the world's greatest criminals, people responsible for the deaths of millions (every US president since Kennedy, for example) never pay for their crimes in any way at all.
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  7127. NATO was training them to attack Russia. Alexei Arestovich, Zelensky's closest advisor until a few weeks ago, told the Ukrainian TV audiences back in 2019 that Ukraine had to fight a war with Russia as a precondition for joining NATO. He further specified that NATO's proxy war against Russia would start anytime between 2020 and 2023. The video is available online.
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  7128. Greatest, no. But a world historical figure for sure. No Western leader of the past hundred years comes close to him in stature.
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  7129.  @MrRugbylane  So you need to get your eyes checked.
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  7130. Bombastic and over-confident is exactly right.
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  7131. I've seen reports of 3,000-5,000 civilians left. Also reports that the Ukrainians were using them as human shields, refusing to let them evacuate.
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  7132. He's an analyst, not a reporter. The only journalists reporting in English from the conflict areas are Patrick Lancaster, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Bealey, and Graham Phillips.
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  7133. Yep. The US imports a lot of Russian uranium.
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  7134. The dollar replaced the pound sterling as the global reserve currency only after WW2, during which the US had deliberately destroyed the pound.
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  7135. For the supremacists, too.
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  7136. It's not funny to us Canadians.
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  7137. The cost of the tariffs will be passed on to the American consumer. The Yanks will continue to buy our energy, lumber, etc. because they don't have a cheaper, more convenient option.
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  7138. True.
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  7139. Because the West wants to dominate others and grab their resources for itself.
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  7140. About 20,000 according to the inconsolable and neurotically Russophobic BBC, which has been keeping a tally since last June.
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  7141. So why is Le Pen treated as the second coming of Adolf Hitler by the MSM?
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  7142. The most he's ever won in elections is 2% of the vote. And nobody in Russia argues that the numbers were faked.
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  7143. ​ @scubatuba1083  Why are you attacking her for something she neither said nor implied?
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  7144. The US -- your ruling class, that is -- wants to prevent both China and the rest of Asia from developing economically any further. The policy is not stupid: it's evil.
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  7145. Why is this news outlet repeating the Western lie that the drones Russia's using in Ukraine are the Iranian-made ones?
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  7146. @Eri 1 I said the lie. Nobody has offered any proof, any evidence for that claim.
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  7147. ​ @MR-gp9ys  Irrelevant, like you.
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  7148. No. His channel reached 50,000 just a month or so ago.
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  7149. You're just setting yourself up for bitter disappointment. I wonder how long you'll continue to deny the obvious.
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  7150. That's utterly disingenuous. Zelensky's personal guard consists of British special service forces. They'd be pulled within an hour of his declaring Ukraine has commenced peace talks with Russia .
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  7151. What's the timeframe of Putin's latest peace offer? Anyone know?
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  7152. She was bullying him. Despicable.
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  7153.  @paulwooton4390  Trump invariably caved in to Deep State pressure (remember the absolutely unjustified attack on Syria, for instance), so ....
    1
  7154. ?
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  7155. Some of these shots are from months ago: you can see full foliage on the trees.
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  7156. How is it in Turkey's interest to have Ukraine in NATO and alienate Russia?
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  7157. Sounds like you're in Southern Ontario, too.
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  7158. Nincompoops.
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  7159. Ridiculous. First Israel attacks Iranian soil (which is what the consular compound is in international law), then Iran responds in line with its legitimate right again in international law, and now the lying media are pretending none of that matters. Damage Iran and you're starting a big war just so Netanyahu can hold on to power a little longer. Utterly unconscionable, really, and the media are fully complicit in it. Should there be a global war once again, at the end of it, ALL media people who contributed to it will be charged and sentenced for their perfidious, duplucitous, lying manipulation of the public.
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  7160. The US has been violating international law and committing war crimes itself for decades.
    1
  7161.  @beslanintruder2077  Who? Those, both inside and outside Albania, who've been working on the Greater Albania project for decades.
    1
  7162. You understand it correctly.
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  7163. Did you see how YouTube defines the Great Reset? What it wants us to think it is?
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  7164. Ooooh, a THIRD of a BILLION! How LARGE and BIG that sounds. 😂
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  7165.  @Behold-a-Duck  Because they'd been misled by their own intelligence services and fantasized that NATO would allow Ukraine to come to a negotiated peace with them back in the Spring of 2022.
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  7166. Bingo!
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  7167. ​ @pavolp.6527  Yes.
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  7168. 🤣
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  7169. Sexting with someone who claims to be of age is now paedophilia? 😂
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  7170. Counterbalance? The collective West has been exploiting and dominating the rest of the world for 500+ years now!
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  7171.  @gmcenroe  The rest of Europe can only hope so.
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  7172. Couldn't agree with you more, except yo note that you're very kind to Mearsheimer the theorist. His theory of great power politics, which he preemptively calls realism, is by far the weakest part of his work. Mearsheimer's incomparably better as a day-to-day geopolitical analyst.
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  7173. Indeed.
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  7174. ​ @craftpaint1644  We weren't in a war situation then, though.
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  7175. ​​ @liquidh5226  Another 12 months at most. Things have changed.
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  7176. No, he isn't. The Russians said months and months ago that Ukraine will never again be offered such generous terms.
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  7177. At least one of Trump's grandchildren is fluent in Mandarin.
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  7178.  @abrakadavra3193  How is he wrong? Ukraine's kept afloat only by the collective West and would collapse in 24 hrs on its own.
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  7179. A stupid stunt by the Tibetan exile community. The real Tibet is doing better than ever in its history!
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  7180. All of NATO, including the US, has nothing capable of intercepting Russian ICBMs.
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  7181. ​​​ @Nata-rp6pf  That's already taking place -- Serbia's lost practically all of its former industrial capacity by selling everything off to foreign (EU states') companies. Btw, overwhelmingly most Serbs are opposed to joining the EU.
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  7182.  @PhilipPeake  Where did you get the predictive figure of 500,000 deaths in the US *with lockdown*?
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  7183. ​ @tonylinkich3464  Ceca is a sister.
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  7184. 😅
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  7185. Next thing to remive, the bull on Wall Street. I've never been able to understand how a Christian nation can be blind to that Golden Calf idol.
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  7186. Russia doesn't need the West. It has the rest of the world to trade and be friends with.
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  7187. Which, geographically speaking, it is: the westernmost peninsula of Asia.
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  7188. Trump spoke like the mafia boss he essentially is.
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  7189. Biden?! 😅
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  7190. Absolutely. It's criminal the extent to which their and our politicians and media have been lying to them up until now.
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  7191. Exactly.
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  7192. I bet you he realized that months and months ago. In the meantime, he's skimmed off at least half a billion of the loot Ukraine's got from the US and various EU countries.
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  7193. I don't wish hardship to the American people, but once the US loses the petrodollar which made the dollar the world's only reserve currency, invading and bombing countries all around the world, as well as maintaining all those 800+ military bases abroad, will become untenable. World peace and the demise of the petrodollar are two sides of one and the same coin.
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  7194. You should let your ruling class know that.
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  7195. Oh yeah? Are you so ignorant and propagandized, or is that just hypocrisy? Let me remind you of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  7196. Russia has won the renewed respect of overwhelming most of the world! I have expect that Russia will use its missiles to destroy any armament factories the UK or anyone else sets up in Ukraine.
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  7197. Exactly! Am beginning to sympathize with the Russian bloggers who keep referring to traitors in high positions.
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  7198. ​@DTJKFU The 86% of the world that's refused to join the West's sanctions on her.
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  7199. So, Mearsheimer can't imagine a scenario in which Israel's compelled to accept the two-state solution?
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  7200. Some 10% of Palestinians are Christians.
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  7201. ​ @crystalkaiser1142  No, honey. Democrats are every bit as pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, and militaristic as Republicans. Neither party serves the people of the US.
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  7202. ​​ @adrianobanak2824  Russian military reports, backed by reports from Ukrainian soldiers interviewed by the New York Times.
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  7203. Slovakia, Hungary, plus others who are too sheepish to say it publicly.
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  7204.  @odinsrensen7460  If you don't understand the value and greatness of the Russian civilization, I can't help you. In my view, no world should exist without China, either. It doesn't mean that other countries and civilizations don't matter or don't count, and it doesn't imply hostility to any of them.
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  7205. ​ @threestars2164 May our prayers for them and the children of both Gaza and Donbas be answered at last.
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  7206. You mean, there's such a thing as "legal" agents? 😂
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  7207. ​ @valuetraveler2026  Please explain.
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  7208. Let the UN Headquarters move to Cuba or South Africa or Sri Lanka or Belgrade, Serbia.
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  7209. Zelensky is delusional. Or, more likely, two-faced in his invite as he must know there's no way Xi would agree to go to Kiev. He's acting on Washington's orders to discredit China as a serious agent of peace.
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  7210. It's also a desperate attempt to forestall massive (and inevitable) loss of face.
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  7211. Our parliament knew exactly what it was doing in giving a standing ovation to an SS member. Why do I say this? Because the Canadian parliament had decorated the same SS war criminal with a medal of honour in 2007. The Liberal Party traditionally depends on the immigrant/diaspora vote, and the Nazi element in the Ukrainian diaspora is huge since we allowed thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators into Canada at the end of WW2.
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  7212. Also, immensely corrupt. They're fully bought up by the US State Department.
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  7213. Nah. She's just a shameless liar, just like her senile boss.
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  7214. The pro-Ukraine guy who runs the Military Summary channel. A Belarusian married to a Ukrainian nationalist.
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  7215. ​ @nakshatraroy7442  A nice Indian boy who's still licking the boots of his former colonizers. How pathetic.
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  7216. Plausible.
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  7217. It's a "sales alliance" that's done a hell of a lot of killing around the world.
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  7218. Everything others have suggested, plus an emphasis on breathing exercises, body scan exercises (and/or yoga nidra), and work with the vagus nerve. You can find videos on all these here on YouTube.
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  7219. ​ @bford5899 Meat only is the best elimination diet. It's also being explored now for mental health and in cancer treatment protocols.
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  7220. Or are the Poles planning something they expect Russia would have to instantly respond to?
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  7221. Ukraine started with some 2,000 tanks. In the past 11 months, it's received hundreds of Soviet-era tanks from other East European countries, the type of tanks its army can actually operate. Now it will have to deal with at least 3 different types of tanks its army is not familiar with, 300+ tanks that will just make metal coffins for unfortunate Ukrainian men who'll be incinerated in them. What the West has done and is doing to Ukraine is a crime against humanity.
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  7222. Izrael deliberately provoked this.
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  7223. ​ @User0resU-1  It was Kissinger who said that to be an enemy of the US is dangerous but to be it's friend is fatal.
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  7224. Which "countries that matter" have withdrawn their support for Russia? China? No. India? No. Turkey? No. Saudi Arabia? No. Most of Latin America, including Mexico? No. Most of Africa? No. Most of Asia apart from India and China? No. The collective West, whom Russia is defending itself from in this proxy war to the last Ukrainian, never supported Russia and was never a true friend to her, so they really don't matter to her any more.
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  7225. Exactly how I feel for all those Ukrainian and Russian families whose husbands, brothers, fathers, sons, nephews will never come home thanks to the war NATO engineered, set up, and is paying for.
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  7226. 😅
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  7227. Much love from Canada! ❤
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  7228. His favourite child converted to Judaism to marry an American Zionist, so no, I wouldn't put much faith in Trump acting any differently than this demented administration.
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  7229. ​​ @FeralCoon  Beauty is not a virtue. It has nothing to do with ethics, or with achievement. Same with intelligence or a gift for music, or maths, etc. They're not virtues. Truthfulness, loyalty, kindness, fairness, courage, moderation, self-control, generosity: those are some of the actual virtues.
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  7230. Wagner? Wasn't the Wagner group disbanded a year ago?
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  7231. To say that this has nothing to do with Islam is absurd. Yes, the West is actively supporting the Islamists and the takfiris, but both are the home-grown product of Islam.
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  7232. There's nothing utopian about multi- polarity.
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  7233. 😂
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  7234. It was inevitable from the very start that the West would eventually wash its hands of Ukraine. It's just that the Ukrainian nationalists, US neocons and European Russophobes all mistook the delusions produced by their arrogance and hubris for reality.
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  7235. Eleanor Williams is obviously a nutcase. She should have been sent to a mental institution inside the penal system, her release conditional on her mental status. [8 and a half years is hardly "a slap on the wrist". ]
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  7236. Let's not forget that none of this would be happening were it not for Russia standing up to the collective West and showing it up for the rotten corrupt paper tiger it is. Once again, we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Russians who are sacrificing their lives not just for Russia's own security and sovereignty but for the freedom of the rest of the world too.
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  7237.  @TeleologicalConsistency  I know that: all ministers in all countries are appointed, but they're appointed from a pool of politicians already elected to parliament. And that's the case in Germany, too, as I've just checked. Baerbock's the elected member of the Bundestag for Brandenburg. And like every other minister in the German cabinet, she was then appointed to her position as minister by the current chancellor. There's nothing unusual about any of that.
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  7238.  @TeleologicalConsistency  I think it's a bad system, but it's perfectly in tune with German electoral laws and laws on government formation.
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  7239.  @TeleologicalConsistency  It's up to the Germans to create a system they like.
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  7240.  @TeleologicalConsistency  I don't think you know how Hitler came to power.
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  7241.  @TeleologicalConsistency  As I thought. You haven't a clue. 😅
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  7242.  @TeleologicalConsistency  What am I projecting, pray? Do explain.
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  7243.  @TeleologicalConsistency  How do you think he came to power? And what does Hitler have to do with Baerbock?! 😂
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  7244.  @TeleologicalConsistency  I'm arguing that it's up to the German people to decide their own electoral and other laws. It's called sovereignty and democracy. If you're a German, you have your work cut out for you to go and change the system in concert with other like minded people. If you're not a citizen of Germany, and I'm not, it's none of your business how Germans run their own country.
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  7245. ​ @TeleologicalConsistency  I agree, but tell that to the Brits, the Americans, the Danes, the French, the Italians, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Germans, the Dutch, the Arabs, and the Belgians -- all of the nations with a violent imperialist past (some of them the present, too), so recent that it's in the living memory of their victims.
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  7246. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  7247. Look at that empty room! The EU Parliament is such a waste of space. Dusgusting.
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  7248. I guess the advantage is that they just may survive a nuclear holocaust tucked in there, but only at the price of living in total isolation for the next 100 generations or more. Wouldn't appeal to me.
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  7249. The young are far too deeply brainwashed with the nihilism (post-truth postmodernism) that reigns in our colleges and universities and so badly educated that they have no real sense of history at all. Barring a miracle, they'll bring total disaster to the collective West.
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  7250. 😮
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  7251. I think it's abundantly clear by now that Ukraine's never done anything but lie and lie and lie some more.
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  7252. I think it's abundantly clear by now that Ukraine's never done anything but lie and lie and lie some more.
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  7253. You're being parochial. Insurance issues don't exist in the countries that have a highly developed nuclear power plant industry, such as France and China, for example, neither of which has ever had a single accident. The French are so confident in their nuclear plant industry that they've just removed the 50% cap they used to have on the amount of the power needs that can be supplied by nuclear plants.
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  7254. Sub-Saharan Africa would be ideal: the cradle of humanity.
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  7255. Check out The New Atlas (Brian Berletic) and Prof. Glenn Diesen, too. Both are far more sceptical of Trump than these gentlemen.
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  7256. We might as well ask the same thing about any of her male colleagues.
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  7257. There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization... Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, V
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  7258. It was the only sensible thing to do.
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  7259. Why do you ask? Are you Jewish?
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  7260. Not until it's also liberated.
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  7261. Free? For the US MIC, yes.
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  7262. Zelensky is the creation of Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian Jewish oligarch who also funded the Azov and a number of other Nazi militias in Ukraine
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  7263. Yugoslavia broke away from the USSR in 1948. The break came close to causing a war.
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  7264. The US created the problem in the first place.
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  7265. ​ @soggybiscuit6098  The aim was to get rid of Putin so the West could continue to plunder Russia as they did during the 1990s. They failed, abysmally, even wrecking their own economies in their attempt to bring Russia to her knees. The enormity of this failure will have historically pivotal consequences.
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  7266. I LOVE the sound of those SEA roosters! So cheerful and full of energy! 🙂
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  7267. ​ P A  I lived in Libya under Gaddafi and was originally fooled by our claims about what was going on in Benghazi in 2010/11. And yes, I'd rather live under Gaddafi than in today's destroyed, ravaged Libya.
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  7268. ​ @drivehard2395 😮
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  7269. I'm from Eastern Europe and have never heard of blood soup, though we certainly do have a dish very similar to blood pudding.
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  7270. Mearsheimer isn't a realist. He merely claims that his views are realistic. In reality, he's an ideologue and an advocate of American hegemony who projects his own internalised American lust for power onto all others. His recent debate with Jeffrey Sacks is well worth watching.
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  7271. ​ @glendakirby5579  A result fervently to be wished for.
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  7272. The key ones, the first generation so to speak, were/are all Anglos.
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  7273. ?
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  7274. Storm's such a handsome, happy fellow and Vanessa did an amazing job on him! 😍
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  7275. This stuff shouldn't have been allowed into the stores. People need to organize very seriously to get these things thrown out of them, pending the results of 20-year longitudinal studies on a range of mammalian species.
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  7276. Russian is Zelensky's mother tongue.
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  7277. ​ @ArthurTane-e5b 😂
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  7278.  @tiger.wolf.2033  She's a dangerously manipulative, deceitful narcissist. I hope the parole board doesn't get fooled by her.
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  7279. I agree with everything you've said, except that Petro's naive. There's a reason why the West embraced him, and enthusiastically, in the 1990s.
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  7280. ​ @bozo5632 Not quite: he only said that it might also have been an intelligence mix-up but did not exclude other possibilities, such as deliberate act of terror.
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  7281. Who says they love Ukrainians or even Poles?! What kind of "love" sends half a million Ukrainian men to die for Western interests alone?!
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  7282. ​ @enigma8147  That's an exaggeration. At least 20% of Georgians don't want to have anything to do with the EU.
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  7283. I think it's going to be the next few centuries, in truth.
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  7284. 😮
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  7285. I don't know where you get you impressions from, but the rest of the world is sniggering at the collective West now.
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  7286. They keep dying in huge numbers for a lost cause. Tenacious, without a doubt, but also surprisingly stupid. I mean, I understand real patriotism and respect it, but let's not confuse it with the sheer madness of what Ukrainians are doing. Either madness, or the actions of those forced at gunpoint to keep fighting. And we do have numerous reports from Ukrainian men who've managed to surrender safely of precisely the latter, of Ukrainian Nazi officers shooting in the back anyone who shows the slightest sign of slacking off or wanting to surrender. The faces of the Ukrainian recruits -- all of them well over 45 -- I saw in a recent video reflect despair, anomie, a complete mental switching-off from what's going on around them. Tragic. And I mean absolutely, heart-breakingly tragic.
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  7287. We're exploiting international students. We charge them shockingly high student fees, profit from them having to pay their living expenses here, and then chuck them out once we're through squeezing every last cent out of them. In the meantime, from 150,000-300,000 homeless we currently have are projected to grow to 1.3 MILLION homeless by the end of this decade. Canada's going down the hill and notjing's being done to hakt and reverse the degradation of our living standards.
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  7288. ​ @mohmoony3918 And Trump is said to have worked on this "compromise" with Mike Johnson. The US is screwed. You guys badly need a Second American Revolution.
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  7289. ​ @The-Silence-of-the-Sheep  The Soviets saved ALL of Europe from the Nazis. It was the Soviets, not the Brits and not the Americans, who took care of 85% of Hitler's army.
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  7290. So, (capitalist) corporations are bringing in global communism? 😂
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  7291. Laughing in Canadian. 😉
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  7292. ​ @Vladimir-jc9xx  Thailand is far too hot (and humid) the year round.😊
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  7293. What is it supposed to do? The West has banned Russian media and several EU countries have introduced prison sentences for any communications on the proxy war that deviate from the official EU/NATO narrative.
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  7294. A small correction: although widespread, slavery was never a universal practice. There have always been countries and parts of the world where slavery never took hold.
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  7295. 😅
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  7296. ​​ @jessiejb4684 The Russian vaccine was an mRNA type, too, except that it seems to have been designed right as it's not caused any of the health problems the Pfizer and Moderna ones are now infamous for.
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  7297. I doubt she eats well.
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  7298. What free world?! You do realize that Ukraine has banned a dozen opposition parties and ALL independent media? That it terrorizes its own population in order to keep it down? And you call that democracy and freedom?! Well, you're welcome to it, and good luck to you.
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  7299. Exactly! 👍
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  7300. The Brits, their ruling elite, have been rabid Russophobes for at least 150 years now (some historians would say much longer than that). The Brits wanted to rule all of Asia; Russia was always in their way.
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  7301. Nah. Just the collective West, the idiots who want(ed) to destroy Russia. The rest of the world doesn't fear Russia: it's friends with it.
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  7302. Politically motivated censorship, pure and simple.
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  7303. Anti-Chinese racism is still pervasive (I'd say rampant) in Australia. Denying that reality and covering it up makes you look dishonest, out to deceive the public outside Australia.
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  7304. Only in part. Trump will never admit the conflict was caused and engineered by NATO, i.e. Canada, the US and the EU.
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  7305. I just saw a video of Baerbock telling the German TV audience that people who go to vote in the referenda are being raped, beaten, forced to vote for reunification with Russia at gunpoint. Puke-worthy hatred of Russia parading itself for all to se, and at least half of Germany laps it up with great enthusiasm. Their grandparents would be so proud of them.
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  7306. ​ @kribby6730 Yes, gender dysphoria is a psychological disorder, almost invariably accompanied by a handful of other psychological co-morbidities. It's but one of the things that a very tiny percentage of the population has (0.008% are true intersex cases, who actually don't suffer from gender dysphoria at all). In 80% of adolescents who present with gender dysphoria, this problem resolves on its own by the time they come of age. This is the reason NO child and NO teenager should be given hormonal treatments and puberty-blockers and why Sweden and one other European country have now banned such procedures on minors. Furthermore, gender reassignment surgery, sometimes touted as life saving as it allegedly prevents suicide, turns out NOT to have any effect on suicide rates among trans people. The suicide rates for both those who've submitted to gender reassignment surgery and those who remain intact are the same. Tragically, criminally, our media are too cowardly and too conformist to present these data to the general public, feeding us instead "scientific" propaganda produced by trans activists and unscrupulous members of the medical profession.
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  7307. ​ @glengrant3884 You're confusing him with Zelensky.
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  7308. I like these monochromatic backgrounds.
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  7309. Ukrainian Nazis are not just anti-Russian. They're fully the spiritual heirs (and many are biological descendants) of the original ones.
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  7310. I've been getting my smartphones from AliExpress, where I also buy most of my clothing. A lot of the stuff there is second-rate, but there's plenty of quality clothing, luggage, household goods, even cosmetics and electronics on AliExpress. At reasonable prices. Thank you, China.
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  7311. ​ @katymeigs5290  As it did during the 1930s, 2940s, and 1950s, when the highest tax rate was a cool 90%.
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  7312. People who immigrate to Canada receive no special government assistance. Don't fall for the (mostly racist) hype on this score. In fact, immigrants to Canada have to sign in advance that they will support themselves. As to whete you could emigrate to without having a lot or any money of your own, research the many South American countries with expats from the US and Canada.
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  7313. ​ @whitebeauty759  You believe that, do you? The Russians pulled their troops from around Kiev as a gesture of good will after the Ukrainians had initialled the peace agreement reached in Turkey. The US then sent Britain's Boris Johnston to threaten Zelensky with withholding UK's and America's security guarantees if Kiev finalized the peace deal. All of the Ukrainian men who've been killed in this proxy war since May 2022, all of Ukraine's losses since then, are on the heads of Zelensky's puppet masters in London, Brussels and Washington.
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  7314. I think that was Lucifer pretending to be Christ and instilling a sense of terror in the boy both because Satan enjoys terrorising people and to alienate the boy from Christ. He succeeded for some years.
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  7315. Turks have been greedy for Christian lands for centuries.
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  7316. That's terrible! I'm so sorry you had to endure such pain for no medically necessary reason at all!
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  7317. 😂
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  7318. Why absurdity? We've knowingly, willingly been sheltering Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and war criminals for decades now. Our own Deputy Prime Minister is a known fan and follower of the notorious Stepan Bandera. We've been fine with all that, so why are we suddenly proclaiming ourselves outraged?
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  7319.  @kimduong2332  Why would they?
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  7320.  @kimduong2332  Because they're not US citizens and don't care what happens there.
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  7321. Try reading what Ukrainian soldiers are telling the German press. They're faking mechanical malfunction of their weapons so as to avoid fighting the Russians.
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  7322. ​ @dennisreed6345  From your lips to God's ears.
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  7323. Sure. As soon as the West releases Julian Assange, whose boots this guy in Russia isn't worthy to tie.
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  7324. Vanessa, you can paint the outside of the Plexiglas box.
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  7325. No! 😂
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  7326. That's what's worrying me these days. I hope that should it come to pass, the saner heads in Pentagon will promptly stage a coup. And thereby prevent what would be total mutual destruction of the USA and the RF, but also of most of the rest of human beings living in the northern hemisphere, as well as the degeneration of the species as a whole as the survivors in other parts of the world suffer the effects radiation will have on their genes -- for innumerable generations to come. I really hope there are people in the US Army ready to step in to prevent MAD.
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  7327.  @wafudave6041  Works like any other false flag operation.
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  7328. The Ukrainians have been using civilian vehicles for the past 7 months. Bicycles are probably next, as you say. It's simply tragic.
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  7329. Yara, I'm so sorry for your hortific losses. I pray for a ceasfire and for a free Palestine. Israel's treatment of Palestinians has always been barbaric and inexcusable.
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  7330. Makes sense.
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  7331. Huh?
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  7332. No "almost" about it. Russia is now the leader of the free world. Only the totally brainwashed West doesn't know it.
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  7333. ​ @brookside109  It was Trump who began sending arms to Ukraine for. America's proxy war with Russia. The US lost, that's all. The entire collective West lost its proxy war and Trump is the only leader pragmatic enough to throw in the towel and cut his losses.
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  7334. They aren't delusional. They're lying. They lie ALL the time, without a qualm.
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  7335. The same objectives as always (defense of the people of Novorossiya, demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine), with the added objective of creating a buffer zone necessary for its security from NATO. The last objective was added after Ukraine began attacking the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
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  7336. We are literally the ones responsible for Ukraine's "issues"! Our governments' foreign policy in that part of the world deliberately engineered and provoked this proxy war. And since we still pretend that we are a democracy, that we live in a democratic political system, that means that WE are responsible for the policies pursued by those we choose to represent us and do the work of running our country and executing our foreign policy.
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  7337. 😮
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  7338. Of course.
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  7339. ​​ @lunchik2689  I did, to get rid of their ads. YT censorship, however, made me cancel it a couple of months ago. The best thing would be to stop watching content on YT altogether.
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  7340.  @agricolaurbanus6209  There were fewer than 500 Russian forces there when the Ukrainians got to Izyum and most of them made it out in one piece.
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  7341. 😂
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  7342. Message, don't let the Anglos lead you by the nose. Look after your own interests and choose your friends wisely.
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  7343. ​ @rcmrcm3370  Those days are long gone.
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  7344.  @tanl7756  Not just the Anglos. Every Western European country's prosperity rests on centuries of plunder and slaughter around the world. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the UK, Denmark, Austria: all of them have imperialism in their DNA.
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  7345. Only Americans believe they're "the top country in the world".
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  7346. Getting bribed by the Yanks. As usual.
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  7347. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  7348. ​ @RodeoRanger  You can't claim to value democracy and freedom AND in the same breath support Ukraine, with its fascist dictatorship regime. Russia has a flourishing democracy, multiparty system and regular elections. Ukraine has banned all opposition parties, closed down all opposition media, denies the rights of the minorities, and violates the religious freedom of its citizens.
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  7349. ​ @TheConquistador1492 They're fighting the collective West's proxy war against Russia. And the rest of the world knows it.
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  7350. Why is that hilarious?
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  7351. Available online, so just look for them.
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  7352. You do know that it's the Zionists who are rejecting the two-state solution, not the Palestinians, don't you?
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  7353. 🙂
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  7354. Well said.
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  7355. This was true 20 and 30 years ago, but not any more.
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  7356. Cope harder. 😂
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  7357. 😂
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  7358. Liberators. 🎉❤
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  7359. Good man. And wise.
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  7360. Yes, whole groups of people can be evil without cause. Nor were Ukrainians alone in their love of the Nazis; so were Croatian nationalists and most of the Baltic population, too.
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  7361. ​ @Monkey114 I'm so sorry about your sister.
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  7362. Almost the same percentage blanes the war on Putin, that's how successful the European politicians and media have been in personalizing the issue and demonizing Putin. Btw, it's comical to see how innocent the Germans once again see themselves to be ("European countries") despite Angela Merkel's public admission that Germany actrd in bad faith with the Minsk Accords. Despicable hypocrisy and self-righteousness seem to be ingrained characteristics of the German mentality.
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  7363. Andrei Martyanov's guilty of the same. It's absurd denying the obvious. Yes, it was a PR action, and yes, the Russians were caught napping, which requires a real explanation.
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  7364. ​ @jakedee4117  You should watch his other videos/talks/lectures on the topic.
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  7365. The only visual evidence for this claim that I've managed to find online are photos and videos of floating garbage the size of a football field or two. Where's the vidual evidence of this "Pacific Garbage Patch" twice the size of Texas and why can't one find it online? Does it even exist?
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  7366. Such a sweet face! 😍
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  7367. So, the grooming, gang rapes and forced prostitution of workjng class English girls by British born ethnic Pakistanis never happened? Pull another one. And stop sacrificing 12 and 13 year old English girls to your political agenda. 🤮
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  7368. You mean, he hasn't embraced the climate change narrative and the ludicrous notion of a "scientific consensus". Science doesn't work by consensus, folks!
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  7369. They're not interested in world conquest or even in attacking the American people.
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  7370. It took NATO 8 years to turn Ugledar into a fortress. There's no chance in hell they can now turn Petrograd into one.
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  7371. So, we know Navalny, who suffered from several health conditions, was killed? How do we know that?
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  7372. They did not abandon them. Russian forces had offered to evacuate everyone from Izyum: some, predominantly older folks, preferred to remain. It's absolutely tragic what Ukraine is doing to these people, but they were not abandoned or betrayed.
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  7373. The US "gave" India to Russia? What is this guy smoking? 😂
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  7374. Ukraine's been using civilians as human shields from the very start. Amnesty International even write a report about it last year and Zelensky went ballistic at them for daring reveal that ugly truth. Western media have successfully buried that story.
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  7375.  @arthurtane6505  Up to Pakistan to come to its senses and reverse the situation. It's not as though Russia needs Pakistan
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  7376. 🙏
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  7377. That might be a consequence of Kiev's obduracy, yes, but not Russia's reason for hitting the power grid.
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  7378. 😂
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  7379. Lust for power and supremacy, fuelled by greed.
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  7380. 🎯
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  7381. .He deserves it.
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  7382. He has problems with his eyesight. Maps are out of the question.
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  7383. That would be much better.
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  7384. ​ @TB-rr2ox  It's not flashing, not even at that point. You should see a doctor, seriously.
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  7385. The most important justification are Russia's own security needs.
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  7386.  @danielkarlsson3624  Russia has not threatened to use nuclear weapons even once. All the threat rhetoric is coming from three countries only: the US, UK, and Ukraine (with its attempts to cause a nuclear incident at the Zaporozhye NPP).
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  7387. They're still lying: according to the IMF, the Russian economy will grow by at least 2% this year.
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  7388. ​​ @charlesknowlton7198  I've been to Bali, China, Sri Lanka and Thailand and if I were younger, I'd gladly live in China or Thailand. Thailand's climate might be a bit too hot and humid for me lobg term, but China's simply gorgeous.
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  7389. If you say so.
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  7390. ​ @neilsaunders6009  Exactly. Trans activists have deliberately eluded the difference between sex and gender, displacing the biological reality, the biological given of sex entirely by the social construct of gender. In reality, there's no such thing as gender dysphoria: to the extent that it genuinely exists, there's only sex dysphoria, i.e. discomfort with one's own sexed body. Transsexuals, however, are people with very, very rare chromosomal abnormalities, which are not present in people who call themselves transgender. This is why they had to invent the term transgender for what is an attempt to change their very sex. Needless to say, the attempt is doomed to failure as we cannot change our chromosomes. At most, trans people can change their secondary sexual characteristics and this make it easier for them to pass for the sex they're impersonating. The genuine trans condition is clearly rooted in deep psychological pathologies -- a profound alienation from oneself -- and must be very distressing indeed. Many of the people who now identify as trans would have understood themselves to be homosexual or lesbian a couple of decades ago, while others classified as trans fancy themselves and get off at the thought and image of themselves as women (autogynophiles). Neither of these two groups are really trans, although they're now routinely classified as such.
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  7391. ​​ @georgesbv1 Everyone you don't like is a fascist. Grow up. There are plenty of fascists and Nazis around without inventing any more🎉.
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  7392.  @homeguardster  I can't trust anything that comes from the Ukrainian side (and is then disseminated by Western MSM) for the simple reason that up until now, 90% of their claims, videos and photos have been shown to be pure fiction, to be polite about it.
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  7393. 😅
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  7394. Sarcastic understatement, that's what Brian's little quip was.
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  7395. The US has given Israel the go ahead to destroy Raqqa in exchange for leaving Iran alone.
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  7396. She's written two books about her experience, so I'm sure she checked these things.
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  7397. Only the West. The other 86% of the world know better.
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  7398. 😂😂😂
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  7399. I may be wrong, but this seems like an expensive vanity project. I don't see people walking to and from their home and metro stations in the sort of heat that prevails in that part of the world for at least half the year.
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  7400. The lobby system = legalized corruption
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  7401.  @mddell24  😅
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  7402. EU's Joseph Borrell, Jungle Joseph for short, has just warned the US that it will lose all credibility with its allies if it allows Ukraine to be defeated. The EU itself is a dangerously war-mongering entity and should be disbanded asap.
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  7403. What's so hilarious about it?​ @chamindadewage9004 
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  7404. The US has destroyed Europe, but not the EU, alas. 😢
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  7405. The sweetest meows of protest. Maximilian is a darling!
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  7406. Russia began the process withdrawing from the WHO in 2021.
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  7407. ​ @charlesmartel6103  The one the West has been using for more than a decade to ferry its astronauts to and from the International Space Station, as it lacks the means to do so itself. The US has been working on an alternative for years now, so far without any success. That's just one example of Russian technology. Her military technology is at least a decade in advance if anything the West has. That you don't know this should encourage you to stop and think a little about the causes of your ignorance.
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  7408. We're a mess, saddled with a political class that works for the interests of the West, and not of Serbia. That's the quality of politicians and political parties we've produced.
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  7409.  @aleksandarbabic766  In the meantime, as Vucic admitted just yesterday, Serbia's sold $880 millions' worth of ammunition to NATO countries, knowing that it would be given to Ukraine to kill Russians.
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  7410. ​​ @furry_homunculus On that last point: not in the countries already experiencing a deficit of women. In Europe and North America, getting women to agree to stay home to raise children will take substantive changes in how societies value that labour. In short, women will have to be handsomely remunerated for their work as most will, quite rightly, refuse to be dependent on a man.
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  7411. ​ @vasilispatsalidis5683 Zelensky sold his last winter.
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  7412. Excellent. Many of the forces in Bakhmut are Natsees.
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  7413. Drastic, but probably -- no, undoubtedly -- the best outcome for everyone's long-term future. I doubt that's what will come to pass.
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  7414. None is so blind and those who will not see. I just wonder how long it's going to take for the neocons to acknowledge they've had their asses handed to them by Russia.
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  7415. Paul Craig Roberts, undersecretary for finance in the Reagan administration, says his source at the State Department tells him the Europeans are simply bought off. Apparently, the State flies suitcases full of money to assorted European capitals every month.
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  7416. Please do! I hope enough of the French overcome their decades' long brainwashing against her.
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  7417. Probably to the great benefit of sundry corporations, which is what the whole climate catastrophe story is about.
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  7418. ​ @katelovins9005 No. We will never leave you alone to ruin any more lives.
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  7419. ​ @dopaminey9946  The British Empire was one of the shortest lasting empires in history.
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  7420. Not in RT International. I have the app, and there's no article by Petrushev there. There is, however, an article of excerpts of an interview with him done by another publication, in which he makes no such statement at all. I mean, I wish he did say it, but ....
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  7421. I also find 1.5 even better. @jdaze1 
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  7422.  @jayobannon5359  Which is why he should be ashamed of himself and repent.
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  7423. ​ @navinasimoes  You can't recognize a fact even when it's staring you in the face.
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  7424.  @FoxyCAMTV  That's Europe's relationship with the US: sleeping with the enemy and getting fucked by them, too.
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  7425. What an insult to Disraeli!
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  7426. The government agencies that demand they do this, you mean. The collective West is morphing into one big East Germany these days. In many EU countries and the UK, you can be jailed -- people are being jailed -- for what they post online!
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  7427. ​ @luismariagomezdearanda5319  The World Bank now ranks the Russian economy as #4 globally.
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  7428. There's Asia and its westernmost peninsula called Europe, the European subcontinent. Since Russia geographically spans large parts of both the European subcontinent and the Asian mainland, it only makes sense that it would bridge the two, developing a civilization unique to it.
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  7429. ​ @aural_supremacy The only realistic estimate of Russian losses is from the BBC, who are inconsolable that they can't find more that 16,000-18,000 dead.
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  7430.  @jackraj2836  I pray for those who are persecuted and for the conversion of their persecutors at least to tolerance and humaneness. But on what possible legal grounds are these Christians put in prison? Doesn't India guarantee freedom of religion to all its citizens?
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  7431. They?
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  7432. I think you're referring to Navalny. He's such small fries in Russia that no one there sees him as a rival to Putin. Assange is an incomparably more important figure.
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  7433. What is the name of this bare-faced UN liar?
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  7434.  @luisekjeldsen1515  😂
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  7435. This is not the first time Germans have fallen for anti-Russia absurdities.
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  7436. The West is just pissed off Ukraine did not get to kill more ethnic Russian children than it already did in the previous 8 years. That it doesn't realize how this looks to the rest of the world is a measure of its moral depravity and its demonic hubris.
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  7437. I think Russia's cardinal error in all this was the decision to take it slow.
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  7438. Not sure about that. Looks like stupendous incompetence and stupidity on the part of the UK.
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  7439. Some kids trying to evade a test, most likely.
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  7440. Indeed.
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  7441. Could be. Definitely against the State Department cabal.
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  7442. That's what they're doing: they clarified in just the last 24 hrs that they're sending Ukraine Leopard 1 (not Leopard 2) tanks. I'm surprised Alexander isn't aware of this.
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  7443. They actually hide the real numbers so they don't have to pay survivor pensions to the families of the fallen. Corruption in Ukraine is totally off the scale, worse than in the most corrupt African nations.
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  7444. ​ @christianhegemann1911 If Niger can throw the US military out of its territory, Germany can too. Enough with this, poor us the victims moaning Germans always hide behind!
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  7445. ​@hughenadasilva5055 He often, even mostly, sits back and lets a lot of evil take place. If you want to call that God being in control, ok. I, for my part, pray ceaselessly that God be much more active in preventing and reigning in evil BEFORE it gets to harm human beings.
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  7446. Anna needs to want to get psychological help. She needs to face just enough reality to realize how much she needs therapy.
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  7447. ​ @HSVvoneVScheissaufPeineOst Wow, even today you have the gall, the effrontery to claim moral parity! 🤮
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  7448. You mean like the Palestinians today, and all these decades?
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  7449. Nah. This has been a NATO proxy war from 2014 on, anyway. This is just Germans demonstrating how stupid they actually are.
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  7450. Finally. They all know (have known from the start) that "Slava Ukraini" is the Nazi-collaborators' slogan from WW2. Why do you think over the past decade, the US, Canada, and all of the EU repeatedly voted down the UN resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism and fascism?! Btw, here's something Mr Zoran Milanovic isn't telling you: Croatia's own national flag is also the flag of Nazi collaborators.
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  7451. I don't support (or like) Hamas for precisely the reasons The New Atlas guy lists. I support Palestinians.
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  7452. They've lost their individual and collective little minds. It's appalling watching the insanity called the EU.
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  7453.  @kakabakamaka  Stop lying. Ukraine had killed 14,000 people (including women and children) BEFORE February 24, 2022 and had amassed a huge number of troops for a genocide in Donbass when the Russians finally went in to prevent it. Ukrainians had shelled Donbass over 2,000 times in the days leading up to the Russian intervention.
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  7454. EU states would not be in this predicament at all were it not for the 2014 US-paid for and engineered coup d'état in Kiev. This war is the reflection and the result of American foreign policy. The Europeans are just America's willing puppets.
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  7455. ​ @Jamicaman516  It's self-explanatory. But since you're pretending not to understand: If it costs you more than it costs your competitor to produce things, the market will choose your competitor's products rather than yours.
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  7456. Mercouris is far more reassuring, playing the attack on the radar station in Russia which is a part of the Russian early warning system with zero application to the conflict in Ukraine, than Alistair Crooke, whom I just heard on the Judging Freedom show, who thinks that the decision to attack Russia has already been made.
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  7457. ​@rayc59 🤣
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  7458. All of these sanctions on Syria and Russia are in violation of international law and are illegal.
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  7459. The New York Post article sounds about right to me. Sure there's bitterness there, but there's also, I suspect, a great deal of truth too. I always took Biden's endorsement of Harris as an up yours gesture aimed at Obama, who doesn't get to be the king/queen maker any longer.
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  7460. Careful what you wish for.
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  7461. That's no longer an excuse. If Niger can kick out American troops from its territory, Germany's claim to being an "occupied" country ring more and more ludicrous.
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  7462. It's not at our door: it's home made.
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  7463. So he's supposed to be psychic, now?! 😂 You know perfectly well that this video was recorded some hours BEFORE the announcement that Russian troopers are being pulled out of Kherson.
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  7464. The West also has several saints whose remains appear to be intact.
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  7465. ​ @leejames1792  It has to be a joke.
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  7466. 😮
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  7467. Putin is not guilty of any war crimes. The others you mentioned are.
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  7468. Maybe. Or, he's so greedy, he's now working on his second billion.
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  7469. No, not threatened. Not in Romania. The church is trying to warn their congregants and others of the spiritual dangers of witchcraft. The Orthodox Church, unlike Protestant and Catholic churches, never persecuted witches or burned them at the stake. It's a much more gentle form of Christianity than the forms developed in the West.
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  7470. 🤣
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  7471. Ok.
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  7472. This is very serious and, if it remains electorally unopposed, it spells the end of democracy in the US. I'm a socialist observing these developments from Canada and wonder what percentage of Americans realize that such intimidation and such corrupt use of federal agencies (especially the FBI and the rest of the security apparatus) equals "soft" autocracy by the Democratic Party.
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  7473. They were flown from inside Russia.
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  7474. ​ @slaughtercomeswithlaughter  Or you can go to the nearest hospital or the nearest police station and ask to be sectioned because you're hearing voices that are urging you to kill people.
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  7475. Because they're Sunni supremacists who want to establish a Sunni dictatorship, and not freedom fighters.
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  7476. China has its own, and in my view pragmatically more successful, democracy than the faux "representative" one we have in the West. Just look at the actual composition of the CPC and its governing bodies: people rise to positions of power by demonstrating that they can be entrusted with managing the socio-economic realm to the benefit of all Chinese. It's a democratic meritocracy that produces a genuinely representative political managerial class any Chinese person can aspire to in practice and not merely in theory, as in the West.
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  7477. Yes, Ukrainians have been trying since Day 1 to get NATO to get directly involved and fight Russia for them. Article 5, however, doesn't automatically commit NATO to action. More to the point, the only NATO country that could do serious damage to Russia in any direct conflict is the US. The European members' armies (except for Turkey's) are basically a joke at this point. For the US, a conflict on the European continent would mean a huge logistical disadvantage vis á vis Russia, something both Pentagon and the White House are aware of.
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  7478. @user-su5mq6ow6o There's that, too. 😉
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  7479. I don't know -- no psychiatrist on Earth can tell precisely -- to what extent all the abuse she suffered moulded her into what she became. Some, certainly, but nobody can determine if what she had suffered caused 30% or 50% or 75% of her psychopathy, of which there can be no doubt. She stabbed someone who'd never done her any wrong, someone who'd opened her home to her and taken her in, 200 times. 20 times is vicious, a massacre. 200 times is what a frenzied psychopath does.
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  7480. So, a very deliberate genocide on the part of the English.
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  7481.  @tynao2029  You're raving, my friend. The only "communism" in Canada is the money that goes out from our pockets to the corporation, and our governments' job is to administer that transfer of wealth from us to the oligarchy.
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  7482. Such a pretty, affectionate pup!
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  7483. Which propaganda?
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  7484. You expect them to report that the Russians are winning, unstoppably?!
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  7485. 😅​ @jayleeper1512 
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  7486.  @paolagratsos6201  We're using the word culture in two entirely different senses. You're referring to art, architecture, literature, theatre, etc. while I'm using culture in the sense of a society's way of life, its core beliefs about itself and others, its customs and its understanding of human relationships. And we're both right: yes, the UK is rich in literary and other arts, in its artistic heritage, but its core beliefs about what a society is, the way it's structured in classes, etc. prevent the rise of statesmen of the rank of Xi or Putin. Had it not been for WW2 and his fine gift for rhetoric, Churchill would be remembered today as a viciously racist English imperialist but certainly not as a statesman.
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  7487. ​ baddad2955  This started in 1948.
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  7488. ​ baddad2955 Israel is the invading and occupying side in all this. Palestinians have the right recognized in international law to resist the occupation in any and every way they can.
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  7489. All EU and European politics are right wing. Populist or "centrist", even what passes for the Left, they're all right wing pretending to be liberal.
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  7490. That's when people become most dangerous: when they're driven by emotions and at their least rational. Mind you, the West's been behaving like a hysteric for a while now.
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  7491. What's so hilarious about such callousness?
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  7492. ​ @ryanwalters6184  A geographically challenged perspective. 😅
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  7493. It wasn't Europe that blew up those pipelines. It was the US.
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  7494. It wasn't Europe that blew up those pipelines. It was the US.
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  7495. Why do Russians need Zelensky to be there to sign any surrender agreement with them? The Ukrainian military can do that as it was done in Iraq and at the end of WW2, too.
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  7496. ​​ @Samantha-dv4je  I've been on it for the last 8 years. My fibro pain's completely gone! Btw, my Pain Clinic doctor takes it as a kind of all-round tonic herself although she's completely healthy. I intend to stay on it for as long as I'm alive.
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  7497.  @mikgsal1384  Am hoping they'll soon declare it an anti-terrorist operation, as they'd done in Chechnya. And look at Chechnya now: at peace, prosperous, and very happy to be a part of the Russian Federation.
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  7498. Don't exaggerate. 😅
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  7499.  @healthyone100  Why not? Is there a countervailing medical reason, or is it that you have an overwhelming aversion to meat, poultry, and seafood?
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  7500.  @healthyone100  You do realize that plants also wish to live and actively resist being eaten with the toxic substances they produce to deter predators? Vegans are so animal-centric, pretending or simply not knowing that their eating habits are just as aggressive and destructive of life forms that desire to live as any omnivore or carnivore is. None of us is to blame for how nature has organized itself and the fact that ALL animal life depends on predation and the devouring of other living beings, be they animal or vegetative.
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  7501.  @healthyone100  Educate yourself on oxalates and other plant toxins.
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  7502.  @healthyone100  If you believe the Book of Genesis (parts of which are poetically and mythographically beautiful and indeed meaningful, but none of which is history), ask yourself how it was possible for Cain and Abel to populate the Earth since the only woman around, accord to the myth, was their own mother. I am a Christian, but I also believe -- am absolutely sure -- that God wants us to use reason and subsequently developed knowledge in interpreting the Bible. Jesus himself most certainly ate meat (lamb, specifically) and fish, as attested by the New Testament.
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  7503. Pretty much.
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  7504. He knew he's among friends in Serbia. Unlike the ever arrogant French, we in Serbia feel honoured to have the president of China visiting our country.
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  7505. The number of people on welfare has been consistently decreasing since 2017, and the trend continues.
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  7506. Mearsheimer is a liberal hegemonist. He's written a whole book on that topic.
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  7507.  @robertknull456  Russia never lost that bridge. Sections of it were repaired in less than 12 hrs following the attack. (The Russians have amazing technology, but you'll never know that listening to the various talking heads featured in our legacy media.) The Crimea bridge is fully operational. Why do you think NATO and the US keep saying Ukraine losing would be a disaster for NATO? The whole world has now seen that even the combined economic and military resources of all of NATO cannot put a dent in Russia's economic and military strength. Which is why so many formerly US-allied countries are now switching allegiance and joining the BRICS, which has already become BRICS+.
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  7508. ​ @eminam4766  This is not nonsense but egregious, disgusting lies. Bosnian Muslims were allied with the Nazis and volunteered to fight for Hitler.
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  7509. 😅
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  7510. ​ @KassandraFuria13  The Germans are just beginning to feel the burden of Kissinger's warning: "To be an enemy of America the can be dangerous; to be its friend is fatal."
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  7511. They mocked the Jewish survivors of the German death camps who moved to Israel in the late 1940s. That's the sort of people Zionists are.
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  7512.  @paulrand7861  Rubbish.
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  7513.  @talkinghand122  Ask Zoltan.
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  7514.  @zoltanbarath7371  😂
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  7515. That's because your media just regurgitate Western propaganda.
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  7516. No, the international community is not doing that. We're not vilifying you and providing excuses for Israeli inhumanity. It's only the collective West who're doing that, and they are just 14% of the world community. Gaza must be free, and Palestinians must be given their own state right there where they rightfully belong!
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  7517. Until we rise.
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  7518. Do not trifle with these things. People fought and gave their lives to improve the working conditions for everyone. We took their hard-won achievements for granted, and are beginning to experience the consequences of that complacency.
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  7519.  @sparkzbarca  Yes, but the proces are expected to go up proportionally, which will compensate for those production cuts. You don't believe that OPEC+ countries would cut their production only to lose money, do you? Another indication of how the Russian economy is doing compared to the economies in the West is its inflation rate of 3.3%. Food prices alone in Canada (and elsewhere) are up by 25% of what they were a year ago
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  7520. ​ @BonT777  Central or Middle? Isn't China the Middle Kingdom?
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  7521. ​ @LVArturs  And it's now dying demographically and has the highest suicide rate among developed countries.
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  7522. Everybody knows the US blew up the pipelines. Biden had publicly promised in 2022 to destroy North Stream 2.
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  7523. There's no such genuine fear. It's all theatre to sell the war to the masses.
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  7524. 😮
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  7525. Not quite yet. But it will.
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  7526. Larry rightly dismissed the climate change boondoggle, the scam the corporations have made of it. I'm sure he knows that climate change itself is real and is perpetual, constant.
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  7527.  @amandapeluso4217  I don't myself know anything more about it, but if you're interested, a YouTube and a Google search may yield some additional information. Good luck! 🙂
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  7528. So that's what you're about. Ethnogenocide of the Slavs, Hitler's original project.
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  7529. 14 countries refused to sign the conference declaration. At first they said 12 countries didn't sign it; today, it turns out, it's 14.
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  7530. The Kiev regime knows it's beat. But it will keep sending tens if not hundreds of thousands more Ukrainian men to their certain deaths as long as there's more grift to be made from the US and the EU.
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  7531. Ukraine's lost 110,000 men so far this year.
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  7532. ISIS-K = ISIS-Keeeeev (And who were the US protecting in Libya but the "Allahu Akbar" lot, who subsequently moved on to Syria to form the nucleus of ISIS.)
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  7533. ​ @constantquestioning_000  Danny posts too many old videos and snippets from old interviews. I've stopped following him for that reason: click bait titles in old interviews.
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  7534. ​​ @Boycott-if4eg  Which of them exactly are you accusing of being shills for the US?
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  7535. Finally some professional integrity!
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  7536. The US and the EU together with Canada. The collective West in short.
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  7537. Europeans have a long history of difficult relations with Russia?! What's Alexander smoking?! It's the Europeans who have time and time again invaded Russia and tried to destroy it! The Poles and the Lithuanians, the French, the Brits in the Crimean War, the Germans.
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  7538. ​ @off6848  You're both right.
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  7539. But how many millions will die before God deigns to intervene?
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  7540. Macron was met by a woman, a WH staff member. The other video was staged after the fact.
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  7541. No.
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  7542. A totally brainwashed, deeply racist (Russophobic) population.
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  7543. Thank goodness Russia has plenty of real patriots. It should pass a law that bans draft dodgers from ever returning home. You leave your country when it needs you most, you don't get to come back when the danger is over.
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  7544. The EU is beginning to circle the drain, too, but the Europeans don't have the sense to revert to a simple Common Market and make lasting friends with Russia.
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  7545. ​ @fatimasow6887  I'm Orthodox, and Catholicism is as much a part of Christianity as evangelicalism and other schools of Protestantism are.
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  7546. Sure. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  7547. John Mark Dougan streamed it live. So did iEarlyGrey. Of you get the RT app, you can also follow such things on the app in real time.
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  7548. Scholz is such a joke.
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  7549. Really? 😂
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  7550. He was a lawyer in his previous life.
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  7551. You're the *expendable" backyard. And have only yourselves to blame for drinking that American cool aid.
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  7552.  @Luton-Mick  The same is true of railroads in Ukraine, which are Soviet-built.
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  7553. What narcissistic BS! You're a citizen of the US and NOTHING about this refers to you
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  7554. Nobody believes Russia will lose. Some still pretend to believe it, but there's no point in discussing anything with people committed to lying.
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  7555. Claim? Your parents should be ashamed of what they've raised.
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  7556. ​ @laro802  Poor uncle, you. 😢
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  7557. Probably to neutralise, by its mere presence, the US military bases on the continent.
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  7558. 😅
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  7559. Ukraine's supported -- financially and militarily -- by 41 countries who've ganged up on Russia. They will lose, of course, just as Napoleon and Hitler did.
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  7560. ​ @lionae3586 Like Liberals represent or protect workers' interests?! 😅
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  7561. ​ @donkeynuts75 Oooh, how cool and edgy and sophisticated of you.
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  7562. Read some real history to find out. There's a reason Christianity was seen and embraced as the religion of freedom and equality, of human dignity, by its original practitioners.
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  7563. Nine shots in the back?! A tad excessive, I think. And certainly NOT self-defence. On top of which, it turns out the robber's gun was a fake.
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  7564. Thete are one million Palestinian Christians as is.
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  7565. In a TV interview broadcast on Russia 1 channel today and reported by RT, Putin has also said that the West is putting together an alliance reminiscent of the Axis powers of WW2. He must have intelligence that suggests the US is ready to fight for its world dominance by triggering and fighting WW3 against Russia and China (and possibly India, too, as well as the Arab world). Given the geopolitical situation caused by NATO's losing its proxy war in Ukraine, the docility of the European populations is becoming more and more dangerous by the day.
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  7566. ​​ @mariuszcieslak3667 o. 😂 On the contrary: Stalin had repeatedly offered a common defense alliance to France and the UK, which both rejected. The UK then infamously struck a deal with Hitler in Munich, Poland joined the Nazis in invading Czechoslovakia, and, seeing all that, then and only then the Soviets also signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany hoping thereby to buy itself time to prepare for a war they knew was inevitable.
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  7567. Sure. In the meantime, one of its members, Russia, is defeating all of NATO in Ukraine. 😂
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  7568. The arrogance of neocon Western leadership blocked their ability to think straight.
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  7569. Yes, I've been aware of this for quite a while. I'm glad they are finally admitting to covid cases in January 2020 because I first had it then, complete with a loss of the sense of taste and smell, and nobody could figure out what it was. It went to my sinuses and took a month to resolve. Now, finally, I have confirmation of what I knew all along. Btw, concerning those biolabs in Ukraine: doctors all across Eastern Europe began noticing and reporting an unusual form of pneumonia starting in the Fall of 2019, some weeks before the alleged Wuhan Lab leak. Analysis of sewage in Spain also found traced of covid going back to the Spring of 2019!
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  7570. ​ @des_smith7658  A comedy?!
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  7571. ​ @bogdanmeleszczenko1271 Keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, BRICS have outpaced the G7 so far, the West will never overtake them.
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  7572. The Brits believed the Skripal affair BS, too: a population that will swallow any Russia-smearing propaganda from their media and their politicians.
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  7573. ​ @NomdePloom23  Jesus was much, much more than a prophet, although he did have a strong prophetic ministry.
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  7574. According to the bully. Who cares.
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  7575. Desperate?! Lavrov was cool, composed, and in absolutely top form! Go and watch his UN address for yourselves.
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  7576. ​ @VampyricNinjaXDLOL I have no problems with that.
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  7577. The purpose of NATO was, from the start, to keep the Americans in, the Germans down,and the Russians out. This is why the US said no both times Russia asked to join NATO.....
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  7578. Aaron keeps repeating the nonsense about Navalny's putative courage and keeps reiterating the factually false claim that Navalny retirned to Russia "knowing he would be arrested". That's nonsense. Navalny showed NO courage in returning to Russia from Germany. None at all. He was re-arrested after some time because he deliberately kept violating his terms of probation, deliberately engineering his own re-arrest. This was simply a part of his Western paid-for mission to discredit the Russian state. Aaron should do his due diligence and stop spreading fairy tales about Navalny the courageous.
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  7579. Love to Serbia from Thailand. 🙂
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  7580. The burlesque aspect of these Russophobic media fantasies notwithstanding, I feel that Russians should start taking this type of virulent Russia-maligning propaganda a bit more seriously. Russian officials, Putin as well as Lavrov, spent all of the 2010s prattling about their Western "partners" just as the latter were methodically and slyly laying the ground for their proxy war in Ukraine with a 24/7 anti-Russia propaganda campaign of the sort of virulence last directed at the European Jewry during the 1930s. Some of the most influential Washington neocons have long favoured a "limited nuclear war" with Russia, which this unhinged lot believe they could win at the (to them acceptable) cost of 20 million American deaths. Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland's husband, is one of the people who'd like to see come to pass. Ignoring and making light of the kind of anti-Russia lies the German press (which is controlled by the CIA) is now feeding its public may therefore be unwise. As their current behaviour demonstrates, Washington and their European fools have not yet confronted reality and may well be setting the stage for a direct war with Russia, something that would take us into WW3.
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  7581. 😂
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  7582. ​ @dittohead9496  There are always a few newcomers to this and other channels who've not seen the comment before and for whom it can be enlightening.
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  7583. Germans have always been excessively compliant. They revere authority no matter what it does. After WW2, psychiatrists thought Germans rapturously supported Hitler because of their authoritarian upbringing -- nobody can attribute German prostration before authority to that, any more, though. They're just conformists, very much like we are in Canada.
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  7584. Brent was clearly the problem. All those "nice guy" passive-aggressive vibes were driving both her and the dog out of their minds. With Brent mercifully out of the picture, things took a 180 degree turn for the better. She became so much calmer, and Titan felt it, too, gaining a new sense of security. Glad it all worked out for both Titan and her.
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  7585. Racist much? 🤮
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  7586. ​ @RebeccaPerry-Piper-u8x  About 4 million of them moved to Russia long before 2013.
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  7587. ​ @dagda3000  Which responsibilities would those be?
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  7588. 🎯
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  7589.  @accaeffe8032  The EU Parliament adopted a resolution in January to release up to €10.5 billion of previously frozen funds to Hungary although it hasn't yet carried out the necessary reforms to ensure the independence of its judiciary.
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  7590. Well, kudos to the journalist who actually confronted Trump with that.
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  7591. YouTube does it to millions of people all the time.
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  7592. 😂
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  7593.  @marcokunz3350  The US alone runs a troll army that numbered over 25,000 under Obama. It's only grown since. That doesn't include the troll armies run by other NATO countries. This is a matter of public record, btw.
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  7594. It sounds like you just got used to your relative misery here. Having kids who've grown up here also makes any thought to leaving very difficult.
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  7595. 🎯
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  7596. It's on YouTube. I came across it just today.
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  7597. 🎯
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  7598. The next stages. It's way too early to talk about any final stages as yet. Prigozhin said earlier today the war may drag on for another 3 years.
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  7599. A friend of mine's just been diagnosed with hypothyroidism. He was never fat, just mildly overweight, and by making slight modifications to his diet, he's managed to lose his extra 20 lbs in a matter of weeks.
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  7600. So, this guy learned he was a woman from hearing other men say they were women. O-kay.
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  7601. ​ @jackneuman5108  According to Western propaganda, whose only real purpose is to cover up just how badly the West has been outmatched in this proxy war, how far superior Russian production capacity is compared to that of the collective West combined, scrambling all over the place to find some weapons and ammo for their Ukrainian proxies and now having to "borrow" half a million shells from South Korea to give to Ukraine! I don't know if you're a paid troll or just a naive consumer of Western propaganda, but the rest of the world is neither blind nor stupid. Africa, Asia, South America: everybody can see the Emperor of the West has no clothes.
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  7602. Indeed!
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  7603. I doubt the Russians intend to go as far as Kiev.
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  7604. 😂
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  7605. ​ @JosephBisio  Amazing how Russian untrained troops keep destroying Ukraine's NATO trained troops, and usually at a 1:10 advantage to the Russkies.
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  7606. Get things straight: you lot started WW3 in Ukraine.
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  7607. Exactly.
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  7608. It's a relief to hear you speak on this probable attempted false flag so forthrightly. I've been climbing walls in frustration with Alexander Mercouris the last 48 hrs and his persistent denial that the missile hit on Poland was a Ukrainian false flag attempt to drag NATO into a direct fight with Russia. I have NO doubt that that"s what it was, and it looks very much like both Poland and a faction in the Biden administration were both in on it. Whoever the unnamed White House official who spoke to the AP is, the alacrity with which s/he claimed that it was a Russian missile suggests direct intent to capitalize on the false flag and a prior knowledge of the plan to stage it. Thank God for the Polish farmer who took photos of the missile debris, showing that it was a Ukrainian one.
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  7609. I think Russophobia's an attitude and a policy passed down from one generation of civil servants, the people who massively influence and even shape British foreign policy, to another. Britain's governing classes have had their knives out for Russia for a good two centuries now.
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  7610. ​ @shenzhong2942  None are so blind as those who will not see. All of us who use YouTube on a daily basis know from personal experience how this platform applies censorship to both channels and to the audience comments.
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  7611. Neoliberalism was always anti-life, the cult of Mammon par excellence. I've lived in Canada for most of my adult life, 40+ years, and will be leaving as soon as I sell my house here.
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  7612. Only the Russian General Staff knows that.
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  7613. ​ @Delgarothe  The idea that Russia doesn't care for its citizens' lives is 100% projection (unless it's one of those propaganda lies you absorbed from our NATO-sphere MSM).
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  7614. Overwhelmingly most aggression and violence against trans people is committed by other trans people. If there's a demographic they're scared of it's their own, not the rest of us who largely ignore them and leave them in peace.
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  7615. Individual American tourists, etc. are not being attacked anywhere in the world, including Iran and Syria. Americans are generally resented and disliked for what they've been doing to other people, and the US is almost universally seen as the greatest threat to peace in the world, but that doesn't result in attacks on Americans abroad.
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  7616. Zaluzhny is asking for neuclear weapons. Yet again. The Ukrainians began talking about getting and using the N-bomb in January 2022, at a NATO meeting in Munich, i.e. even before the Russians launched the SMO. They've never given up on that idea.
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  7617. Don't believe everything you hear.
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  7618. Don't be silly. This was set in motion by Tony Blinken and co. under Biden. Trump's just executing the plan.
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  7619. It's amazing how little known that is!
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  7620. What was there not to understand?!
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  7621. ​ @NostalgiaForInfinity 👍
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  7622. So true. There's something seriously crazy about the very system in which "specialists" miss what the overwhelming majority of laypeople can plainly see.
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  7623. ​ @JJRM8  Tell that to 3 year olds. You might be able to fool toddlers, sure. This is NATO's proxy war in Ukraine, planned for since 2014 at the latest and meticulously engineered by the collective West.
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  7624. Yes, they are.
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  7625. 😂
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  7626. Arrogance and hubris is what happened. The Yanks decided they wanted to be "masters of the universe" and the rest of the West fell in line.
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  7627. Why exaggerate so wildly? Neither France nor Germany are even remotely close to the state of affairs one finds in Ukraine.
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  7628. It's getting bought up by Israelis. Same MO Zionists used in Palestine in the 1920s.
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  7629. ​​ @jamesjenkins3384  don't think they'll collapse, but they're definitely on a probably irreversible decline. The US simply can't repatriate its production facilities from China (because its corporations are each man for himself and none for the commonweal), and with the gradual/now accelerated fading out of the petrodollar, its economy will never recover to what it was 30-40 years ago. Thanks to its Atlanticist governing class, including the media, Europe has damaged its own economic prospects to the point of no return. With a market of almost a billion, the collective West will remain economically significant, but its heyday is definitely over. Just how bad things will go for the Europeans remains to be seen, but just last week we heard from the head of the European Central Bank that the losses due to the EU's sanctions on Russia are irrecoverable and that both companies and working people all across Europe will have to bear the burden of those losses. She didn't put a figure on them, but we can perhaps get a sense of it from the figure the EU has spent subsidizing its members' energy needs in the last 12 months: a million million euros.
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  7630. There's plenty of money in it as supplementation is necessary for most of the population.
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  7631. There's plenty of money in it. Supplementation remains necessary for most of the population.
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  7632. I'm surprised you weren't expecting this. It's been known for at least a year now that Trump's son-in-law is planning to develop a string of resorts in Gaza. And that Trump's campaign was funded to the tune of 100 million usd by Sheldon Adelson's widow.
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  7633. What Marxists?! The academy is over-run by virulent anti-Marxists and has been for the last 40 years. They are called post-modernists.
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  7634. Levan is a Georgian living in Russia.
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  7635. There are no reports -- only hysterical claims and imputations. Not a single piece of actual reporting and analysis.
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  7636. Being "positive" is worse than meaningless, it's positively detrimental when it requires reality denial and lying to oneself. What she needs is years of therapy to face and confront the truth about her father AND to mature morally, which she cannot do for as long as she's investing her mental and emotional energies in wilfully overlooking her father's crimes. ​ @llort42 
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  7637. Yay! 🙂
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  7638. ​ @clintloranrand951  A 100-150 years from now, maybe. But not Dalmatia, unless it's in some sort of a reconstituted, social democratic Yugoslavia.
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  7639.  @clintloranrand951  I didn't know any of that except for remembering that the people in Dalmatia were especially fond of us from Belgrade.
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  7640. Respect for truth and facts is "intolerant"? 😅
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  7641. You have a problem with facts and with reality: Bradley, a k.a. Chelsea, Manning is a biological male.
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  7642. World Government = US government And we, the rest of the world, don't want it. Mind your own business, Muricans.
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  7643. I agree.
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  7644. The countries that make up the EU invaded Russia 3 times. Russia's never invaded the West. Never.
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  7645. How can his now grown up daughter continue to lie about her mother's death -- no doubt coached by her murderer father -- when she KNOWS the autopsy revealed her mother had been strangled to death?!
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  7646. ​ @Peter-xg5fq  Has he accepted the sacking, though?
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  7647. A nervous breakdown. We know. You're wasting your time.
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  7648. An apartment that size and in that condition just 45 minutes outside Toronto would go for $1600-$2,000 a month. And although our salaries are much higher than in Russia, most Canadians are struggling these days to afford a place of their own (many people share apartments and rooms with strangers, in fact).
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  7649. Sending her to prison for a year is just mean minded. It won't help straighten her up or help the babies, either, who will now go from one foster home to another. America treats its poor and its broken like s*it. A barbaric system all round.
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  7650. Not true. You keep hearing bs.
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  7651. Orban and Fico are the only sane ones in the EU.
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  7652.  @hsicreativeedge6809  Serbia is not an EU member.
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  7653. Happy New Year, Brian! All the best to you and yours!
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  7654. ​ @DomAtaGlance  Exactly the opposite. And while you may continue to deny it and spin the truth to the public at home, the rest of the world can see very clearly who's been doing what the past half a century. The US is the global bully, thrashing around now that it's no longer the biggest and the most powerful.
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  7655. The truth is out. Just not in our mainstream media, whose job is to lie to and manipulate our perception of the world.
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  7656. It's very simple: Musk is a Western imperialist. Remember, he's the guy who said, "We'll coup wherever we want! Get used to it!"
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  7657. As a hegemon, yes.
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  7658. 😂​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott 
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  7659. 🎯
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  7660. Lucky Ukraine, no? 😜
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  7661. The civilians who remained did so out of their own choice -- Russian forces had offered to evacuate everyone.
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  7662. And Canada.
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  7663. No, sweetie, this is capitalist, neoliberal nonsense.
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  7664. Too many of you do, though.
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  7665. He went for a photo op in a warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of Bakhmut.
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  7666.  @t.mubarakahmed2198  That's exactly what the topic is. The Roman genocide of 2nd century Jews in Judea and Palestine.
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  7667. Check out Brian Berletic, who IS a military man, on The New Atlas channel for another view of the current Ukrainian counter-offensive.
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  7668. ​ @brutallyremastered4255  That this is all news to you tells you just how controlled your "free" press actually is.
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  7669. They're doing the same all across the NATOsphere. We live in a cynical simulacrum of democracy and freedom of information!
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  7670. You do know that both Max and Aaron are Jewish?
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  7671. ​ @opinion3742  That description applies only to a handful of OT stories and passages. Most of the text is, ethically speaking, appalling, vile.
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  7672. The West has always downplayed the cruelty and the psychopathic callousness of the Ottomans/Turks. The British press, for example, actively denied and ridiculed reports of genocidal-intensity atrocities perpetrated by Turks in Crimea and Bulgaria in the 19th century.
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  7673. Another Madeleine Albright. Rivalled only by Hillary Clinton. Her husband, Robert Kagan, is her partner in crime.
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  7674. It's the herd instinct. And no matter how many times people discover they'd been lied to by their politicians and the MSM, they still retain their will to believe them because realising just how rotten their ruling elites are, how absolutely unreliable and hypocritical they are, is simply too scary, too anxiety producing.
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  7675. Unlike her late husband Stephen F Cohen, she's always stood with one foot inside the Washington's liberal elite and one foot and inch to the left of it.
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  7676. ​ @filtonkingswood Really?!
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  7677. ​ @rezza_lynsaii  Amazing how you managed to "forget" more than a decade of vicious anti-Russia propaganda in our media leading to a Nazi-level Russophobia in Europe.
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  7678. Amazing how you've managed to "forget" more than a decade of vicious slander and anti-Russia propaganda by our media leading to the present Nazi-like levels of Russophobia in Europe.
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  7679. ​ @Penpalinflorida  But you don't leave undefended an area where you can see enemy forces massing to attack you. Which is exactly what happened. Gerasimov should have been fired back in 2022. This is the consequence of keeping him on.
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  7680. The Brits have never really outgrown their serf mentality or they'd have started a revolution by now. It's been a year and a half since over 30% of them started skipping meals because they can't afford 3 meals a day.
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  7681. The Brits have never outgrown their serf mentality or they'd have launched a revolution by now. I remember a poll done in the Spring of 2023 which showed over 30% of them skipping meals because they could no longer afford 3 meals a day.
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  7682. As he said a year or so ago, Russia has many Putins.
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  7683. I don't think the boy knows what he saw. He actuaytold MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. Finally, doctors who assessed him before trial said that at 6 years old, he was developmentally at the stage of a 4 and a half year old, an age at which children confabulate a lot.
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  7684. 😂
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  7685. We're the ones who erected the new Iron Curtain with our ban on flights to and from Russia, our sanctions (which have only boomeranged on us, while Russia posts a 5.6% growth in the first quarter of this year alone), our ban on Russian athletes competing in international events, and our ban in everything Russian, including (the madness of it all) a ban on a Russian TREE being entered in an international tree competition! We've lost our little Russia-hating minds, with the entire world watching our lunacy and shaking its head at it.
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  7686. They're delusional then. The Russian army is doing better than fine, its troops are gaining invaluable battleground experience and being rotated all the time exactly for that purpose, and its weapons and ammo reserves continually replenished through dedicated production lines. I'm sure the Pentagon's aware of all this, in fact.
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  7687. It's not a family drama. 41 NATO countries, plus other US satellites, are using Ukraine to fight Russia. And the Ukrainians, stupidly, mentally befuddled by the lies and delusions their oligarch-funded Nazis have filled their minds with, are sacrificing themselves in order to be accepted by people who despise them. The sooner Russians realize that these people are no longer a part of their family, the better for Russia. ❤️
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  7688.  @longarm498  I know that Vaska is a male name (abbreviation) in Russian, but I'm from former Yugoslavia, where it's a woman's name. 🙂 Russia must not lose, for its own sake first of all, but also for the sake of all the other countries and peoples who don't want to live under Western hegemony. What you're doing right now is of truly world-historical significance, and I pray you succeed every single day!
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  7689. ​ @Astra-k5d  Because they abhor Nazism and its vicious handmaiden anti-Semitism.
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  7690. Shamelessly?! 😂
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  7691. First of all, the dog is very clearly NOT anxious. Secondly, there are SEVERAL cameras in use here.
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  7692. The bit about belief systems and atheism was silly. Theists and Christians (or for that matter Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews) believe in God but also believe in all sorts of people and other things. Tyson's atheism is irrelevant. Tyson KNEW that COVID-19 vaccines did not go through the normal process of testing, etc. because this was public knowledge, especially in the scientific community, so he was outright lying and obfuscating things here.
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  7693. We've had shortages of various food items off and on for the last year. I still can't get the Spanish chocolates I used to be able to buy on Amazon as well as at the Zehrs supermarket here in Kitchener a year and a half ago. For a couple of months last fall, it was impossible to find cashew milk anywhere, and the brank I used to buy has completely disappeared. The flash-frozen organic chicken breasts I need because I have histamine intolerance and can't eat any kind of meat that's less than completely fresh is available every second month of so, and even then for only a short time. And these are just the items I can think of off the top of my head.
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  7694. He doesn't care.
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  7695. We don't execute schizophrenics for the simple reason that they're ill.
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  7696. ​ @culturebreath369  Seriously traumatic.
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  7697. Russia's single-handedly defeating NATO.
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  7698. Let me help you out of your evident confusion: Russia's single-handedly defeating NATO. Something NATO and the rest of the world are fully aware of.
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  7699. ​ @wandajean5186  You really like people mutilating themselves so they can never experience orgasm, don't you? A bit sadistic, that, a bit on the mean side, methinks.
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  7700. You lead a very sheltered life.
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  7701. Not getting my vote after this. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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  7702. 70% of Russians want him to run in 2024, so his re-election is guaranteed.
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  7703. ​ @garyddlewis3067  That's pure ridiculous propaganda. None of the more recent NATO member states, none of the East European countries that joined NATO in the last 30 years as well as Finland and Sweden, allowed a referendum on the topic. The people of all of these countries were never consulted, in fact. It's no secret that the vast majority of their populations were opposed to joining NATO.
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  7704. Excellent!
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  7705. 🎯
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  7706. A lot of Ukrainians have access to the Internet and can, if they wish to do so, keep themselves informed by following RT, Sputnik, and any/all of the independent media and analysis sites available to us. If they don't speak English, Telegram has an excellent translation program that allows one to follow material published in a language one doesn't know. My point is that the Ukrainians who've been brainwashed by their government's lies and propaganda have done so despite having every opportunity to expose themselves to alternative information sources and thus evaluate the veracity and credibility of the official story line.
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  7707.  @Coromi1  Yeah, right. You never de-Nazified your ministry of foreign affairs: the same swine who served Hitler and the Nazis and planned the annihilation of the Russian people have been passing on their "values" and ideas to all post-war generations of German civil servants and diplomats. Fortunately, there are a few honest scholars in Germany who've written books about this. Odd that you seem unaware of it as the London Review of Books reviewed these monograms more than 15 years ago.
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  7708. ​​ @TacticalMayo  It's the option most of life takes. Throughout the history of life forms on this planet.
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  7709. The last lot was on its way to dragging us into WW3, and even a nuclear war with Russia. I don't think Trump will go there.
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  7710. Except that, as it turns out, Germany needs Russia but Russia doesn't need Germany. With their proxy war with Russia, the neocon idiots in the US have only managed to Destroy Ukraine Strengthen Russia immeasurably Weaken Germany, perhaps irreversibly Draw Russia and China even closer together than they already were pre-2022
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  7711. ​ @LeadLeftLeon I suspect their corrupt gang in power will force them to just carry on regardless, and will be supported in that by its Western sponsors. Neither gives a fig about how many Ukrainian men are blown to bits in the process. Ukraine won't recover from this loss of human capital for at least a century, if ever.
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  7712. What happened last night? I was watching JD"s live show online when it suddenly disappeared. Did JD pull it or was that YouTube"s doing?
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  7713. The Russians are NOT dropping their FAB 3000 bombs on civilians but on military forces only. Even Amnesty International admits in a long report about it that Ukraine's using civilians as human shields, a war crime in itself.
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  7714. Nothing in all this suggests a planned demolition. The Great Reset was possible only under the conditions of unipolarity, of Western hegemony and Western-driven "globalization". The rise of multipolarity is a nightmare for the Great Reset lot, who are flailing around and going from one idiotic policy move to another, like a bunch of panicked chicken squawking their little heads off as they run around trying to conceal and forestall the already ongoing disaster they and they alone are responsible for which is set to get worse and worse with every passing month. They thought they could cause chaos and then control it: that's how stupid their arrogance has made them!
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  7715. ​ @reinhard8053  Nonsense comparison. Not having already installed kitchens in rental units is both illogical and irrational. Germans are infamous for deluding themselves about their "logic" and "rationality". 😅
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  7716. Polish PM Donald Tusk said today that Europe's living in "pre-war times", while his Minister for Foreign Affairs Sikorski backs sending NATO troops to Ukraine, and the Brits are pressuring Germany to allow the use of its long-range missiles in/by Ukraine. The European political elite is pushing all of Europe into a direct war with Russia, and the European public can't even be bothered to take to the streets in a series of general strikes all across the subcontinent to stop this madness and prevent another catastrophic war. They've all lost their little supercilious, arrogant minds.
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  7717. Tell me you're a racist while denying you're a racist.
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  7718. ​ @vatnikxxi7717  Kharkov has a population of 1.4 million. Odessa 1 million, as you said
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  7719. Musk is getting handsomely paid by the US DoD for it, so he's no incentive to stop.
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  7720. Blinded by their arrogance, their sense of superiority over the rest of the world, and by the brainwashing by their politicians and their media.
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  7721. ​​ @alexstoyanov6108  Russia kept Ukraine afloat to the tune of $200 billion between 1991-2014. This figure comes from the then head of the IMF (Christine Lagarde). I don't think they'll make the same mistake again.
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  7722. When did they ever wake up?!
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  7723. Fools. They will soon come to regret what they've done.
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  7724. The true number of the victims of Western imperialism and colonialism includes its indigenous victims in Australia, Canada, the USA, and all of South America too, in addition to the ones in India and Africa. It should also include the victims of slave trade as well as those of WW2, a war of German and Japanese imperialism. The true number must be well over 250 million people.
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  7725. ​ @turokforever007  And for much more than if they bought it directly from Russia. What economic and geopolitical geniuses! 😂
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  7726.  @soylentgreenb  Russia demanded payment in rubles only AFTER the collective West illegally seized its 300 billion dollars in foreign currency reserves that were held in Western banks. It was dealing with thieves.
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  7727. Leo the Adorably Cute! 😍
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  7728. I don't understand why he keeps talking about rain when the first rains are expected only next Friday (and thereafter).
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  7729. There's no draining of that swamp. The only way to dislodge this entrenched system of corruption called the American duopoly is by much more drastic action. Either a Second American Revolution, or the electorate switches to a third party.
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  7730. Artie is stunningly beautiful! 😍
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  7731. ​​ @arostwocents  People keep projecting their own values and ways onto Russia, not even realising how off the mark they are. It's also a form of narcissism, the key characteristic of the West.
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  7732. Amazon Prime automatically spots the use of a VPN (I had a high-end one installed), so having one is pretty useless for me.
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  7733. I agree and am feeling very grumpy about Putin's idiotic pussyfooting myself. 😟
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  7734. None so blind as those who will not see. At present, a Ukrainian brigade consists of about 2,000 soldiers (down from 4,000 each).
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  7735. Far be it from me to defend Zelensky, but that's errant nonsense.
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  7736. Your First Amendment is obviously no protection at all. Snowden is safe in Russia, but not anywhere in the West, including his country of birth, the USA.
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  7737. She's a massively manipulative person who's used tantrums, emotional violence, screaming and stone-walling all her life to get what she wants. She may have a personality disorder (borderline or sociopathic or some form of narcissism), but those things are NOT mental illnesses. They are personality styles, psychological descriptions of nasty human behaviours and nasty human beings.
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  7738. You mean Sweden and Finland gave up their neutrality to NATO. More the fools, they!
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  7739. Exactly. This isn't a solution at all.
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  7740. This is how they treat mentally ill people with cameras rolling and recording everything. Imagine what they do to to go them when the cameras are switched off and there are no outside witnesses. Some of the people commenting here see the officers as kind and patient -- as a couple of them indeed are, and the more respect to them for it. But the blonde female officer who pretends to be kind by asking the homeless woman if it's uncomfortable in the chair they'd chained her in (an insulting pseudo-question, as the homeless woman rightly understand), is a really nasty piece of goods with nothing but contempt for this mentally ill person. The true nature of a society can be seen in the way it treats its weakest, most vulnerable, poorest members.
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  7741. What's the option?
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  7742. Those four regions are now a part of the Russian Federation. No one can syphon them back into Ukraine, no matter what. The Russian constitution forbids it.
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  7743. What a confused bunny you are. Ukrainian losses, as even the Western media are beginning to admit, have been so tremendous that it's positively embarrassing to mention the number of killed and the number of severely disabled.
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  7744. Europeans need to disband the EU a commission and EU parliament and revive the EEC. It's the only way they can ever regain sovereignty and independence from the US.
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  7745. Why? In politics, that's a compliment! A country as small and economically insignificant as Serbia needs all the guile it can muster in order to survive in a world (the EU and the US) clearly hostile to its interests.
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  7746. ​ @zhenyamugisa9423  Depends on who wins the election. I understand that the Ipsos poll of July 1-2 shows that Michelle Obama would defeat Trump. Here's what RT says about this: "The only person who could beat Trump is Michelle Obama, the poll suggests. In her matchup against the former president, some 50% of registered voters said they would vote for her, compared to 39% who said they would vote for Trump. The former first lady also appears to have a better public image than the other candidates. The survey showed that around 42% of voters have a favorable opinion of Trump, compared to the 38% who have a favorable opinion of Biden. But Obama had an approval rating of 55%, beating all other potential Democratic candidates."
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  7747. Thank you for these details. It's clear that this was a DELIBERATE Ukrainian provocation intended to work as a false flag. Despicable.
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  7748.  @Usp4U  Thanks! Very interesting.
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  7749. He'll be addressing the summit via Zoom.
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  7750. Deepest respect and admiration for the Yemenis. What they're doing is incredible!
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  7751. The UK allied itself with the Nazis before the Soviets did. As a matter of historical record, during the 1930s the Soviets had proposed a defense alliance to both the UK and France (as well as to Poland) to deter Hitler. Both rejected the proposal and made their separate deals with the Nazis. It was only in light of those actions by France and Britain, that Stalin had his foreign minister sign a non-aggression treaty with Germany in August 1939, to buy the Soviets some time to prepare themselves for the war they knew was coming. Poland, for its part, openly allied itself with Hitler and marched into Czechoslovakia with the Nazis to grab a piece of it themselves. In the end, it took the Soviets to defeat the Nazis and liberate Europe from them.
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  7752. The BRICS+ nations are developing another financial settlement system, and they already overshadow the West economically (as well as militarily, of course).
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  7753. Short of throwing nuclear bombs at one another, there's literally nothing we can do to the planet can come close to the cycles of devastation and cataclysms it's been through due to entirely natural processes. Nature is absolutely merciless to nature.
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  7754. ​ @Just_forfun9140  Even Germans complain about how hard it is to make friends with other Germans.
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  7755. That's silly. You obviously haven't travelled enough.
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  7756. Not even close. Things are getting seriously difficult for the majority of Canadians, but such exaggeration lacks all credibility.
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  7757. You do realize that a plebiscite WAS done all across the USSR in 1991 and 75% of the population, including the absolute majority in Ukraine, was against the dissolution of the same?
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  7758. ​ @hellothere-b6q They don't want to be a party to Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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  7759. America richly deserves both Joe and Kamala. As well as Trump.
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  7760. At the expense of tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives. The man's utterly despicable.
    1
  7761.  @billrand4138  Under 2%, actually. Get a grip.
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  7762.  @isc4l  Don't be silly, CNN nonsense -- which is where the figures you're citing come from -- are just that. Propaganda nonsense.
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  7763. A Zionist, in brief.
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  7764. Empires have and tolerate no allies. All they want is to dominate others.
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  7765. Not in the least surprising. The idea's just a continuation of the time old Liberal Party policy of relying on the immigrant vote.
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  7766. So, it's Russian neo-Nazis who are responsible for the virulent Ukrainian form of nationalism that has its roots in Ukrainian Nazi collaborator groups. Got it! Btw, the standing ovations our entire parliament in Ottawa gave to a former member of the SS created no serious scandal in Canada. The whole thing blew over in less than two weeks, in fact, and isn't being mentioned in Canada any more.
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  7767. Corrupt and corrupted by the Golden Billion.
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  7768. Only ideologically reliable Nazis were ever allowed to join an SS group. The guy in Canada is a bona fide Nazi.
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  7769. I've been to India (both times in Kerala) twice. If only it were clean -- the streets and all public spaces -- and less callous about its own people. It's distressing to see the conditions in which so many Indians live. And I understand that things in Kerala are much better than in many other parts of India. 😕 P.S. I was never harassed or groped in Kerala and felt perfectly safe wherever I went.
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  7770. This is beyond any "potential that this is real". Ukraine's use of chemical weapons is incontrovertible. As is the fact that it's a Nazi state (headed by a Jew).
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  7771. I agree. Cui bono.
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  7772. And that used to hold for humanities subjects, too. I went to a graduate program at UC Berkeley after my BA program in Malta. I had only high-school equivalent of courses in Middle English taken in the British school system (the A levels) and was immediately placed into a Ph.D. level seminar in Medieval studies given by one of a handful of world authorities in the field. This was back in 1981.
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  7773. I'm afraid that program will turn out to be just a front for indoctrination.
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  7774. Denial is a river in Egypt.... 😂😂😂
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  7775. The first two were spies. The third an independent analyst.
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  7776.  @Xaq_udirir  Do you know why?
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  7777.  @arthurtane6505  You must be paid quite a bit to be writing such lies from your mother's basement.
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  7778. Not any more.
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  7779. I'm smiling, too. Never thought I'd live to see this. 🙂
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  7780. You need to sober up.
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  7781. 😂
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  7782. One could say the same for Christianity, alas. Christians have committed more genocides the world over than any other group. I don't blame any particular religion (although Islam does have imperialism baked into it), but the human beings who commit atrocities in the name of Islam, or democracy, or in the name of free markets, etc.
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  7783. Nonsense. 😂
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  7784. He's 87 and is losing it. The people around him should have intervened at once and distracted him. It's appalling that their idolizing of him resulted in them letting this old man totally disgrace himself.
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  7785. Am I the only one who's getting a little fed up with Russian naiveté (if that's what it is) and that ludicrous readiness to play nice and accommodate beyond all reason those who are killing their soldiers and thousands of ethnic Russian and Ukrainian civilians, too, while doing their damnedest to ruin Russia's economy and destroy its state? Why, as in this naval humanitarian corridor case, do the Russians keep putting themselves in the position in which their avowed enemies can and do take advantage of them? (I get the impression that even asking these questions is this a taboo topic.)
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  7786. Why wait? Why are Germans so servile with their politicians and "authority figures" in general?
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  7787. 😂
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  7788. So glad to hear about the pro-Russia movement in Serbia! 👍🙂
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  7789. 😂
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  7790. 👍
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  7791. Not yet, alas, but it's certainly on its way down.
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  7792. People have been predicting the end of the world quite regularly over the past 2,000 years. It's a mug's game.
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  7793. 😅
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  7794. I don't for a moment believe Putin actually sees Tucker in those terms. I think his remarks are meant to protect Tucker Carlson from further harassment in the West.
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  7795. ​ @cathere9631  You've described it well. It's an automatic system that requires no human input.
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  7796. All of the West does it, all the time.
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  7797. ​ @beebeer  The West is busy removing all traces of who really did it. Just yesterday, the lead investigator was found dead in his hom, supposedly, of a bee sting. His body was immediately cremated, so we'll never get a chance to learn how he was killed, but that he was offed by the West, of that there can be no doubt. We're dealing with absolutely unscrupulous people.
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  7798. Yes, he was. The same bullshitting he's been dishing out all over Europe for the last 3 years.
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  7799. They're covering up the fact that Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey will be just fine while the rest of Europe freezes over due to its despicable Russophobia.
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  7800. ​ @LeadLeftLeon  The West is no longer the 1st world. China alone outproduces and outperforms the US+EU combined.
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  7801. ​ @robertwarner-ev7wp  That's so stupid. You can't believe such nonsense.
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  7802. Nah. The Russians are notoriously, stupidly merciful with their enemies, alas.
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  7803. Thanks!
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  7804. This won't be the first time Serbs deceived themselves and fell for Western guile. They still have totally unrealistic beliefs about what life in "normal" countries is actually like and a totally skewed picture of Serbia's actual economic strength compared to all the other parts of former Yugoslavia. The idea that university students -- what percentage of the population of Serbia do they constitute?! -- should be given the right to select some of their professors who would then form a "national unity government" is preposterous. And deeply, inherently anti-democratic. I'm on the mailing list of the so-called non-govermental organization that's pushing these protests and they calling for the people of Serbia to PREVENT new elections! You have to be either totally deluded, or irresponsibly naive, or cynically self-interested in some way to think that this has anything to do with saving Serbia (from what?! It's doing far better than most of its neighbours!) or with the rule of law and democracy.
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  7805. Enough Serbs do to keep voting him back into power. Whatever irregularities took place during these elections, they are nothing in comparison with the last presidential elections in the US.
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  7806. Sure. 😘
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  7807. People have been deliberately dumbed down. Besides, most are cowards and will toe the line set for them by the media and the authorities.
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  7808. This isn't about refugees and immigrants. It's about illegal (not "undocumented") immigrants. Wolff is a champagne socialist and a life-long DemParty voter. He talks a good line about being a Marxist, but that's about it. Imagine an actual socialist arguing against a policy that will force the wealthy to pay some 10-12 million American workers a living wage!
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  7809. 😂
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  7810. ​ @prahamama8915  *Great
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  7811. That's not true even of most major Protestant denominations, let alone the Catholic Church or the Orthodox.
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  7812. Ted Cruz just demonstrated that he's a worse psychopath than even Blinken.
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  7813. ​ @sallywilton2236  We all know that narrative. In reality, the collective West is wringing its hands and bewailing its humiliation in Ukraine.
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  7814. When I find Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-Marine Brian Berletic, ex-Marine Scott Ritter, ex-CIA Larry Johnson, ex-CIA Ray McGovern, and internationally renowned economists such as Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sachs all tell me essentially the same thing, I have no trouble figuring out whom to believe, them or the paid propagandists and professional liars, aka politicians, who've been telling me patent lies day in and day out for years now.
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  7815. When I find Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-Marine Brian Berletic, ex-Marine Scott Ritter, ex-CIA Larry Johnson, ex-CIA Ray McGovern, and internationally renowned economists such as Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sachs all telling me essentially the same thing, I have no trouble figuring out whom to believe, them or the paid propagandists and professional liars, aka politicians, who've been telling me patent lies day in and day out for years now.
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  7816. When I find Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-Marine Brian Berletic, ex-Marine Scott Ritter, ex-CIA Larry Johnson, ex-CIA Ray McGovern, and internationally renowned economists such as Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sachs on one side all telling me essentially the same thing, I have no trouble figuring out whom to believe, them or the paid propagandists and professional liars, aka politicians, who've been telling me patent lies day in and day out for years now.
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  7817. When I find Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-Marine Brian Berletic, ex-Marine Scott Ritter, ex-CIA Larry Johnson, ex-CIA Ray McGovern, and internationally renowned economists such as Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sachs on one side all telling me essentially the same thing, I have no trouble figuring out whom to believe, them or the paid propagandists and professional liars, aka politicians, who've been telling me patent lies day in and day out for years now.
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  7818. Idle rumours, as so often in Serbia.
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  7819. False about the Migs 29, true about the mirage jets.
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  7820. ​​ @sowbinchandran1128 hey're constantly being supplied with weapons, ammo, and real-time intelligence by a consortium of 41 countries of the collective West. This is the West's proxy war against Russia, something that was planned from 2014 on. Alexei Arestovich, then Zelensky's closest advisor, revealed in a Ukrainian TV interview in 2019 that fighting a war with Russia was the precondition for Ukraine's entry into NATO and that the war would start any time between 2020 and 2022. That the West doesn't want its own populations to know any of this is neither here nor there, but it's a shame that other countries are pretending they don't know.
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  7821. Even Gideon Levy uses weasel words such as "evacuate" to describe the Israeli ambition to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
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  7822.  @Max91019  All of eastern and southern Ukraine are Russian lands annexed to Ukraine by Lenin and Stalin. This is a historical fact you can deny till you're blue in the face. The fact remains. This is why there are millions of ethnic Russians in Ukraine: because those are their ancestral homelands, artificially attached to the Kiev regions to create a Ukrainian state at all.
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  7823.  @Max91019  Real history and the Ukrainian versions of it are two very different things.
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  7824. ​ @Double_Dave  At least a third of the world's top physicists are practicing Christians.
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  7825.  @Double_Dave  I thought we were talking about people with critical thinking skills, a prime example of whom would be top-tier scientists.
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  7826. But that was true of ALL courts in Europe, yet only the French kings created such elaborate, ridiculous customs and rules.
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  7827. Go and watch the video of the opening ceremony of this last CPC Congress: he had to be helped coming in, as well.
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  7828. Superbly well explained! I'm saving this so I can listen to it whenever U need a refresher on these topics.
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  7829. The guy didn't have a meltdown at all.
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  7830. Would have been mad not to given the West's war-making plans.
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  7831. Apart from a relatively small part of Africa, all of the globe consists of settler colonies. All of the native peoples of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand are the descendants of settler population's, too.
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  7832. Why on Earth would you even contemplate forgiving a man responsible for sending close to one million Ukrainian men to a certain and dreadful death in a totally pointless, unnecessary war?! That sentimentality, that too-ready-a-willingness to forgive evil doers is a typical Russian trait -- one that hasn't served Russia well for the past two centuries.
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  7833. Why would you even consider forgiving someone who callously sent a million Ukrainian men to a certain and pointless death?! Zelensky knew what he was doing. What mystifies me is the apparent absence in Ukraine of any understanding of how treacherously, inhumanely, how cavalierly it's been used and abused by the West as a whole.
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  7834.  @Fishflorida59  Several reasons: 1. To protect the civilians, as Ukrainian forces keep shelling the city non-stop. So far, they've evacuated 115,000 out of Kherson's 180,000 residents. The evacuation of civilians continues. 2. To avoid getting trapped in what the Russian intelligence believes is Kiev's plan to destroy that dam and flood the city. 3. To preserve the lives of their troops, as well as civilian lives. All good reasons, but politically and in terms of PR, this LOOKS terrible. And it is, coming just several weeks following the referendum and RF's decision to accept the Kherson region into the RF.
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  7835.  @Fishflorida59  Yes, I agree: it's embarrassing in the short run since our media will spin it as a huge Ukrainian victory and a demonstration of Russia's weakness. The truth is that this is exactly how Russians wage wars, retreating sometimes for hundreds of kilometres to preserve their army and then striking back when the situation favours them. They did it over and again in WW2, and the Russian public is aware of that.
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  7836. Mearsheimer only claims to be a realist -- doesn't mean he is one. It's a term he's usurped for himself and his version of American hegemonism. It's more accurate to say that Mearshey identifies as a realist.... And is worse than useless on China.
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  7837. I've been watching China videos by other Western visitors and ex-pats in China, so this is not new to me. But you're right: we're deliberately being kept misinformed about China. (And who knows what else besides.).
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  7838. Israel has no right to Gaza.
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  7839. Here's a definition from the old left (a European socialist and feminist): a woman is an adult human female. An adult with xx chromosomes. I fully support Matt Walsh's stand on this question and the issue of transgenderism.
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  7840. ​ @rianfagundes9466 Great! 🙂👏
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  7841. You're completely dominated by the US. 100%.
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  7842. China's overtaken the US+EU, not merely the second or third tier economy like UK's!
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  7843. I've just tried Googling Rwanda and TPLF and could not find anything on the topic. On the other hand, African sources state that Kagame was for decades close personal friend of the TPLF leadership. It doesn't look like Max got things wrong here.
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  7844. This could have been over by now had the Russians not told themselves pretty stories about the Russian-Ukrainian "family" and gone in hard and fast. Like Alexander, I'm not a military expert, but I suspect that such an approach would have spared both military and civilian lives. My conclusion is that as phenomenal as Putin's been at putting Russia back on its feet and making it great again, as a wartime president, he's simply not up to the job.
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  7845. ​ @hurricanetasha1681 🎯
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  7846. Definitely a deliberate attempt to drag NATO into the fight.
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  7847. Home.
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  7848. Same here: a friend of mine died of a heart attack at 18 (and that was 45 years ago). An acquaintance of mine died of a heart attack at 39 (some 20 years ago).
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  7849. The drones didn't get a chance to hit anything. They were shot down before reaching a target.
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  7850. ​​ @onlyagermanguy  #3 is definitely a bad thing for everyone with mobility problems, for parents with small children, and for many/most of the elderly. #5 Even Germans admit that Germans are generally an unfriendly people. Btw, you let in a couple of million refugees a few years ago because you need immigrants to do all the work Germans think is below them, AND because you're demographically dying fast.
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  7851.  @SimonLearns  I'm not sure either.
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  7852. They aren't stupid. They're corrupt. Literally bought by the US State Department.
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  7853. Martyanov's books are in the Pentagon library. Where can we find yours?
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  7854.  @tranquilocomptranquilocomp19  Grow up.
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  7855. What else do you expect them to say? They've been lying 24/7 since at least February 24, 2022.
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  7856. Not at all surprised. The EU changed its own internal rules in order to allow it's member states to purchase the oil ISIS was stealing from Syria before the US stepped in and took over from the ISIS. Why people keep on imagining Europe's anything but a bunch of thieves and bullies is beyond me.
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  7857. Only by the outgoing neocons, who will be irrelevant 4 weeks from now
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  7858. For real? That's chilling. I wonder whether the US controls the curia, which rules the Vatican.
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  7859. US political leadership committed treason that day.
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  7860. I was briefly acquainted with a woman with the borderline personality disorder -- a very nasty, superficially charming and even ingratiating rattlesnake of a person.
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  7861. 😂
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  7862. They're still lying. The figures they cite are false.
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  7863. 😅
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  7864. Please remind me, which US neocon quipped a few years ago that if Israel didn't exist, we'd have to invent it.
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  7865. Whenever Ukraine rejects Russia's basic peace terms, it loses more territory. Their choice.
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  7866. Our common (and justified) dislike of the West doesn't make us friends. There's a long and incredibly bloody history of Muslim imperialism and brutal oppression of Orthodox Christian lands in the Balkans for which no real apology, let alone sincere expression of contrition has ever been given.
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  7867. B.S. The allies deliberately didn't bomb the German railway system to spare Germany's post-war economy. Knowing full well that it was being used to transport Jews, Roma, and Slavs to the death camps.
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  7868. It's the other fellow who loves lies.
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  7869. Teddy's the epitome of chill! 😅
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  7870. Typical Protestant bigotry. I'm Orthodox and the anti-Catholic prejudice in the US and Canada never ceases to amaze and disgust me.
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  7871. Little Britain would have done what the Nazis failed at? Sure! 😂😂😂
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  7872. Americans are way worse. They have no idea that life's far better in many countries around the world. The quality of life anywhere in Europe, except Ukraine and Moldova, is far superior to quality of life in the US or Canada.
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  7873. I think there may be more of us than meets the eye, but you're right nevertheless: it's been so disheartening to see us turn into a Nazi-saluting, Nazi supporting country. 🫤
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  7874. Russia and China don't need the West to prosper. Once the West develops integrity and a respect for international law and human rights (yes, human rights, not its mere rhetoric about them), it can approach China and Russia if it wants to cooperate in a win-win-win fashion.
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  7875. You may be interested to learn that the Germans have been telling themselves they owe it to Ukraine because they "failed" to liberate Ukraine from the Soviets back in the 1940s. Complete continuity between the Nazi Germany and present-day Germany.
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  7876. Western delusions of superiority. They're the garden and the rest of the world is a jungle, you see. (As EU's Borrell said a few months ago.)
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  7877. You mean we write english, italian, german, american, swedish, etc.? 😜
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  7878. Fantastic achievement! Congratulations 👏! Keep going.
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  7879. Russians would be criminally foolish to trust Europe on anything for at least the next 100 years, but quite possibly longer. Europe's attitude to Russia has not changed in the past 300 years, and this is a matter of institutional continuity, not something that will change with a new set of politicians (this is a point on which Putin is woefully wrong about and must be strongly opposed). The collective West wants to destroy it, enslave the Russian population, and grab all their natural resources and vast wealth to itself. The West can be trusted only when it becomes so weak as to no longer be able to cause trouble for others.
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  7880. Farage lost me at claiming that what we're up against is a new firm of communism. It's simply a liberal form of fascism, and even a child can understand that.
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  7881. ​ @nanna1334  Nationalism is leading Georgia to disaster.
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  7882. ​​ @RP-le1fp  Russia is now the acknowledged leader of global resistance to the Empire of Lies. Its standing has never been higher, while its economy is flourishing. But don't let facts spoil your little fantasy.
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  7883. There won't be any ceasefire. Trump's in for a rude awakening once he starts getting real information via Tulsi Gabbard.
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  7884. Simone's getting nicely rotund for her hibernation, but the cubs need to put on a lot more weight asap. Btw, I wonder what the neighbours think about your ursine visitors.
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  7885. ​ @adbogo  What is so amusing about it?
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  7886. Yep. 🙂
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  7887. ​ @jamesgornall5731 Check out the Amnesty International report on Ukraine's use of civilian structures for military use.
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  7888. Macron was met by a woman, a WH staff member. The video with Trump was shot later, for PR purposes.
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  7889. I don't believe the Romans, even as their empire fell apart, were ever suicidal.
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  7890. And you know that how?
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  7891. ​ @oliviao3686 In the US, not anywhere in Europe.
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  7892. Many feel no connection to God or Christ.
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  7893.  @thelagbros7675  Ukraine never had any nukes: they belonged to the USSR.
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  7894.  @thelagbros7675  You seem unfamiliar with the concept of the successor state in international law. According to the latter, Russia is the successor state to the USSR.
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  7895. Israel's been doing far, far worse for decades and getting away with it. What Hamad did last week didn't spring out of a vacuum.
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  7896. He's been doing this to halal street vendors for days on end, with the police claiming they can't do anything when these incidents were reported to them.
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  7897.  @TomasFunes-rt8rd  Their lack of air cover -- your sarcasm speaks of some anger issues you need to address -- still doesn't mean that the collapse is imminent. I hope it comes by July or August.
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  7898. Too many people are taking your excellent elucidation of some of the facts the woke (and the conservatives as well as the liberals before them) routinely suppress as a vindication of colonialism. Be careful about pandering to the type who'll say the Nazis couldn't have been so bad because there were Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht.
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  7899.  @moneybagsknottbob1784  Glad you're feeling better. Too bad, though, that with an opposition like this, we can only continue to sink as a society.
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  7900. Referring to what you rightly observe are civil servants is the language of British feudalism, which has never really gone away but just morphed into its capitalist form.
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  7901. I don't think that 100 billion from the US and I don't know how many more billions from the EU supports that suspicion. NATO just bit off more than it could chew when it pushed Ukraine into this proxy war with Russia.
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  7902. You left out Ukraine (2014).
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  7903.  @hardrockuniversity7283  From a Canadian: the loss of the petrodollar might help you avoid that kinetic action. Civil wars and revolutions tend to be awfully bloody affairs, so I hope you manage to avoid one, as unlikely as that may be.
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  7904. No, for the simple reason that Turkey will not allow any ships to enter the Black Sea for as long as the conflict in Ukraine lasts.
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  7905. 👍
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  7906. YouTube has just deleted Mike Jones's second channel Foreign Agent TV. It did so literally minutes after he posted that YouTube had deleted Graham Phillips's channel.
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  7907. 😂🤡😂
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  7908. Guaranteed to lose you the 2024 election.
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  7909. Racism of the Nazi kind = Patton.
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  7910. Destroyed by Russia.
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  7911. ​ @michaelkatz275  They were obviously roughed up. I have no sympathy for them given what they admit they have done. They're NOT prisoners of war but terrorists, and it's also obvious that the Russians are treating them far better than the Americans treat even innocent suspects, let alone confessed terrorists
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  7912. Respect for due process is a "return to bad old days"?! 😂
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  7913. ​ @palmzombie3553  Why don't you answer that question instead of being rude? It's a perfectly valid question.
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  7914. ​​ @littlefarmer1303  Eating grains -- not plants in general -- is the culprit. We must have been eating loads of leafy greens, tubers and berries before we started cultivating grains. In the typical diet of hunter-gatherers, 75% of their calories come from plants, with meat and fish making only about 25%.
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  7915. Sweden's vaunted "neutrality" in WW2 included letting Hitler's army use the Swedish railway system for free to transport troops to and fro the Eastern Front, i.e. the Swedes enabled the Nazi attempt to destroy Russia, and the death of 27 million people this brought about.
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  7916. It must sound very strange to those who believe the stuff the MSM have been serving us.
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  7917.  @davidbrimson83  And our MSM have been telling us that the Russian economy will collapse under the weight of sanctions, that Russians will rise up and overthrow Putin, that Russia would run out of missiles back in May of 2022, and again I don't know how many times, that the Russian army is reduced to taking chips out of Ukrainian washing machines for their tanks or whatever, that Russians are now reduced to fighting with shovels, etc., etc., etc. One must positively want to be fooled to believe anything that comes out of our politicians and our journalists' and military and economic analysts' mouths any more.
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  7918. He sounds surprisingly naive. Some time in a French prison will disabuse him about much.
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  7919. So, how do we uninstall it? De-activate it?
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  7920. Why are all of our politicians in the West (I'm in Canada) pretending they don't know about Russia's dead-hand system? In the event the Russian state is threatened with a decapitation strike, i.e. a nuclear strike on Moscow, and even in the event such a strike succeeds, the Russians have a system that will automatically, and without needing any human input (since the Russian command will be destroyed by then), send hundreds of nuclear bombs flying to various US cities. Neither you in the US nor we in Canada have an air-defense system that can stop Russia's hypersonic missiles. Why is the entire political class here AND in Europe pretending this doesn't exist or that they don't know about it?
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  7921. 😂 What short memory you have. Ukraine's lost 22% of its territory for bring so stupid and perverse as to keep shelling ethnic Russians for 8 long years and then refusing to settle with Russia last April. More than a fifth of its territory and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men who've lost their lives for a rotten Nazi regime and its Western sponsors.
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  7922. ​ @Nicholas-c8e  I've just checked him online and you're a bare-faced liar and a slanderer. Shame on you! 🤮🤮🤮
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  7923. Max Blumenthal speaks at conservative rallies and I respect him enormously for it.
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  7924. It's been happening to me, too. Another form of covert censorship by YT.
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  7925. Don't pin your hopes to Trump. He just approved Mike Johnson's cave-in that's costing the American taxpayer over a 100 billion dollars.
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  7926. ​​ @AndrewDrysdale-s8d  He and Michelle made a cool $100 million within two years of leaving the White House. A nice hustle, that.
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  7927. ​​ @sylvestrelauriotprevost  Trump, not Obama, armed Ukraine for this proxy war with Russia. Facts are facts.
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  7928. ​ @Franklin_Payne NYT citing a Ukrainian soldier a few weeks ago.
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  7929. 😂
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  7930.  @petesy03  No, I mean Putin, who's also a short man. A person's height has nothing to do with their leadership abilities and their brain power.
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  7931. Lack of political will. I find Putin's constant putting on the brakes exasperating. You should hear reports from the frontline over the past year and a half, as Russian troops are repeatedly ordered to stand down as they're on the point of breaking through. There's a cold-blooded brutality of its own in that.
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  7932. After both Biden and then Blinken announced they weren't going to the meeting at Ramstein, the whole thing fell through. For the first time in two years, NATO will NOT be meeting to plan further its proxy war in Ukraine. Draw your own conclusions. (Europe really screwed itself with the Russophobia it has indulged in ever since 1945, and more like the past two centuries when it comes to the UK.)
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  7933. Anyone with sense knew how this would end the moment it started. The collective West deceived itself into this shameful defeat.
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  7934. That's exactly why I don't understand why the Filipinos voted another member of that political mafia family to power.
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  7935. ​ @torment4723  Cope harder.
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  7936. I agree, but so what? AI machines can, or will be able to if we continue to perfect them, destroy all of humanity.
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  7937. 😂
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  7938. ​ @prestonyoung3807  Why not?
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  7939. The about one thousand civilians who chose to stay in Avdeevka in expectation of a Russian victory are now celebrating the liberation of their town.
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  7940. YouTube's warning me that this video may contain violent images: beyond pathetic.
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  7941. Americans can't do metric. 😅
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  7942. Yay! 🎉🙂
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  7943. 🎯
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  7944. True.
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  7945.  @DangleJimmy  At least it doesn't go invading countries on other continents, as the US and NATO do all the time.
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  7946. That Starmer was ever elected to parliament in the first place tells you all you need to know about the UK electorate: imagine wanting to be represented by a man who helped a notorious pedophile go scot free.
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  7947. ​ @kamilm6616 Except that it never happened and the world has finally wised up to the lies Israelis tell.
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  7948. Serbia is NOT a member of the EU. There's a strong opposition inside Serbia to joining it.
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  7949.  @jackchiu7560  As I said, Serbia is not in the EU. Less than 50% of Serbs want to join it and would prefer to jon BRICS+.
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  7950. Taiwan is indeed free. As a part of China. Just like Massachusetts is free, as a part of the USA.
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  7951. The LSE hasn't been a bastion of socialist thought for at least the past 40 years.
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  7952. ​ @svenhanson398  The Baltic chihuahuas want to push NATO into
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  7953. ​​ @svenhanson398  The Baltic chihuahuas want to push NATO into a direct war with Russia. They still hold annual Nazi torch light processions in their capitals. A vicious and dangerous lot. Allowing them into NATO was a huge mistake.
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  7954. Ted Postel made himself into a joke with that nonsense. Oreshnik vaporizes everything in and around its target, reducing it to elementary particles.
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  7955. ​ @paulbucklebuckle4921 Kiev's just purchased 50,000 women's army uniforms.
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  7956. The West can still save itself if it decides to start co-operating with rather than dominating and exploiting others.
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  7957. A Ukrainian counteroffensive might and most probably will take place at some point, but Russia will win nevertheless. Anyone who ever imagined that NATO could win this proxy war in Ukraine against Russia was simply a dupe of Western self-delusions and propaganda.
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  7958. Communism didn't collapse. 75% of the citizens of the USSR voted AGAINST dismantling it.
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  7959. Europe is not a nation. You're clearly an American. 😂
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  7960. I'm afraid you may be right.
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  7961. 😂
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  7962. Naturally. The difference is that Russia isn't threatening the US and "containing" it with dozens of military bases spitting distance from US borders.
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  7963. ​ @johnpearson9501 You don't know what you're talking about. Russians today enjoy greater press freedom and freedom of speech than any country in the collective West. A fact lost to those who greedily drink the koolaid of NATO-sphere propaganda.
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  7964. Good. We mustn't forget he Russian population of the Baltic states.
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  7965. ​@alexdetrojan4534 Canada doesn't have the natural resources Russia does. We're rich in them, but not to the degree Russians are.
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  7966. ​ @alexdetrojan4534  If that were so, NATO would have managed to defeat it with its proxy forces in Ukraine. As it is, and with Russia using less than 20% of its military capacity, it's defeating the combined West which can't produce on an annual basis the ammo Russia produces every month, without switching to a war economy.
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  7967. ​​ @alexdetrojan4534 If that were so, NATO would have managed to defeat Russia with its proxy forces in Ukraine. As it is, and with Russia using less than 20% of its military capacity, it's defeating the combined West which can't produce on an annual basis the ammo Russia produces every month, without switching to a war economy. The US is still a navy superpower, the only area in which it has dominance over Russia. Russia has a leg up over it in every other respect, militarily speaking, and the effect the West's sanctions have had on their own countries' economies demonstrates just how badly they'd underestimated Russia in that respect, too.
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  7968. Plus the EU.
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  7969. 😂🤡😂
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  7970. ​ @АртемМат-ы9ш  The Russian army doesn't commit war crimes.
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  7971. He's ridiculously poor on matters military. They aren't rotating troops but sending in some more to cover the retreating ones.
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  7972. I hope Scott's not being over optimistic about the demise of NATO. The sooner it's gone, the better for the entire world.
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  7973. He does, you're right.
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  7974. That's what happens in war, and yes, it's always tragic. Thank goodness that the Russian military has chosen from the start to conserve lives and minimize its human losses.
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  7975. All high-level German politicians are literally in the pay of the US State Department. This has been the case for at least the past 10 years. Paul Craig Roberts, under-secratary for finance under Ronald Reagan, claims that his source at the State says the State Department flies out suitcases full of dollars to various EU capitals each and every month. PCR has a blogg and you may even be able to track down the blog post in which he mentions this.
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  7976. Tell me you're American-brainwashed without telling me you're American-brainwashed. ​ @swolfe9668 
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  7977. The justification has always been the discrimination Jews have experienced over the past 2,000 years, ever since the Romans kicked them out of their own homeland. A long history of often enough bloody discrimination culminating in the Nazi Germany's annihilation of European Jewry.
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  7978. Well, seeing how popular patriotic singers/songwriters are, I think a good chunk of the youth have rejected the pro-Western propaganda by Russian liberals, the people who were in power during the 1990s and even 2000s and are proud of their country and its many great achievements. ❤
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  7979. None of which begins to compare with the corruption and lies in the Ukrainian army and its civilian government. I mean this literally.
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  7980. And the price of oil is expected to rise substantially this year following the production cuts by OPEC+. This means that Russian energy revenue will soon return to its pre-war levels. 😛
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  7981. ​ @nurainiarsad7395  I second that.
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  7982. The funny part is that they can't do it. Economically, they can't pull it off and survive. That's why, while puffing their chests out and strutting around, they keep begging for US military support.
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  7983. 😅
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  7984.  @WitnessingTyranny  International law, which the West has been flouting in favour of its utterly corrupt as well as illegal "rules-based order".
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  7985. ​ @poweroflove7320  Yeah, but not of genociding Palestinians, something 68% of Israelis support.
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  7986. 😂
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  7987. ​ @kickpublishing On a campaign platform promising the implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of good relations with Russia. He and his mentors lied, and in the meantime nobody else was offering to do either, so it's not surprising that 76% of the Ukrainian electorate voted for him.
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  7988. A future rump Ukraine can retain its statehood provided it agrees to house 5-10 Russian military bases on its soil, with some 100,000 RF forces permanently stationed in them. Sort of on the model of the US-German "arrangement".
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  7989. 😂
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  7990. Weren't they chips from Ukrainian washing machines? 😂
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  7991.  @carlosgaspar8447  Do tell us about it, US. 😅
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  7992. He means he's an atheist.
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  7993. ​ @angelmessenger8240  a.k.a. fascism
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  7994. Kursk is where the 12,000 Ukrainian troops who went there will find their graves. 50% of them are already dead.
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  7995. Not with the US talking openly about a "coalition of the willing" to go into Ukraine. Russia made a catastrophic mistake in going in softly and dithering for 9 months!
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  7996.  @andrewdock7288  Yes, the English bloke who runs the iEarlGrey channel.
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  7997. It would be very unwise to take anything Western military experts say on our MSM. They've been lying to us and uttering absolute nonsense for years. In December 2021, the Russians sent draft treaties on security matters to both NATO and the US, warning that in the absence of a serious, speedy, substantive response, they would take certain military-technical measures to bolster their own security. Two months later, after NATO and the US rejected negotiations, they launched the SMO in Ukraine. Russians don't bluff.
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  7998. ​ @sylviam6535  Oh poor demoralized them. After all, they only caused the death of some 150 million people all told. A bagatelle.
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  7999. 😅
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  8000. ​ @sylviam6535  It was pretty abysmally stupid as jokes go.
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  8001. 41 countries fighting a proxy war against Russia, and Russia takes territory the size of France, while thriving economically and financially. Whatever the 100% propagandized populations of the collective West may believe, the rest of the world's not blind.
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  8002. Canada has so much natural gas and our perliament has decided to demonize fossil fuels?! 😮😡
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  8003. We need to teach our young to be much more canny in assessing people. Narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths are well known for their superficial charm and ability to con people. The guy with tattoos on his face -- the guy she perceived as very handsome and polite when they first met -- is cleary into Satanism. He either didn't have those tattoos on him at the time or she chose not to see what was right in front of her eyes when she decided to become friends and then lovers with him. His name is Kral J. Harden and he is currently facing two counts of felony rape, along with charges of criminal confinement and sexual battery. Thank God she survived the horrors he and his friends put her through!
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  8004.  @chiwaled  I beg to differ. Everybody -- Ukraine, Western MSM, politicians -- were full of glee about how this act of terrorism was a significant blow and how it would take Russia weeks to repair the bridge. Russia then calmly repairs it in under 24 hrs without breaking a sweat or even boasting about it! The world's just been served an example of Russian efficiency (cry your hearts out, little Russophobe racists out there), and the world has most certainly taken note of that. The whole episode has in effect turned into a massive PR win for Russia. That our MSM and the Ukrainians will never admit it is simply irrelevant.
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  8005. Disgraced in the whole world?! Surely you mean Israel and the US! 😜 Seriously, though, the only people who demonize Russia are the collective West, a paltry 14% of humanity. The same 14% that's despised by the rest of the world, and for many good reasons too.
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  8006. ​ @이주영-h5j9n The work of ultra-nationalists. Without demonizing Russia, they could never get into power. Hence.
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  8007. Why? 84% of the world supports Russia either tacitly or openly. It's only the ever imperialist collective West (and its brainwashed population) that's going nuts because they can't control the entire planet.
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  8008. ​ @fatimalovestosk8 I'm glad for you that you did eventually grow, but no, not everyone does. We all get older, but some never grow.
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  8009. Cope harder.
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  8010. I'm puzzled by your saying that Bukgaria didn't participate in WW2. Bulgaria was neutral until March 1, 1941, when it joined the Axis, i.e. when it allied itself with Nazi Germany.
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  8011. Gyms can easily solve this problem by creating a bathroom for the gender confused only. And by coming up with a neutral label for it. Maybe just labelling bathrooms as Male, Female, Other.
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  8012. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  8013. Stop the hypocrisy. Three little words: Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  8014. Shaming people for being fat is just cruel. We just need to boycott airlines that adopt this clearly discriminatory policy.
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  8015. We did a great job of fooling the world about us. Canada's pre-WW2 policy was "None is too many", referring to the European Jews fleeing the Nazis. Post-war, we immediately gave shelter to thousands of Nazi collaborators from Ukraine, the Baltics, and Croatia. The world just never knew us until now. So, as a Canadian, I feel equally dusgusted at our parliament AND at the majority of my fellow Canadians, who've been just fine with us harbouring thousands of Ukrainian (and Baltic, and Croatian) Nazi collaborators for decades. We're now furious with Trudeau for embarrassing us in front of the whole world -- if only he and all the rest of our parliamentarians had had the sense to keep this truth about us concealed!
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  8016. Well, the tension and the crisis would be there if Bolsanaro had won, too, so we can't ascribe it to Lula's electoral victory. What puzzles me why the State Department likes Lula. Mere spite, because the Trump administration had favoured Bolsanaro?
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  8017. Same in Canada. My grocery bill has gone up about 30% in that last year and a half.
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  8018. Just a sore loser. Graceless.
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  8019. A couple of days ago I came across the claim (possibly true but I haven't checked it yet) that the officer who led the coup in Niger is an Orthodox Christian who converted to Orthodoxy in Russia. Sounds outlandish but it's worth looking into. P.S. Well, Historica Wiki says it's true: "Tchiani converted to Orthodox Christianity after meeting Soviet singer Raisa Vasilyeva and an Orthodox priest in 1981." It sounds like he's a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, then.
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  8020. Russia knows who they are and can hunt them down once this is over (as the Soviets did with a number of Nazi collaborators and German Nazis given refuge in the West post-1945). For now, it got 55 of its men back for 5 Nazis: a good deal, imo.
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  8021. ​ @WildernessStudy  It's YouTube, deleting 80% of our comments as soon as we post them.
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  8022. 😅
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  8023. They're all Israel's tools. So shameful for a supposed superpower to be led by the nose by Zionists.
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  8024. Should Ukraine do so, sooner or later it will discover what a Sarmat can do.
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  8025. Bravo, South Africa! It takes courage and moral backbone to take this stand.
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  8026. Sure. 😂
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  8027. Nord Stream 2 was Merkel's idea, not Russia's. Merkel apparently had a hard time persuading the Russians to undertake the project, together with energy companies from another 2-3 EU countries.
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  8028. 2%, but you're spot on about the rest.
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  8029. It does not. Just as the Orthodox never went for witch hunting, so popular among Protestant and Catholic churches, so we seem perfectly capable of sexual continence, too. This abominable rot is peculiar to the Roman Catholic church and it needs to be extirpated at once.
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  8030. Yeah, just hilarious for the tens of thousands of Ukrainian men the West has used as cannon fodder and the over hundred thousand of others so severely wounded that they can never return to the battlefield.
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  8031. 😮
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  8032. ​ @andrenogueira5058  Yeah, the same one the UK and France made alliances, forcing the Soviets to follow in their steps. That one.
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  8033. They are sacrosanct only in international law, not in their "rules-based order". That's why the West never talks about international law.
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  8034. 40 African nations. While the West is destroying Ukraine by insisting it continue a war they should never have pushed it into in the first place, Russia and China are reshaping global geopolitical order, to the relief and delight of 3/4 of the world community.
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  8035. 😂
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  8036. ​ @squiggs1002  Um, no. It's the Russian economy that's surpassed Germany's to become the #1 in Europe and #4 in the World. The only way you can get around this reality is by denying the superior accuracy and validity of Purchasing Power Parity rankings over the hugely, and I mean ludicrously misleading GDP ones. The latter are a joke as the West counts prostitution and getting ill as contributing to their GDPs! 😅
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  8037. 😂
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  8038. It will fit right in. The EU is run by a handful of unelected appointees answerable to no one.
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  8039. I never heard of that. Why would Kiev need any Czech involvement in the Bucha false flag?
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  8040.  @jennybn  Can you explain why Czechs would help Ukraine stage that massacre as a false flag?
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  8041. It's long past the point at which he might and could have made such a decision. The man is beyond corrupt, utterly rotten through and through. How do you think he came by his fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars? By playing a lead role in Ukrainian TV shows? 😉
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  8042. 😅
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  8043.  @joansparky4439  Keep telling yourself that.
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  8044. She's said to be a CIA asset. Wouldn't be the first celebrity being used for political purposes.
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  8045. I'm a Christian, and I condemn Christian Zionists wholeheartedly.
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  8046. 👍
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  8047. A nice trick, that, but rather threadworm by now: imputing a goal to your adversary he never had and then claiming triumphantly he failed to reach it when, naturally, your imputation fails to materialize. In the meantime, over half a million of Ukrainian men have lost their lives for BlackRock and NATO.
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  8048. A ceasefire -- the Russians did say that they will respond to any provocations by the Ukrainian side, as they're indeed doing. Ukrainian officers and whoever in Kiev ordered their forces to keep attacking the Russian forces during this 36-hr ceasefire are responsible for the losses of men and territory Ukraine continues to suffer, even on the holy high holiday of Orthodox Christmas (which the EU overwhelming majority of Ukrainians also celebrate on Jan. 7).
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  8049. It's a product of Christianity and democracy.
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  8050. It's racism, pure and simple. Note also that the killers were clearly white men. White racist cowards.
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  8051. Depraved means evil, exceedingly morally corrupt.
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  8052. It's not communism, it's a capitalist dictatorship. A neoliberal dictatorship.
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  8053. ​ @dpelpal Never happened.
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  8054. And you think your superciliousness matters? 😅
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  8055. ​ @creatorsfreedom6734  To deter what? Russia would just carry on conventionally, until he tried or succeeded detonating a nuclear bomb in Russia (which now includes the four regions that voted to rejoin it in 2022). And then, Ukraine would be turned to glass.
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  8056. The rest of us just pretend we like you.
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  8057. Both German and British economies are set to contract in the next 12 months. Both Germany and the UK are now in recession. Btw, this is a proxy war by the US and the EU, not just the G7. And Macron never applied to join BRICS but only to attend its meeting in South Africa as an observer.
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  8058. Bosnia has NO sovereignty anyway. It's an EU colony as is. As for Ursula's money-bags visit to Belgrade, the €123 million is a derisory sum. Let's hope even Vučić and Brnabić can't be bought so cheaply. So, the Russian MoD knows the Brits trained Ukrainian forces who carried out the drone attack on Crimea. I believe them, but it angers me no end that the Russians didn't blow the whole lot to kingdom come before they had the chance to train those people, etc.
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  8059. Google it.
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  8060. They know how brutal the US. As does the rest of the world. It's news only to the US public (and some sheep in its satellites in Europe, Canada, and Australia).
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  8061. ​ @scottairhart8594 Ever heard of the little thing called humour? Irony?
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  8062. "Nothing to do with Islam"? So how come there's no Buddhist Al Qaeda?
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  8063. Russia's defeating the combined NATO+ as it is, the consortium of 40+ countries financing, arming, and strategizing their proxy war in Ukraine.
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  8064. ?
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  8065. Mine, too. This is my second Chinese phone and it's terrific.
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  8066. Bare faced lying. These guys are utterly shameless.
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  8067. The Ukrainian constitution can and does.
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  8068.  @Holt817  You know perfectly well that the Ukrainians themselves are under a marshal law, under a vicious neo-natsi dictatorship, and can't do a thing about it.
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  8069. I'm a European and I agree. And we'll have no one to blame for it but ourselves.
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  8070. ​ @roseparade_ And yet transgender males insist they're women.
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  8071. 43 thousand. He misspoke.
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  8072. ​ @catocall7323  If you believe that, I have a really nice bridge to sell you.
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  8073. A disappointing guest. The Green New Deal is just another transfer of wealth scheme to pad corporate wallets some more. A lot more.
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  8074. the Crimean war was fought (and lost) against Russia, but not for Europe.
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  8075. 😅
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  8076. BS. All of Europe has free health care systems without offering assisted dying (except the Dutch and the Swiss). Apart from them, nobody else does it.
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  8077. Zelensky has ruled out conscripting 18 year olds until and unless the US gives Ukraine the missiles it's demanding....
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  8078. Biden is notorious for lying with a straight face and even with passion. I can't believe that Swedes don't know this.
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  8079. ​ @JeffreyGlover65  Your country is represented by your government, and all of your governments during my lifetime have behaved like mafiosi. And Americans put them in power.
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  8080. Wow!
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  8081. ​ @niarlatotepbasset  Not an argument for giving away our sovereignty.
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  8082. I doubt he cares. At all.
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  8083. You haven't been paying attention. I don't know when exactly the slide began, but I remember Obama talking in public about the inevitability of American decline.
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  8084. I think Weeb Union is far superior to Dima.
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  8085. It's an old agreement.
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  8086. With eyes wide open, I'm afraid. They have nuclear-proof bunkers; we don't.
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  8087. I visited China briefly a few years ago and am planning an extended trip in 2027. This time, I want to stay a few months and really travel the country. Maybe take a course in Mandarin. 😊
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  8088. I suppose you would consider Canada a serious state (I'm a Serbian Canadian). Some 20 years ago, 5 people in Ontario died of E. coli caused by improper water purification and improper inspection of water quality in that region of the province. This occurred as the result of funding cuts and the consequent reduction of the number of inspectors: something the then Conservative Party government had been fully warned would happen. Those 5 people died because the same government had privatised water purification itself, whereupon quality standards plummeted. Nobody has ever even been charged with recklessly endangering the public, let alone been convicted. No one resigned his post either.
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  8089. No, Mearsheimer is not an opportunist. He's an ideologue.
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  8090. ​ @1flash3571  You think he isn't?
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  8091. Grey eyes are lovely.
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  8092. Oh no, please not! That appallingly narcissistic windbag doesn't deserve any more air time than he's already hogged!
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  8093. ​ @markschwarman7231  Another one who bought the Ukrainian nationalist myth.
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  8094.  @arthurtane6505  Not that old chestnut, the famed Holodomor! The last ever famine in a region that used to suffer from them periodically until the nasty communists devised an agricultural system that put an end to them, a famine which killed millions MORE Russians than Ukrainians, and affected Kazakhstan worst of all. Ukrainian nationalists like to claim that it was a man-made famine, just as they like to claim that Ukrainians dug out the Black Sea basin and created the sea itself! 😂
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  8095. Correct. 👍
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  8096. They love to imagine themselves superior to Russians as a people and will pay just about any price to sustain that self-flattery delusion.
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  8097. ​ @jeffhedrich3551 Whether Ukraine recognized a perfectly legal and internationally observed referendum is irrelevant.
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  8098. ​ @neilba1  Silliness won't help. Russia's standing in the world has risen enormously as it's become obvious that Russia, on its own, is strong enough to withstand the combined force of 40+ Western countries AND defeat them on the battlefield. As is happening in this proxy war in Ukraine.
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  8099. So, what happened? Did they repeal Biden's veto?
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  8100.  @gintasasd  The rest of the world really doesn't depend on trade with the West. And it's beginning to understand that. The West makes slightly less than 16% of the world's population, i.e. of the global market, and the global majority of some 84% can very comfortably trade among themselves as they already produce everything they need. China alone outproduces the US and the EU combined. Russia alone can feed half the world. India's also an agricultural giant. Etc. Times have changed.
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  8101. They want to de-grow the economy AND increase social services?! What drugs are these people on?
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  8102. 😂
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  8103. Because that sort of a decision is for the Syrian government to take. Russians don't use others to fight their wars the way the US and the West do.
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  8104. Correct.
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  8105. ​ @ChalrieD  You only ever had the collective West on your side. The world is a much bigger place with 86% of all humanity in it.
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  8106. ​ @neilba1  Nah. Russians are not like Americans. The whole world knows who invades countries thousands on other continents and commits war crimes.
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  8107. ​ @stefanm4326 😅
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  8108. On Scott's last point: you can't provoke a change of government in a country whose government and military are in the hands of Nazis. Surely the geniuses in Kremlin know that?!
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  8109. ​​ @7inchdestroyer959  Strange morals you've got there to be feeling sorry for Zelensky, the man responsible for the deaths of about a million, possibly more, Ukrainian men by now. He had the option of implementing the Minsk Accords, and he rejected it. He then had the option of accepting the Istanbul peace agreement, which would have left all of Donbass in Ukraine, and he rejected that, too. At the expense of his fellow Ukrainians (while he and his entourage skimmed off billions in loot from what the US+EU have been sending to Ukraine over the last 3 years).
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  8110. ​ @KARADJORDJIJE  And Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Asia. Geographically, it's not a separate continent at all!
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  8111. ​​ @NikolaKnezevic-z8i  You must have been living under a rock for the past 20 years, but especially the last decade. China today outproduces both the US and all of the EU *combined*. While Europe's fast de-industrializing itself thanks to the US destruction of NordStream 2 and their own idiotic sanctions on Russia, every one of which has only boomeranged on the European countries which joined those sanctions. Fact: 1/3 of Germans and Brits are now skipping at least one meal a day because they can't afford to eat as they did just three years ago.
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  8112. If the objective is to weaken Russia, the US has already lost hands down.
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  8113. ​ @WilfTompkins5546 No, he isn't. His father's Jewish but Zelensky's mother is not. Nor has Zelensky converted to Judaism, as he would have to do in order to be recognized as a Jew.
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  8114. In the face of the Europeans' rank ingratitude to Russia for liberating them from German Nazis?!
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  8115. Everyone understands that all such figures are approximate.
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  8116. Everyone understands all such figures are approximate, not exact. As Scott said, "I don't have the exact number".
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  8117. The US has no respect for anyone. The only language it understands is that of power, of brute economic and military force.
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  8118. I expect that Assange will eventually challenge the whole thing as confessions made under duress are legally void.
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  8119. You won't need another revolution. The Communist Party remains the most popular party in Russia and once Putin retires, they'll be the obvious electoral choice. Even Putin's open to re-introducing certain elements of socialism, as he said a few months ago in reply to a proposal by the Communist Party leader.
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  8120. How can the US have any security interests of its own in North East Asia when it's thousands of kilometres away from that part of the world?! I know the US claims it has such interests in Asia, but we need to decolonize our minds and stop repeating the security claims of the Empire of Lies.
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  8121. Nice!
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  8122. ​ @bekeneel  Tell that to the World Bank, according to whom the Russian economy is now #1 in Europe and #4 globally, having displaced first Germany and now Japan too from their former positions.
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  8123. Macron only wanted to attend the previous BRICS summit (not join the organization).
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  8124. That's what our and Ukrainian propaganda wants us to believe.
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  8125. I can't watch this. Utterly barbaric, uncivilised.
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  8126. Appalling, psychopathic level of war crimes.
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  8127. Could well be.
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  8128. The American people couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you marked it out for them. Mercouris speaks quite a bit of nonsense about the US.
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  8129. 😅
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  8130. Revolting, as the jug-ears always is.
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  8131. That's what WW2 was all about, in fact. The plan was to destroy the Russian (then Soviet) state, kill off 2/3 of the Russian nation, enslave the rest, and use them as slave labour extracting their own natural resources for the master race. The üntermenschen didn't let it happen, that's all, defeating the master race more or less single-handedly.
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  8132. 😮
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  8133. ​ @micamika8844 Putin really needs to wake up to what the anti-Russia propaganda war the West has waged for the past 15 years -- and without any serious response or countermeasure from Russia -- done. He has no right to this lingering naïvety either, as it continues to leave Russia exposed to Western hatred and perfidy.
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  8134. ​ @metugeekane8454  It's absolutely shameful that Germany hasn't yet thrown out the Americans forces still on its territory. When little Niger can do it.... As for Germany's post-war constitution, I'm not familiar with it and don't know what may be objectionable in it.
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  8135. Tell that to Kiev and its enablers.
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  8136. Ukraine had agreed to become a neutral country like Austria at the negotiations in Istanbul. That would have done for the goal of demilitarisation. The Ukrainian side had initialed the agreement when Boris Johnson flew out to Kiev to persuade or command Zelensky to renege and end the negotiations.
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  8137. I find it fascinating that, just like animals, feral children grow hair all over their bodies BUT that once they're back among other human beings and have had their bodies shaved, the hair doesn't grow back. There has to be a very, very deep unconscious mechanism behind that which could give us a glimpse of our evolutionary history.
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  8138. No place adapts itself to some random individual. 😅
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  8139. 😂
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  8140. Not even close to a worst ghetto in the US.
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  8141. ​ @AdrianFahrenheitTepes  Most of the residents of these regions are ethnic Russians. These are all the parts of Russia Lenin chopped off and annexed to the borderlands to create Ukraine in the 1920s.
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  8142. ​ @sumiterxeroslargosiuscrosi7819  This happened centuries ago, before the US even existed. Cannibalism or the eating of children are as repugnant to modern Chinese culture as they are to the modern English culture.
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  8143. Simple. Because it's a genocide.
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  8144. The end of if history guy? 😂
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  8145. How about showing us the atrocities Ukrainians have been committing, starting with the crucifixion of a Russian soldier, his torture on the cross, and their burning him while still alive in the end? Ukrainians celebrated it by posting videos and photos of this all over their Telegram channels. As they did with the video of one of their soldiers cutting out organs from a Russian soldier's body and eating them on video, laughing maniacally about it. Or videos of Ukrainian charnel houses (I don't know what else to call them -- slaughterhouses, maybe) where they chop out organs for sale to organ traffickers.
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  8146. Stop copying other people's comments.
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  8147. ​​@johnjohnson54199 Thank your corporations for that. Clinton just did their bidding. The joys of an unbridled corpocracy (a.k.a. American oligarchy).
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  8148. ​​ @mythbuster7631  Sure. Four hundred years of Poles, Lithuanians, Teutonic Knights, France, the UK, Germany invading Russia and trying to conquer it. This time, the EU+US went the proxy-war way, using Ukrainians in their mad attempt to destroy the Russian state, dismember it and then feed off it's corpse. Your politicians are on record about that, so don't even try to deny it.
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  8149. An amazing (and really quite convincing, quite plausible) bullshit artist.
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  8150. Two former Axis powers, the fascist countries that provoked WW2, have just signed a military pact and Scott Ritter doesn't even comment on that asoect of it?! Bizarre.
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  8151. He's made way too many mistakes.
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  8152. Morally right? 😂 Narcissism comes in many forms.
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  8153. This is insane. Or demonic.
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  8154. Exactly! But you have to understand that the European political elite are literally in the pay of the US, bribed by the Yanks in the most egregious way. Paul Craig Roberts, who served under Ronald Reagan, reports that his source at the State Department tells him that every month the State flies suitcases full of dollars to various EU capitals to grease the wheels. Corruption in the US and the EU is confined to the top and is beyond belief!
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  8155. Any possible future rapprochement will require a public acknowledgement of what you've done since 2013, a sincere apology, and at least a century of making amends. You once cost the Russians the death of over 20 million of their people and are now supporting the descendents of Ukrainian collaborators who'd helped your grandfathers kill Russians forno other reason than they're Russians.
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  8156. Just Russia, the Russian Federation.
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  8157. According to Paul Craig Roberts, who served under Reagan, and his source at the US State Department, the State flies suitcases full of money to various EU capitals every month. Terminal decadence and corruption.
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  8158. Taiwan is a part of China. At most, and if necessary, China will intervene to stop any secessionist moves encouraged by the US, but it can never invade yourself. And India should be very careful about what it (maliciously) wishes to its neighbour. India should have no illusions about its "friends" in the West, especially the US, which can stir up serious trouble in Kashmir any time it wants.
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  8159. THAT is the question. Extremely poor planning and way too much dithering on Russia's part.
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  8160. Oh come on! Bernie Sanders is a sell-out, a "sweet" and "righteous" Bernese mountain dog corralling the left into DemParty's pen. And he's done that job very well, too.
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  8161. ​ @Tom-kt8lu Trans people undergo mutilation by plastic surgery. No mentally healthy person would want that.
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  8162. That'll be news for the World Bank, which now ranks the Russian economy as #4 globally: China the US India Russia Japan
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  8163. Bulgaria was a Nazi Germany ally in WW2.
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  8164. 😂
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  8165. ​ @Gunni1972  What's the AI allusion about? Are you saying if AI can't figure it out, God can't either?! 😂
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  8166. Because the US doesn't do fair play. They can't compete fairly.
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  8167. And what? The rest of the EU will just cave in to Poland? Or is Poland hoping that its referendum will embolden other racists in EU countries to demand similar referenda in their countries, too?
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  8168.  @teebosaurusyou  Nice story, but completely untrue. Even the US media are admitting that at least 30% of the weapons and ammo given to Ukraine are missing and cannot be accounted for. At least 30%.
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  8169. I visited Berlin about 20 years ago: service was fine and people were surpringly friendly, but the city was already quite dirty. Some of the shots in this video remind me of what I saw in Turkey. 🫤
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  8170. I don't see people glorifying war (war is hell, and we as a species should foreswear it altogether). They are just cheering Russia's victories, which is perfectly understandable. I also support Russia in this utterly unnecessary proxy war the West is waging against Russia on Ukrainian soil and with Ukrainian soldiers.
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  8171. Being wily and treacherous is admired in the Arab world. And that's exactly how the Saudis are behaving vis a vis Russia, a founding member of BRICS, which the Saudis also want to join. Lavrov had to come out the other day with a public statement that Russia considers these supposed peace talks in Jeddah a hostile act against it.
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  8172. About 5 years ago.
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  8173. That's what Western imperialists always bank on, wherever they go: locals who will collaborate with them at the expense of their country and people.
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  8174. 😂
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  8175. ​ @richardenders6606  I disagree. A large majority of Germans accepted the argument that Germany owes it to the Ukrainians to help them because it failed to do so in WW2 when many Ukrainians joined the Nazis. In other words, today's Germans fully identify with Nazi Germany and its genocidal animosity towards Russians (and Serbs) in particular. If they didn't identify with that Germany, the Nazi one, that argument would never have appealed to them. German tanks are being used to kill Russian soldiers, while Germany trains forces whose mission is to kill Russians (both the ethnic Russian population of Donbass and Crimes and those from Russia proper).
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  8176. ​ @keenanhomemovies6517  True, but it's also true that he hasn't acknowledged how their announcement contradicts his own previous predictions.
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  8177. That doesn't make it any less insidious and damaging.
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  8178. Just set the speed at 1.25 or 1.5.
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  8179. She's right: there's NO democracy in a system in which it takes huge amounts of money to run for office.
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  8180.  @quemades  I can't see your comment in the thread, but I fully sympathize with your position. As a socialist in Canada, I'd have to vote for our Conservatives because right now they're the much lesser evil than what pass for left-wing parties here. I'm retired, though, and plan on leaving before the next election: not only did our entire parliament give a standing ovation for a former member of the SS last year but it had also previously given the same Ukrainian Nazi collaborator a medal of honour.
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  8181. ​ @aprilbrass  Good idea.
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  8182. There's NO evidence that Trump made that call. The Russians "can't confirm it", which is the polite diplomatic way of saying, someone is lying. Either Trump or the paper which claimed Trump had called Putin.
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  8183. Brad Pitt's never been involved with any cult. Bearing false witness is a serious sin.
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  8184. And they've been doing it ever since May, for the past 4 months straight.
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  8185. If that's their plan, they're literally delusional. Russia is now producing more ammo in a month than it did during all of 2022. There's simply NO way to deplete Russian military stocks.
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  8186. ​​​ @drysia26  Russian standard of living plummeted during the 1990s. So did life expectancy in Russia. Suicide rates skyrocketed. So did alcoholism. People weren't being paid for months upon months at a time. Pensions were all but nonexistent. Etc. Things began to improve only after Putin came to power. In just 15-20 years, Putin and his team, together with the hard working Russian population, achieved an economic and social miracle unprecedented in the annals of history.
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  8187. Ukrainians are making sure they can't be identified. Probably on Pentagon or MI6 orders.
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  8188. Climate change is a constant. Global temperatures were 2C higher than now some 7,000 years ago, during the emergence of civilization. The current global warming/climate change scare-mongering is a corporate boondoggle.
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  8189. A Hasbara bot. 😅
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  8190. Did they, though? Have all the means to repel the AFU, that is.
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  8191. Nothing new in that. Assassinating political leaders who actually care about their people has been US policy and practice in Africa (and South America) for decades and decades now.
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  8192. You have a system that guarantees lousy people and criminals hold power over you.
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  8193. Putin now enjoys the support of 89% of Russians. This is according to the Western-funded Lavada Center.
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  8194. Anyone who gets to sit in the White House has an ego the size of Manhattan. Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, the Bushes, Obama, Biden, Trump. All narcissists, the only difference being their individual style (which is what fools people into not seeing it).
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  8195. Because their political class is as stupid and venal and easily bribed as in the rest of Europe.
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  8196. It's clear by now that a certain ideology was never eradicated in Germany.
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  8197. For all those who can't find any articles on this: is this the first time you've heard of the authorities scrubbing the internet clean of material they don't want us to see? Do you really expect to be able to Google this topic and come across data that praise Moscow a year after our governments banned RT and Sputnik of all the state-sponsored MSM out there?! Outlets such as RAI 2 and 2, Deutschewelle, RFI, CBC, etc.
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  8198. 🎯
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  8199. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  Soon.
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  8200.  @andrew30m  I pity you for your wilful gullibility.
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  8201. You mean the NATO proxy war on Russia? There must never be another war between Ukraine and Russia.
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  8202. It's a measure of how out of touch with reality Western elites are. They're lying to themselves now.
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  8203. ​ @moonraker978 😂
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  8204. ​ @kevinwaalker The proxy war in Syria went on for several years.
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  8205. ​ @amanda1500 Communism?! 😂
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  8206. Only Russia of all European states and NOT A SINGLE Western state. Not one. They're simply disgusting, the collective West.
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  8207. Believe it or not, Macron studied philosophy in university, not drama, and has an advanced degree in public administration. He met his wife as a highschool student. I think Macron's been so erratic and foolish lately that you underestimate him unduly: this nonsense about Putin giving him a call one day is for his public at home, puffing himself up and with him France into a position of importance neither occupies. He knows perfectly well that his little scenario won't happen.
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  8208. I hope you're right. But it does worry me that Shoigu specified last week how very few of the 300,000 would ever get close enough to the battle front to be able to see it with binoculars!
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  8209. Bah. She's said what she's said. Not was this the first time she said it either!
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  8210. Your comment perfectly reflects the short-term focus of the typical Westerner.
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  8211. You don't know much, do you? For starters, you clearly don't understand how Russians fight and win wars, often by retreating hundreds of kilometres only to strike back and retake all of the territory they'd previously abandoned to preserve their forces. Military History 101.
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  8212. Any evidence for that? Surovikin announced "difficult decisions" a month ago, immediately proceeding to evacuate 115,000 civilians from Kherson city -- all of which argues that the pull-out was a military rather than a political decision.
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  8213. Such a sweet, loving husky! ❤
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  8214. Are you an anti-Semite? Just asking...
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  8215. I hope Putin understands that taking Odessa must be non-negotiable.
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  8216. And then check the difference in size between any Nordic country and Russia. The distances, the sheer humangous spread of the countryside make your attempted comparison ludicrous.
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  8217. You need to introduce real accountability to your system. Also, recognizing and acknowledging the depth of corruption inside the MIC, the two reigning parties and various institutions of state would be a step in the right direction.
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  8218. Men are so incredibly narcissistic, for centuries they thought "man" meants "all human beings", for example. They are so delusionally narcissistic that some of them have always resented the very existence of the two sexes and have done their utmost to convince others they could somehow "become" women themselves. This last is so well documented in anthropology, from studies across hundreds of societies, that it's not even funny.
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  8219. ​ @KanekiKen-mu4nu  Yes, it does. It proves that the US is a lot, lot crazier than the rest of the world. The amazing thing is that so few Americans seem to understand it. The guy you're replying to was being polite. Most of the world views the US with a little bit of horror, the way one views a psycho. And we never say that to Americans because it would be rude to rub it in their faces. I've just broken that taboo, though saying these things to you was probably pointless. 😕
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  8220. Methinks the bigoted monster is you, sweetie.
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  8221.  @nbach2202  Fair to everyone, to all concerned.
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  8222. It's our job, the job of our government, to make sure pollution-reduction measures are respected by everyone in Serbia.
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  8223. Ukrainian nationalists are evil.
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  8224. There's always a first. I'm still hoping the Russians will get their shit together and do what they're more than capable of doing, but there seems to be a political failure of will in Kremlin preventing this, some idiotic and possibly traitorous thinking that's messing things up to this extent!
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  8225. German papers have reported a poll according to which 95% of Germans think this act of industrial terrorism was done by the USA.
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  8226. What a great dad! ❤
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  8227. Likewise. I was hoping to be there this summer but have had to postpone it for next year.
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  8228. The US and the EU created chaos in Ukraine and have destroyed it.
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  8229. I may be wrong, but I thought the guy in the US was indicted for misleading the public on the ways they can cast their vote. If that is the case, I'd have to agree with it. More ominous, imo, is the arrest of the woman in France for insulting Macron by writing that he's an a**hole.
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  8230. Yeah, sure. 😂
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  8231. Postol claims that the Oreshnik isn't a hypersonic missile. Hitting its target at 10 Macht. 'Nough said.
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  8232. Tell us you're a Nazi without telling us you're a Nazi. 😜
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  8233. Ukrainian grain, as Poland learned first hand last year, is so laden with toxic chemicals that the animals fed it developed cancers and began dying within a matter of weeks! Poland has since banned the import of Ukrainian grain. In any case, before the war, Ukraine provided only 2.5% of the world's grain needs, an amount Russia can easily make up for.
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  8234. 😂
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  8235. Oh please! Such silly braggadocio is embarrassing. We're not the best and smartest, and neither is anybody else.
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  8236.  @Qsderto  Europe has gone 100% nihilistic in the last 40 years. But even before then, Europe never faced its own evil following both World War I and World War II. Most importantly for Russia, Western Europe has a thousand year old history of Russophobia, something Europe will grow out of only after it's become a poor, third-rate subcontinent of no significance in geopolitics. In other words, Russia should understand that all it can expect from Europe for the next century or two is more hypocrisy, envy, and more attempts to subvert and even break up and destroy Russia. You'll be safe from Europe a century or two from now.
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  8237. It's already happening. It's in progress and the world is quietly rejoicing. 🎉
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  8238. It would be helpful to give the sources of the quotations you're using right in the video itself. A great video overall, though. We do have literary evidence of human sacrifice among Southern Slavs in oral petry that records the walling up of young, single women (not widows) sacrificed to placate evil deities/spirits and ensure the preservation of the walled ramparts and defense towers in question.
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  8239. ​ @magicponyrides And those "defeated" Russkies are now single-handedly kicking the butt of the entire collective West.
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  8240. Hungary and Serbia are not going to freeze either, but the masses must not be made aware of this.
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  8241. Who are they willing to work for?
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  8242. Except that he says the exact same thing as you do about the US.
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  8243. She's well paid professional propagandist for the Democratic Party. Glaringly obvious.
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  8244. 😅
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  8245. Abandonment? The US itself is based on the greatest act of genocide in human history! Also, talk to the people all over Latin America to learn how "humanistic" the US has been towards them for the past 200 years.
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  8246. So do I.
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  8247. ​​ @TheTimbo911  It took me about 20 seconds to ascertain that the estimate for the number of homeless comes from a CityTV article. "Currently, estimates by the Homeless Hub, a research organization run by York University, peg the number of people experiencing homelessness in Canada somewhere between 150,000 to 300,000.(opens in a new tab) By 2030, the AI predicts the population of people experiencing homelessness to grow to about 550,000 to 570,000." The number of vacant homes comes from an OECD report from 2019. Cited by ReMax Real Estate company and reported widely by our media: "Canada has one of the highest numbers of vacant homes in the world. The OECD’s latest data shows 1.34 million homes were vacant, or about 8.7% of the country’s 15.41 million homes in total. That works out to nearly 1 in 12 homes, or 6 years of housing supply at the average construction rate from 2016 to 2019. Canada has the fifth most vacant homes of the group of advanced economies."
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  8248. They're rented out.
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  8249. He was an actor playing a character in a series financed by the same oligarch, Kolomoisky, who subsequently paid to set up a political party named after the same series so his actor could run for president. And the Ukrainian electorate fell for the scam.
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  8250. Latest poll: only 8% of Ukrainians are still willing to fight for it.
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  8251. ​ @djmcnerney But it took this set of idiots to really mess it up. Nothing of this need to have happened but for the insane foreign policy driven by a handful of neocons' irrational, visceral hatred of Russia.
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  8252. US Democrats are about as leftie as Genghis Khan was. It's only in the Anglo-sphere that political discourse is so warped that people like Biden or Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton get to be dubbed the Left. Anyhow, this life-long socialist enjoys watching you roast these corrupt war-mongering oligarch-boot-licking creeps.
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  8253. I'm very skeptical about that story. The missile hit them a minute after midnight, not enough time for that sort of a scenario to occur.
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  8254. This is nonsense. Putin's never threatened to use nukes in Ukraine -- all of the babbling about it has come from the West imputing absolutely non-existent statements to Putin. This Yavlinsky guy is an economist and a FORMER leader of a SMALL opposition party, rather insignificant in Russia itself.
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  8255. Just your regular Mother Bear. 🙂
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  8256. I wouldn't put that last idea to the test.
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  8257. Melvin evidently has enough brains to associate the boyfriend with falling off the sofa AND keeping that in mind for a whole year. A wrong association but not in itself stupid.
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  8258. One definition of fascism is the blending of big business (corporations) and government. I'm in Canada, but I understand that ths governments of many other countries now serve as a corporate sales force with the legal power to compel us to buy a product (bought with our tax dollars) we'd otherwise reject.
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  8259. Is that so? Why would Andrei delete two of your comments only to leave standing a comment in which you claim to be shadow banned? He strikes me as a rather intelligent man, you see. 😜
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  8260. There are only about 19 years in its 200+ year history that the USA hasn't been at war with someone. The mythical time you speak of is precisely that: mythical. The country was founded on genocide.
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  8261. 😂​@OneBigUnion
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  8262. It'll never happen. Russians, unlike Serbs, aren't going to hand over their president to anyone.
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  8263. ​ @Saphintosh  You call evil the refusal to be killed for Zelensky's billions and the demented Washington and Brussels elite?! 😅
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  8264. ​ @timetimer6429  75% of Ukrainians wanted the implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia when they elected Zelensky to power in 2019. I bet they're also sick of being ruled by their mega-über-corrupt oligarchs, propped up by the West.
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  8265. ?
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  8266. ​ @shachede6828  What use is a father who killed your mother?!
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  8267. Biden, both Clintons, Madeleine Albright, Obama ("we killed some folks" guy who started 5 new wars), George Bush (senior), Condoleeza Rice, Anthony Blinken, etc.
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  8268. Brian Berletic has been showing, with the use of US documents and papers, that this is a US action with Israel as its proxy.
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  8269.  @nathaliek.9785  Why are the Europeans not out demonstrating in their tens of millions? That's the question. Are they so brainwashed and/or so delusional about what NATO and the US are doing to Europe?
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  8270. ​ @Kait-tee Emotional immaturity is the hallmark of all personality disorders, and especially of sociopathy and psychopathy.
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  8271. My bet is on the latter.
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  8272. The Ukrainians were informed -- this was a deliberate act of terror intended as a false flag. It just didn't work as planned.
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  8273. It's called theft. If the EU goes ahead with it, its financial institutions will lose all credibility for the rest of the world, something that will cost the EU far more than the 200-300 billion dollars of Russian foreign reserves it might appropriate.
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  8274. A missile that hits its target at the speed of 10 macht is not hypersonic? O-kaaaay. 😅
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  8275. As expected. The EU changed its own rules back in 2014 or so to allow its members to start buying Syrian oil from ISIS, who were stealing it at the time. More recently, the Europeans are buying Syrian oil stolen by the USA.
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  8276. That's what drugs do to people. They know exactly what they've turned into and are trying to hide it with those excuses. I feel sorry for them. They are not free to make better decisions and better choices.
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  8277.  @xena6894  Grayzone supports neocons? 🤣
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  8278. Mean girls' and boys' highschool politics: the others are "weird". 😂
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  8279. Full spectrum dominance, baby. A global dictatorship headed by the USA.
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  8280. There really is no such person. I ja bih predlozila da promenite vase "ime".
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  8281. I'm surprised Syriza got the 22% it did get, then. What a joke of a "left" opposition.
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  8282. Where are you seeing this happening?
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  8283.  @agatharepasky7121  They're still too comfortable (and brainwashed).
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  8284. Ukrainians lie to themselves so much, they're now long used to believing their own lies. The whole nation needs decades of psychotherapy to start facing reality at last.
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  8285. Paul Craig Roberts kept warning Moscow throughout the 2010s that its forbearance and patience were being interpreted as weakness in the West and that Putin's policy would inevitably result in a costly war in Ukraine. I agree with him that Putin's policy of a slow, methodical war of attrition has caused more casualties than a swift, decisive blow would have done and that it gives the West time to come up with more idiotic moves such as putting NATO soldiers in and around Odessa and Kiev, for example. Putin has publicly admitted that his hesitation in 2014 and his policy of patience were a mistake. Let's hope he won't one day have to admit that this slow approach in Ukraine was a mistake, too.
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  8286. So? That's supposed to justify the same behaviour by Zionist Jews in Palestine? Why?
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  8287. ​ @stephaniehall6309  The rest of the world will finally get a chance to blossom.
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  8288. Ukrainians shouldn't be absolved of their part of responsibility.
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  8289. 😂
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  8290. Likewise.
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  8291. ​ @besticudcumupwith202 Where do you get the idea that a constitutional republic can't be a democracy, that these are incompatible?
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  8292. It seems?! 😅
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  8293.  @tayclift5322  Does anyone else apart from a few Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on January 7?
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  8294. Apparently not. It's been debunked, it seems
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  8295. ​ @Nope-w2h Huh?
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  8296. 😘
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  8297. His mother is Ukrainian, so he's Ukrainian. To be considered a Jew, you have to either convert to Judaism or you have to be born to a Jewish woman.
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  8298.  @aryzen2781  You absolutely don't know that. What the majority of Ukrainians really think will become ascertainable only once they are free to express themselves without fear of reprisal by their own government and their Nazis.
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  8299.  @aryzen2781  Keep drinking that Western MSM coolaid. Cheers! 🙂
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  8300.  @aryzen2781  Of course not. I expect that a good 60-70% of them want Ukraine to be a sovereign state and not a part of Russia. Ukraine lost its sovereignty in 2014 and has been run by de facto puppet regimes manipulated by NATO ever since then. A great many Ukrainians are aware of this -- probably not the ones whose views you're getting -- and will secretly be more than happy when the Zelensky regime is forced to capitulate and step down, giving way to patriotic but anti-nationalist Ukrainians.
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  8301.  @aryzen2781  Ukrainians are currently, and have been for the past 8 years, living under a regime of terror enforced by bona fide local Nazis. Ukraine has also lost all of its opposition media, its opposition parties, and the very basic freedoms of speech and affiliation under the most recent, i.e. current puppet regime, that headed by Zelensky. As for Russia's supposed autocracy, Western propaganda is one thing; reality, another. As the late Stephen F. Cohen never tired of pointing out in the last 10 years of his life, Russia now enjoys a much more vibrant political life, complete with media freedom, etc., than the USA. In fact, it's quite extraordinary how the roles and values have swapped places over the past 30 years.
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  8302. Who cleans the porch after them? 😉
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  8303. That's exactly the arrangement Russia's already made with India and China.
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  8304. Why should Russia care if Poland gobbles up a piece of Western Ukraine?!
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  8305. ​ @qwertyasdfgh1014  He's been doing an ultimately futile balancing act. It's time for Serbs to demand that we withdraw our application to join the EU, to end our cooperation with NATO, and turn resolutely eastwards. The entire world knows that that's where the economic future of the world lies.
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  8306. Imperialism, baby. It takes a country centuries to recover from its predations. Imperialism, both Turkish/Ottoman and Autro-Hungarian, not forgetting the German imperialism of WW2. The test case is present-day Croatia. Unlike Serbia, Northern Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia didn't experience the horrors and the economic drain of Ottoman colonialism, was then spared by the Nazis as a Nazi ally, and has been receiving EU subsidies as long as Slovenia has. Croatia did however experience Austro-Hungarian imperialism, from which it evidently still hasn't recovered as it's economically in a worse state than Serbia, a country that most recently suffered both 10 years of economic sanctions and 78 days of NATO bombing! With a population just over half the size of its immediate neighbour to the east, and despite the economic advantages of its (one assumes lucrative) tourist industry and the help it gets from the EU, Croatia's international debt burden is roughly 30% higher than Serbia's for an equivalent standard of living.
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  8307. Sorry, but that story won't wash. If little Niger can throw American forces out, no European country has an excuse for tolerating this any longer.
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  8308. What do you expect? Your media are among the most tightly controlled in Europe, with a CIA operative on every editorial board.
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  8309. ​ @mylessalmon2569  Dream on.
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  8310. And the Israelis elected him back into office yet again.
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  8311. A great piece of analysis. Thanks!
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  8312. I agree. Letting previously liberated villages, towns, and cities be taken back by Ukraine is a betrayal of the local population, who rely on Russia's protection!
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  8313. I probably won't live to see the day, but the sooner the West becomes truly irrelevant and unable to mess around with other countries, the better for us all.
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  8314. Europe can't produce that many shells a month no matter what Thierry Breton claims
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  8315. I can't blame them. It's an addiction.
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  8316. Politico just forgot to mention that Zelensky was elected on a platform promising immediate implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia. That's what the 73% of the Ukrainian electorate that voted for him wanted.
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  8317. Interestingly, Politico forgot to mention that Zelensky was elected on a platform promising immediate implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia. That's what the 73% of Ukrainians who voted for him wanted.
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  8318. Totally off topic, but Larry looks terrific (and doubly so fir his age).
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  8319. So, the number of illegals is 180 TIMES higher than they've been reporting!
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  8320. ​ @catalincarceanu7991 😅
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  8321. Sounds like you don't know and don't care about your own history.
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  8322. 😢
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  8323. Same with the collective West's hatred of Russia.
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  8324.  @S.Morgenstern  For most of their history, the countries of the European subcontinent had populations so small that the question of space did not arise. Even today, Europe and the USA have comparable population density of 34 per km2 and 37 per km2.
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  8325. Lots of organ trafficking, too. I've seen photos of veritable human butchery labs in Ukraine -- horrific stuff.
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  8326. ​ @VampireTuesday  Total b.s. It was the Zionists who brought terrorism to that part of the world, starting in the 1920s.
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  8327. The Democratic Party is itself a fascist party. What we have today is fascism with a liberal face.
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  8328. Those global rankings are a scam.
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  8329. 84% of the world is either tacitly or openly with Russia. It's only the imperialist collective West that wants to destroy you and take all your natural resources that hates Russia and Russians for merely existing. The rest of humanity loves and supports you! ❤️
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  8330. ​ @concerned_2023 Long before Trump came onto the scene, US neocons (both parties) were calling themselves Masters of the Universe.
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  8331.  @cringelord7542  You've been deceived by our MSM and our establishment "analysts", who are merely propagandists. Russia never intended to take Kiev in the first place: it stuck around there for a couple of months in what the military call a fixing operation, keeping the Ukrainian forces in that part of Ukraine from rushing down to Donbass, where the real action was and continues to be. The entire Russia-wants-to-take-Kiev-but-can't narrative was concocted by Pentagon and the 150 PR companies Kiev's paying to produce war propaganda on its behalf precisely to make the public think that brave Ukrainians repelled the Russian army, which is "really" a paper tiger. In reality, Russia is fighting 41 countries that are engaged in a proxy war against it in Ukraine, and it's winning. The public in the West has no clue about this, but the rest of the world, 75% of it in fact, are fully aware of what's going on.
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  8332. It's in response to Russia's earlier statement that there has been no high-level contact with the US over this.
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  8333. Language piggybacks on the neurology of memory.
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  8334. ​ @creatorsfreedom6734 Out of sheer love of destruction, violence, and of course anti-Asian racism. "Kicking butt" for the sake of it is what Americans call it. They love doing it all over the world. The most pernicious nation on the planet.
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  8335. ​ @Truth_Hurts528  Just search Bloomberg's site. I've seen that article referenced by the Duran, too.
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  8336. ​@NA-dh3dn You can deny it as much as you like, but the fact is China has the greatest manufacturing capacity in the world while the US has the greatest national debt. China's manufacturing capacity is such that it outproduces the US and the EU combined. Eat your little American heart out.
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  8337. Sligo is pronounced as sly-go, not slee-go. Ituri (Forest), on the other hand, is pronounced like EEturi (not Aituri).
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  8338. ​​ @markhillary7402  It was an Israeli embassy guard. I for one am thankful it wasn't an American policeman.
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  8339. The thoughtful Thunder, you mean. 😍
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  8340. Russophobia blinds people to reality.
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  8341. Try to keep up. The Russian economy has displaced Germany's to become the #1 economy in Europe and #4 globally -- according to the US-dominated World Bank.
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  8342. The Labour Party is dead as a doornail. Blair turned them into Conservatives Lite.
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  8343. He's just lied to them again, and with such brazen lies that it's really quite breath-taking.
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  8344. Might as well pray to tables and chairs, gasses and chemical elements, as pray to the universe.
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  8345. Thanks to our traitorous MSM.
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  8346. Definitely voter suppression.
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  8347. And everyone can see it. Nobody believes her nonsense.
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  8348. Canadians are THE most conformist lot on Earth. Most still sneer at people who refused to take the covid jabs, for example.
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  8349. And yet: Obama started 5 new wars, Trump not a single one.
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  8350. 😂
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  8351.  @estoyaqui5386  Only if they manage to force Kiev to unconditional surrender.
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  8352. Absolutely!
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  8353.  @mimmiblu6138  Crazy!
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  8354. ​ @davidlazarus67  I hope it will, but the Germans are really asking for it now, hosting a command centre for a country run by self-declared N a z i s.
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  8355. Despicable of Germany. Will those people ever develop something called integrity and a conscience?!
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  8356. 😂
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  8357. The US hasn't won a war in recent memory.
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  8358. Never heard of an unplanned pregnancy?
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  8359. The guy's presuppositions were quite a bit off, but if he's right that Ukraine's put some 86,000 men there, that would mean that it's committed fully 30% of it remaining army to the defense of Bakhmut/Artyomsk.
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  8360. NATO and Ukraine wanted this war. And provoked it.
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  8361. ​ @briancharters8720 🎯
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  8362. ​ @OneDayWillFlyAway  From a Nazi regime.
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  8363. Where do you see it?
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  8364. ​ @TheThornbird21  Plenty of them in the Old Testament but none in the New. That's why Christians should not accept the Old Testament as in any way binding.
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  8365. 14, not 8. Of the countries that sent representatives to that fake peace summit in Switzerland, 14 refused to sign the final communiqué.
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  8366. Surely this is no news to anyone who's been following developments in the EU over the past decade or two. The rot has set too deeply for Orban's statement, nade openly, in public, to make any difference now. And it's not just the EU: this inversion of the true meaning of words, reminiscent of the Nazi practice encapsulated most starkly in the slogan painted over the gates of Auschwitz (Arbeit Macht Frei, or, Work sets you free), this infernal quibbling is now characteristic of the entire collective West, of its governing and its media class.
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  8367. He did speak at the forum. Check it out.
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  8368. Unbelievable! How will they explain it all to the public a few months from now when denials and bullshitting will no longer be an option?! Btw, what percentage of the Italian public believes the media, what do you reckon?
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  8369. Anyone who's not allowed himself to be brainwashed.
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  8370. ​ @jillgarrison1917 He shouldn't have armed Ukraine for a proxy war with Russia, then.
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  8371. ​ @michaeldyas769 🎯
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  8372. By cosmetic surgeons. 😂
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  8373. Try acquainting yourself with Russia's nuclear use doctrine.
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  8374. We can only hope, but I'm not banking on it. The West adores its war criminals.
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  8375. And nobody in our MSM will even whisper it. What a despicable civilization we are.
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  8376. A lot, but not all. China itself is unarguably an outstanding exception to what Mearsheimer claims is inevitably the case. When China was the pre-eminent economic (yes, it's happened before) and naval power in the world, with hundreds of at the time most advanced, best naval vessels, it deliberately destroyed its own navy -- burned all of its ships down -- because it consciously chose not to engage in imperialism. That decision continues to inform China's foreign policy to this day. I respect Mearsheimer for the intellectual and personal courage it took to write a book on how Israel's captured US foreign policy. He was hounded for it and almost lost his job for publishing it. But he's openly an advocate of American hegemony, which he calls "regional" although he knows perfectly well that it aspires to be global: full spectrum dominance over the rest of the world. That's not realism. That's fascism in international relations.
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  8377. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes to cover what Mercouris is stretching out to an hour and half
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  8378. So, how on Earth can Russia now accept neutrality for a future rump Ukraine when Finland reneged on its commitment to remain neutral in perpetuity?!
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  8379. Isn't Macron her second husband? Btw, I've seen a video compilation of Macron disco dancing 20-25 years ago and it's as clear as day that he's a flaming queen, i.e. a homosexual.
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  8380. ​ @Lexomm1  The US financed and staged an unconstitutional coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014.
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  8381. I know. Appalling hypocrisy on the part of the Duran. Ludicrous gaslighting.
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  8382. You can't decouple when American corporations refuse to repatriate production to the US. Capitalism is slowly but surely killing the US as a country.
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  8383. "Zeus, close your legs." But why?! He's not flashing you, for goodness' sake!
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  8384. Assange never committed any form of sexual assault either in Sweden or elsewhere. The whole Swedish thing was concocted as a smear campaign against him. The woman who'd been pressured into filing charges against him subsequently withdrew them in dusgust.
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  8385. Hard? Impossible, rather!
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  8386. Am disappointed that Chomsky, too, is pushing the climate catastrophy nonsense. That the British media are still foaming at the mouth with their customary Russophobia is just par for the course.
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  8387. They're having sex, but they don't have intimate relationships, not even in marriage. A culture in very serious decline.
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  8388. "During a visit to Burnley on Sunday, Sunak said he wanted to make the situation “absolutely clear,” explaining that Shapps did not mean British soldiers would be deployed in Ukraine during the conflict with Russia.". RT
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  8389. Only for as long as the US believes it can use India and turn it against Russia.
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  8390. ​@DragonbhatBRICS isn't introducing a common currency.
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  8391. ​ @Кипящийразум 😅
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  8392. ​ @ArthurTane-e5b Now that's imaginative. 😜
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  8393. Huh? 😅 Zelensky was still working as a comedian at the time the Minsk Accords were signed.
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  8394. In comparison with the IMF, China's remarkably hands off.
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  8395. The people in power are bought up by the US and are paid Todo as told.
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  8396. Alexander, can you please comment on Seymour Hersh's latest Substack piece, "General to General", in which he claims that Zaluzhny and Gerasimov are in secret negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine? I suspect that Hersh is being played by his unnamed sources as the article contains a number of bizarre claims, one of which at least is pure fiction, i.e. his reference to a supposed NATO security conference attended by Lavrov in Montenegro earlier this week! (There was no such NATO conference in Montenegro, but for Hersh not to fact check such a detail is sloppy beyond belief. An OSCE meeting has just concluded in Skoplje, North Macedonia, which Lavrov did attend, making sure the Baltics would NOT get to chair OSCE next. Is Hersh being fed obvious misinformation in order to discredit him, and so discredit his version of who blew up North Stream 2?) In any case, according to this article, Gerasimov is allegedly keen to end the SMO because Rissian losses have been disproportionate (?!), and because he's come to the conclusion that Russia can't win in this conflict, something Putin's also supposedly come to accept. Hersh's sources also claim that Putin is ok with Ukraine entering NATO once the conflict is over, provided Ukraine and NATO undertake to place no offensive NATO weapons or NATO troops in Ukraine. I find that shockingly irresponsible of Putin, if true, a guarantee that sooner or later Russia would have to wage war with NATO as a whole. Your perspective would be appreciated.
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  8397. And forego all the moolah it gets from the USA on a yearly basis?
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  8398. 😂
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  8399. Anyone who doesn't spout our propaganda is a Russian puppet? 😂😂😂
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  8400. You know why. The Yanks need to destroy European economies in order to keep themselves afloat for another couple of decades.
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  8401.  @KassandraFuria13  Not true. There were US military bases and troops in France at the time. NATO had its headquarters in Paris! De Gaulle forced them out and demanded that NATO headquarters be placed elsewhere, which is how they ended up in Brussels.
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  8402. All of Europe's arming and financing this proxy war against Russia. What do the Europeans expect?!
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  8403. ​​ @wizard6547 rimea, Donbass, and all of south-eastern Ukraine are Russian territories annexed to the Borderlands to create Ukraine. Knowing some history helps understand present-day realities a lot better than listening to Western propaganda and accepting it without checking the facts in some depth.
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  8404. Apparently they execute only the ones with Nazi insignia and Nazi tattoos.
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  8405. They want to get their hands on Russia's immense natural resources (US officials such as Madeline Albright are on record about this). And China is their economic competitor (again, the US foreign policy openly opposes the rise of economic peers). The only way the US can maintain its hegemony is by "containing" both Russia and China, so in the end it's about greed and power.
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  8406. Ursula von der Leyen's husband is a physician and an entrepreneur whose company specialised in gene therapy. Is this now called a conspiracy fact?
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  8407. Only if they're first liberated by the Russian Federation army. Without the protection of the RF armed forces, no referendum is possible. The local Nazis would rather massacre tens of thousands of civilians than allow anything of the sort.
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  8408. Without the US, NATO is nothing. The Europeans don't count.
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  8409. So what? The majority of Americans don't vote, the majority of Canadians don't vote, etc.
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  8410. ​ @rockfella1377  Go on living in your alternative reality world.
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  8411.  @skogstorpsvagen  They sure didn't consult their populations about it.
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  8412. ​ @joshuamartinez2389  Not if I was guilty, I wouldn't. I would hope they wouldn't reject me 100%, but I wouldn't want to continue to support me based on the lies I was able to fool them with.
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  8413. Col. Douglas Macgregor said on the Redacted just yesterday that there are now credible reports Ukraine's lost 250,000 men in the last 12 months. The number of wounded would be 2-3 times that. We also know that Ukraine's dragging 60 year old men and 15-16 year old boys off the streets of its cities and giving them 3 days worth of training (absolutely derisory) before they're sent to the front as canon fodder. The West is out of ammunition and because of its severely shrunk industrial base cannot produce enough to make a difference. As we speak, the Europeans are trying to agree on a 2 billion euro fund to purchase ammunition from all over the world for Ukraine. So, yes, we do know quite a bit about the current state of the Ukrainian army.
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  8414. The Swedish style of multiculturalism has failed. But that's not the only model at hand.
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  8415.  @searchingforsanity4170 Ukraine's wild animals have an over-abundanxe of Ukrainian corpses to feed on.
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  8416. ​ @pashapasovski5860  They never captured 900 km2. They made a mad dash for the Kursk NPP, which they never came close to, and the depot of nuclear weapons Russia has in that region (again,failing to reach it).
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  8417. That was merely the logical culmination of our decades' long policy of knowingly, willingly sheltering Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, war criminals thousands of whom we welcomed in 1945-47.
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  8418. Corrupt, yes. Stupid, no. "We lie, we cheat, we steal."
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  8419. True, but you seem far too ready to let Germany off the hook once again. Reminds me of Gorbachev's idiotic line with which he justified the decision to allow the reunification of Germany: the Germans must have learned humanism by now! Russia must have one of the worst intelligence services in the world! As a friend and a supporter, I hope to God you remedy that asap.
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  8420. ​ @charliez4837  Because it's not safe for a young woman to go to a foreign country to meet a man alone and let him host her. Muslim, Christian, animist, Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic or atheist, we all know there are a lot of predatory men out there and that it's easy for a man to physically overpower a woman.
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  8421. ​ @BlackSeedOil20  Oh yes, he did. Your denial doesn't change reality.
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  8422. ​ @BlackSeedOil20  Oh yes, he did.
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  8423. It's all already laid out in a Rand report of 2019. The US has been planning this proxy war against Russia for years.
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  8424. Why would they? Nobody's giving Russians any warnings about attacks on civilians in Belgorod and elsewhere, so why on Earth would Russia warn the Brits and NATO that their military bases in Cyprus are about to be hit?!
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  8425. ​ @soarornor  By law, representatives of all the parties who fielded candidates in an election are present at the counting of the votes and may call for a recount in case of irregularities.
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  8426. Emergency! Emergency! We need some pets! ❤
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  8427. There's visual evidence of soldiers with the Stars and Stripes insignia on their helmets in Avdeevka.
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  8428. ​ @huffmanaviation7341  It's true. Google it.
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  8429.  @mydraftable6526  I also doubt that Ukraine had that many officers to begin with. Its causality figures, however, are much more likely to be at least twice the 100,000 number she let slip.
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  8430. ​ @MiriamBeasley-ht9hx  Da vas podsetim, posto ste nazalost duboko izlapeli: Rusi su tada bili na kolenima, u stanju raspada.
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  8431. 🎯
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  8432. China's insisting that it restrain itself.
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  8433. The world is laughing at the Americans for imagining they can still bully large countries like China, India, or Russia into compliance with its hypocritical demands and interests.
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  8434. Brian's right: the US would never have tolerated even 1/10th of what it's been doing to Russia. Putin and his crew have been far, far too conciliatory, something the West perceives not as the virtue of patience and peace-making but as a sign of weakness.
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  8435. You heard wrong.
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  8436. Maybe you can let your friend know that up to 80% if adolescents who claim gender dysphoria and are not put on hormones to transition grow out of it by the time they're 20.
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  8437. Many young Japanese believe it was the Soviet Union, aka Russia, who nuked them. Japanese history texts used to deliberately omit the fact that it was the US who did it.
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  8438. Maybe an exorcist too.
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  8439. There are plenty of idiots in Washington who believe a nuclear war is "winnable".
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  8440. Poking fun at a foible or similar is okay as long as the target of fun finds it amusing, too, but teasing and mocking can be very hurtful to children.
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  8441. What are you talking about?! India didn't even send it's foreign minister, let alone Modi! India sent it's ambassador instead.
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  8442.  @al-bot1094  As Baudelaire put it about 200 years ago, "The greatest trick the Devil's pulled is to convinced modern man he doesn't exist." And no one can accuse Baudelaire of piety.
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  8443.  @al-bot1094  No: it's not the Cretan liar paradox.
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  8444. Over 50% of English vocabulary consists of borrowings and imports from Latin and French. Many of the words these benighted po-mo idiots at Stanford are suggesting as the acceptable alternatives for the words they dislike are themselves the result of colonialism (French) and appropriation (from both Latin and French). People outside of academia cannot imagine the degree of plain old ignorance (as in not knowing stuff) among college and university faculty.
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  8445. That's easy: because the US is a mafia state run by thugs.
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  8446. All of NATO lost to the Taliban. 😂😂😂
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  8447. There's a two-tier system in most EU countries now. I was shocked to learn about it from my Dutch friends and an Austrian couple I met a few years ago. The Austrian guy explained that if you need hip-replacement surgery, for example, you have to pay yourself to get titanium rod implants -- the universal health care system pays only for inferior materials, good enough for the hoi polloi, for us ordinary mortals, that is. The EU has turned into a neoliberal scam at the expense of the people of Europe.
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  8448. Narratives is what the West likes to reduce reality to. Maybe it's not such a good idea to go along with that terminology and the mindset it reinforces. How about talking about possibilities, instead, a term that at least keeps us anchored in reality? I'm pretty sure that what's happened and is happening right now is the third possibility Alex described: a blunder on Russia's part that is being or is about to be rectified.
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  8449. ​ @markrice3019 A bizarre occasion for glee. You might want to see a shrink about that.
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  8450. The Ghost of Kiev. 😘
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  8451. I never expected it either, but that's just a measure of your and my naiveté. After all, the West has been trying to destroy Russia as a state for the past 200 years. The moment the EU refused to accept Russia in we should have known better.
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  8452. ​ @amoxzi Yes. That's what you do in such a situation.
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  8453. Exceptionalism is always a firm of Nazism.
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  8454. Family reunification doesn't mean leaving a child in the custody of a clearly impaired, dysfunctional parent. Why wasn't little Eli reunited with his dad?!
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  8455. Yeah, but Germany is no friend to China and China knows it.
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  8456. No, money laundering is something else. This is direct theft of public funds, actually.
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  8457. BlackRock has been upfront about that video, which was taken in the perp's highschool, which is why he and a few other students appear in a shot. None of the students were paid for their appearance in that and.
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  8458. It's too late. Our fellow Canadians voted this lot in three times in a row! Perfectly fine with having the follower of a Nazi collaborator as our Deputy Prime Minister, too. This is who we are now, as a country. Our smugness, conformism, and complacency are a thing to behold (we've always considered ourselves so much more humane and decent than our neighbours to the South, and have made a sense of identity out of that smugness).
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  8459. Same in Canada.
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  8460. You need to lose the petrodollar, have your economy tank, lose the ability to host 800 military bases and dozens upon dozens biolabs in other people's countries, before you'll grow in humanity enough to sober up from the power orgy you've been on and embrace Franklin's vision of a peaceable, friendly nation.
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  8461. Sure, but they'd be fools not to take such precautions.
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  8462. Well done! Happy New Year to you and Hercules the Brave!
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  8463. Dropping neutrality, which is what the Finn's did by joining NATO, was a very bad decision. A war-mongering decision, in fact.
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  8464. ​ @RobertTestowy  The fools are paid off to do what they're doing: turning Georgia into the next Ukraine.
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  8465. Tucker has an international audience now.
    1
  8466. Germany's earned every ounce of contempt with which the world now views it. We all cut them slack, and so generously too, for 80 years now and the Germans turn around to finance and arm a Nazi state in Europe. Disgusting.
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  8467. No reputable historian in the West, where socialism has mostly been maligned and where historians of WW2 can be expected to have have every ideological incentive to use the occasion to blacked socialism a bit more by associating it with Nazism, sees the latter as any form of socialism. Nazism was fascism, a blend of big business and the state apparatus, government and the corporations, and, as Hitler openly stated WW2 was Germany's attempt to settle the question of its European colonies by military means. In short, it was the quintessentially imperialist war in the European, North African, and the Pacific regions.
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  8468. ​ @victorswiercz8203  Almost a third (29%) of your imports come from China alone. Half a trillion or 500 billion dollars' worth annually. You import even more from Mexico and Canada. The US has become a mostly service economy. China outproduces not just the US but the US+the EU, combined.
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  8469. You think it's just Trudeau?! All of Canada didn't mind one but that we've sheltering Ukrainian (and Baltic, and Croatian) Nazi collaborators for decades now. All Canadians are deeply implicated in this moral atrocity. All.
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  8470. The Germans are doing the same. They've just raided the home of and laid criminal charges against a 64-year-old guy who'd called their Economy Minister Robert Habeck an idiot. Traumatized his special-needs daughter, too.
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  8471. ​ @paul1979uk2000  So, those with a different viewpoint are fanatical? I see.
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  8472. It's hilarious that the court had to append a footnote to that opening statement that there are only two sexes, male and female.
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  8473.  @annetteannette9205  One of the reasons why we need a General Strike.
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  8474. 😂
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  8475. ​ @MelittaFilter-c4g And yet MOST of you are silent.
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  8476. 😮
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  8477. ​ @traumlaeufer9862  If little Niger can free itself of both the French and the Americans, Germany has NO excuse. You're not occupied: you're simply willing allies of the US.
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  8478. ​​ @johnbaker5565  What anger and division?! The Russian public turned against Prigozhin as a result of the mutiny he led, and rallied around their state and their leadership even more than before it. Russia's united as never before in the last 30 years!
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  8479. ​ @earthtwin2409  Jesus is the incarnation of the Word of God: he was never "created" but has existed since before the Creation itself. "Before Abraham and Moses, I am.".
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  8480. Who else was responsible, then?
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  8481. ​ @zograf4572 Moramo stroljivo sacekati ekonomski pad Zapada, kojim ce se zavrsiti I njihova okupacija Kosova i Metohije. To moze da potraje i do kraja ovog veka, a u medjuvremenu treba da se okrenemu Istoku, gde je ekonomska I kulturoloska buducnost sveta i celog Evroazijskog kontinenta. Ne smemo zaboraviti da he Evropa samo jedno zapadno poluostrvo Azije kao sto je Indija njeno juzno poluostrvo.
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  8482. Touché! 😘
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  8483. Paranoia is treatable.
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  8484. There could be something to that.
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  8485. Sadly true. I hope we won't let Jewish nepotism turn us into anti-Semites, though.
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  8486. Russia can justify its SMO in Ukraine; there's NO justification for the American occupation of Syria.
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  8487. ​ @JosephBisio  Russian technology's been ferrying US astronauts up to the ISS for yonkers now and this proxy war has shown just whose military technology is superior, and it's the Russian one.
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  8488. They should ban all foreign-funded organizations!
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  8489. Naryshkin is either a joke or a traitor. Russia's foreign intelligence service has failed time and again under him. Without control of all of Ukraine (minus Lvov, which is militarily insignificant), Russia will remain vulnerable to aggression from the West.
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  8490. Feelings can be manipulated very, very easily. That's why thinking with one's heart only is dangerous and indeed foolish.
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  8491. ​ @christelwilk6166  If little Niger can throw the Yanks out, as it did earlier this year, the occupied Germany excuse won't wash any longer.
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  8492. Doubt it. They'll just send in Western "volunteers" to man them.
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  8493. They still refuse to acknowledge that the Siege of Stalingrad, in which over 1.5 million civilians perished, was a war crime....
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  8494. ​ @Carmen-qt7lx  It's touching, that belief that everything has an explanation, that evil is intelligible.
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  8495. This is what our police will soon be using to keep us in line. Give them a decade or two, at most.
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  8496. 😅
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  8497. What's fishy about it? Do you know the first thing, historically speaking, about why Armenians love Russia and remain eternally grateful to her?
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  8498. Rod Steward was a professional footballer before turning to music.
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  8499. Wtf would we want to be a part of that autocratic, dictatorial 4th Reich that's falling apart economically as we speak?!
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  8500. When he asked a friend in the State Department about 10 years ago why the Europeans follow the US so blindly and so obviously against their own interests, Paul Craig Roberts was told that the US has literally bought up the top echelon of the entire European political class. Every months, according to this State Department insider, the State flies suitcases full of money to various European capitals. The spread and depth of corruption in the West is unimaginable to regular citizens.
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  8501. It's impossible for Europe and the US to change their ways: the drive to exploit and demean others is ingrained in them. It's all they've known for the past 500 years.
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  8502. The US has form on this sort of industrial terrorism. Back in the 1980s, Reagan authorized industrial sabotage of Soviet energy infrastructure, which was duly carried out. The Mafia state doing what it's won't to do to its economic competitors.
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  8503. ​ @Алексей545-т6б  None of the East European countries ever had or even sought colonies abroad.
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  8504. And it's still managing to show up NATO for the paper tiger it is. That much is perfectly clear to everyone outside the collective West.
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  8505. We got plenty in Kitchener-Waterloo.
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  8506. 😅
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  8507. Nobody will take this seriously. On the contrary, the West is really making itself a laughing stock across the rest of the world.
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  8508. I very much appreciate Brian's respect for his audience and the stylishness he brings to it. 😍
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  8509.  @Victor-y9g1w  We all make mistakes, especially when we're lied to and misled.
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  8510. Ukrainians are buying property all over Europe AND driving real estate prices up!
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  8511. I think Russia is far more ready for a major confrontation than the US is. Its army hasn't fought a war against a near peer since WW2 and is far behind Russia in missile technology.
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  8512. I have to disagree on this issue of Zelensky's exigence: Ukraine has lost at least 400,000 men (and many more have been wounded) because the West twisted Zelensky's arm back in April 2022 and in effect forced Ukraine to fight Russia on its behalf, promising to support Ukrainians militarily all the way. Zelensky's not likeable, to put it mildly, but the West is incredibly hypocritical in pretending that it doesn't owe Ukraine everything it's asked for.
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  8513.  @irashishonkova8626  It was trumpeted in the Western press late May onwards. They only stopped talking about it in August itself, as a matter of fact.
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  8514. Was he really? There were rumours to that effect at the time, but nothing of it has ever been confirmed.
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  8515. And the Poles before them all. Invaded and tried to destroy the Russian state altogether. All of their hatred of Russia stems from the consequences of those actions (the Russians drove them all the way back and then dominated Poland for a while to prevent another such attempt).
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  8516.  @danmihaiescu3114  It's always been pretty strong, except for a few decades of the 20th century when Stalin drove them into insignificance. I'm not a fan, but credit where credit's due.
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  8517. Not surprising at all given that 73% of the Ukrainian electorate voted for Zelensky on the basis of his campaign promise to implement Minsk 2 and re-establish friendly relations with Russia.
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  8518. A fantasy concocted by the legacy media. 😂
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  8519. A very beautiful cathedral.
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  8520. 😅
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  8521. Homosexuality is legal in Russia and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is banned. It was the Russians who put many Jews into power (Soviet governments had a very high representation of Jews) at a time when Jews were discriminated against all across Europe, the US and Canada, and it was the Russians who liberated Auschwitz.
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  8522. ​ @davidburke5782 Only because the Russians had destroyed Hitler's army on their own by then!
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  8523. ​ @michalzajic2555  You're hallucinating.
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  8524. Temporarily? 😂
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  8525. Your curiousity will be satisfied pretty soon.
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  8526. Stop lying.
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  8527. And this is still NOT what Russians consider a war. 😱
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  8528. Girkin's been posting all sorts of resentful nonsense for months now.
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  8529. YouTube up to its usual tricks.
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  8530. ​ @tnix80 💯👍
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  8531. ​ @carlosgarcao2847  It's a matter of public record that Ukrainians are the ones who have and continue to use that Nazi terminology about Russians.
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  8532. Dry fasting for more than 24 hrs can be dangerous.
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  8533. Brian, do you think the US will eventually provoke a war with China? Or is this just more of the empire's chest beating?
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  8534. ​ @JJRM8 We're not children here, you know.
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  8535. Plus Zaluzhny and his Nazi friends.
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  8536. 😂
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  8537. 😂
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  8538. I supported diplomacy, too, but there's no trusting the West. It has lied, deceived, broken its words time and time again while screaming innocence and demonizing those it has only wanted to ruin. The truth is that the only thing the West respects is force, sheer brute power. Now it's getting a mere foretaste of what it can expect if it ever tries to tango with Russia again.
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  8539.  Fermati Chebellosei  Yep. Far too much speculating, quite a bit of which ends up being embarrassingly wrong. Case in point, the videos posted by both Alexanders separately in the last 15 hrs. Mercouris's video was so bad, so utterly off the mark as to be in the realm of fantasy -- several of us have advised him to take it down asap!
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  8540. And only 9% of them have done so.
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  8541. None of those 3 scenarios.
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  8542. Quitting drugs can be hard?! You mean, sometimes it's fairly easy?! 😅
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  8543. Andrei Martyanov. He has a blog and a YouTube channel, too.
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  8544. Fact.
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  8545. This is an old-fashioned artillery war, with a limited use of drones. Nothing particularly high-tech about it.
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  8546. The US was never indispensable to the rest of the world. It was just THE schoolyard bully, terrorizing the planet, until Russia stood up to show it its proper place in the order things, as just one large, economically developed country among others.
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  8547. She is a very nasty woman, a massive, but massive hypocrite.
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  8548.  @billysmith1993  😂
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  8549. Because they provoked the conflict in the first place in order to destroy Russia and have NO idea what to do now that it's clear neither their economic war nor their hot war via the Ukrainian proxy will give them what they've been lusting after. To conceal all that, they simply HAVE to lie.
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  8550. Ace's surprisingly sprightly and energetic for an 11 year old. A hardy little fella.
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  8551. Poor husky just wants the shepherd to move so he/she can come downstairs. The GSD is really asserting dominance here, bullying the husky in the most passive-aggresive manner. They're both gorgeous dogs.
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  8552. What can the Europeans do to the US (and whoever else was involved in that act of industrial terrorism)?
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  8553. I bet you the US is doing the same and more in India.
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  8554. I think he's been banned by YouTube for a week.
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  8555. Keith Jarrett channeling Bach.
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  8556. He's simply going by Putin's public statements.
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  8557. ​ @parrotshootist3004  Actually, yes.
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  8558. I very much doubt it.
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  8559.  @tatfly5779  It's not funny, and AIDS has taken a serious toll in Ukraine among heterosexuals too, due to widespread prostitution.
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  8560.  @repealsection230forbigtech4  Contrary to the tendentious claims you're familiar with and take as objective truth, they were indeed naturally occurring famines. Like you, I myself believed in the Holodomor myth until just a few years ago, when I happened across Canadian research that opened my eyes to what was actually the case.
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  8561. This is supposed to be news?! Universal basic education was instituted precisely to turn millions of working class children into obedient factory hands. That's what our education system was for, from its very start in the 19th century! Jordan Peterson should study some history of this.
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  8562. If his brother did actually rape Zachary years ago, he himself may be a sociopath.
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  8563. My condolences to you and your family.
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  8564. It's still but rumbling around. 😉
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  8565. It was already clear by that point that China was economically unstoppable, and while India will never catch up with it, its own economic might makes it a serious competitor.
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  8566. ​ @yurichtube1162  Borrell is a man without integrity.
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  8567. The Yanks are trying hard to provoke another pan-European war, and Poland and the Baltics are assisting them in that project. God help us all.
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  8568. Protecting the children of Donbass by giving them shelter in Russia. The international comedy circus the West has reduced itself to calls this the crime of kidnapping children.
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  8569. ​ @RedroomStudios Trump himself supports this nonsense. Wake up!
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  8570. I would agree wholeheartedly with Matt if these were kids. But these students are clearly over 15 or 16 years old, which does make a difference. Sex education is perfectly appropriate for that age group, provided the teacher also explains that this information is something that will be useful to them later in life. Some of the students (possibly 50% or more, alas) will be already sexually active, and pretending otherwise can't help anybody. Pretending that homosexuals don't make about 8% of the population also won't help.
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  8571. ​​ @mcnuffin1208  You need to stop listening to whoever told you that Russia's economy is shrinking and call them out on their lies. The Russian economy is stronger today than it's ever been! It grew by 3.6% in 2023 and is set to grow another 2.4% this year. These figures come from the IMF, not from the Russians! In the meantime, EU economies are shrinking and Germany's now only the 2nd economy of Europe, having lost its position to Russia. Globally, Russia's now in the 5th place, having displaced Germany's, which has dropped to #6, after China, the US, Japan, India, and Russia. Again, these rankings come from Western institutions, from the World Bank.
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  8572. Terrific metaphor.
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  8573. It's touching the faith you have in their smarts and foresight.
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  8574. Always was, regardless of the temporarily reigning administration.
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  8575. ​ @vikkimg5986  There are huge alternative markets out there: Europe, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China itself. The US is just going to make itself so unattractive as a market that it will make itself irrelevant to the rest of the world. It will be able to continue to relie on trade with Canada (a market of just 40 million people) and Mexico, who, because of their geographic proximity to the US need it. The rest of the world? Not so much.
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  8576. No. Russia's nuclear use doctrine remains unchanged.
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  8577. Show me a human being who doesn't have views, opinions, beliefs, etc.
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  8578. ​ @NOFX0890 Father stop them from ruining their own country and the lives of their compatriots.
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  8579. ​ @heereandqueer_andpeggy7375 Let's not even ask how a part of Serbia with not a single Albanian toponym and not one Albanian cultural monument became 95% Albanian.
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  8580. The intent was self-evident: to ensure maximum profits for Big Pharma. Our supposedly representative governments are merely servants of the most powerful corporations and oligarchs, and the only thing that puzzles me is how many of us don't want to or can't bring themselves to acknowledge this.
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  8581. I gather you still think the US+UK have the right to go around offing political leaders they don't like and destroying countries whose oil they can then grab to themselves. And who cares about the human cost of such piracy!
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  8582. And he knows that, how? 😅
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  8583. The problem is that most Israelis support the actions of the current government.
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  8584. So, people have no right to fight for their freedom and the return of their land?! How hypoxritical of you folks.
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  8585. I believe the Russians' intentions and plans have evolved from what they were in February 2022 and that re-patriating Odessa, bringing her back home to Russia, was not a part of their original plans. The agreement they initialled in Turkey in March 2022 shows beyond any doubt that the Russians were NOT interested in re-taking Odessa at that time.
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  8586. Congratulations, Levan! 👏
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  8587. ?
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  8588. The SMO started at the end of February, and there are only 3 and a 1/2 months or some 15 weeks between now and March 2023. So where does the NYT get this idea that Russia will pause the SMO until mid-May?! Btw, if the NYT intelligence proves to our amazement and bewilderment to be right, it will be the clearest sign possible that the Kremlin has entered into some kind of a back-channel quid-pro-quo security deal with the Americans. I hope the Russians prove them wrong.
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  8589. ​ @Z_America I don't think the Russians are interested.
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  8590. Internment facilities? Is that what we're now calling the hospitals in China?!
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  8591.  @gtengineer1967  You do know who really runs Der Spiegel, don't you? I mean, it's not a secret that, like all other German media, it's firmly in the hands of the CIA.
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  8592. ​ @КАБы_да_КАБы Nah. The denigration, the hatred, and the fear-mongering started long, long before the self-dissolution of the USSR. It's an old ethnic hatred, exactly akin to anti-Semitism, similarly fuelled by greed.
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  8593. 😂
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  8594. They, who? And us, who? (Genuine questions.)
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  8595. You wish.
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  8596. They're paid by the State Department to do Washington's will. I mean, literally paid in cash from the dozens of suitcases the State Department flies to various EU capitals every month to grease the wheels of faithful vasselage. This is according to Paul Craig Roberts, undersecretary for commerce in the Reagan administration, who says he learned it from his source at the State.
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  8597. The EU had to pump over 1 TRILLION euros into energy subsidies in 2022, the year the winter turned to be an exceptionally mild one. The real cost of gas and oil in Europe is the current cost, plus that 1 TRILLION.
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  8598. The world has never looked to the West to shape its future -- it was simply forced into obeisance by Western military aggression and imperialism. This is why the proxy war on Russia which the West is waging in Ukraine, and the Russian response to it, has emboldened the rest of the world to begin to decouple itself from a West which has only exploited and attacked it, time and again.
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  8599. ​​ @davidjames1063  That's even worse: almost 80 metres!
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  8600. YT.
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  8601. Instead of gracefully accepting the fact that it will never again be able to lord it over most of the world and embrace a policy of mutually beneficial co-operation with its economic and military peers as well as with the rest of the global community, the US is behaving in the exact same self-destructive way many other empires have done in their decline. Very stupid and totally unnecessary.
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  8602. "Pope Francis: Let‘s all say ‘Enough!’ Stop the war in the Middle East" Vatican News, March 1, 2024
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  8603. The world doesn't recognize any such right on the part of the US. The only rules the world recognizes are those enshrined in international law. As for Americans and democracy, don't make me laugh! The US is a deeply corrupt oligarchy, ruled by the wealthy and the corporations, for the wealthy and their interests exclusively.
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  8604. He IS a disgrace. As are the rest of them. The EU is disgusting.
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  8605.  @alexg7836  I don't know, but the polls are clear on that. Their access to the information available on the Internet (and the young are more likely to use it than older folks do) may have something to do with it.
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  8606. Enemies? Your friends are alternating between embarrassed groans and outright sniggers right now.
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  8607. They did go overboard yesterday with that ridiculous forecast about Russia losing the entire Kherson Region, but I have to agree with them that Putin's shown himself to be a nearly disastrous war president. His refusal to call a partial mobilization back in June, against his General Staff's strong advice, is the single cause of all the problems Russian forces have had holding on to territory since the start of September. Let's hope Putin steps aside and lets the Russian General Staff do its work unhindered from now on.
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  8608. The US has just committed another $3 BILLION in military aid to Ukraine, so there won't be any peace talks any time soon. The West wants to drag this out to the last Ukrainian. It's awful and it's positively criminal.
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  8609. Well, he's rubbed NATO faces with manure and kicked the collective West's arse, and in front of the whole world, too.
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  8610. It's just hilarious how Ukrainian men are getting blown to pieces day in and day out, isn't it? 😡
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  8611. What are you smoking? 😂
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  8612. Wonder no more. It is.
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  8613. ICC has always been a Western-paid-for kangaroo court. From its inception.
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  8614. And you voted for Kamala Harris?! 😂
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  8615. ​ @robertscott961 😂
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  8616. This is the sort of thing the Dems could use to declare a national emergency and impose military rule (i.e. no elections) in order to "deal" with. I'm a Canadian and don't see the Republicans doing any such thing; the Democrats, though, more than possible. (Btw, I'm an old-fashioned lefty, not a fan of either of your ruling parties.)
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  8617. Russia alone is outproducing the US+EU 3 to 1 as it is. The West has no chance of catching up in short and medium term. Impossible to make any firm long term predictions at this point except that the rest of the world will no longer accept being pushed around by the West.
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  8618. This is all sensationalistic nonsense. Musk was right to withhold Starlink privileges to Kiev for the very reason he himself gave.
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  8619. I don't believe the mother one bit. I bet she threw in that, "Remember your grandfather was a cop" just to get on the cops' good side. As for raising her right, how come her daughter knows the jail (prison?) phone number by heart, has a child already, and is involved in a triangle involvingg a Sugar Daddy? Too many "mistakes" for someone who was raised right.
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  8620. No one knows enough about General Zaluzhnyi to be able to begin to guess what he might be thinking, so all speculations on that are imo at best a waste of time, and more likely simply misleading.
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  8621. There's nothing to negotiate, and besides, the Russians have zero reasons to trust either Zelensky or the West.
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  8622. ​ @PaulMitchell-uj1uu  Hope is not a strategy.
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  8623.  @chico9805  Do be serious! There hasn't been anything like "constant forfeiture of land" except on the Ukrainian side.
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  8624. Honey's still a youngster. I understand the wild starts showing once they reach adulthood.
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  8625. It's an assumption that they "need" anything of the sort. Note also that the men who have sex with inanimate objects in the shape of women are choosing to do so in order to avoid STDs they could contract from prostitutes. This speaks of a phobia about intimacy that must itself result in emotionally empty marriages. There's definitely something neurotic and decadent in the alienated human relations that characterize the superficially polite and smoothly functioning Japanese society.
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  8626. You're confusing Russia with the Soviet Union.
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  8627. ​ @melelconquistador  Sociopathy is a pathology of the psyche. Read up on it a bit.
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  8628. Starmer got exactly nothing from Trump. This video must have been made BEFORE Starmer and Trump had their talk in Washington.
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  8629. Poor dear. Better not listen to independent analysts and ex-CIA people since they upset you so.
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  8630. Governments all across the West subsidize businesses, too. Russians still seem to have a dangerously distorted view of the West, where systemic corruption has been legalized!
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  8631. Божий мир! Христос родился! С Рождеством тебя и твою семью! (Google translate is rude: it won't give the polite form of "you" and "your".).
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  8632. Demilitarisation.
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  8633. ​ @draganpaunovic5596 When did we do this? I've not seen any such official announcement yet. Serbia's been invited to attend the next BRICS+ summit in Kazan, but there's been no mention in the media of Serbia applying to join BRICS+. Btw, I very much hope it does.
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  8634.  @KARADJORDJIJE  I'm Serbian, living in Canada, though I don't see what that has to do with the facts of geography.
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  8635. Have you watched this video at all?
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  8636.  @lococholo2857  A liar is calling me a liar for pointing out a truth he finds inconvenient.
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  8637.  @lococholo2857  I've already acknowledged in a reply to someone else that I'd missed that, so go easy with that accusation of bias. You've either not seen my reply or YouTube's playing silly buggers and is not showing it.
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  8638.  @lococholo2857  Apology accepted.
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  8639. This is a nightmare we all need to end.
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  8640. Over half a million Ukrainian men gave their lives for what? For the greater profit of the American military-industrial-congressional complex and the enrichment of the members of the Kiev regime. If I were Ukrainian, I'd be furious with both the collective West and the Zelensky gang in Kiev, especially as Zelensky got elected on his promise to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish close relations with Russia!
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  8641. I've travelled in India on two separate occasions. India is awful.
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  8642. Only with several Russian military bases and some 150000 RF forces permanently stationed in them. For at least the next 100 years, but possibly in perpetuity.
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  8643.  @MixtrisUFOimages  That would be no more the destruction of Ukraine than the continuing US occupation of Germany is the destruction of the same.
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  8644.  @小牛-o5f  Thanks.
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  8645. How soon? BRICS are expected to announce it later this year.
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  8646. They're expected to announce/launch their intra-bank payment system later this year. De-dollarization is accelerating in reaction to the US and the EU seizing Russia's sovereign foreign fund reserves, as it's become clear that the collective West has no qualms about stealing your money.
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  8647. It definitely would. All this nonsense is the work of a handful of extremely influential neocons driven by their own irrational hatred of Russia. It's mind boggling that the American foreign policy is in the hands of a bunch of neurotics.
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  8648. ​ @Deadlover323  At the height of his popularity, Navalny had the support of less than 2% of the RF electorate.
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  8649.  @MeelisPaas  And you're so delusional, you think he cares.
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  8650. Just like in Nazi Germany back in 1945.
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  8651. He made a brilliant reaction statement to this madness but all of the legacy media are blanking it out.
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  8652. ​ @seanoneil277  Are you assigned troll duty on this channel?
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  8653. He did no such thing.
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  8654.  @Jamicaman516  If you live in Canada, you must know from direct experience that our inflation is in reality many times the official rate. Our food prices rose by roughly 20-25% in 2021, 2022, and again last year. And they continue to rise. Ditto for our housing costs. The two things people can't do without: food and a roof over their heads.
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  8655. The US and Europe refused to honour the already signed agreements and then refused to discuss new ones. That's why there's this proxy war in Ukraine: the West absolutely wanted and did everything to provoke it.
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  8656. Now you get it. 💯
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  8657.  @Crawling-Chaos-2024  Russia was not a party to the Minsk Accords at all and had no obligations and no tasks to carry out under it. The story that Russia didn't live up to its obligations under the Minsk Accords is a lie our media, parroting our politicians, have been feeding the public in order to conceal the real contents of the Accords and Ukraine's total failure to implement them.
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  8658. Switzerland was so "neutral" in WW2, it organized the escape to a South America by tens of thousands of German Nazis in 1945-46.
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  8659. ​ @yehmen29  It took Jews centuries -- literally until just some years ago -- to posthumously lift that excommunication ban from Spinoza
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  8660. There is such a thing as hate speech -- the clearest example is the language Nazis used to describe Jews and Slavs in order to justify their policy of annihilation -- but the term is being misused and abused in a most tendentious way by today's liberals. And that itself is a crime.
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  8661. They are.
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  8662. 😅
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  8663. Like the US and the EU, we're an oligarchy masquerading as a representative democracy.
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  8664. Fact.
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  8665. ​ @smoothieX12 Dima's married to a Ukrainian nationalist. He's a fantasist.
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  8666. Swedish neutrality: during WW2, Sweden let Hitler use its national railway system to ferry German troops to and from the Eastern Front, i.e. Russia. For free.
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  8667. These policies warrant charging him and his ministers with treason.
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  8668. ​ @michalichosik4327 Het, of course.
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  8669. What, what?
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  8670. I hope you get the psych help you need.
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  8671.  @mayj257  Psychopaths experience many emotions, just not empathy and compassion. They're also quite fearless and completely lack conscience. Ethan's behaviour is OTT but his grandiosity and anger are quite real.
    1
  8672. How can that be news when we've known for months about the hundreds of millions of dollars of its foreign currency reserves the West has stolen from Russia's bank accounts?!
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  8673. Happy birthday to your little ones! Enjoy your day off with your (very understanding) family.
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  8674. Frankly, I think the latter would actually be better not only for Russia but for the rest of Europe, too.
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  8675. ​​ @gutadin5 ram for gram and ounce for ounce, for their protein content trout, shrimp and salmon bear steak every time.
    1
  8676. I just heard Col. Macgregor explain on the Judging Freedom channel that the US army has a very serious problem with extremely chatty troops and their radio use.
    1
  8677. Oh, for goodness sake, putting the responsibility for unacceptable male behaviour on women yet again! India is sadly notorious for being dangerous for women, including married women accompanied by their husbands. Every 2-3 years, there's a new case of a group of Indians assaulting a tourist couple, beating up the husband and gang-raping the wife! Such things simply don't happen elsewhere. Shame on India for raising its men to behave like this!
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  8678.  @oaktree1290  Teachers are required to pass students regardless of their level of achievement or proficiency.
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  8679. NATO was set up by the US, with this aim: to keep the US in Europe, Russia out of it, and Germany down.
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  8680. That "o" is pronounced as "a" in many Russian words, as in spasibo.
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  8681. ​​ @julbro8451  What a spotty memory you have. Didn't Britain and France sign similar deals with Nazi Germany several years before the Soviets followed in their footsteps to buy themselves a little time to get ready for the Nazi invasion of the USSR?
    1
  8682. Awful 😞
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  8683. Sounds like you need a Greek version of the French Revolution, actually
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  8684. We should stop bothering about what the US calls things. The collective West plus Japan makes up only 13% of humanity. Who cares what that heavily narcissistic and hypocritical minority thinks and says?
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  8685. This is what Germany and the EU did to Greece.
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  8686. ​ @MangoRose1  Fasting is the best strategy to avoid or get rid of loose skin.
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  8687. 😂
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  8688.  @cirrus393  Well, just keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, the leader of this faux Labour and your new PM is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He's just sworn allegiance to the Yanks, the first thing he did on becoming the PM.
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  8689.  @cirrus393  Just keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, the head of the faux Labour and your new PM is a member of the notorious Trilateral Commission, whose first act on becoming the PM was to offer allegiance to the US.
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  8690. This is absolutely not true. Our immigration criteria have, if anything, got tougher with every passing decade. Go and read up on immigration law before you make a fool of yourself again with such (typically Canadian) underhanded racism.
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  8691. That's what he always was
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  8692. 😮
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  8693. You do realize Russia's using barely 10% of its military capacity in this proxy war in Ukraine? And that in terms of ammo, it outproduces all of NATO (including the US) about 10:1? So what effect do you expect a couple of hits on its ammo storage sites to have on it?
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  8694.  @fabianschrotter  Sure. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  8695.  @fabianschrotter  You're so right.
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  8696. 😂
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  8697. Belgrade, Serbia.
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  8698. He "knew" nothing of the sort. He was obviously instructed to return and keep violating the terms of his probation in order to engineer his own re-arrest, providing a pretext for the West to misrepresent Russia as repressive and "autocratic". Aaron tends to be a little naive and too quick to embrace Russophobic narratives. Max is the cannier analyst of the two.
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  8699. Baby twins.
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  8700. I listen to him at 1.5 speed.
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  8701. What happened in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014 (but also all the way to 2022) can be explained only as a tremendous, even incomprehensible failure of the Russian intelligence services and Russian policy makers. The coup of 2014 didn't come out of nowhere. The US and the EU had spents billions of dollars over the previous 20 years in preparing the terrain for it in Ukraine itself. NATO's and the US's foreign policy objective to isolate and "contain" Russia militarily with a view to destroying its state and Balkanizing it has been publicly known for years now. Russians need to start asking their own political elite how and why it ignored all this as just failures of policy cannot be allowed to happen again. The same people responsible for these failures are still in power in Russia and are the ones also responsible for the failure of the initial SMO approach Russia took from February 24 till about October 2022.
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  8702. ​ @chudotat There's gravity on the moon.
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  8703. The Europeans were in on it from the very beginning, from 2013 on.
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  8704. 😂​ @BrickIndiana 
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  8705. Canada does the same. Let's not get distracted by what is an utterly minor issue in this context.
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  8706.  @senseijoe8.292  Americans are obsessed with taxes although you actually pay surprisingly little in taxes compared with any other country in the collective West. As a Canadian who's about to move to a warmer clime in my retirement, I will also have to pay double taxes.
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  8707. The Clown World of Western MSM.
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  8708.  @johnwest7993  The only victim of propaganda here is you. And no, unlike those you seem to trust, I don't engage in deceiving others.
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  8709. The Monty Python world of Ukrainian nationalists and their supporters. I only feel sorry for the tens of thousands Ukrainian men who never wanted any part in killing Russians and whom Kiev has sent to their death on the battlefront.
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  8710.  @VoltaireVoltaire-zq4zh  Oh I have. In French.
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  8711.  @VoltaireVoltaire-zq4zh  😂
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  8712.  @chanpasadopolska  🤣
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  8713. Who do you think has been in charge all along? This is a proxy war NATO's already lost.
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  8714.  @walterbrunswick  The 73% of Ukrainians who voted for Zelensky in 2019 did so based on his campaign promise to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish close relations with Russia. Ukrainians are no more stupid than Germans, for example, who've shamefully silent about the American destruction of their key energy infrastructure.
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  8715.  @Delimon007  You think it's these soldiers who refused to negotiate peace?!
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  8716.  @Antonermolaev89  Exactly. 👍
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  8717. What do the Czechs think about that? What's your sense of the public's feelings on this topic?
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  8718. Thank you for this thoughtful, highly accurate overview of the situation.
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  8719. It is, but the energy situation which Germany did so much to bring about will ensure that these revanchist German dreams of pay-back to Russia for having defeated it in WW2 will never materialize.
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  8720. ​ @FS-yz6jk  Putin's patience is a great virtue and the source of his biggest mistakes, alas.
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  8721. That would be good.
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  8722. Same in the US and Canada. We now have homeless people everyone, every town and every city. It's beyond sad. Truly inhumane. 😢
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  8723. ​ @Myko349 As they should be.
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  8724. ​ @brucegeange7082 Ursula's grandfather was also a Nazi. Germany was never really de-Nazified after the war: it was the most superficial PR thing that left the entire ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of the interior (the police) untouched. A group of German historians went through the post-War archives about 20 years ago now and discovered this.
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  8725. Trust a deceitful, control-freak of a male doctor to come up with such a cuckoo theory. The 1960s and 1970s were the time of 2nd wave of feminism, and there was never a single feminist of the period who claimed that the two sexes (male and female) were a social construct, as this lady says, and nit a biological reality. In fact, the Bible of 2nd wave of geminism, Dimone de Beauvoir's book "The Second Sex", spells it out unambiguously. Just like today's transgender propaganda, this lady ignorantly conflates sex with gender without even realizing it. A frighteningly tragic story about Bruce/Brenda/David, deceived by Dr. John Manley into thinking he was a girl as a child and am adolescent.
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  8726. I think the figure at which they break even is $30. They've been selling oil to friendly countries below $60 for the past 5 months, as is.
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  8727. In the past 3 years, and according to the Western-dominated IMF and World Bank, the Russian economy has become #1 in Europe (displacing Germany's) and now also #4 globally, having displaced Japan from that position. It seems to me that Russia can keep this up for many a year to come.
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  8728. Keep telling yourself that. 😅
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  8729. Because the US has bought their politicians. It's as venal and sordid as that. Paul Craig Roberts wrote about it almost 10 years ago now. Every month, the State Department flies suitcases full of dollars to assorted EU capitals.
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  8730. UK needs a general strike first, then a general election.
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  8731. Yep. Need to steal more of that Syrian oil, don't you know.
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  8732. Who does Europe need to defend itself from, except perhaps from each other?
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  8733. So has the collective West.
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  8734. As has the collective West.
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  8735. Yeah, except it was in his second term that the pushing began in earnest, including even an American paid-for and engineered coup d'état in Kiev and the start of the war on ethnic Russians in Donbass. Obama's hands are soaked with blood.
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  8736. You'll need to seriously reform your system for that to occur. In short, you'll need to carry out a revolution.
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  8737. Just the wallpaper. Supposed to be a William Morris pattern, but if so, what a horrible dud.
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  8738. 😅
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  8739. ?! 😮
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  8740. Why don't you just move far away from your family and so escape the control they evidently still exert over you?
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  8741. ​ @anoushnewman1247  Already?! 🥺
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  8742. ​ @davidboi4025  None are so blind as those who will not see.
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  8743. You're referring to the Russia gate hoax, designed and paid for by Hillary Clinton.
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  8744. I think it's very bleak for the US Empire in the sense that its hegemony is very clearly over and done with. They'll no doubt spend the next several decades in denial, trying to bring it back, but there's no turning the clock back to 1991.
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  8745. They'll pump Biden up with all sorts of drugs and he'll manage to get through it ok.
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  8746. New Year's is the gift-giving holiday in Ukraine.
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  8747.  @123sabong  You wish. lol
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  8748.  @Herc11355  😂 Sit back, relax, and watch happens next.
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  8749.  @Herc11355  😅
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  8750.  @damjanm3585  80 years is an eye blink, the length of a single lifetime. As for the war in Bosnia, you do know that Bosnian Muslims hired over 30 Western PR companies to spread disinformation and propaganda about who was doing what? Or perhaps you don't. Just as you most likely don't know that the Srebrenica massacre was a revenge for the massacres of Orthodox Christians (Serbs to you) the Muslims had committed all over the Srebrenica region in the preceding months. Our wonderful legacy media made sure you never learned that.
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  8751.  @damjanm3585  The graves are in the villages all around Srebrenica. You should try reading a book or two by NATO and UN military who were in Bosnia if you actually wish to find out what really went down over there.
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  8752. That's why Pentagon's urging Zelensky to postpone the counteroffensive until some time this summer.
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  8753. Sickos. 🤮
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  8754. Your entire government is a disgrace!
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  8755. You truly are blessed. 🙂
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  8756. Oh, Joe, so it's China and Russia, is it? How pathetic of him. I like Joe Rogan, but this has shown me just how deep in denial he is. Disappointing.
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  8757. ​​ @charlesmartel6103 What about them? Even Western MSM like the NYT and Washington Post admit Russian losses have been at most 1/3 of the Ukrainian ones. Thousands of men, tragically, but nowhere near what Ukraine's done to itself in the past 90 days alone
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  8758. What's this nonsense about the whole sorry business of a destroyed Ukraine not being America's business?!?!!! The Yanks and the Brits bear most of the responsibility for what's happened since end of March 2022. As the Yanks bear 85% of the responsibility for what brought on February 24, 2022, the other 15% being EU's work, specifically that of Germany and France. It's the Americans who kept on egging Kiev on and saying they'll be with Ukraine to the last Ukrainians! How do the Duran guys now turn around and claim/advise Americans to just wash their hands off Ukraine and pretend they had nothing to do with this horrendous (but completely predictable) outcome?! 🤮
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  8759. Of course it isn't. Try acting on delusions and see what happens to you.
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  8760. ​ @bck481  You wouldn't know what a press looks like if it but you on the nose.
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  8761. They bit off more than they could chew with Afghani goat herders. Engineering this proxy war with Russia was the lunacy of imperial hubris.
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  8762. ​ @tashalorm4313  Love it! The great Tolstoy's great-grandson. 🙂👏
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  8763. ​ @tashalorm4313  Love it! 👏 The great Tolstoy's great-grandson. 🙂
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  8764. Arestovich is a snake. Surely Ukraine has better men (and women) who could take over once a peace agreement is signed.
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  8765. Cameras make many people feel uncomfortable, and understandably so because they're mere machines.
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  8766.  @BRADLEY856  Plenty of narratives out there -- Ukraine hired 150 Western PR companies back in February to create pro-Ukrainian, anti-Russia narratives for the consumption of Western audiences, the narratives our MSM have been feeding the public almost 24/7. It's called war propaganda and is as old as the hills.
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  8767. ​ @testingmysoup5678  Most amazing yet how people still regurgitate that Holodomor nonsense, created originally by a known fraudster and bigamist, who spent a few years behind bars in the US for falsifying documents and bank cheques.
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  8768. Not so hilarious for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men and tens of thousands of Russians who've lost their lives in this war so far.
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  8769.  @Bomber411  Thalassotherapy, or the use of (cold) water in medicine, goes back to at least the 19-th century. Earlier on, the use of cold water baths was already being championed by Hippocrates! So, no, this lady doctor hasn't discovered anything new.
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  8770. 70% of Russians want him to run in 2024.
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  8771. Our biggest enemy are the corporations and oligarchs and the entire political elite that serves them, and not us. Collectivisation isn't even an issue.
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  8772. This is the first I hear of a Russian force refusing to fight.
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  8773. ​ @fruitsarelife7073  Divorce is rampant among the Evangelicals.
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  8774.  @cbtam4333  "Evangelical Protestants have higher-than-average divorce rates, according to a report released today out of Baylor University. “Despite their strong pro-family values, evangelical Christians have higher than average divorce rates — in fact, being more likely to be divorced than Americans who claim no religion,” says the report, compiled by Baylor for the Council on Contemporary Families."
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  8775. They will drag this out, I think, making sure not to give the crazies at the State Department an excuse to start WW3. The only ones who can put an end to this quickly and the Ukrainians themselves. By deposing not just Zelensky but the ENTIRE political class and the General Staff of Ukraine. Pray that they find the courage for that.
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  8776.  @lexburen5932  You may disagree with my view of that decision, which is fine, but try not to hallucinate things.
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  8777. Aaron should be ashamed of himself for mouthing legacy media propaganda. He knows, or should know, perfectly well from independent analysts with relevant military background such as Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor that Russia is fighting 41 of the technologically most advanced countries with both hands tied behind its back -- and winning.
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  8778. There's simply no point in following the media in any NATO country. They've been lying to the public non-stop on foreign affairs for 35 years now, and anyone who continues to accept the stories they tell wants to be deceived. It's no doubt more comfortable that way.
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  8779. I never knew there were any Tibetan Christians! How fascinating!
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  8780. ​ @justinbailey5997  The Pentagon sees things rather differently. Every one of the couple of dozen military scenarios it's gamed ended up showing the US losing against China. Our MSM, of course, will never pass these facts on to the public.
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  8781. 😂😂😂
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  8782. And a bad one at that.
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  8783. BRICS is the future. Economically, it's already outperforming the G7. India would be crazy to try to go it alone.
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  8784. 😮
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  8785. The Duran don't publish their sources although they often mention at least some of them orally, in the course of the video itself.
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  8786. All US presidents of the past 60 years have been saying the same. Except that the US no longer runs the world. Americans are just having a hard time adjusting to the new realities.
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  8787. Just woo him with treats and he'll be yours! 🙂
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  8788. Yes. Ideally, they'll destroy themselves, economically.
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  8789. The US will most probably never recover any of those funds.
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  8790. Poland 1608 [I think it'd be more accurate to say that it's Poland, France, Germany, and now the collective West.]
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  8791. ​ @unknown-p4j9i  Neither would I, a Christian.
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  8792. According to Seymour Hirsh, Schultz was alerted in advance by Biden that the US was about to blow up NordStream 1 and 2 and agreed to it. In a normal country, in a sane civilization, Schultz would be charged with treason and tried for it. What this incident has shown so starkly is that Germany is not really a sovereign state at all, that it's a colony run by quizlings.
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  8793. ​ @prathitkushwaha8826 They owe nothing to Ukraine any more. They had kept it afloat economically the 20+ years between 1991 and 2014, and got only hatred and derision in return. Let a rump Ukraine, everything west of the River Dnieper, say, and north of the Odessa region, take care of itself now.
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  8794. The Princeton University study published in 2014 revealed that the USA is not a democracy but an oligarchy. It's title is "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens".
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  8795. The US controls the UN, so, yes, please, let the headquarters move elsewhere. Please.
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  8796. ​ @Joy-Marie369  But that has exactly zero to do with the UN! That's your entirely homegrown foreign policy.
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  8797. ​​​ @sukhwantchahil8949  Tell that to the World Bank, who report that over the past 2 years the Russian economy has leapfrogged over Germany's and Japan's to become the #4 globally.
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  8798. Danny's riffing on something Scott Ritter said the other day. Mere speculations.
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  8799. What a wild claim: the Russian MoD has never cited any such figures.
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  8800. Absolutely unprovoked police violence and brutality. America's turning into a banana republic.
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  8801. ​ @derGhebbet  Probably follows English-language versions of German media as well as various independent analysts who do read the German press, etc., as I do. You know perfectly well that there's been very little visible opposition to this government's foreign policy in Germany itself. You didn't even protest the shutting down of NordStream 2, and have been totally silent about the US sabotaging it in the worst act of international economic terrorism ever.
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  8802. I'm Canadian and have seen Brits behave like drunken louts in Greece. There are parts of Corfu not worth going to because of the ridiculous behaviour of British tourists. Loud, drunk, very unpleasant. Am not at all surprised that Spaniards are fed up with it.
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  8803. Because the US doesn't care.
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  8804. Who sets the price for raw quartz? The Chinese stone cutters? Really? And are we to think that the people who mine quartz in Madagascar would be better off if the trade were to end?
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  8805. You're assuming a 90-day truce. Why would the Russians agree to it?
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  8806. ​ @marilynbarlow8978  He was 6 when he testified.
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  8807. Everybody's pretending not to see the elephant in the room: had those guns not been there, and however enraged that 10-year-old got, her daughter would still have her mother around. Another thing: just start counting the TV shows about guns and violence in them. And then add to that the violence and meyham in computer games. American kids are brought up on a steady diet of homocidal violence, the stuff they consume day and day out. So no, this is not primarily about a bipolar abusive mother. It's about societal dysfunction of humangous proprtions everybody's intent on denying.
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  8808. Just the Collective West. The rest are looking on, snickering, and shaking their heads.
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  8809. American freedom and democracy.
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  8810. No, thanks, to your video. We've had decades of Israeli propaganda as is and need not a minute more of it. Btw, I'm neither Palestinian nor an Arab nor a Muslim. Israel was founded on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and has enlarged itself -- in violation of international law -- in subsequent acts of ethnic cleansing.
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  8811.  @e.mailissimo2146  You'll let Ukrainian Nazis do it for you. Disgusting. And shameless.
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  8812. Most of Nazi victims were not Jews but Slavs, specifically Russians, Poles, and Serbs.
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  8813. That's assuming that the West will just sit on its hands and do nothing about it. Russia's far too complacent in all this. Your intelligence service failed spectacularly in advising the political leadership of the real state of affairs, the depth of Russia-hatred, in Ukraine. Had you gone in hard and fast, you would have saved the lives of who knows how many Russian soldiers themselves as well as Donbass civilians.
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  8814. ​ @ssuwandi3240  There's no such thing as "overcapacity".
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  8815. 🎯
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  8816. Democrats have been doing it for decades. Interesting how you never noticed it. (I'm not a Republican.)
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  8817. ​ @xenusceptic Mobilised Russians? You've been taken in by Ukrainian fakes. ALL mobilised Russians had already served in armed forces for at least a full year AND have received a minimum of 8 weeks of additional training since they were mobilised.
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  8818. No. They don't have the sense to do it.
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  8819.  @pietymomentum1663  That's someone who believes he's one of God's chosen.
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  8820. Exactly.
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  8821. It was proposed back in the 1920s by a German and a Serbian geologist/geographer working independently but its acceptance was delayed until the 1960s.
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  8822. What is?
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  8823. I wouldn't brag about shelling field hospitals. Looks a tad psychopathic, you know.
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  8824. You will first need to produce a whole new generation of politicians and journalists NOT susceptible to being bribed by the US. And how are you going to do that? There's no voting this system out.
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  8825. ​​ @K2teknik.  Prospering?! I wish that part of it were true.
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  8826.  @peterc4082  According to the World Bank and World Vision, too, "648 million people in the world, about eight percent of the global population, live in extreme poverty, which means they subsist on less than US$2.15 per day. This is the current international poverty line (IPL), the World Bank’s most widely reported measure of global poverty that reflects the median of poverty lines in low-income countries (LICs)." That 9% of humanity lives in such dire poverty is irrelevant to the plight of the millions of Germans who're struggling financially and those having to skip meals in order to make ends meet.
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  8827.  UKRAINE WAR DIARIES  No. ISIS mercenaries are fighting on the Ukrainian side.
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  8828. A small d democrat.
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  8829. Novorossiya is what the lands west of Dnieper (most of that area) were originally called as they were indeed a part of Russia, annexed to the Borderlands only in the last hundred years in a Communist Party attempt to create a country called Ukraine. Here's Washington Post quoting Putin back in 2014: "I would like to remind you that what was called Novorossiya back in the tsarist days – Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Nikolayev and Odessa – were not part of Ukraine back then," Putin said. "The center of that territory was Novorossiysk, so the region is called Novorossiya. Russia lost these territories for various reasons, but the people remained."
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  8830. ​@😅BoleDaPole
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  8831. But of course. 😘
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  8832. Much more likely that his own home-grown Notsees will hunt him down. Wherever he chooses to hide once Ukraine capitulates.
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  8833. I've never heard of this. What's your source for it?
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  8834. That would be rational, but Aussies are far too racist for it.
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  8835. 😂
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  8836. German Nazism was profoundly anti-Russian (Nazis destroyed FAR more Slavs, mostly Russians, than Jews).
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  8837. 😅
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  8838. Sorry, I recoil at the very sound of her smug, conceited voice. Can't bear to watch this. 🫤
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  8839. A Russian ship shot down some Ukrainian drones, that's all.
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  8840. They're all bought up by Israel and its local representatives.
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  8841. It's quite clearly NATO's proxy war with Russia.
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  8842. Their job is to lie to us, to manipulate our perception of reality.
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  8843.  @pamelastorer8570  I hope you're right.
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  8844. ​ @georgecurly5965  The woke are really the new Puritans, and as dour and disapproving as the old.
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  8845. The hypocrisy of the collective West is plain to see and has been duly noted by some 85% of the world.
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  8846. 😂
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  8847. All of the "stupidity" is aimed at the Western public at home, to keep it in the dark about the real disposition of forces and strengths between NATO, collectively, and Russia, on its own.
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  8848. Except that even the IMF is now admitting that the Russian economy will GROW this year while those of the EU will contract. And the de-dollarization of the world continues apace, too. 🙂 The West will regret this for centuries to come, my friend.
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  8849. ​​​ @duncansmith7576  Officers, and some soldiers. They mostly get killed in missile attacks on their hiding places. But that's secondary. As NATO officials have repeatedly said over the past two years, a win for Russia is the defeat of NATO. Google it to refresh your memory.
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  8850. Well said.
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  8851. 😂😂😂
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  8852. Not when a bad peace lays the ground for another war in future.
    1
  8853. The UK market isn't that large, is it. The US can do without it quite comfortably.
    1
  8854. Wishful thinking. 😂
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  8855.  @tomvlodek6377  Because in the 20 years they occupied parts of Afghanistan, they couldn't defeat the Taliban.
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  8856.  @Neapoleone-Buonaparte  Sorry, but I can't do that. I live in actual reality, not in the fantasyland you seem to occupy.
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  8857. It's a form of narcissistic exhibitionism. A total turn-off.
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  8858. Russian victory, yes. The rest of the Slavs can only hang their heads in shame.
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  8859. How's that a dictatorship?! I don't like it or our current government, but coalition governments are perfectly normal in all Western democracies!
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  8860. The word out there is that this ludicrous cover story was concocted by the Germans and Americans acting together. Scholars and his coalition partner the Greens are literally tractors to the German people.
    1
  8861. For real?
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  8862. Kremlin's silence towards the public at home feels almost contemptuous by now. It's clear that serious mistakes have been made, the Ukrainian counter-offensive (whatever the cost to Ukraine) has shown up the vulnerabilities and shortcomings of the Russian SMO, and these things call for an explanation and an apology on the part of Kremlin. Yet there they are, behaving like a bunch of Communist Party apparatchiks, keeping mum as though they don't owe their own people so much as a clear explanation and some words of reassurance. I find this quite disappointing on the part of Putin and his team and am not at all surprised that his approval rating has slipped by more than 5%. Contrary to Alexander's attempt to dismiss this as within the margin of error, it's quite evidently nothing of the sort. Ah well, I just hope the Russian Army will soon vindicate its reputation, bringing comfort to the folks at home.
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  8863. The final communiqué doesn't even mention Ukraine.
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  8864. Sirhan Sirhan.
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  8865. ​ @roseparade_ Delusional people do not "know better" about their health needs and medications.
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  8866. The US foreign policy establishment is very heavily dominated by Zionists.
    1
  8867. ​ @nickl5658 Works fine as long as you're fighting Iraqis and Afghans.
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  8868. Intonation? 🤔
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  8869. They're just violent thieves, in reality. No grandeur in piracy.
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  8870. There's NO freedom of information in Ukraine. The Kiev regime has banned ALL opposition parties and ALL independent media.
    1
  8871. 😮
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  8872. ​ @carolberry2239  She's always had one foot inside the Washington liberal elite and one foot an inch to the left of it.
    1
  8873. So happy to see you back, Ms Blevins! ❤
    1
  8874. The Wall.
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  8875. The stated objectives were to protect Donbass, and de-Nazify and demilitarise Ukraine. By this point, all three goals are about 70-80% achieved. Everything else is propaganda babble.
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  8876.  @mayo911  That's just silly. Ukrainians are indeed already claiming that the "real" objective is not the recapture of lost territory but a slow grind of Russian forces. This is carried by Western MSM who're acting as Ukraine's propaganda organs.
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  8877. ​ @r423fplip 😂 Meanwhile, in the real world, it's the rest of Europe that's been invading and trying to destroy Russia with remarkable consistency since the 17th century.
    1
  8878. Paul Craig Roberts (economic advisor to Reagan) says that his sources inside the State Department tell him the State flied suitcases full of cash to various European capitals each and every month to keep the European political elite happy and on board. As for the European media, it's public knowledge that they're run by the CIA, who has people on the editorial boards of ALL German newspapers, for example
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  8879.  @aitchtea  The RF is using at most 15% of its military capability in Ukraine. Don't confuse Western propaganda bs with reality.
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  8880. The Brits are notoriously submissive to their ruling classes.
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  8881. Why stunned? It's been known for at least a year now that Trump's son-in-law is planning to develop a string of resorts in Gaza. And that Trump's campaign was funded to the tune of 100 million usd by Sheldon Adelson's widow. They who pay the piper call the tune. And Trump's favourite daughter's family stands to profit handsomely from this proposed act of ethnic cleansing of Gaza. So why the surprise?
    1
  8882. For years now, the people of the world have regularly voted the US the greatest threat to world peace. It's just that your legacy media never report on such international polls.
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  8883. Well, they've fooled him again and again and again. Most recently when they had the UK and France ask Russia to withdraw its troops from around Kiev in April 2022 as a gesture of good will to pave the way to Ukraine finalizing the peace agreement hammered out in Turkey. Russia withdrew its troops, and Ukraine reneged on the deal.
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  8884.  @黄冠-s5k  🙂
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  8885. I don't mourn Notsees. The forces that carried out the Kursk incursion are all Ukraine's best trained Notsee units.
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  8886. Only 1/7th of it that consists of the collective West. The other 6/7ths are watching the Western madhouse with bemusement and some trepidation, as you never know when a lunatic might start hacking people with an ax.
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  8887. An assertion with absolutely no evidence to back it up. Western and Ukrainian propaganda claims don't count as evidence, in case anyone's tempted to take them for such.
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  8888. 😂
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  8889. Left? 😂 Only in the US do people call neocons and corporate stooges "the Left"! 😂😂😂
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  8890. ​ @instructionalvideos2309  Sadly, you may be right on that.
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  8891. It should, but it looks like European servility and stupidity know no limits.
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  8892. ​ @Euroscot9155 No. From the IMF and the World Bank.
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  8893. Well, the latter is coming true by the day while the former's shown to have been an American fantasy all along.
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  8894. Rubbish. All Turkey wants is to revive its former empire.
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  8895. Am embarrassed for Canada being willing to take in such war criminals, basically.
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  8896. 😂
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  8897. ​@@bogianna_How did you get hold of one of those tapes when they've never been released to the public and their contents are available exclusively to FBI personnel?
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  8898. You mean, you should have been supporting Ukrainian Nazis since the 1950s, when you began doing so, culminating with a US-engineered coup in 2014.
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  8899. You have absolutely no idea what Russia's like today. It's very strange that people keep telling themselves these fairy tales about Russia even in the face of opinion polls carried out by Western institutions, all of which show that Putin enjoys the support of 80+% of his compatriots.
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  8900. A country whose parliament gives standing ovations to members of the SS has a mental health policy that would have made Hitler proud. Canadian consistency.
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  8901. It does, though. It also includes condoning ethnic cleansing, the very foundation of the state of Israel.
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  8902.  @blue_diamond_gem  Russia's 10-15% is fighting the entire NATO -- and winning. The rest of the world is neither blind nor stupid: we now know who's turned out to be the paper tiger.
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  8903. 😅
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  8904. It took 5 countries -- Israel, the US, Jordan, the UK, and France -- to defend Israel from the Iranian drone attack. And both Tel Aviv and Washington think the world doesn't see that?
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  8905. ​ @yewang-wp6it  Industrialization began a good 2 centuries after the start of colonialism.
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  8906. The Germans knew. My grandparents in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia knew back in 1941, so there's no excuse for any German of that time. And they're back at it again, supporting Nazis in Ukraine once again, speaking openly about how Germany failed Ukraine back in the 1940s.
    1
  8907. I think the US is about 45% responsible for this, the Europeans the other 40%, and the Ukrainians 15%.
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  8908. With a phone call from Blinken, that's how.
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  8909. Poland's announced it's sending some of its German Leopard tanks to Ukraine. The Poles are contractually required to obtain Germany's permission for that, but the Germans have not yet been approached for it. So, while the EU and NATO have now openly made their merger clear, there are deepening rifts within that military-political conglomeration. To add a touch to comedy to it all, the Poles are also running to Big Daddy across the ocean to intervene and compel Germany to pay them the trillion+ in wartime compensations, despite having settled that issue back in the 1960s AND despite the fact that Poland has been the recipient of over €200 BILLION of grants and direct transfers from the EU in the first 20 years of its ascension to the Union. Europe, and specifically Germany, is now faced with having to satisfy the voracious appetites of two grifter nations: Ukraine and Poland. To top it all, Poland and Lithuania have signed some alliance deal, which looks like a typical Polish megalomaniacal attempt to revive the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. My bet is that, unless firmly restrained by Washington, Poland intends to start a much wider war in continental Europe. God help us all.
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  8910. Nah. Brian's more handsome.
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  8911. ​ @Stelarjayflight All of Europe has socialized medicine without ANY of the problems in the Canadian healthcare system.
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  8912. The US is the only country in the world that's ever used nuclear weapons. And they used them on two civilian cities of NO military importance, either. The Europeans are insane not to understand what this means. Biden's always been a bully, a thug. He's now older and struggling with dementia, which makes it harder and harder for him to control his innate thuggishness. He needs to be restrained, one way or another.
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  8913. Mearsheimer has expressly stated over and again that it would be good for the US to "contain" China. He actively advocates going to war with China.
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  8914.  @frstflvr7327  He was an implacable enemy of the Islamists, the folks who went on to create ISIS.
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  8915. Russia is single-handedly fighting all of NATO in Ukraine. I'm beginning to wonder if this approach of dragging things out is really wise.
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  8916. You have yo understand that Dima's married to a Ukrainian nationalist. He presents a neutral, objective front but that mask's been slipping very badly since January.
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  8917. Thank God for the saner heads in Pentagon and some of the EU countries who know better than try to take on Russia directly!
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  8918. The West has always been a bunch of gangster nations.
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  8919. I've just checked this online, and the study of identical twins mentioned here (regarding the genetic component in homosexuality) was done in 1993 AND on a tiny sample of 38 pairs of monozygotic twins. "Thirty-eight pairs of monozygotic twins (34 male pairs and 4 female pairs) were found to have a concordance rate of 65.8% for homosexual orientation. Twenty-three pairs of dizygotic twins were found to have a concordance rate of 30.4% for homosexual orientation." The difference between the monozygotic and dizygotic twins is so stark that it certainly confirms the hypothesis that homosexuality has a strong genetic component. Since the study had a sample of only 38 identical twins, it should be followed up with a much larger sample size study.
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  8920. ​ @Bryan-fb8dh  There must be a reason why you're telling yourself these stories, but that's all they are. It's simply a matter of empirical fact that some people are loyal to the degree that shames the rest of us. Or at least those of us willing to experience, to admit to unpleasant feelings such as shame and guilt.
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  8921. ​​ @MrRoyalbeers  Syrski admitted just yesterday that the Kursk adventure was a failure.
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  8922.  @MrRoyalbeers  Cope harder. I stand by my statement: Gen. Syrski admitted yesterday that the Kursk incursion was a failure.
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  8923. Both he and his nationalist goons, the Bandera worshipping lot.
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  8924. So, this cop arrested her for being rude to him. People with the psychology of a juvenile should not be allowed to have authority over others.
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  8925. There was no phone conversation between them. Trump's lying.
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  8926. I don't understand why Alexander keeps referring to China as a major adversary of the West. China is a major economic competitor, but isn't competition supposed to be at the heart of capitalism? And isn't free market, and not protectionism, what the West is also supposed to stand for? China isn't threatening the West militarily either. So why pretend that it's an adversary rather than simply a competitor?
    1
  8927. ​ @Fred-Hex 😅
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  8928. Agreed. Mossad probably has something very serious on him.
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  8929. That's so ignorant. There are a million Christian Palestinians!
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  8930. Well put.
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  8931. 😂
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  8932. ​ @annarock8966  Exactly. As Rosa Luxemburg said a hundred years ago, our future is either socialism or barbarism.
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  8933. No, they/we won't. Too compliant to resist this idiocy.
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  8934. Its remit has always been to keep Russia out of Europe, Germany down, and the US in.
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  8935. 😅
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  8936. ​ @DAKINGPIN1999  It's the devil's work to juggle with words and their meanings so. The Quran is a hodgepodge of Jewish and Christian ideas and contains no truth apart from the truth found in Judaism (some) and Christianity (all). Claiming otherwise is historically inaccurate and factually false. Only a lapsed Muslim can revert to Islam. Anyone else who joins it is a convert.
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  8937. ​ @Stephen-bq4nq  Really?! How strange.
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  8938. Most Europeans seem happy to have an excuse to indulge their Russophobia, perfectly happy to be supporting Nazis in Ukraine.
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  8939. Pillage, piracy and genocide: the true 500-year tradition of the West.
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  8940. What's the story/scandal about Macron's wife? Can someone please enlighten us?
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  8941. He brought in that idiotic law, so he can repeal it, too.
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  8942. The civilians were offered assistance in evacuating but the older folk refused to leave. 😟
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  8943. That must have been so hard!
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  8944. Canada has a very easy dirty conscience. That same Ukrainian Nazi and member of the SS whom our parliamentarians gave a standing ovation last week was honoured by our parilament in 2007. All of our governments from 2013 on have voted against the UN resolution condemning the glorification of fascism and Nazism. The Canadian public has never held a single large protest against such favouring of historical and present day Nazis.
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  8945.  @2012isnear-my-my-my  Everyone knows Obama got his for the colour of his skin. (The West is really hopeless -- men who insist they're "really" women, a US president who starts 5 new wars and is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Swedes for it, the whole West every few years going on bombing raids against some country or rather that's never done them any harm, braying about freedom and democracy while supporting a genocide in Gaza, etc. What a sick, sick civilization.)
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  8946. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz. The children and grandchildren of the people who created and ran that abomination just commemorated the liberation of Auschwitz by keeping the children and grandchildren of the liberators away.
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  8947. ​ @mikewhitman745  Odd you should say that because I find it to be true of men.
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  8948. Or, you could advise your demented leadership honestly and take early retirement, if needs be.
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  8949. ​ @funkyfiss He admitted that?!
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  8950. Trump, or any other US administration, doesn't need approval by the Senate to pull all American forces out of Europe and close down all US bases there (without formally leaving NATO).
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  8951.  @hamidjafari5995  Why the rudeness?
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  8952. Where did you get that number from?
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  8953. Gene Sharp.
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  8954. ​ @kevinthegamer2499 It's very much the opposite. Sensitivity gives you the edge in recognizing these types.
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  8955. You believe that you know more than you do. Buddhist violence and wars are well attested in history.
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  8956. Of course it is. Kiev's lying, as usual.
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  8957. Maddow's audience know she's a manipulative liar. And they don't mind it one little bit. It was in the mid-210s that I observed to some uber-liberal, now former, friends here in Canada that Maddow had lied about something. I thought that was news to them, that they'd be indignant when they learned that. Not a bit. As I explained what the lie in question consisted of, they just stared at me with blank faces and said absolutely nothing. It was my faux pas, my solecism, mentioning what everyone knows and justifies as opportune and necessary. I still feel nauseated when I remember what Maddow's fans revealed about themselves that day.
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  8958. The ones abusing Palestinians today were themselves never abused by anyone.
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  8959. ​ @Eelis0  Odessa is very much pro-Russian. So much so that it's been kept under Ukronazi terror ever since the 2014 holocaust there.
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  8960. ​ @larrousseyves9408  India is about to sign a defense agreement with Russia.
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  8961. Easy. No general in his right mind would have believed Ukraine would do something as catastrophically stupid as actually send those troops into what would inevitably be a death trap for them. As it's indeed turned out to be.
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  8962. At night.
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  8963. ​ @julianpetkov8320  😂
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  8964. Except for some of those who've died of covid.
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  8965.  Anni Runaway  It sounds like a local US issue. Certainly not generalizable to the rest of the world.
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  8966. The only thing I fault him for is not to have taken the West's predatory intentions seriously in 2013 and 2014. He, or any other Russian leader, would be mad, as in criminally irresponsible, to trust the West on the time of day, let alone anything else.
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  8967.  @freebidou  You are governed by your own people -- who're happy to betray you at every turn.
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  8968. Exactly.
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  8969. And yet, we haven't seen Germans out in their millions protesting against their government's policies. Not even in their hundreds of thousands.
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  8970. The US legal system's been a disgrace for decades now.
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  8971. If Summy is 85% Catholic, there's no way it can also be 65-70% Russian.
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  8972. Skipping over Jeff Beck is incomprehensible.
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  8973. ​ @LevanGudadze No white president of the US had ever been honoured with a Nobel prize until then. Obama definitely got it for being the first mulatto president of the US.
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  8974. People in intelligence services don't call spouses to tell them their husbands/wives are away on work-related business. Yet she believed them. He must have had at least one accomplice in the elaborate bigamist scam he was running with her.
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  8975. ​​ @NowIsee-NowIdont  No, sweetie. You're confused. The bullies are the collective West, and Russia has finally stood up to them, leading the world into a new, fair, democratic order.
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  8976. He's an idiot.
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  8977. What do these hate crimes look like? How would I spot one?
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  8978. She was never elected by the people in the first place.
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  8979. Low life is exactly right. Ukraine needs liberating from the top 1-5%, the criminally corrupt scum that's made itself mega-rich on the backs (and corpses) of their fellow Ukrainians.
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  8980.  @olsonjens5907  The Russians don't need any outside help.
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  8981. I agree. Trump did not start any new wars (Obama started 5 of them!) and did what he could to restrain the neocon lunatics both in the State Department and Pentagon.
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  8982. He's an atheist.
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  8983. Nah. The State Department flies them directly to various EU capitals. Monthly.
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  8984. 😂
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  8985. Clearly a long planned announcement.
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  8986. And her own husband, too. ​ @tommywicker1432 
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  8987. Germany's already been replaced by Russia as the #1 economy in Europe.
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  8988. They can keep fooling the Western public with that, but Western business leaders know what the real score is. Hence the fact that 95% of Western companies that used to do business in Russia haven't pulled out of there despite the sanctions. It's also why the unelected EU Commission is now planning to criminalise sanctions-dodging by EU businesses.
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  8989. This police department clearly doesn't train its officers well or even properly on how to recognize and deal with people in the midst of a psychotic episode. Tasing her when there were 3-4 cops on site able to help restrain her was also unnecessarily cruel. This woman obviously needs psychiatric help and should be institutionalized at least for some weeks.
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  8990. What's funny about that?
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  8991. In the long run, probably yes. But we need to be wary of putting unquestioning faith in science. We've already seen science give aid, support and comfort to an ideology such as Nazism, something we should have learned from. Scientists are as liable to bias, prejudice, and cultural blindness as anyone else.
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  8992. Very sad, and totally disgraceful.
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  8993. Now you're being pathetic.
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  8994. YouTube keeps casting my critique of the collective West as hate speech and banning me from commenting for 24 hrs at a time without once telling me what exactly its censors view as hate speech. Very Kafkaesque.
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  8995. Massive protest?! All we saw was literally a handful of people, alas. I wish Moldovans supported this brave MP, but they seem to be still fast asleep and fully hypnotized by their pro-NATO government and media.
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  8996. My guess is at least 30% remain unaffected by Nazi brainwashing.
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  8997. ​ @SunofYork  How dare he not arrange everything to our satisfaction?!
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  8998. Immigration has nothing, but absolutely nothing, to do with our homeless crisis.
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  8999. ​ @valansley 😂
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  9000. ​ @TJ-vl1ff  From the collective West, not just from the US. The world has been watching EU and European hypocrisy re. Russia and Ukraine with utmost disgust.
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  9001. I'm not an American and I don't see it at all. My own "beef" with Ivanka is that she chose to marry a rabid, to my mind conscience-free Zionist. They do make a very handsome couple, but looks aren't everything.
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  9002. ❤
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  9003. 😂
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  9004. Arnaud Bertrand is Swiss, from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
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  9005. Trump's in on this. Please wake up. You need a Second American Revolution.
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  9006. No, it's literally killing tens of thousands of human beings. Mother Earth has seen things so much worse than anything we're capable of doing, including causing a nuclear winter and our own demise as a species, that while we can cognitively understand them, we cannot really imagine what they were like.
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  9007.  @michaelkatz275  Of course you do. It's called propaganda.
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  9008. And it's the European "center" today that's as repressive and cavalier with the law and with democracy as any fascist dictatorship of old.
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  9009. 😂
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  9010. Wow! So much silly Sinophobia on display! 😂
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  9011. 😅
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  9012. 😂
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  9013. Hungary's Orban predicts that 30-40% of EU industry will have to close as a result of sanctions. If even 20% of Europe's businesses/industry close, it will trigger a depression, not a recession.
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  9014. I think Titan and she ended up being the real winners. There was something seriously off, passive-aggressive about that guy.
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  9015. I agree.
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  9016. ​ @Joshpox  Just keep telling yourself that.
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  9017. Disgusting of the Americans. They want to fight a proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian but find it "annoying" that the Ukrainians are asking them to live up to their end if the bargain!
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  9018. She's courageous and very intelligent and honest. Positive is an electrical charge or a blood test confirming leukemia, say.
    1
  9019. The first set of NATO heads and top generals were all Nazis, fresh from serving Hitler. I learned of this only 2-3 years ago
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  9020. What muscles? All I see is flab.
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  9021. It helps if you're a Jewish neocon. The State Department seems to be fully in the hands of people with split loyalties, revanchist dreams, and dual citizenships.
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  9022. The lucky ones are, the ones who can. Why should they let themselves be killed for Zelensky's 1.5 billion USD?!
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  9023. Humiliating refusal to fight it out in Kherson, perhaps. But defeat? By whom, pray?! Ukrainian forces didn't dare try to enter the city until AFTER the Russians had fully withdrawn from it.
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  9024.  @AgentDoubleOSeven77  A defeat is when your army's beaten in the field of battle. Ukraine's army did not manage anything even close to that in Kherson city.
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  9025. BRICS countries have outstripped the G7 and are outproducing the US and the EU *combined*.
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  9026.  @gucci3541  I think that was a joke at the expense of all those perfervid Western claims about his failing health.
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  9027. The Vatican itself is at fault here. A number of pope's and papal administrations have known about the sexual abuse of nuns for decades and the church did literally nothing about it. The rot is profound and entrenched.
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  9028. 😮
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  9029. 😂
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  9030. You're lying. Easily checked online.
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  9031. The West engineered and provoked the war in the first place. This is not Ukraine against Russia but the collective West against Russia, using Ukrainian men as their proxy soldiers.
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  9032.  @austinsmith3011  It is as Russia who helped you in your War of Independence. Learn your own history, non-selectively.
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  9033. 😂
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  9034.  @sheilabaltz9712  YouTube deletes them the moment they're posted
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  9035. ​ @grandemperorputin5992  Not for a few millennia, i.e. not until we've figured out as a species that communism serves us best. Even socialism accommodates private property, and I have no doubt a future communism will do so as well, on a smaller scale.
    1
  9036. 😅
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  9037. ​ @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Likewise.
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  9038. 😂
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  9039. ​ @henryisnotafraid  In other words, nothing to do with nuclear power plants.
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  9040. 😅
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  9041. I didn't see a gleeful face among them.
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  9042. This is sad. Not that I'm feeling sorry for Joe Biden, but my God, this is the man the Dems want to run as their presidential candidate?!
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  9043. 😮
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  9044. 😅
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  9045. How would they justify it? Democracy, you know. 😜
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  9046. American liberals (i.e. Democrats) are doing their worst in destroying the very possibility of democracy in the US.
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  9047. It's useless talking about this with anyone who's veen a part of the Canadian governing class in the last 30 years. The answer to your question is simple and obvious when you look at it in its proper geopolitical context: India has refused to biw down to American and more broadly collective Western pressure to break its traditionally friendly relations with Russia and take their side in their proxy war in Ukraine. This accusation that India assassinated an Indian citizen on Canadian soil (he did not have a Canadian citizenship at all) is a part of that pressure on India. The collective West will balk at nothing in trying to compel India (and others) to do its will. Canada's just doing Washington's bidding, in other words, just as it did when it arrested and incarcerated a Huawei officer.
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  9048. Between 70% and 80%. 70% of Russians wanted him to run in 2024 just days before he announced his decision.
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  9049. Indeed! ❤
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  9050. ​ @pereinarolsson3928  On this issue? Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Roumania, all of Eastern and a good chunk of Central Europe, in fact.
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  9051. ​ @janobrien1936  It's waaaayyy worse than in Canada.
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  9052. ​ @CaballeroRiddare  Lots of other countries in Europe don't have any same-sex schools. It's a specifically Western fad, in fact.
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  9053. Not for weeks now.
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  9054. ​​ @Tyuiiiizxvb ? P.S. Do try not to FAFO....
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  9055. I don't believe for a moment that either of the sisters were ever abused in any way. Their mother worked several jobs concurrently in order to provide for them. The sisters are simply psychopaths, enabled and psychologically supported by their friends. @felixchien1664 
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  9056. I think they should go in and stay put till at least the end of this century. The US has been occupying Germany and Italy for almost 80 years now.
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  9057.  @aramisio2  Sorry to disappoint you, but happen to be an Ontario girl (Canada), and as far as I can tell Putin's not in the business of prophesying the future. He merely announced Russia's intentions. As for someone else's claim on this thread that Novorossiya doesn't exist today and never did exist in the past, I can't help such historical ignorance beyond pointing out that Novorossiya is the term for all of the regions of Russia which Lenin annexed to Ukraine in order to create a country out of it. As Putin put it back in February, Ukraine's expressed every wish and desire to de-communize itself, and Russia's now helping it towards that end.
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  9058. What an a-hole the 3rd husband turned out to be. Despicable.
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  9059. Everything? That's too silly for words. Under Trump, Israel will continue to dictate the US foreign policy -- so much for his "isolationism". Btw, sorry to break it to you, but it's the US that controls the UN, not the other way round.
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  9060. ​ @danottobre Russia has the dead-hand system: should anyone nuke its cities, Russian nuclear arsenal will be automatically unleashed on the perp country.
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  9061. It is deliberate. 100%. Putin's orders.
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  9062.  @earlofmiddlesex3129  Thank you for showing us that you don't know what you're talking about. Russia isn't even mentioned in the Minsk Accords, which were entirely between Kiev and Donbas. As for the Budapest Memo, Russia honoured it until the EU violated its terms in 2013. Check out Article 3 of the Memorandum, which prohibits the use of economic ultimatums for geopolitical purposes, precisely what the EU did then.
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  9063.  @michalzajic2555  Yes. 1994.
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  9064.  @jaredjosephsongheng372  You're confusing the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 with the Minsk Accords. Ukraine didn't give up "its" nukes because it had none; all of the nukes then stationed in Ukraine belonged to the Soviet Union and then, according to international law, to its successor state, the Russian Federation. In signing the Budapest Memorandum with the US, UK, and the Russian Federation, Ukraine undertook to remove from its territory all of the nuclear weapons it had from the Soviet Union in exchange for security assurances from the RF, the US and the UK. In 2013, the EU violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum, thereby rendering it null and void.
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  9065. Yes, he does. But Putin's personally also responsible for this war: he's admitted he made a mistake in not going into Donbass back in 2014, a mistake due to his excessive cautiousness, and one that's now costing tens of thousands of Russian lives. And he still clings to his go-slow approach, which has only led to the West getting more and more hysterical while giving the same West time to organize its escalations, bringing us all closer and closer to Armageddon. We've been so accustomed in the West, so groomed into accepting a governing class whose only loyalty is to their donors that a president who actually loves his country and his people seems something especially praiseworthy when it should be so basic as to be taken for granted. 😢
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  9066. You're projecting.
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  9067. Oh wow! I didn't know Liz Truss failed to get even a first degree. Makes sense, though: she's thick as a plank after all.
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  9068. Just keep telling yourself that. 😂
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  9069. No need. I know what senile dementia, advanced Stage 2, looks like.
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  9070. I see you don't give a damn about the Ukrainian men who will surely lose their lives if what you're wishing for comes to pass. So trivial-minded and so callous.
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  9071.  @JLSMaytham  I agree.
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  9072. I agree. I've never seen him look so angry.
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  9073. ​ @IvanIvanov-n2p  Your intelligence services have shown themselves incredibly naive and incompetent in 1. Advising Gorbachev to allow the reunification of two Germanies on the basis of their belief that Germany had learned humanism since 1945, 2. Letting Gorbachev do so without first having the US and NATO sign a treaty of non-expansion 3. Letting Yeltsin sell off Russian assets to the oligarchs and the West 4. Failing to counter the rise of Benderism in Ukraine 5. Failing to impress on Putin the wisdom of intervening directly, in Donbass, in 2014 6. Failing to assess properly the mood in Ukraine in 2022 and advising Putin wrongly about how to conduct the SMO in its first 6 months My own advice to Russians would be to immediately grow out of their absurd naiveté vis á vis both Europe and the West as a whole, an almost obstinate naiveté which has cost them so much over the past 200 years. The Swiss MP Guy Mettan has an excellent book that should be required reading in Russian high schools as well as by all members of the Duma. It's called "Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to anti-Putin Hysteria".
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  9074. How? This is how the US attracts EU companies to relocate there: First step, use industrial sabotage and destroy Europe's energy infrastructure (North Stream 1 -- one pipeline -- and North stream 2). Step 2, force EU countries to buy its own LNG. Step 3, charge EU countries 2-3 times more for that same LNG than it sells for in the US.
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  9075. Those fathers have sacrificed not their masculinity but their very personhood -- they are so passive they seem to be a mere shell of a human being. It's hard to tell if they're henpecked or if they're the type of men who look to be mothered by their wives. Such fathers invariably betray their children, girls as much as boys, by failing to protect them from maternal aggression and manipulation.
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  9076. You didn't win WW2. The Soviets did. And they'd have managed it without the paltry help you eventually gave them. Over 75% of Nazi Germany's losses were on the Eastern Front.
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  9077. They know they can't. It's just the loony neocons (who're driving the American foreign policy) who imagine they can bend reality to their will to power.
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  9078. Not really. Russians tend to be dangerously naive and sentimental, especially about their enemies. It's their besetting weakness
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  9079. It's why Zelensky's gone über-hysterical lately, asking for a nuclear bomb to lob at the Russians, setting up a bio-weapons attack (fortunately thwarted), talking about getting a dirty nuke with which to start a nuclear Armageddon, demanding that the West (fighting its proxy war to the last Ukrainian) nuke Russia for him. It's stunning how the Europeans keep pretending they can't see it. Half a billion of people deep in delusional hypocrisy, ethnic hatred, Notsee sympathies, and positively neurotic denialism. Incredible!
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  9080. What Left?! There's none in Europe. The MSM have had a great success in manipulating people's perceptions and understanding or you'd have no trouble recognizing the establishment as the dictatorship of the corporations. That's what globalism is and all of these politicians are globalist neoliberals, center right themselves.
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  9081. My impression is that the ammo promised last week is slow to arrive.
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  9082. ​ @GreatSageSunWukong  You experienced degradation, sexual abuse and humiliation from a very selfish heterosexual pervert. Please do seek some therapy (the key is finding a therapist who listens to you, validates you and with whom, as a result, you feel comfortable) and understand that you're a woman with a perfectly normal reaction to what your ex put you through. I myself was married (briefly) to hetero pervert, and I know how hard it is to defend oneself from such narcissistic men and to draw firm boundaries. There are probably quite a few of them around given the apparently general acceptance of pornography in our societies, but they don't represent all men. Perhaps not even the majority. Once you get your inner strength and self-, confidence back and start dating, I think it'd be a good idea to ask the man on a second or third date whether he likes pornography and how often he uses it. In a totally calm, detached, just-out-of-interest sort of way so you don't give him any clues as to how he's to answer those questions. You'll need to rehearse asking such questions before you put them to your date and don't wait for the fourth date: you want to eliminate men you definitely don't want to see again and you also don't want to alienate a good guy by springing such a question on him on your first date. You deserve a full life and a family, so don't let that piece of excrement spoil your life for you! ❤
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  9083. What ideology? I see no courses in ideology of any stripe in engineering programs in the US and Canada.
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  9084. BS, Amanda. Repeating anti-Soviet propaganda is so yesterday, dear.
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  9085. The g in Evgeny is pronounced as in go.
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  9086. ​ @BrianCarnevaleB26  Good God! 😮
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  9087. Putin is now publicly conceding that it would have been better for both Donbass and Russia itself had Russia launched an SMO in Ukraine back in 2015 or 2016, at the latest.
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  9088. ​ @dorincaragia8334  Col. Douglas Macgregor, Major Scott Ritter, ex-marine Brian Berletic -- all of them, independently, offered this analysis. I don't think it's possible to overestimate the amount of outright lying the Ukrainian side and our MSM have done since February 24, 2022.
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  9089. The elites, as always.
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  9090. Synagogues are normally empty on Sunday.
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  9091.  @codyvandal2860  My drawing/painting abilities are irrelevant to the fact that Hitler was an utterly mediocre painter.
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  9092. ​ @BarAuditorEsq  Oooh, so profound. 😅
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  9093. At the moment?!
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  9094. Ukraine never had the upper hand. The best thing for Ukraine was to implement the Minsk Accords, but its bought-up political elite saw too tempting a chance to make themselves even richer than they already were by milking the West of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  9095. ​ @Алексей-ь9я3м  The problem with Germany is not just Scholtz and Annalena Baerbock. Germany is now fully identifying itself with its Nazi ancestors and their anti-Russia agenda, with German politicians and German media telling the public that Germany owes it to Ukraine to help it against Russia because "the last time" Germans were in that part of the world, they failed to "liberate" Ukraine from the Soviets. Germany's problem are Germans themselves, first annihilating the European Jewry and now helping Zionists annihilate Palestinians. No real ethics and no integrity.
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  9096. Surgeons and surgical nurses do it all the time. So do many people in South-East Asia (Japan, South Korea, parts of China, Thailand, etc.). I'm not a fan (I find it very uncomfortable), but it's definitely not a health hazard.
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  9097. ​ @johnjames4681 Ukrainians NEVER voted to join the EU. You've either been lied to yourself or are lying.
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  9098. ​ @anyfriendofkevinbaconisafr177  Try developing some integrity. And compassion.
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  9099. That would be actual democracy. We can have only this fake, "representative" one.
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  9100. Ah, but that would be actual democracy, and we can't have that. Hence this fake, representative "democracy" we're supposed to protect at the cost of our very lives.
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  9101. Wikipedia identifies Babatu as a late 19th century slave trader. But all I can find online about Samori and slavery is that his mother was taken as a slave. None of the websites I've checked link him to slave trade.
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  9102. You underestimate the power of propaganda and the true lunacy of Ukrainian nationalism.
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  9103. Why would they when they're clearly winning in Ukraine?
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  9104. Larry Johnson says they're relying entirely on whatever the Ukrainians are telling them.
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  9105. That's what comes from depending on the IMF and the West for the loans you need. Sri Lanka should join the BRICS and the SCO. Nothing else will get Sri Lankans out of this misery.
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  9106. ​@michellem.9172 They just provoked Zelensky to show himself as he really is. The Ukrainian ambassador, who was in the audience, visibly cringed at Zelensky's crude, ridiculously arrogant demeanour. But you sound to be an American liberal of the type that is primed to deride Trump and his crew no matter their actual performance.
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  9107. ​ @attentionarapeller Not at all. His "message" is both vacuous and self-contradictory. You just wish it weren't.
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  9108.  @g.wenisch4481  They're fully bought up by the Americans. Paul Craig Roberts' source at the State Department says that every month the Yanks fly suitcases of money to different European capitals to ensure their puppets across the EU are kept fully compliant with American interests, and not those of their own people.
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  9109.  @g.wenisch4481  I can't understand how any European (German or otherwise) has not grasped by now, i.e. well before this proxy war in Ukraine, that the EU is a dictatorship of a group of unelected, appointed neoliberals and NATO stooges. Looking at it from Canada, it seems so glaringly obvious, so it's heartening that more and more Germans are beginning to have doubts about that Kafkaesque institution.
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  9110. @@officerdibble Thanks for the heads up!
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  9111. The British Bullshitting Corporation.
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  9112. Putin doesn't equivocate.
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  9113. And when they're incapable of producing more than 30% of the weapons and ammo Russia does.
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  9114. ​ @SlipknotForevah  Possession is real, but exceedingly rare (thank goodness!).
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  9115. Arestovich resigned -- why does Alexander keep saying that he was fired?
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  9116. It's not. That claim is pure bunkum.
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  9117. The "democratic" West openly embracing Nazis. Didn't Nancy Oelosi get a bracelet made of bullets dug out of the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers during Zelensky's visit to Washington just recently? Given to her by an Azov officer. It's the equivalent of cannibals wearing shrunken human heads around their necks. As for how sincere Zelensky may have been about peace when he was first elected: his mentor, the oligarch who made him, Kolomoisky, also financed the Azov and other Nazi militias in Ukraine. The whole theatre of Zelensky being threatened by the Azov and the Right Sector was exactly that: a piece of theatre to justify his turn-around and his betrayal of the election platform on which he was elected by over 70% of Ukrainians.
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  9118. Ukrainian to Russian losses were between 5:1 and 10:1, depending on the given day.
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  9119. I couldn't get used to sleeping in a dormitory with no possibility of opening a window for some fresh air. It's the main reason I hate staying at regular hotels, too (in Canada and the US, you can't open a window in a hotel).
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  9120. 😂
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  9121.  @daerdevvyl4314  Well put.
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  9122. And because you don't have the courage or the integrity to be out in the streets demanding the cancellation of all sanctions and German neutrality in your millions. Blaming your politicians alone is sooo convenient.
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  9123. Because Crimeans asked Russia to take them back. First in a 1992 referendum everyone ignored, then in a 2014 referendum also overseen by over a hundred foreign observers, including those from the EU. The right of peoples to self-determination is a cornerstone of international law.
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  9124. Well done, Russia!
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  9125. I was on opiates for four years. Went cold turkey and never had any problems, either. Best thing I did as they were messing with my short-memory and even my orientation in time. Btw, I had to go off opiates in order to start low dose naltrexone treatment for fibromyalgia: it's completely stopped the fibro pain I used to have.
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  9126. Israel has NO right to do any such thing. Rights are defined by international law, not the law of the jungle you're advocating.
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  9127. ​ @robertwilson214  It was Obama who started that.
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  9128. It was the Big Oil corporations who started the whole climate change panic -- as early as in the 1970s!
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  9129. Have the moral courage to say the truth: the only war crimes committed in Ukraine have been committed by the Ukrainian side.
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  9130. An unusually dry season.
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  9131.  @tatianalyulkin410  Not allowed by whom? German was one of the foreign languages you could choose to study both in the Soviet Union and later in the Russian Federation.
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  9132. ​ @tatianalyulkin410 Who's Volodya, and who didn't allow you to study German? German is one of the foreign languages you could choose to study in middle and high school both in the Soviet Union and later in the Russian Federation.
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  9133. Persisting with this slow-grinding war of attrition is Russia's cardinal mistake. Paul Craig Roberts has been warning about this, and I'm fully in agreement with him. Rissia should have invaded and taken over ALL of Ukraine by now, and the longer Kremlin leadership refuses or hesitates to do what needs to be done, the worse it will be for Russia itself.
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  9134. It already is.
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  9135. It's the only inherently imperialist religion in the world.
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  9136. 😧
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  9137. Wolff needs to stop making things up. Macron/France were never offered a BRICS membership. On the contrary. Two years ago, Macron asked to attend the annual BRICS meeting as an observer and was told to stay home.
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  9138. ​ @Drifter101z  Don't be silly. Even the New York Times and the Washington Post have reported that Russian losses are 1:10 compared to Ukrainian losses.
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  9139.  @FMRAGE-t8w  Anyone who imagines that can be achieved by means of a war is deluding himself. WW2 solved nothing: on the contrary, it set things up for the current situation.
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  9140. ?
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  9141. I'm sorry for those men but glad that they won't be killing Russians any more.
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  9142. Where he was in January and February, etc.
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  9143. Inevitable, rather.
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  9144. Surovikin's wife has complained that he wasn't allowed to see her and their family even on her birthday (which took place recently). Today's Pravda has an article in which she and Surovikin's daughter are accused of contacting "foreign agents" with their complaints. Earlier today, Moscow Times posted an article which cites Erdogan claiming that Putin's agreed to extend the grain deal: "Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to extend the Black Sea grain deal which expires next week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Erdogan told reporters he had spoken with his Russian counterpart about the crucial deal allowing for the export of Ukrainian grain to ease a global food crisis."
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  9145. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 🥱
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  9146. Freedom of speech in America. 😂
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  9147. ?
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  9148.  @danibaie  The overwhelming preponderance of peer-reviewed scientific research shows that seed oils promote inflammation in the body, which leads to various medical/health problems.
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  9149.  @danibaie  Ad hominem does not an argument make. But hey, you go consume those seeds oils to your heart's content, sweetie! 🙂
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  9150.  @danibaie  😂
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  9151. ​ @70newlife They can. Someone just has to tell the corporations that they'll have to make do with slashed, though still respectable, profits.
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  9152.  @sylviam6535  Depends on what you think the concept of degeneracy covers. This is the result of arrogance and hubris.
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  9153.  @arthurtane6505  😂
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  9154.  @arthurtane6505  Too? Given what the West is doing to its children, I see little evidence that people in the West actually love their own.
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  9155.  @arthurtane6505  Which Western propaganda organ did you get the fantasy of a million homeless (children IR adults) in Russia from?
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  9156. ​​​ @maritaschweizer1117  You live in a propaganda fantasy world, and that's neither healthy nor wise. According to the World Bank, the Russian economy has since 2022 leapfrogged over Germany's and Japan's to become the largest in Europe and #4 globally.
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  9157. Some 22% of German high school students believe that Hitler was a human rights champion. That's what their parents and grandparents teach them at home.
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  9158. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  9159. ​ @angryherbalgerbil  Semites, like all the other people in the Arabian peninsula.
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  9160. Yes, alas. 😢
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  9161. The Tories are a populist party?! 😂
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  9162. ​ @Viper_75th_RR  Why should they debate with liars and propagandists? 😂
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  9163. If the mighty NATO can't defeat a bunch of barefoot Afghanis after 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars thrown in.... 😘
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  9164. What moral superiority?! 😂
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  9165. ​ @theodoreplume4861  So, you're a sociopath.
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  9166.  @lowersaxon  You can't even go out into the streets in your millions? Pathetic.
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  9167. Israelis can be offered a state in the US or they can buy land in Africa to set up their state (as was the original Zionist plan, in fact).
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  9168. Nah. Legally, and according to NATO's own rules, that's not possible. Germans are simply showing themselves to have learned nothing from their own infamous history. A mechanically gifted but otherwise rather stupid nation.
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  9169. ​ @seeker2118 That's exactly how the Europeans think, which is why they so richly deserve the consequences of their own actions.
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  9170.  @andrew30m  So could the US. Out of Europe, for good. Europe will not know real security for as long as NATO exists.
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  9171. ​ @marcusaetius9309  Right through Ontario, close to Toronto and Pickering, with its nuclear power station. We're bound to have a major one in that area at some point in the future.
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  9172. Hmmm. Not sure about clothing being a human universal. There are still tribes in the Amazon basin and in sub-Saharan Africa who go around practically naked (except for decorative strips and ribbons that hide nothing).
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  9173. Ah, those bone stupid Russians, right? 😅
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  9174. Yes, it was in Europe by the Spring of 2019.
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  9175. Mercouris is being ridiculous about this. It's clear no Trump-Putin phone call has taken place.
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  9176. The UN is in the pocket of the US. It's not a genuinely International, independent organisation.
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  9177. According to the World Bank, most definitely not a pro-Russia organisation, in the past two years, since 2023, the Russian economy has leapfrogged over Germany's and Japan's to become the #4 globally.
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  9178. You mean Biden? He's just a senile front man. Our lives are in the hands of those who are really running this administration, starting with Obama. This is his third term.
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  9179. BS.
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  9180. Because of the grip the US has on it. Direct threats, etc. Gangster exceptionalism.
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  9181. It will never happen.
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  9182. ​ @63saruman Good luck to them. Maybe they'll have the organizational skills, the initiative, and the dedication to start a revolution and carry it out successfully? No, I didn't think so either.
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  9183. That's not news; that's called bare-faced lying.
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  9184. 😂​ @bryandimery6509 
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  9185. Geographically, it is and always has been.
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  9186. Dream on.
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  9187. It's definitely one of those fundamental differences.
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  9188. ​ @scarlettrahnavard3101 Because postpartum psychosis is a temporary thing and women usually recover from it completely after a few weeks or some months. And turn out to be wonderful mothers. That's why babies whose mothers have the terrible misfortune to get postpartum psychosis are not put up for adoption.
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  9189. This isn't "weird". It's tyrannical. Soft totalitarianism.
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  9190.  @greybuckleton  They're in the process of considering it, then.
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  9191. ​ @GaySparklyFairy-n8u  Same as democracies invading other countries.
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  9192. Didn't know that.
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  9193. Bribes. The US routinely bribes the political leadership of its "allies" and "friends".
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  9194. I suspect the State Department is full of his type.
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  9195. Fascism is but a form of capitalism.
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  9196.  @the0quiet0man  Yes, I know but we're using English here and "Good Friday" just the term in English. They call the Friday of the crucifixion "good" because both Catholics and Protestants lay much greater stress than we Orthodox do on the idea that Jesus died for our sins, in our stead -- hence, it was something good for us. I prefer the Orthodox Big Friday myself.
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  9197. I myself get the Stars and Stripes.
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  9198. ​ @droo3010  Not when the parent is so old. The man was 95!
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  9199.  @gillps5130  Yes. The Pope has publicly accused the West of causing this conflict by endlessly provoking Russia.
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  9200. People have been and are being deliberately dumbed down. By the media and by Hollywood. That's their true role.
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  9201. Where do you see treason in all this?
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  9202. When did the Russians lay down those red lines? It seems to me they were invented by our politicians and our MSM the say way they invented the idea Russia would attempt to take Kiev in 2022.
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  9203. ​ @user-iu5vc5ki8p  Except they know they can't do it, not even with US help.
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  9204. I'm so sorry you went through such horrors and such loss. May you have solace and peace the rest of your life.
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  9205. Oh, Waters can be totally vicious himself. Especially about Gilmore.
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  9206. That would be a good project for a Scottish analyst to do.
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  9207. No, there's no such stipulation in international law
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  9208. This woman is all over the place. Spies from 40 and 50 years ago, banks, Epstein, and, most curious of all, not a hint of a mention of the Israeli secret service he is thought to have worked for. Listening to her, you'd think Russia and Israel were communist countries, to boot! 😂
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  9209. What high moral ground, arming and financing Nazi Ukraine?! German hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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  9210. Putin's never given a set date for the end of this war.
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  9211. ​ @pingdeedee  That's not even close to the truth: "Among 25-64 year-olds in China, short-cycle tertiary qualifications are the most common tertiary attainment at 10% of the population followed by bachelor's degrees at 8% and master's and doctoral degrees combined with 1%.". OECD 2022 report on Education in China It is true, however, that the percentage of highschool graduates going on to university has risen dramatically over the past 34 years, from just 3.4% in 1990 to 59.6% in 2023!
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  9212. If she knows the difference between officers and soldiers, that is.
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  9213. The West and righteous are two concepts that don't go together.
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  9214. ​ @Levuppercut  Everyone knows? Just like everyone knows how Ukrainians dug up the Black Sea, right? 😂 And how human civilization has its roots not in Mesopotamia but in Ukraine, no? The stuff your Nazis teach Ukrainian schoolchildren as history and fact. 😂
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  9215. Are you saying all or even most school shootings in the States are in schools with Black people in charge?! Disgustingly racist.
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  9216. ​ @googlesuppressescomments  I remember someone saying it's a William Morris wallpaper. A very ugly one, if so.
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  9217. ​@@ArcediaRisingDifference by itself is nothing positive. Psychopaths are different, but they're definitely not socially useful. Evolutionary psychology is not a science, btw. It's simply a collection of just-so stories.
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  9218.  @markbaxter4527  Too late for that. US corporations moved their production plants to China 30 years ago and aren't bringing them back. Neoliberalism, the thing championed by Reagan and then Clinton did us in.
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  9219. Zelensky's now told the Yanks that if M1 Abrams don't arrive in Ukraine before August, all is lost. Why Kiev imagines that 31 Abrams tanks could turn the tide in their favour is anybody's guess, but it seems more likely that Zelensky's basically conceding defeat. Or setting the stage for desperate pleas for NATO air support.
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  9220. The army can't find enough new recruits to replenish its numbers, let alone to grow them.
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  9221. Doubt it. NATO military honchos know they'd be courting disaster.
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  9222. Oh no! How stupid of the Irish!
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  9223. ​ @1971gift  Bye.
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  9224. On the contrary. Unlike our sad lot, he's at least not lying to his people!
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  9225.  @homeguardster  I have.
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  9226.  @homeguardster  I still needed to earn my pension back home.
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  9227. They chose that fate for themselves. Not the individual Ukrainian men dying on the front, but the country's political and military leadership, including its all-powerful oligarchs. Traitors, all of them.
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  9228. ​ @Bishop46066 Never supported any of the US and NATO invasions around the world. Wonder if you can say the same without lying.
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  9229. The cultural loot of the British Empire. And for all those repeating the risible claim that the artifacts looted from around the world are there for safekeeping, it was the Brits and the Americans who invaded Iraq, caused the death of at least 1 million people, and either outright destroyed (yes, destroyed) irreplaceable cultural heritage of the entire humanity found there or stole whatever could be transported for sale to Western oligarchs. The hypocrisy stinks.
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  9230.  @richardscathouse  It's scandalous that heads didn't roll back in March, when it became clear the intelligence services had misled the leadership so, so badly.
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  9231. He was naive, and for much longer than a head of state has any business being.
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  9232. He won't, and the State Department appears to be filled to the brim with this type.
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  9233. It's really up to them to wake up, face reality, and then decide if they should stay in the West or move to safety elsewhere. European Jews were in the same predicament 80 odd years ago, and too few of them wanted to believe their own eyes and ears while they could still escape with their lives.
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  9234. I doubt it. Pentagon knows better than it's letting on and so do the military in various EU countries, i.e. NATO. They're all perfectly well aware that at present, and with its arms tied behind their backs due to their SMO mode, the Russians are fighting NATO's proxy war in Ukraine and that what we're seeing there is something very different from how Russia wages a full-scale war.
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  9235.  @BalkanMode  Perception problem? I doubt the Russians give a fig for how any of this plays in the Western MSM. What they know is that the West has accurately assessed the odds and does not date enter into a direct war with Russia -- a "perception" the rest of the world shares with them.
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  9236.  @BalkanMode  You keep on invoking a mythical "surprise attack", completely forgetting that in sending its draft treaties to the US and NATO last December Russia had very clearly and openly warned it would take certain technical-military measures to protect its security interests if they failed to respond to those draft treaties adequately and without delay. Anyone with half a brain who'd been following NATO (US+EU) shenanigans in Ukraine since 2013 understood and knew what that warning meant. Both NATO and Kiev, regardless of their subsequent propaganda claims, knew perfectly well this meant a military confrontation in Ukraine. The Russians gave the collective West and its puppets in Kiev a couple of months to come to their senses and choose peace instead, and when it became clear they'd made a choice for war, Russia took action.
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  9237. Oh, Russia IS great again. Great enough that the collective might of 41 most advanced countries in the world can't defeat her. Urrrrraaaaaa!
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  9238. Israel kills Hamas's chief negotiator and we have the cheek to talk about Hamas being "recalcitrant" and making "unreasonable demands"? So this is what you do when you're on MSM....
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  9239. That's not an argument for the existence of God. I'm a Christian, btw, not an atheist or agnostic.
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  9240. American people will have to rise up and overturn this system of corporate and military graft they have OR they'll just suck it up, while continuing to moan about one or the other party in their terminally corrupt duopoly.
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  9241. Israel will NEVER agree to a one-state solution. Their apartheid mentality is inherent to Zionism and can't be washed out of it.
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  9242. I'm disgusted with the UK. America's banana kingdom.
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  9243. ​ @rokitron65  Why should you be, regardless of the fact that you're absolute cowards and the world now sees you for what you are. You got Ukrainians to die for you, so why should you be worried?
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  9244. ​ @rokitron65  Why would you be? The cowards that you are, you got Ukrainian men to die for you in industrial quantities. 1,700 a day at present.
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  9245. The EU cannot decouple itself from NATO because the only way this would be possible would require that ALL of its members leave NATO. And that's not going to happen.
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  9246.  @kenburroughs7709  It's simple Greed and lust for power. The West wants to be able to steal and exploit and dominate to its heart's content, and the very existence of a sovereign Russia has always been a thorn in its side.
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  9247. ​ @Србомбоница86  Sta ces kad nemas integriteta.
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  9248.  @Србомбоница86  Bas ste me potresli. 😜
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  9249. Had the management of that hospital not ignored doctors' concerns and suspicions, had the hospital acted in a timely fashion, some of those 7 babies would still be alive today. I don't know if the concept of criminal negligence exists in British law, but it certainly should.
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  9250. Cope harder. 😅
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  9251. As if Germany can't do what Niger did just last month -- ask the Yanks to leave.
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  9252. West still can't bring himself to say that the Democratic Party is itself bringing fascism to the US. Which it is.
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  9253. Zionists are an excellent illustration of the dark triad.
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  9254.  @christinehomer2185  Absolutely. And for much else besides.
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  9255.  @markoradulovic3307  I expect that most of those Bandera worshippers have been wiped off by now. I was referring only to the poor Ukrainian civilians and reservists who were rounded up in June, July and August and sent to the front lines very much against their will.
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  9256. He and the rest of the gang in Kiev don't care. None of the Ukrainian "leadership" gives a shit about the lives of their compatriots.
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  9257. No apartheid state is a "normal" country or deserves anyone's friendship.
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  9258. What do you think?
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  9259. What a perverse set of values. The real waste are the lives of all those Ukrainian men who've died fighting a proxy war the US is too chicken to fight itself.
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  9260. ​ @BOZ_11  Contrary to what we're told in the West, Russians have always treated their minorities well.
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  9261. Plus the truly terrifying Sarmat.
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  9262. Exactly. Only a comprador elite would engage in any economic "cooperation" with the US.
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  9263. There's nothing rational, or reasonable, about claiming that men can be women, makes can be females, and vice versa. The intellectual and moral conformism of the woke is an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. ​ @herrpez 
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  9264. Russian generals don't do negotiations.
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  9265. What do you mean? The US has consistently said that it would NOT engage directly in Ukraine.
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  9266. So, rejoice that poor Ukrainian soldiers weren't given even a 36-hour reprieve because PR is so much more important for Zelensky and his masters in the collective West.
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  9267. It functioned perfectly well as a simple Common Market and should revert to that.
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  9268. The entire ruling elite are so cut off from the rest of us, from the lives we lead, that they could as well be living in some other country than the one we inhabit. Both here and in the EU. Make you think of pre-revolutionary France and its self-indulgent aristocrats.
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  9269. Small children confabulate stories all the time. Yes, I don't believe the boy. He told MANY divergent stories about what had happened. Moreover, his step-grandfather, who hates the mother, was on the scene for full 30 minutes before the police arrived and is thought by many to have coached the child to incriminate the woman he hated. Finally, doctors who assessed him before trial said that at 6 years old, he was developmentally at the stage of a 4 and a half year old, an age at which children confabulate a lot.
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  9270. The horrible to thing is that many men do.
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  9271.  @dancroitoru364  Because that's not what the Russians are about with this SMO. Instead, they've chosen a slow, incremental grind, and are quite nicely managing to deplete NATO's arsenal of weapons and ammo while at the same time demilitarizing and de-Nazifying Ukraine. That our MSM can't or rather won't wrap their little presstitute heads around it is neither here nor there.
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  9272. ​ @lioneldemun6033  What country is that and when did your change of the minister of defense cause a big stir abroad?
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  9273.  @billb3673  The prices of everything were less then 10% of what they are today. More like 5%.
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  9274. It will go on and on. At best, it will be over by late fall or by the end of this year, but I wouldn't count on that either.
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  9275. German museums are also full of loot.
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  9276. ​ @thomasvilhar7529  It was only pretend neutral in WW2, when it supported Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union by letting Hitler use the Swedish railway for free in transporting his troops to and from the Eastern Front.
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  9277. I understand that he's being protected by a detail of British SAS, their special forces.
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  9278. Correct. Western military experts know very well what size forces are necessary for an invasion and are fully cognizant of the fact that this was not one. That they've chosen to mislead and lie to the public is pure politics, pure propaganda.
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  9279. 😂
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  9280. Never happened.
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  9281. It's an empire in decline.
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  9282. Yes. The empire will thrash around for a while, and it may yet create massive chaos both at home and abroad, but the world is anticipating its liberation. Let's hope and pray the lot who instigated the conflict in Ukraine don't provoke a nuclear war before they fade from the historical stage. A Ukrainian pilot captured by the Russians is in record that Kiev has been contemplating the use of a dirty bomb, and the psychos may yet go for it.
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  9283. ​ @terencetazoh3645  In Africa, nuns are forced to undergo abortions -- forced by their rapist priests and their bishops.
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  9284.  @micfail2  Ah but you are -- gaining a great deal from your control of Germany. You've damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2, forcing Germany to turn to your LNG, which you're selling to them at 8 times the price it sells in the States, and, having forced Germany into de-industrialization, you're also benefitting from the transfer of many German companies to the States, where their production costs will now be lower than at home. At the same, controlling Germany means controlling its Fourth Reich the EU. What's not to like in such an advantageous set-up?
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  9285.  @misty671  We did have an independent foreign policy 40 years ago, so it's a matter of will (and cowardice) rather than an impossibility.
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  9286. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  With what?! With its hypersonic missiles, to begin with. And pray it doesn't send a Mr Sarmat our way
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  9287. I don't think they want to be saddled with the whole of Ukraine. Definitely not its westernmost regions.
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  9288. Pure fiction.
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  9289. The Rada has just failed to give Zelensky the vote of confidence he wanted. He's now both constitutionally and officially holding the office of president ILLEGALLY.
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  9290. ​ @radiozvrk6784  Go and have a look for yourself
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  9291. They're out of their minds and inside a world of fantasy. They'll sober up in time.
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  9292. The issue is the rottenness of capitalism.
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  9293.  @snslifestyleorg  Lost what was never theirs to begin with. By that point, they'd looted the world to the tune of TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of USD in today's terms.
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  9294. ​​ @JosephBisio hat claim is nonsense. Russia doesn't need 1,360 soldiers a day as replacement for its troop losses in this proxy war.
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  9295. Germany was never de-Nazified post-1945. Neither it's judiciary, or its police, or (most importantly in this context) its foreign affairs establishment. All of those remained firmly and fully in the hands of Nazis, giving them decades in which to train and subtly or otherwise indoctrinate several generations of Germans since then. Just a decade ago, I came across a poll done in Germany that showed 22% of its highschool students thought Hitler was a human rights champion, something they could only have got from their parents and grandparents since German schools don't teach it
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  9296. The Empire of Lies. Putin's 100% correct.
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  9297. Historically, the opposite's true. Uprisings and revolutions happen when people start going hungry.
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  9298. ​ @stuarttacey  Schizophrenia usually manifests suddenly, during adolescence, and without any drug or alcohol use. Late onset schizophrenia is very rare.
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  9299. ​ @lynnofarrell7673 In other words, we've let ourselves be intimidated. We're cowards.
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  9300. ​ @ponyclub3198 . Sachs has never been woke and is s world renowned economist and advisor to several US administrations.
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  9301. All of the West has become truly despicable. Or has always been such, with the mask finally coming off now.
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  9302. So we're now to celebrate German hypocrisy?!
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  9303. 😂
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  9304. That's different.
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  9305. Odessa must be liberated abd brought back home.
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  9306. So, reporting facts rather regurgitating propaganda is anti-Ukrainian?
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  9307. How could any nun believe that servicing a priest sexually is/was God's will?! The nuns do know their Bible, and they do get a fairly thorough theological education. So how can they behave like women in some fringe Protestant sects and cults who let their leaders have dozens of wives and who give their adolescent ñdaughters to these lascivious old goats? I'm NOT blaming the nuns or casting aspersions on them. I'm just bewildered at the amount of power priests wield in the Catholic church and the amount of unthinking obedience the church encourages and indeed demands to have made otherwise intelligent and educated women think God wants them to service a priest sexually! The power imbalance between men and women and the religious and the lay people in the Roman Catholic church is psychologically unhealthy and morally perverse.
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  9308. So, junior doctors want to keep the number of medical school students restricted in order to protect their own salaries -- even though there's a documented scarcity of medical doctors in Korea. And who cares about the patients, of course! What a selfish society.
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  9309. The difference, in a nutshell. 😅🙂
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  9310. The movie predates the pomo madness in our universities. Creative people, especially artists, are known for their moments of prescience.
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  9311. ​ @WhyteVintageWine  The Passover time?
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  9312. They weren't kicked out. They moved to Israel of their own volition -- try reading up about it for a change.
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  9313. The West outright rejected Russia's proposal to join NATO and the EU. Western intentions are clear and have been stated both in think tank papers and in public statements by various Western politicians: they're the destruction of Russia as a state and the pillaging of its immense natural resources. It's those intentions by the US and its EU puppets that are driving us all closer and closer to WW3 and a nuclear war in both Europe and North America.
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  9314. ​ @Sedona-cl6eg Only the people of the four easternmost regions have voted to rejoin Russia. I suspect that the people of the Odessa and Kharkov regions will do the same if they get a chance, but I'm not sure about those in other regions.
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  9315. Cope harder.
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  9316. Disband.
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  9317. Be serious. Who will launch a coup to depose Trump AND Vance? The Pentagon certainly won't; they know the US can't prevail in a conventional (or for that matter nuclear) war with Russia.
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  9318. Genocide, that's what the US is based on. That's its founding act.
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  9319.  @humanss6899  Yes, the media are really being despicable.
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  9320. The point of that Telegraph piece is to keep up the myth of the bumbling Russian army, to conceal the fact the UK -- with the rest of the collective West -- has been defeated by Russia. The narrative risks collapse when the Telegraph admits the Russians built a formidable series of defense lines which stopped the West's proxy forces, but, hey, we won't pay that any attention. In the meantime, the Russian army's got a new recruitment video out in which Russian soldiers are peeing on Western weapons: Soldier1: They said their weapons won't burn. Soldier2: Oh they burn, and how! The only problem's they take so long to put out.
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  9321. Oh God, that was some peak cringe stuff from Bono and his mindless audience!
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  9322.  @gmoore6166  There is no freedom without security. And prosperity. Everything else is just high-falutin babble that distracts people from thinking clearly -- and honestly.
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  9323.  @yurichtube1162  Not sure it would make much difference, frankly. The slide downwards began in mid+1990s under our Conservatives and has never stopped.
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  9324.  @yurichtube1162  You clearly have no idea of both the Canadian political scene and of the degree and extent of Canadian conformism. 😟
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  9325.  @yurichtube1162  Alas, yes. 😟
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  9326. Still, it was impressive. Not a scene I expected to see.
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  9327. Well, Ukrainian authorities are openly calling on Ukrainians to leave and seek refuge somewhere in Europe. I'm sure Kiev's perfectly aware of the psychological effect an influx of hungry, cold Ukrainian refugees into EU countries would be.
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  9328. Correct.
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  9329. Cui bono, indeed.
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  9330. If you're referring to Russian conscripts, they were not in the war zone.
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  9331.  @johnnyrocker7495  And what's fruitcakey about that? Are you seriously trying to say that the Germans didn't know what they were doing with 14/88, as their own ADL has put it? That the German intelligence, etc. services are unaware of its meaning?! And that Germany couldn't have chosen to send 14/87 or 13/86 or any other combination of Leopard 2 and Leopard 1 tanks but precisely 14/88?!
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  9332. 😅
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  9333. He won the 2019 election p with something like 70% of the vote by promising peace with Russia.
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  9334. Putin is well aware of that and expects NATO to turn this into a wider war. He said as much in his speech today.
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  9335. Debt is also absolute, in sheer monetary terms.
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  9336. He and Alexander have been talking about it in their videos on The Duran channel.
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  9337. What 20 year old has zero social media presence?! They're taking us for simpletons with such bare faced lies.
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  9338.  @rstranger7575  I'm about to start a 3-month carnivore experiment for health and weight loss, and am a little apprehensive about both boredom and a craving for sweets. Eating fish, seafood, chicken, duck, as well as beef (I don't like lamb and very rarely eat pork) should provide some variety, and when the cravings for something sweet become intolerable, I'll use stevia to sweeten my whipped cream (also an animal product). It's going to be a challenge, but I understand from the testimony of just about every person who's adopted the carnivore way of eating that cravings either disappear altogether or subside to the point at which ignoring them is doable.
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  9339. No.
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  9340. Cars are luxury items, though I understand how frustrating such a sharp rise in the price of cars must be if you were planning on buying a new one. Here in the West -- I'm in Canada, but this is true for the USA and all of Europe too -- it's our food prices that have gone up by 50% and more. Not to mention the cost of energy, especially in Europe. 50% of the Brits can no longer afford 3 meals a day. As for buying a major item like a fridge, car, etc., Jeff Bezos has just advised us all to wait and hold onto our money for the time being....
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  9341. Notsee mentality lives on.
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  9342. In his interview with Judge Napolitano yesterday, Col. Macgregor said that his sources in Odessa are reporting that Ukraine's now literally snatching men from the streets and the cafes of the city and taking them away to the front. What Kiev's doing is absolutely horrific -- and criminal. At least 150,000 Ukrainian men have lost their lives because Zelensky caved in to Western pressure last April instead of signing the peace agreement Ukraine and Russia had hammered out in Turkey.
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  9343. ​ @johnboykin3128 Oh, fear not: Czechia is just as bad.
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  9344. Poland has never wanted to face, let alone acknowledge this truth about itself. After a Polish historian at Princeton published in the mid-2000s two volumes on murderous Polish anti-Semitism directed at the handful of Polish Jews who had managed to survive WW2, Poland even passed a law making it illegal and treasonous to claim there ever was such a thing as Polish anti-Semitism.
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  9345. Only a tiny minority do. Their donors, on the other hand... And you know what matters in the US of A.
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  9346. Laughing at Ukraine's tragedy, imagining that will wish it away.
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  9347. The US is an oligarchy.
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  9348. Kurt, you look great with that tan on!
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  9349.  @DwayneABryan  It's universally the case in the countries of the former Warsaw Pact that their electorates have no genuine choice among the now existing political parties, all of whom are bought by the US State Department.
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  9350. What are you trying to imply? Come out and say it openly.
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  9351. ​ @pagecollector4856 Yes, psychopaths are on the extreme spectrum of narcissism.
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  9352. ​ @joeoria4497 The EU (although it wasn't called that) was a part of Hitler's plan for a post-war Europe.
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  9353. Looks like Canada. 😅
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  9354. There's a State Department travel advisory out asking people to leave Russia immediately and not to travel there. I hope it doesn't presage some especially disgusting, dastardly move by the US.
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  9355. No. But it will.
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  9356. And no EU either. They've shown themselves way too rabidly Russophobic to trust.
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  9357. It was universally known as a Russian city until it became convenient to back Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and their totally fantasized version of history.
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  9358. The debt can (and will have to be) written off.
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  9359. 😮
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  9360. ​ @insertgoodname4809  None is so blind as those that will not see. The argument is clear and convincing and your non-rebuttal is just that.
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  9361. ​ @go.along.get-along.888  Try to get the facts right first.
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  9362. Blinken has no reputation to destroy. His only reputation is for deceitfulness and arrogance.
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  9363. Exactly!
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  9364. 😅
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  9365. 😅
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  9366. Video games, movies, TV documentaries,TV series, music. Plus books in translation.
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  9367. The world is doing just fine. It's just us in the collective West who've gone bonkers. Just 14% of the human race. The rest are okay.
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  9368. That's nonsense. Vucic is no angel, but the opposition, the part of it that is electable and might one day return to power, are the real traitors. If they were in power now, they'd have joined the sanctions on Russia and taken us into NATO by now. An absolute comprador elite.
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  9369. She may well be excellent wife material, though. She just needs to fix the way she looks.
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  9370. They know. They're just doing some creative writing.
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  9371. If the state of those roads is typical of many places in the US, America's infrastructure is now that of a Third World country. Two months off her meds for xpkains a lot -- but not everything. This is her personality coming out.
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  9372. The "rules based order" is itself a direct violation of *international law*.
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  9373. ​​ @TacticalMayo  Nobody listens to the US any more. China's outproducing the US and the EU combined, while the US and NATO as a whole are losing (have lost) their proxy war in Ukraine.
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  9374. 😂
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  9375. That would take a certain finesse.
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  9376.  @richardoldfield6714  I haven't seen any of them myself, but I'm sure you're right. Putin spoke about those problems when he met with the mothers of the soldiers now serving in Donbass a couple of weeks ago. I'm surprised, tough, that no one is talking about the hundreds of videos of Ukrainian soldiers complaining about the same problems. Tens of thousands of them have had to use their own civilian cars because they were given no military vehicles, no uniforms, no ammo, no nothing. This was a problem back in 2014, and it's not been corrected ever since.
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  9377.  @richardoldfield6714  Staged? Of course it was! How do you think ANY events involving a head of state in the collective West is done? Spontaneously?! 😂
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  9378. It can be controlled, its predatory nature reined in. As a first step to moving to something better, that is.
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  9379. ​​ @simonpriest4345  What a benighted thing to say. Which calendar do you and your priest use in everyday life?!
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  9380. This is ridiculous. The US controls the UN, not the ither way around as so many Americans seem to believe.
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  9381. Paul Craig Roberts, a high ranking Reagan administration official, says his source at the US State Department explains the behaviour of the EU political elite as a matter of simple, straightforward corruption. Every month, the State Department flies suitcases full of dollars to assorted EU capitals.
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  9382.  @SamsRussianAdventures  Don't feel embarrassed about it. The channels I follow for independent political analysis all do it: what you're doing is work, after all, and you can just invite people to support you in your work with a small donation via buy-me-a-coffee. I suspect I wouldn't be the only one who'd gladly contribute a few dollars a month to your endeavours. 🙂
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  9383. Shameful.
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  9384. It's profoundly corrupt. We've become an American poodle.
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  9385. Who says she's suffering from PTSD?
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  9386. 😂
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  9387. Extreme peacemongers? That's a concept now?!
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  9388. Thank you for saying that Stalin made a huge historical error in not destroying the German state. His mercy towards Western Europe has cost us so, so very much since. As for Prigozhin's death, without the additional information that will come in the next few days and weeks, my money is on it being a revenge action by or on behalf of Ukrainians by either them or the secret services of another European country.
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  9389. ​ @2wwwilly  All over both Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels. Go check it out for yourself, genius.
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  9390.  @agalie7139  It's not a matter of one analyst. Even the New York Times admitted a few months ago that Ukrainian losses were 6:1 to 10:1 in Russia's favour.
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  9391. The oligarchs, theirs and ours, have luxury nuclear bunkers stocked for decades of post-nuclear survival. It's the rest of us who'd get destroyed.
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  9392.  @gtengineer1967  The low lands are across the river, on the western bank. That's why it was necessary to evacuate most of the residents, as the majority are ethnic Russians who were at risk of being drowned in the horrific flood that would have resulted from the destruction of that dam. And the Ukrainian forces seemed very keen on triggering just such a catastrophic eventuality. Now that the Russian-speaking civilians, over 2/3 of the city's population, are out of harm's way and the Ukrainians can't do a thing to them, they've lost interest in the city
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  9393. Brian Berletic posted a video yesterday which will help you understand that. You're welcome.
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  9394. Especially after what his administration did to North Stream 1 and 2, and f*ck the environment!
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  9395.  @yurichtube1162  They have to keep pushing their story in order to keep the public at home somewhat pacified.
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  9396.  @gustavmeyrink_2.0  Whose national interest are you speaking about? Because it's most certainly NOT in the national interest of any country in Europe to have a Nazi Ukraine emerge victorious.
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  9397. ​​ @luisnunes3863  Definitely. But that doesn't matter any more: Russians no longer care about what the West thinks.
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  9398. It doesn't need to be destroyed. Russia should just retake it once and for all because, as you said, it's a failed state and a cause of massive instability in Europe that, otherwise, NATO would only continue to exploit for its own war-mongering purposes.
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  9399. The West is keeping most of its newer weapons for themselves. Their ammunition stocks are getting depleted, yes, but Germany, for example, still has about 300 Leopard 2 tanks in reserve.
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  9400. The s and the final e in demesne are silent.
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  9401. Meanwhile, the German government has announced that it doesn't have the funds to subsidize industrial and residential use of electricity any longer....
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  9402. Another young useful idiot for the corporate boondoggle called climate emergency.
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  9403. Exactly.
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  9404. To say that it holds is misleading. The push on Chasiv Yar is yet to take place.
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  9405. Business partnerships with universities should be banned.
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  9406. ​?​ @CoreyChambersLA  It's clear the US and the EU can't afford to keep going. Neither can come close to Russian levels of weapons production and neither has an army capable of doing anything but losing to the Russians. Facts, my boy, just facts.
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  9407.  @TheMasterInDisguise  I absolutely agree that the Kremlin is at fault and that its rejection of the advice it was getting from the General Staff is responsible for all the problems that have plagued the SMO from April on. I understand, though, that Putin has finally agreed to let the General Staff run things as they see fit from now on. Let's see how the situation unfolds and develops over the next 4-6 months.
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  9408.  @TheMasterInDisguise  It's impossible to tell people's ethnicity in Ukraine by just looking at their names as many Ukrainian nationalists also carry Russian names since all Ukrainians descend from the same lot of Rus as do contemporary Russians.
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  9409. Time to stop being so insular and stop making excuses. The majority of poor people the world over are not fat, and practically none are morbidly obese
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  9410.  @warb635  And why would it be more credible? Evidence is lacking.
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  9411.  @turkishdewdrop  Little children. I've never heard of a 3 or a 4 year old doing evil. Btw, what's this Laney you're referring to?
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  9412. In the past, they consistently overestimated the West's economic (as well as military) power, though.
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  9413.  @ЯнинаСтолповская  Yes, but it can briefly pump people up, long enough for a photo op.
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  9414. I wonder and worry whether a multinodal or multipolar world can actually establish itself against the strong resistance to its very existence by the Western hegemon. China's reluctance (presently its refusal) to form military alliances with other like-minded countries, other countries whose self-interest rests in a multipolar world, in a new, fairer world order, may end up playing into the hands of the Western imperialist world. I hope Beijing gives this much more serious consideration than it has done to date.
    1
  9415. Cope harder.
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  9416. Banning homosexuality, making it a criminal offence, is homophobia by definition.
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  9417. Andrei doesn't analyze tactical minutae -- he's always been clear on that.
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  9418. Russia outproduces NATO 7:1, not 3:1, as CNN claims. The New York Times already told us this back in August 2023.
    1
  9419. You first. You're just one of the immigrants and immigrant descended folks.
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  9420. "KL Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here."
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  9421. Exhausted, that's all. He'll be fine within a week.
    1
  9422. Ukrainians still can't do zilch with Kherson city as the Russians are keeping them at arm's length with their artillery. The whole thing was a Pyrrhic victory for Ukraine.
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  9423. 😅
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  9424. So, UK politicians can be bought for glad rags. The state of the West today.
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  9425. Trump's the one who started sending weapons to Ukraine in preparation for this proxy war. He also promised to pull US troops out of Syria but then left them there to continue looting Syria's oil.
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  9426. I feel sorry for all anti-nationalist Ukrainians, but I'd very much like to know this: when they voted to elect Zelensky, did or didn't Ukrainians know that he was a creature of Kolomoisky, and did they or did they not know that Kolomoisky had financed the Azov and other Nazi militias in Ukraine?
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  9427. And an ongoing attempt at a coup d'état in Serbia
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  9428. That's a huge under-estimate.
    1
  9429. Between 1945 and 1949, Russell urged the US to nuke the USSR/Russia, which didn't yet have the bomb then. It was only AFTER the Soviets developed their own nuclear arsenal, that Russell turned pacifist (again) and began to campaign for nuclear disarmament....
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  9430. If Niger can throw out American forces and close down the US military base in their country, no country in Europe or elsewhere has any excuse for not doing the same with British, French and American military bases they host.
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  9431. That's a lie. And a projection, clearly.
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  9432. The first village looks quite prosperous and well taken care of. It's beautiful.
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  9433. True. But the American masses have also been consistently deceived for at least the past 30 years, starting with the deliberate destruction of Yugoslavia.
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  9434. The garden is overrun with lilies that fester....
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  9435. What was the third woman, the one in the red jacket, arrested for?
    1
  9436. If they mean the Robin Hood Tax, I'm all for it. But even then, they're delusional in taking it for granted that they can impose ANY type of tax on the world's many sovereign states.
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  9437. ​ @bumble-g2j  He's pathetic. As is the collective West now.
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  9438. My father died of senile dementia, and he was never as bad as this!
    1
  9439. Harari is a closet fascist.
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  9440. 😂😂😂
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  9441. 😂😂😂
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  9442. ​ @StevenNone-m8w May have to? Why? To what purpose? In order to get destroyed? To start WW3?
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  9443. ❤
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  9444. You should see a shrink. Sharpish.
    1
  9445. Diplomacy is how you maintain good relations with the rest of the world. You're used to bullying the rest of us, instead, something that will one day come back to bite you in the a**.
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  9446. The rot set in 30 years ago.
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  9447. The vendor was smart to keep his cool, record the vile provocations and insults the creep threw at him, and then posted it online for the whole world to see.
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  9448. The word inside Russia is that Putin wants a slow grind and still insists on utmost care with civilian lives. The Russians are still conducting this with at least one hand tied behind their backs. Or were you asking about some Ukrainian offensive this winter? They don't have the capacity to launch, let alone sustain, one any more.
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  9449. What drugs are you on?! 😂
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  9450. His father couldn't do it. His uncle couldn't do it. I don't believe that any one US president will manage to do it. I'm watching this from Canada and the way I see it, you'll need another American Revolution to clean up the stables in Washington and Pentagon, as well as inside the State Department and the entire security apparatus. Not to forget the blatantly compromised, corrupt justice system.
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  9451. Andrei, I can't believe that people in the Pentagon don't know and don't understand what the situation is and what they're dealing with. They're simply careerists and opportunists, and the same goes for the entire political and media class of the collective West. Col. Macgregor mentions in one of his recent interviews a conversation he had with a NATO official in which the NATO guy acknowledged that Ukraine's done only to claim the money exact opposite just a few days later in Vilnius.
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  9452.  @reinoud6377  Yes, we'll know the real numbers for both Ukraine and Russia only once the war is over.
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  9453. ​ @el_tocino2529  He could have. He was being kind.
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  9454. Yeah, but the owners and CEOs of these online platforms willingly do the bidding of US/Western governments. AND still claim to be independent! I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.
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  9455. It's the price you pay for having secured yourself economic colonies in Eastern Europe, exactly as your Nazi ancestors had planned it.
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  9456. ​ @michalzajic2555  There does seem to have been a major failure on the part of the Russian foreign intelligence agencies.
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  9457. 80% of adolescents who are confused about their gender or think they're trans grow out of it by the time they're 20. The media never cites this research finding, or the fact that transitioning has NO effect on suicide rates among the young.
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  9458. That's how I approach their work, too.
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  9459. Ukrainians were truly idiots for going against Russia in the first place. I remember clearly Christine La Garde, the then head of the IFM, saying publicly in 2014 that the only thing that had kept Ukraine afloat economically since the dissolution of the USSR was Russia's immense largesse. And the fools chose to bite the hand that fed them all those years.
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  9460. ​​ @jaredjosephsongheng372  Russia can keep this up pretty much indefinitely. The US can't even produce 1/3 of military equipment and munition the Russians produce in a year. It's worth listening to ex-Marine Brian Berletic, the Duran, Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor on this since no one in the MSM will even come close to mentioning it while MSM commentators and analysts keep positively lying about the reality of the situation.
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  9461. ​ @glennwilcock4593  Don't let Western propaganda fool you. Most of the world, 84% to be precise, is with Russia.
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  9462. ​ @louise_rose  Over a war-monger with Stage 2 senile dementia?! Every time, sis, every single time. 😅
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  9463. She's a liar. Typically spouting propaganda with complete confidence. An academic con-woman.
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  9464. ​ @blzebub2  Trans activist propaganda masquerading as science.
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  9465. 😂
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  9466. ​ @cleanwillie1307  They used their ISIS proxies for that.
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  9467. Finally, Alexander Mercouris remembers to mention Gonzalo Lira, two days after GL's second arrest by the Ukrainian security services. P.S. Why on earth is Mercouris so eager to minimize Prigozhin's role and reduce his stature as the leader of Wagner? The Russian Army has in the meantime anniunced that it will supply Wagner with all the ammo it's requesting so that it can continue to fight in in Bakhmut. This according to RT, not any new statement by Prigozhin (who's no doubt made the same announcement himself).
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  9468. ​​​​ @stlouisix3  Mercouris himself has not so much as mentioned Gonzalo Lira until now. I think that's kind of odd given that Mercouris claims to be a friend of GL. In contrast, Brian Berletic devoted an entire video to Gonzalo yesterday. Brian also made sure to encourage everyone to contact the Chilean and American embassies in Ukraine, as well as Amnesty International, urging them to ensure Lira's immediate release and provided links to their Twitter accounts, too.
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  9469. Their own side is lying to them, keeping them in a state of terror with stories about the Russians take no prisoners and will kill them all if they surrender. The cynicism and inhumanity of the Ukrainian leadership, including the army leadership, is beyond anything we can imagine.
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  9470.  @frankb4920  Switzerland was never really neutral as it was Switzerland that, together with the Vatican, organized and ran the infamous rat lines that smuggles thousands of top Nazis from Europe to South America.
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  9471.  @frankb4920  Polish diplomats, not the Swiss state.
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  9472. Matlock's not only disingenuous about the dissolution of the USSR, which he claims came about due to internal tensions -- in a referendum held on this question, 73% of Soviet citizens voted against the break-up of the Union -- but also about the Baltics, which were all strongly pro-Nazi and which to this day hold torch lit Nazi marches in their respective capitals.
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  9473. 😅
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  9474. It's too damn expensive for Russia to leave Odessa in Ukrainian hands as, sooner or later, say maximum 50-80 years from now, the West will use Odessa to try another go at distabilizing and disintegrating Russia. This is the one point I fundamentally disagree with Scott on. If Putin leaves Odessa to Ukraine, that decision will come back to bite Russia, and badly, before the end of this century.
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  9475.  @fizban5959  Russian forces are moving on to Krasny Liman and will retake it without much trouble. This is not a video game.
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  9476.  @fizban5959  I'm getting different news from yours. Let's see whose sources are lying. It should become clear over the next few weeks. 🙂
    1
  9477. That's what transwomen are: men in drag. Some are castrated, most are not. Some are taking hormones to produce some of the secondary sexual characteristics of women, some are not. But the one essential thing they all have in common is that they're men in drag.
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  9478. It's just hard Ukrainian copium. Nobody knows the exact numbers for each side, but what we do know (from Ukrainian soldiers themselves) is that their casualty rates were anywhere between 5:1 and 10:1 to Russian ones, depending on the day.
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  9479. I admired his father although many thought him arrogant. This nincompoop is just despicable.
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  9480.  @davidbennett1697  The only war that could ever take place on US soil, apart from a civil war, would be a nuclear one. This proxy war in Ukraine isn't preventing anything; all it's doing is destroying Ukraine.
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  9481. Russophobia is a mental disorder. Maybe a personality disorder, too.
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  9482. ​ @kenbranaugh8251  Google it l.
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  9483. About a third of the civilians (pro-Ukrainian) chose to remain in the city. Everyone who wanted to go with the Russian army was evacuated.
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  9484. Then it turns out she was right to refuse the first treatment, which would have killed her son!
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  9485. AI art is lifeless.
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  9486. Democracy is meaningless when the electorate doesn't make an effort to learn the issues, doesn't question official narratives and claims, and simply takes what the politicians and the media are telling them at face value. With such electorates, all we're doing is faking democracy for the benefit of our oligarchs.
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  9487. Barf-worthy arrogance.
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  9488. The US had been in the regime change business for over 100 years (all over Latin America) when the attack on Twin Towers happened
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  9489. ​ @qwertyasdfgh1014 As it did in Africa, which is much further away from Russia than Serbia is.
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  9490. Oh, no. This one you can't blame on the Yanks. Russophobia is an old perversion of the English ruling class, almost older than the US itself.
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  9491. ​ @jw-vx8im I hope he switches to Diet Coke, at least.
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  9492. ​ @montgomeryburns9979  It must give you pleasure to imagine others so much more stupid than you.
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  9493. No, you pushed it into a war with Russia, as Zelensky's former advisor Arestovich revealed in a TV interview.
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  9494.  @GASmith_LovesWisdom  Sociopaths are known to gravitate to careers in law enforcement, the judiciary, and medicine.
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  9495. I'm of neither Anglo-Saxon or African origin and don't live in the UK, but this would be simply silly if it weren't so deeply dishonest. I mean, BBC is now clearly in the business of purveying deliberate misinformation.
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  9496. To this day, hippos kill more people than any other predator in Africa.
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  9497. I stopped watching them after all the lies they told about Libya as NATO was bombing it into smithereens. I know they produce some good stuff, but since I can't tell the good stuff apart from their lies, I no longer bother with Al Jazeera.
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  9498. What are you rabbiting on about?! He's a liberal hegemonist at heart!
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  9499. ​ @chelseapoet3664  No, not "a few". Exceedingly few.
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  9500. They're not thick, they're arrogant as Satan himself. But I guess that level of arrogance does amount to a form of stupidity.
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  9501. I don't understand why the Anerican people ever allowed the lobby system -- an open corruption and bribery system -- to be established and why they continue to ti tolerate it.
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  9502. "I assume" is speculation. "I think" is analysis.
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  9503.  @Makingnewnamesisdumb  This guy is not mentally impaired. He's a psychopath, which is a different thing altogether.
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  9504. They control over 80% at this point.
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  9505. ​​ @liuj88  It's way past time the US dropped that little grubby island with pretensions to significance.
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  9506. Just for the laughs.
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  9507. She founded the city as the Empress of Russia.
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  9508. It's a different culture. High ranking Russian officers rarely appear in public. ​ @zeusc7140 
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  9509. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074  Ukraine has no strength of its own. All it has is cannon fodder. Everything else is NATO. It's a proxy war, with poor Ukrainians being the proxy.
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  9510. 😂
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  9511.  @evan8919  I'm a recently retired college prof and I recognized some of my students' lack of mental engagement in these young people. Example: "Which year was the War of 1812 in?" The respondents' failure to simply use their heads to work the answer out represents about 10% of college students today.
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  9512. He's a jerk.
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  9513. He learned the causes of WW2 from all those Nazis the US airlifted into the States in 1945/6. They taught at US military academies and completely skewed the perspective of their colleagues and students. The good colonel should have outgrown that by now, but otherwise he's 90% on point. A rare thing nowadays.
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  9514. ​ @jamess7181  How old are you? 12?
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  9515. NATO is in a proxy war on Russia, with Ukraine as it's battering ram.
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  9516. Au contraire.
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  9517. Also? Russia destroyed 80% of Hitler's army!
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  9518. Exactly.
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  9519. Nothing to do with the UN, sweetie. This is the EU (a.k.a. NATO) trying to disguise its forces as peacekeepers. Wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  9520. ​ @ГрицькоГудевітер 😂😂😂
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  9521. South America, Asia, and Africa make up about 82% of the world's population. The collective West (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and its vassals in Asia (Japan, South Korea) make up the remaining 18%.
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  9522. Not anymore. The people have spoken and made their choice clear. Self-determination, you know. International law, you see.
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  9523.  @fallencobra5197  All of the media in Serbia are foreign owned.
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  9524. It's very disturbing that Kremlin should have indulged in such fantasies, that it should have made Russia vulnerable to Ukrainian and Western deceit and duplicity, even after the many previous instances of their untrustworthiness, their outright treachery. Naïvety is NOT a quality befitting the leaders of a country!
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  9525. Wait and see.
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  9526. On the model of EU referendums, a simple majority will suffice. Brexit was decided by 52% for and 48% against it.
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  9527. And they don't have a clue about how evil they are, how vile. Very disturbing.
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  9528. ​ @PhuaTeckHoe  Roughly. That do?
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  9529. I thought he'd had a stroke, and Parkinson's, and was dying of cancer a year ago. 😜 Come off it, HT, you should know better than spread these ridiculous Western propaganda speculations.
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  9530. Let's remember that over 90% of the people the US drone-killed under Obama were innocent civilians.
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  9531. Respect for truth and facts is now disrespectful?! 😅 Do grow up.
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  9532.  @davidborton8653  Truth is not mine or yours -- it's objective and universal. Like gravity, for instance.
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  9533. The Duma has ordered the Russian security services to launch a criminal investigation into this.
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  9534. That's so sad.
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  9535. ​ @oliveoil5789 The better option by far.
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  9536. ​ @musehtaicho  Russia can't start working those mines during the SMO. As the #4 economy globally (according to the World Bank), it most certainly does have the resources for it.
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  9537. Impossible for as long as the current system is in place. Politicians are not elected in the US: they're first BOUGHT, which then enables them to get elected.
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  9538. ​​ @timothyrockwell2638  Europeans are anything but humble. I see them behaving with disgusting arrogance all over the Asian and African countries I've lived in or visited.
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  9539. ​ @william_marshal  You can keep regurgitating NATO talking points till the cows come home, but 3/4 if the world know perfectly well that this is a callous and inhumane NATO proxy war, using the bodies of Ukrainian men
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  9540. ​ @GodOfPlague Technically. Yes.
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  9541. The UK, with half the population of Russia, jails 10 times more people for their social media posts. Some freedom.
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  9542. Speaks volumes about the "health services industry" in the US (and Canada).
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  9543.  @antediluvianatheist5262  I see that as a rationalisation. Had Russia gone into Donbass in 2014, none of this would have been necessary. Had it done so even as late as 2018, by which time it had become clear that Ukraine wasn't going to implement the Minsk Accords, some half a million Ukrainian and thirty to forty thousand Russian men would be alive today. The policy of appeasement it chose was always wrong-headed and delusional. I know this sounds harsh, but even Putin himself has publicly admitted that not going in in 2014 was a mistake.
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  9544. If Europe, especially Germany and its WW2 allies, feels guilty towards Jews (as it should), instead of compounding the moral horror of what it did 85 years ago by white-washing Israeli war crimes and turning a blind eye to its genocidal actions, Germany and Europe as a whole should instead offer a piece of their territory to the Zionists to create their ethnically pure, ethnically exclusivist Jewish state there.
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  9545. There's no democracy in the US. There's only an oligarchy that uses the mechanisms of democratic representation for its own ends alone. The West is no model of decency, humanity, and good governance for anyone.
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  9546. Cringe.
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  9547. A house slave.
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  9548. ​ @harhatoxic8271  How are you doing over there in Ukraine? 😅
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  9549. What else can it mean?
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  9550. And then we gave shelter to thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators at the end of WW2. That's the sort of people, the kind of nation we are.
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  9551. You should read Guy Mettan's book 1000 years of Russophobia (translated as Creating Russophobia). Mettan is a Swiss MP.
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  9552. Source?
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  9553. Yes.
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  9554. No. It's what Ukrainian Natsee forces are themselves reporting.
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  9555. Into your MIC, you mean.
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  9556. Just because he's pathetic doesn't make Biden any less dangerous than Trump.
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  9557. Ethiopia, right?
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  9558. Your comment tells me you have no understanding of what praxeology is. 😂
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  9559. No wonder she turned out as she is. Such a nasty, cruel culture.
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  9560. 😅​ @ziegle9876 
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  9561. You're in denial about just how conformist and compliant we are as a nation.
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  9562. God is the Ground of Being -- you need to forget the anthropomorphic, mythical side of the Biblical concept of God.
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  9563. Niger has just kicked them out, and if Niger can do it, anyone can.
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  9564. It's an oligarch proxy war on the Western side, yes. Not so for Russia. So much so that the West pinned it's hopes on Russian oligarchs joining hands with their Western counterparts to depose the Russian government and let the West back into Russia to loot it to their hearts' content.
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  9565. The elites engineered that "popular revolt", too, sending in a couple of dozen French snipers to mow down people in Bucharest. So, no, they have nothing to worry about, especially given how acquiescent the European populations are.
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  9566. Ukrainians need to start from scratch when it comes to their historical understanding of themselves. You've been telling yourselves embarrassingly silly fairytales about your history and your achievements (Ukraine as the cradle of civilization, Ukrainians creating the Black Sea by digging it's basin out, etc.) ever since you caught that über-nationalist bug that's threatening to destroy you now. You know perfectly well, for example, that Kievan Rus was not Ukraine. If it continues this way, and it's not something I wish for you, Ukraine may well disappear as so many other states and nations have done throughout human history.
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  9567. ​ @charisma-hornum-fries So, you recognize yourself in his portrayal of women? That's a valid representation of a girl?
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  9568. You're projecting American evil onto China.
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  9569. ​ @robertkubrick3738 The longer they delay works on repairing it, the more difficult it will be to restore it to a working condition. At some point, it will become impossible, in fact.
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  9570. There's a strong social/cultural causative element in psychopathy. The most reliable estimates we have on the incidence of psychopathy workd wide show that in the US, 4 out of every 100 people will be psychpaths, while in Europe, Russia, and Japan it's 1-2 in a 100. Given how much non-violent harm both sociopaths and psychopaths do, it would be good for us as a country to figure out what about our society, our way of life produces 200% to 300% more psychopathy than do other technologically highly developed countries so that we can change that.
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  9571. ​ @claudiaborhman8019 Ukraine can't win with Western help either. Not doable.
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  9572. 😂😂😂
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  9573. Changed the course of the conflict? I doubt it.
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  9574. ​​ @ronbernardi  Fake "history". The Nazis were defeated by the Soviets. You take it for a victory that a coalition of Western war-mongers managed to defeat Kuwait?! That it bombed a tiny Serbia for 78 days, in clear violation of international law?! That it bombed a North African country to smithereens?! That's a victory? Why don't you also mention the fiasco in Afghanistan and the illegal invasion of Iraq, which killed a million people?
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  9575. He raped a 12 year old, actually.
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  9576. Hilary's so corrupt, her inner corruption has unhinged her. No wonder the US does what it does around the world with lunatics in charge.
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  9577. This is the first US administration to outright alienate most of the world at the same time and for the first time ever put the petrodollar in serious, probably fatal jeopardy.
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  9578. Thank you. It is. China's incredibly beautiful itself. ❤
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  9579. 😂
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  9580.  @alvinman8  You do not know what you're saying, my good man. May God forgive you.
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  9581. Christmas in Russia is celebrated on January 7th. January 6 is Christmas Eve.
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  9582. And it's all happening because a bunch of Russophobe loonies at the State Department can't give up their sick desire to stick it to Russia. It's really as senseless as all that.
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  9583. Brian cites a Western source that admits that in a week's worth of fighting Ukraine's already lost 50% of the Leopard 2 tanks donated from all across Europe, without managing to get closer than 10 km to the FIRST defense line the Russians set up over the past 6 months, and there are people here saying, no, it's all good, Russia's losing, sit tight! You can pass such unbelievably idiotic drivel off on Ukrainian propaganda channels, but please stop embarrassing yourselves here. Unless, of course, you're paid to splatter the Internet with precisely such drivel and are "just following orders".
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  9584.  @vasia1392  I live in Canada and I've heard Ukrainians say exactly that: Moscow is not Russia, everywhere outside Moscow is a dump, etc.
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  9585. Correct. I live in Canada, and I've heard Ukrainians here say the same: Moscow isn't Russia, outside Moscow it's all a dump, etc. These are Ukrainians from the Lvov and other westernmost regions, and none has been to Russia at all. They keep repeating themselves urban myths because it makes them feel better. Bitter, rather pathetic people.
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  9586. They know nobody's interested in attacking America.
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  9587. I tend to agree with Levan, though. Paul Craig Roberts, one of Ronald Reagan's advisors, has been saying for almost a decade that Putin's softness will lead to a war, that his patience and humaneness are misinterpreted as weakness by the West and that this will cost Russia dearly. And we can all see now how right PCR was.
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  9588. Industrial sabotage is a form of terrorism.
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  9589. Yeah, he's been dragging his heels and behaving as though he expects reason and good sense from a West so drunk on its conceit and arrogance that it really boggles one's mind anyone could mistake for a bunch of normal, rational players.
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  9590. You're entitled to your opinion and your preferences. So is everyone else, and I'm very much looking to the new world order in which China and Russia, as well as India, South America and Africa, will play a major role.
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  9591. I thought the lifting of all economic sanctions is one of the conditions for peace Putin outlined in his proposal.
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  9592.  @pietdev.4648  It means I bother to read the text of Putin's speeches.
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  9593. 😂
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  9594. How can you date someone who's scamming people into buying this New Age stuff?
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  9595.  @7ebr830  Why? Russian voices are completely*, *absolutely suppressed in our MSM, so there's no reason on earth to imbalance thing FURTHER by giving additional exposure to pro-Ukrainian voices here too.
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  9596.  @ajstyles5704  I really don't care what the repercussions for Europe might be: not given Europe's own role in engineering and supporting this proxy war. Europe has Slavic blood on its hand once again.
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  9597. Bless you for the work you do for these animals! 💋
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  9598. The EU, that quintessentially anti-democratic organization governed by un-elected officials appointed to run Europe's economies to the ground to the benefit of the US. The only question is how long it will take European populations to wise up to it.
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  9599. It worked for all of the European imperialist powers for centuries. It's still working for the US, as the EU has already found out. Remember North Stream 2....
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  9600.  @neilclark8087  Sorry to break it to you, but the Russian economy has displaced Germany's as #1 in Europe. While Russia's going from strength to strength and growing despite the hundreds of sanctions you thought would destroy it, Germany's de-industrializing itself and losing on every front. Check out the IMF, the World Bank, the Financial Times and other reputable organizations on this.
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  9601. What do you mean, he's a big cry baby?! Imagine if you were suddenly handed over to a perfect stranger and left to his or her mercies all alone. Of course he's stressed out! 😅❤️
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  9602. The problem is the mentality of the American people, who aren't used to taking a shopping bag with them when they go to a store. The state should run a decade-long public awareness program in the form of TV ads reminding everyone to bring their own bags with them. Changing deeply ingrained habits and ways of thinking takes time and effort.
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  9603.  @ArmadilloGodzilla  No, he wasn't.
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  9604.  @sliceoflife5812  Lenin wrote for a Catholic publication?! 😂
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  9605.  @sliceoflife5812  You made a claim, yes.
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  9606.  @sliceoflife5812  "is almost an exact quote from Lenin's time, but not by Lenin. Instead, in 1918, Sir John Robertson, the Medical Officer of Health for Birmingham, UK said: To destroy the family is to destroy the nation"
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  9607.  @sliceoflife5812  Lenin never said or wrote that. Your response indicates that you need to work on your reading comprehension.
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  9608.  @debra1363  Russia's doing just fine, actually.
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  9609. Was Gaza a subject in this interview?
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  9610. ​ @Global_just Autocorrect strikes again.
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  9611. That's foolish.
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  9612. I think there's something far more important and inconvenient for the West for the Russians to get to in there. Another one of those US biolabs, perhaps?
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  9613. What's there to be excited about in UK's politics?
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  9614. A student visa is neither.
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  9615. I second all of the points you made here.
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  9616.  @ginaturner7755  How old are you?
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  9617. I doubt it. Larry Johnson says the West is still telling itself BRICS+ doesn't count. Also, there's no way US Democrats want to start a direct war with Russia before the elections.
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  9618. It wasn't just Rota. Krystia Freeland, our Bandera-loving Deputy Prime Minister, knew who this guy was. As for Trudeau, what a disgrace that he refused to apologize himself. The SS group whose remaining member our representatives celebrated in parliament the other day murdered Jews, Russians, Poles, Czechs, and even other Ukrainians.
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  9619. Well spotted!
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  9620. Ponudio nam je vojnu bazu, koju je Vucic odbio. Sta jos hocete?!
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  9621. The Chinese Belt and Road initiative, which is doing just fine, thank you, was never going to include any road network through Russia. Your handler at the US State Department should have made sure you got such details right. "Belt and Road Initiative : China, Cambodia, Caribbean Countries, Djibouti, Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation and Central Asian Countries, South America, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom."
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  9622. There's no controversy. There are only sore losers making a spectacle of themselves and their countries.
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  9623. And several other Nutsee formations. Aidar, C14, and at least a couple of others.
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  9624. Yes, they are -- they're all Feds. And it's very disturbing that all Americans are doing about blatant political abuse of their state institutions is laugh. This sort of stuff happens in failed states, in terminally, irredeemably corrupt countries. There can be NO democracy once a political party hijacks the institutions of state.
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  9625. May God bless and protect the Christians of Nigeria! ❤️
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  9626.  @dancroitoru364  The West has always done that, "always" standing for the last 5 centuries or so.
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  9627. ​ @kronos77 You don't know much then. The BRICS block has overtaken the US and EU combined. China alone outproduces the entire collective West. Too bad that your media are concealing these facts from you.
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  9628. Brian's always debonair. 😊
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  9629. I think it's great that stores are closed on Sundays. We need to wean ourselves from the notion that we live to work and to shop!
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  9630. 😮
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  9631. She asked him not to film them as a courtesy. I've seen lots of Americans and Canadians do the same in numerous videos. What's controversial about that? I know it's perfectly legal to film people in public spaces, but it's also intrusive and many folks don't like it.
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  9632. With brief intermissions, France, Germany and Poland have been playing this let's-attack-and-take-over-Russia game for centuries now. The ruling class just keeps reproducing itself and its prejudices and lie-and-steal projects generation, after generation, after generation while the Hoi polloi mostly go along with it like any animal herd that follows its leaders. We have so much evolving to do, not biologically but culturally, and that, too, is being prevented by our "betters". Just look at the state of education and the mass media all across the West. 🫤
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  9633. Earth to yo alexg1153! Only 2% of Russians supported Navalny!
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  9634. Not just today. The first eight or nine (the exact count escapes me) of the original top NATO officers were ALL from Hitler's army and the SS. Every one of them member of the Nazi party.
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  9635. The world is simply re-organizing itself. A common historical process.
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  9636. You know why not, Mr Mercouris: this is about weakening Russia with a view to balkanizing it and stealing its wealth. It's about Western supremacy and continued theft of other people's riches. I wouldn't trust the West to tell me the time of day, if I were Russian, and trusting in their peace promises would be criminally irresponsible on the part of any Russian leader. This issue has to be resolved in a way that finally teaches the West the folly of conspiring against Russia.
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  9637. Snyder's a propagandist masquerading as a scholar.
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  9638. Ethnic cleansing. Vile.
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  9639.  @rhiannonwilliams2521  Why do you assume that the satellite will not have a beneficial effect on Angola's economy and so on the plight of its poor?
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  9640. You're too optimistic. Ipsos conducted a poll the day after the debate, in which 33% of respondents said that in their view Biden had outperformed and defeated Trump. All or almost all of those 33% of Americans are presumably DemParty voters.
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  9641. Isn't Avakov a Nazi? A Ukrainian citizen, Armenian by birth.
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  9642. 😅
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  9643. ​ @mogheanil  Creep.
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  9644. The latter. She's a professional liar.
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  9645. Using the more accurate Purchasing Power Parity comparisons among national GDPs, the World Bank and tye IMF have demoted the German economy from its previous #1 place in Europe and #5 in the world. Yet, German politicians keep lying to the German population that the country is still Europe's leading economy. It isn't. According to the same IMF and Wirld Bank ranking, Russia is now #1 in Europe and #4 globally. And that despite the hundreds if sanctions the collective West has placed on it in its attempt to destroy the Russian economy. And Getman people are being kept in the dark about all of this.
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  9646. Why? Her father had a lot more power than Nora, her mother.
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  9647. ​ @globalterroil3208  Nothing to do with grammar.
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  9648. Kerch Bridge was a nothing burger, a mere terrorist action just like Nordstream 1 and 2. There's been no defeat in Kherson: just an orderly pull-out. The only victories Ukraine and the 41 NATO+ countries backing it have had was in retaking some empty fields, at the price of losing literally tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops.
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  9649. Very original. Really needs that copyright logo there. 😅
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  9650. The resolution is a nothing burger, better not mentioned at all.
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  9651.  @SuanLuang  Revanchist state Germany.
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  9652. The UK can be taken care of with just a single Sarmat. And despite all the posturing, the British military knows this.
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  9653. God could (one of my permanent peeves with him), but the universe most definitely not. Might as well ask a rock to do it.
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  9654. There will of course be security negotiations between Russia and NATO once the war is over, but the war will first end on Russia's terms alone.
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  9655. Don't fall for that apology. They knew whom they were bringing in to celebrate. Our Deputy Prime Minister knew exactly who this war criminal was. Shame on us for giving shelter to thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators for decades! This is who we are: the nation who willingly, knowingly protected thousands of Ukrainian war criminals for decades and then knowingly, willingly armed and trained their biological and ideological progeny in Ukraine since 2014.
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  9656. ​ @gerrycoogan6544  What question are you talking about?
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  9657. He wants peace. As does Trump. I applaud them for it.
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  9658. Jeffrey Sachs.
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  9659. Ursula's lying, as usual. ALL of Ukraine's grain went to the EU in 2022 and 2023. NONE of it -- zero -- went to poorer countries in Asia and Africa.
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  9660. But it's okay that Canada's been sheltering thousands of these Ukrainian (and Baltic, and Croatian) Nazi war criminals for decades, isn't it?
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  9661. Over 20% of the territory that used to be Ukraine is now Russia.
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  9662. 😮
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  9663. Ukrainian losses were between 5:1 and 10:1, depending on the day. I really wouldn't talk about Russian losses at all, given such realities.
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  9664. It's safe because the other side is in the hands of people incapable of learning from a Russian.
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  9665. ​​​ @zaphodsrealm1549  Why should it? Navalny was expelled from the party he himself had founded for racism and corruption. He was a nasty piece of goods, falsely idolized by the West. But hey, we all know facts don't matter in the Empire of Lies.
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  9666. Zionists themselves were never anyone's victims. Don't confuse them with the Jewish survivors of German death camps, whom Zionists (the founders of the Israeli state) mocked to their faces when they arrived in the newly established Israel in the late 1940s.
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  9667. Which world order was that and when did it end?
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  9668. ​ @milcotto4153 Ask YT. Their glitch, obviously.
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  9669. I've been using ExoressVPN fir the past 2-3 years and recommend it highly.
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  9670. China doesn't need to cook the books. It now outproduces both the US and the EU combined. Having lifted 800 million people out of poverty. These figures are according to the US-dominated World Bank.
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  9671. Weeb Union reports that Russian forces have entered north and east parts of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut.
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  9672. ​ @jaimhaas5170  This is nothing new. One of their greatest monarchs was a German (Catherine the Great), and Germans were always welcome to move to a Russia and start businesses there.
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  9673. The vast majority of Russians do support Putin, nor is there anything morally wrong in that.
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  9674. ​ @BrianCarter-k8g  Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know about the Russiagate hoax. Try something new, for a change.
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  9675. Any day now? We've been told that for the last 2,000 years, forgetting that he himself had told us the date and time is known only to God. Jesus expected it -- as did Paul and the rest of the apostles -- to take place 1,900 years ago (read your New Testament!). It's about time we learned from their mistake.
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  9676. ​ @trueprincess894  That's irrelevant. Anyone who converts to Judaism is a Jew.
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  9677.  @Jaguar-s7f  Israelis themselves were never anyone's victims. Don't confuse them with the Jewish survivors of German death camps, whom Zionists mocked to their faces when they arrived in the newly established Israel in the late 1940s.
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  9678. The EU itself is the source of all this insanity. It's the EU that has to go, even if most Europeans have been too successfully brainwashed by their media to realize that.
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  9679.  @Sander-cu4ns  Tin hat brigade here, I see. 😅
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  9680. Macron's public statements over the past 48 hrs indicate very clearly that some countries want to take the war to Russia proper. The aim is to crush Russia, not just defeat it. Macron hasn't named any names, but I bet one of those countries is Poland. I remember that just a few months ago, Poland assured France that it doesn't seek a war with Russia -- again, the Russian intelligence services know all this since it's a matter of public record. What else they know is impossible for us to guess.
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  9681. 😂😂😂
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  9682.  @dnickaroo3574  It NEVER seemed like a good idea, but the Russophobe racists loved the thought of screwing Russia up and couldn't stop to think for even 5 minutes, it they'd have realized how idiotic it is to alienate your main supplier of cheap, reliable energy flows.
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  9683.  @dossymsaukimov2635  There's a lot to what you're saying. I just saw a video by Mike Jones (iEarlyGrey) about his latest humanitarian visit to Donbass in which he reports that the fighters he met there are saying that time and time again, when Russian forces are just at the point of breaking through and annihilating all resistance, they are ordered to stand down and pull back! Like him, I find that disturbing and incomprehensible as it's clearly prolonging all this
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  9684. ​ @davidcosta2244 There need to be other mechanisms of removal.
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  9685. Except the US won't drown when it loses its bid for global domination. It did perfectly well in the 19th century, before it even began dreaming of becoming a hegemon.
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  9686. I'm disgusted by EU's hypocrisy. The gall to speak of democracy while the EU is ruled by an UN-ELECTED, appointed group of people answerable to no electorate and no court! It's the epitome of bureaucratic autocracy, anti-democratic through and through!
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  9687. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  And that would achieve what?
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  9688.  Cynthia DeMario  In her enemies' dreams.
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  9689.  @dougdeepdown  Crusades have nothing to do with European anti-Semitism and its violent, barbaric history.
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  9690.  @yunusgokcen174  Terrorism throughout the 1920s and 1930s, ethnic cleansing during the 1940s, continued land grab, ethnic cleansing and apartheid since then, plus its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Quite a bit of "nothing" indeed.
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  9691. We can safely dismiss your rant as a perfect example of female nonsense driven by emotions, hormonal, and irrational.
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  9692. Tragic for the Poles who got sent to Siberia to work in Soviet munitions factories, but they have only their own political leadership to blame. Poland, rendered it seems permanently cuckoo by its Russophobia, rejected Stalin's offer of a defense alliance and chose to ally itself with Hitler, instead. And that despite knowing full well from Hitler's openly stated plans for a Holocaust of Slavs, made public in 1925.
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  9693. Not all beliefs deserve to be respected. If that were so, we would be required to respect racist beliefs, Nazi beliefs, the beliefs of the Flat Earth folks, etc.
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  9694. Russia is single-handedly defeated a consortium of now over 40 countries whose defense ministers meet monthly at an American military base in Germany to plot further the West's proxy war in Ukraine.
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  9695. She's a conceited, propaganda-spewing German academic. Of no importance whatsoever.
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  9696. The EU is autocratic. And that's where the similarities end
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  9697. Claims do not equal imperialism. The Arab/Muslim conquest of North Africa (and Spain) do.
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  9698. The Canadian Security Intelligence Services, more likely, given that he's in Montreal, right?
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  9699.  @josephryan9230  So it's okay to deceive the simple?! To harm them?!
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  9700.  @Rinanathar  And I'm asking if he thinks it's okay to deceive and manipulate the simple, as there are plenty of biblical fundamentalists who'd read that line in that spirit.
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  9701. It's on its way, the collapse of the US. All of these proxy wars, illegal invasions, illegal bombings of various countries are but desperate moves to delay it -- anything but reforming the system and doing the right thing.
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  9702. All of the three Baltic states are in the hands of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Nazi collaborators. The very word the Baltics makes my stomach churn.
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  9703. Americans can't do metric. 😅
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  9704. Not going to happen. She'll never reign in the Zionists. Never.
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  9705. You liberate territories from Nazis. That's why you go in ("invade"): to liberate them.
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  9706.  @JustinianCharter-ie9bk  Keep telling yourself that.
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  9707.  @JustinianCharter-ie9bk  I didn't see you making one. Have a lovely day!
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  9708. The West's weakening itself. And not just Russia but the rest of the world too are watching the insanity unroll with amazement.
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  9709. We no longer have an army worth its name. NATO has an office inside our own defense ministry, for goodness' sake!
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  9710. ​ @TheMiracleMatter No.
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  9711.  @JimCOsd55  It's very simple: unlike Western armies, where you can become a general without ever having seen a battleground (especially true in the US), the Russian army has a long-standing tradition of having its soldiers left by high ranking officers directly in the field of battle. They've always had a relatively high casualty rate among their high ranking officers, starting with their total defeat of Napoleon and the French army. You should read some military history and rely less on the nonsense spewed out by our MSM.
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  9712.  @JimCOsd55  And they're still winning. Against a proxy army trained, armed, financed, and supported by NATO. Amazing, innit?
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  9713.  @JimCOsd55  You're a victim of Ukrainian propaganda, happily disseminated by our legacy media.
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  9714. If they by some chance stumble upon this 5000 pr 10000 years from now, our descendants will be shaking their heads at the silliness and the dogmatic blindness of this moment in human history.
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  9715. Alexander Mercouris hinted at Germany's difficult past with Russia as a part explanation for the Greens' (and that's a majority sentiment in Germany) hatred of Russia. Perhaps we should disambiguate that a little and speak forthrightly of Germany's revanchist animus against Russia. Germany today speaks openly of the "debt" it owes to Ukraine for not liberating it from the USSR, for not fully reciprocating the Ukrainian Nazi love of Nazi Germany, but it NEVER EVER speaks of the enormous moral debt it owes to Russia for directly causing the death of some 26-27 million Soviet citizens, the overwhelming majority of whom were ethnic Russians. Instead, with consummate hypocrisy and sanctimony, Germany is today arming and financing a government in Kiev that worships WW2 Nazi collaborators and has self-identified Ukrainian Nazis in its military forces.
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  9716. So do I. 45 years ago, actually.
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  9717. This is just some more whistling in the dark, folks. Putin continues to enjoy the support of over 82% of Russians. The whole notion that the Russian public would turn on its leadership in reaction to a proxy war engineered and paid for by the West belongs to the realm of fantasy.
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  9718. Get well soon, Alexander! The decision to give up Kherson city, and with it Odessa, is simply heart-breaking. If it really does signal Kremlin's choice to make the Dnieper the natural border between the RF and Ukraine, letting Kiev keep Odessa and an opening to the Black Sea, it will have been the worst political and military decision Russia could have made from the point of view of its own long-term defense needs.
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  9719.  @williamwarrenconkright3973  As I said, if.
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  9720. That's sad. And cruel.
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  9721. ....or just the beginning of a new civil war? Time will tell.
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  9722. Sachs has it right that the mess we're in is the result of US (and more broadly Western) arrogance and, as Diesen put it, the desire for hegemony. That both of these require deceiving their own public about their true intentions is also plainly obvious. Hence the lying, the selective reporting, the denial of history, etc. It's ever been the failure of diplomacy but the failure of an arrogance and hubris-driven rejection of diplomacy. The US went into a turbo bully mode after the dissolution of the USSR and its ruling elite are still so invested in their hegemonic project and hegemonic dream that we can only pray they sober up before they plunge us all into a catastrophic WW3.
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  9723. I agree. And I hope the investigation Putin's now ordered doesn't cover things up either.
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  9724. And you need to hold on to that attitude for good. The West is so corrupt, so terminally without integrity, that Russia should never again look up to it about anything at all.
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  9725. Surely a significant weakness.
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  9726. Thanks.
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  9727.  @kataluna22167  He does understand adolescents quite well.
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  9728. We did a great job of fooling the world about us. Canada's pre-WW2 policy was "None is too many", referring to the European Jews fleeing the Nazis. Post-war, we immediately gave shelter to thousands of Nazi collaborators from Ukraine, the Baltics, and Croatia. The world just never knew that about us.
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  9729. You were too merciful to those who had set out to annihilate you, whose aim was to do to you what they did to the European Jews. You need to accept the fact that underneath their arrogance, the Anglo-Saxons and their willing allies have always envied and hated you.
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  9730. That's exactly it.
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  9731.  @RealDukeOfEarl  Must have been a different Wagner Group, as the current entity was definitely formed only in 2014.
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  9732. He was in jail for fraud!
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  9733. This is not the demise of the West. It's simply a long-overdue re-arrangement of power and influence. There's absolutely no good reason the US, Canada, Australia and EU countries can't have a solid future trading and otherwise co-operating with BRICS countries, i.e. with the rest of the world. What's over is the era of Western domination and exploitation of the world, and that's nothing to mourn.
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  9734. Asymmetric warfare = terrorism
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  9735. *sought after
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  9736. ​ @mickeymaus1  Nice try, but the insecurity is all yours. This is simply a matter of fact: kids, and that includes adolescents, are the most easily led and influenced demographic. Monkey see, monkey do.
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  9737. ​ @senzojacob4474  The Russians have confirmed it. RT reports that the phone call took place at the request of the Yanks.
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  9738. Which we're explosives they planted there unobserved by anyone exactly at the time NATO was holding some maritime exercises in those waters and the US had jets flying over it.
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  9739. Except that Putin never said that. What he did point out is the historical fact that Poland allied itself with Hitler and marched with the Nazis into Czechoslovakia,to grab a piece of it itself.
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  9740. The 4 regions have been under martial law since 2014. Putin's move just replaces Ukrainian martial law rules with Russian ones as the regions are now a part of the RF.
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  9741. Nice barbaric Ukrainians. The EU deserves them. 😅
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  9742. A group of your historians showed some 15-18 years ago that the German ministry of the interior (the police), ministry of foreign affairs, and the judiciary were never de-Nazified post-WW2. You can imagine the long-term consequences of that. The London Review of Books covered their work at the time; I don't know how much media attention it received in Germany itself.
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  9743. He's totally incidental to all this. The real culprits are in the US State Department and in the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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  9744. Makes sense.
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  9745. I'm definitely not a small dog person (they're so frail looking, I always feel a little anxious and sorry for them), but I rarely skip your small dog videos. You've done a terrific job with Miss Daisy, and she looks amazing at the end!
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  9746. ​​ @anonnymous4684  Why are you lying about this?! It's well known that people who undergo sex change surgery cannot experience sexual pleasure. Lying about it is pure malice!
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  9747. Yes, indeed.
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  9748. Russia doesn't need to use them. It has other stuff that's deadly enough.
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  9749. Amazing how you manage to draw silly conclusions from the fact that people have chosen to stay in Kharkov, as a few thousand did even in Avdeevka, awaiting liberation by Russians
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  9750. I don't. He knew what had happened to Afghanistan....
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  9751. Yes, it is as not everyone follows Alexander's every single video, and there are always some people new to the channel, too.
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  9752. Conquest of Russia was always in the cards: Nazi plans for the USSR were clear from the start: invade, conquer, wipe out 2/3 of the Russian population and use the remainder as slave labour. It was a key goal from the start.
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  9753. What happened in Ukraine wasn't "our support for the new government" but a coup d'état paid for and engineered by us, with the new government appointed by Victoria Nuland. We know that because a sound recording of her conversation with Geoffrey Pyatt, our then ambassador to Ukraine, in which they discuss exactly whom they will appoint has been in the public domain since 2014. It's still accessible on YouTube, I believe. Engineering the Kiev coup of 2014 cost us 5 billion dollars, as Nuland herself publicly boasted at the time.
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  9754. We know. You're wasting your time.
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  9755. Putin caved in to the oligarchs and the liberals.
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  9756. This hasn't aged well. 🤣
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  9757.  @Ctrl_Del_0  I'm in Canada, and our food prices went up 20% in 2021, and another 20% this year, too.
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  9758. Yeah, that bit really took me aback.
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  9759. Political propaganda masquerading as a theological argument. If cheating on a test is your example of evil, then of course evil can be described as rational. Define reason first.
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  9760. Must be such a consolation to you. 😘
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  9761. We all know why the Baltic states re-wrote their histories. They're all still full of Nazi glorifiers.
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  9762. ​ @FrozenVagabond  I very much hope so, but Putin's offering too many commercial and economic cooperation deals to the US. And that's crazy.
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  9763. I don't see the Brits coming out in their millions to protest their government's foreign policy.
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  9764. Started as one, yes.
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  9765. And voted twice, no less! The 2014 referendum was the second such referendum at which over 90% of Crimeans voted to leave Ukraine and reunite with Russia!
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  9766. ​ @Janadu We had that law once and decided we didn't like it.
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  9767. It's been known for at least a year now that Trump's son-in-law is planning to develop a string of resorts in Gaza. And that Trump's campaign was funded to the tune of 100 million usd by Sheldon Adelson's widow. Those who pay the piper call the tune.
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  9768. Tells you just what levels of corruption and incompetence we're dealing with in the West.
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  9769. Why such malice?
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  9770.  @hellcat2073  Only most. Most Israelis support this genocide in Gaza and most of them are Zionists.
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  9771. Who doesn't? 😅
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  9772. Brian Berletic of the New Atlas -- himself a former marine -- has been producing first-rate analysis of the conflict in Ukraine. Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris are also very good. As are Scott Ritter, Senator Richard Black, and Col. Douglas Macgregor.
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  9773. Brilliant. 😅
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  9774. Podolyak basically told Europe that Ukraine will unleash a terror campaign all across Europe if the latter stops arming Ukraine. Nobody in Europe would interpret what he said as referring to Russia. Btw, how could Ukraine possibly hold elections when Zelensky's already banned all opposition parties?!
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  9775. No need to wait till then.
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  9776. Best wishes for your full recovery!
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  9777. Probably not. Fortunately for the rest of us, NATO countries are busy destroying themselves economically and will soon be unable to wreak havoc outside their own borders.
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  9778. ​ user-wu1ry5jz7t 😂😂😂
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  9779. Sacrificed by their own officers, too. Tragic and unforgivable.
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  9780. You know SPD history: they have form on helping fascists out.
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  9781.  @SerpentsHiss  The influence of his new American wife, maybe?
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  9782. Oh, Matt, that was quite a porky, that bit about how the bourgeoisie was about conserving things. There's never been a social class as destructive of the world it found as the bourgeoisie! It's one of capitalism's main features, its raoacious capacity and appetite for transforming the world by destroying the old and replacing it with the new.
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  9783. ​ @Runderton2  It's called bare-faced lying.
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  9784. You're right: that's what it comes down to. My own criticism is rather different. It's simply that France and Britain bear a huge chunk of responsibility for WW2 because they rejected the Soviet proposal, made in the 1930s, for a defense alliance among those three countries with the aim of preventing Nazi Germany from invading the rest of Europe in the first place.
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  9785. Russia's taken back a part of what it once gave away. It's yet to re-take all of the land Lenin had annexed to the Borderlands in order to create a country out of them. As Putin promised back in February, Russia will help Ukraine fully de-communize itself ..
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  9786. ​ @StevenNone-m8w  So are the Brits, ever the perfidious Albion, and the French. Thank God, the Baltics don't have any nukes, or they'd have done it by now, they're so insane with their Russia-hatred.
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  9787. ​ @eatmyblocks-blockchaindeve4093  It was all live streamed and televised, and the American people have NO excuse for "not knowing".
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  9788. Haven't seen any street protests in the US against the country's proxy war in Ukraine. Judging by their own behaviour, Americans seem just fine with it.
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  9789. Only our post-modernists can claim that there's anything white supremacist about math -- because they're woefully ignorant of the history of the subject. Euclid was a Greek, and therefore fair skinned, but it was Chinese and Indian thinkers who came up with some of the absolutely essential concepts in mathematics. The concept of zero, for instance, without which algebra could not have developed at all, is India's gift to the world.
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  9790. And this is important, how,?
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  9791. All three of the Baltics are full of n a z i sympathisers.
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  9792. Sickening that while rightly scorning corporate journalism, Hedges himself participates in the Russian interference scam by claiming that he has no doubt Russia did try to interfere in the 2016 election in the US. But then, Chris Hedges does that kind of thing over and over again: his own "reporting" on the destruction of Yugoslavia was as abysmal and deceptive as that of any other Western corporate journalist, yet he's never apologized for it and continues to peddle the same old narrative he did during the 1990s. Not a man of real integrity when it comes to media analysis or good journalism itself, for that matter.
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  9793. To narcissists, every criticism feels like hatred.
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  9794. Navalny was a white nationalist fraudster.
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  9795. Exactly what crimes against humanity is Vladimir Putin supposed to have committed? The crime of semding in the Russian army to put a stop to the genocide in Donbass? That "crime"? Even this guy can't help succumbing to tye demands for political correctness, however hypocritical that might be. Endorsing one lie and one wrong while condemning another reveals a deeper lack of principle in Europe, in the EU. It's sad, but in truth it's typical of us Europeans.
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  9796. ​ @garyyoung3179  In the past 30+ years, the West has violated every single agreement it had with Russia. It has zero credibility left and is less trustworthy than a pimp.
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  9797. You're lying then: the only time Syria experienced something like stability and relative prosperity were the 20 years of the Assad dynasty, before Israel, the West and its Sunni supremacist proxies ganged up on it in 2011.
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  9798. Don't. Most Canadians are fine with this nonsense. We're such conformists!
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  9799. Anywhere in South America or Africa should be as safe as it can be.
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  9800. Is there no party and no movement in France to take you out of the EU?
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  9801. How's Russia a closed world?! And where do you imagine you'll find "a world with fair economics"?
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  9802. This has nothing to do with incompetence.
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  9803. ​ @PatRiarchy-qw6cp  There were only 2 women and half a dozen men.
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  9804. Mainly because as a sort-of-Jew (Zelensky's father is Jewish but his mother is not, so without a formal religious conversion to Judaism, he himself doesn't qualify as a Jew) he could serve as the best camouflage for the quintessentially Nazi nature of the West's project in Ukraine.
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  9805. And Germans pride themselves on being logical and rational... 🤣
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  9806. The purpose is profit (a handful of people are making a fortune out of all this) and the propping up of the inflated egos of Western leaders (and the largely self-enamoured, entitled Western public, neither of which wants to admit defeat and the rank racism that motivates their hatred of Russia).
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  9807. Ah, the most likely gambit. 😅 Givi was assassinated by the Ukrainians, who boasted about it very, very publicly.
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  9808. What army? It's the Wagner group that's fighting in Bakhmut. And the Ukrainians are dug in 75 m below the street level. That's some 250 feet down.
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  9809. The West makes the rules for the rest of us to obey. Only international law has any legal and moral authority. And it's precisely international law that the West-imposed "rules based order" was intended to replace. Btw, the "rules based order" was Bill Clinton's, not Trump's, invention.
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  9810. 40% of the citizens of Russia identify as Orthodox believers. Only a fraction of them are regular church goers. About 40% are self-declared atheists, and the rest are Buddhists, Muslims, and a handful of Hindus.
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  9811. ​​ @eclark9965  Not a fan of land-grabbers and genociders of any ethnicity. And that very much includes your kind.
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  9812. ​ @gosnellktn Try teaching sometime. Those summer months are mental health and recovery time.
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  9813. ​​​ @mylessalmon3176  Yeah, sure. 😂 Try harder
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  9814. ​ @ThePlasticRussian  Through Moldova and Romania, I suppose.
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  9815. Hanukkah present.
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  9816. You mean killing, right? There's no such word as un-alive in the English language.
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  9817.  @brianfitzpatrick3973  Yeah, American idiocies I come across online tend to do that. (But how pathetically eager for attention you people must be that you think that's some kind of a success! 🙄)
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  9818.  @Thinking858  After you.
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  9819. The Russians will never agree to a Korean-style ceasefire. They've said so very clearly and more than once.
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  9820. Putin's always had a soft spot for Germany. He was foolish enough to trust Merkel even after 2014!
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  9821. ​ @adamsmith275  YT does it all the time.
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  9822. That's about the same success rate as among lions: 1 in 3 hunts.
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  9823. Russian red lines are a 100% invention of our lying politicians and our lying media.
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  9824. Col. Macgregor says the weather in southern Ukraine's been unseasonably warm. It will take about 2 more weeks for the ground to get frozen hard enough for any major offensives.
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  9825. And? 😅
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  9826.  @paveldimitrov2830  Same in Canada.
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  9827. Thank goodness you escaped that lunatic! I'm so glad you're safe now and hope you'll heal completely from his abuse.
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  9828. ​ @Ninjascew  "Countries like China, India, and Indonesia have some of the world's fastest-growing Christian populations, with house churches, underground networks, and missionary influence playing key roles." Three most numerous countries in the world, and in all of them the number of Christians is rising. Muslim numbers are impressive only because in the vast majority of the Muslim world, women are still made to have many children. In other words, overwhelmingly most additions to Islam are Muslims by birth, not by conversion. For Christianity, it's exactly the opposite. God really is great.
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  9829. He knows he doesn't stand a chance. But he's right in pointing out that the Greens are not a mass based party in the US.
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  9830. ​ @Andrew-q2w4f  The Russians are using less than 10% of their military capacity and defeating all of NATO hands down.
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  9831. ​ @davidcritchley3509  I remember that. It was only a year later that I learned the Russians had definite intelligence at the time that Kiev was about to launch a massive assault on the civilian population of Donbass. Putin knew this, and so did that fool who argued for waiting another couple of days. I'm still amazed that Putin didn't sack them back in February 2022.
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  9832. 😅
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  9833. NATO needs to cover up its dismal defeat in Ukraine. That's what this is about.
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  9834. ​ @PeterLamin-pi6rv  The collective West, that's who.
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  9835. ​ @PeterLamin-pi6rv  The collective West, that's who.
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  9836. ​ @NexLegacyAccount  Normal comes from the word "norm", i.e. the typical behaviour, trait, etc.for a specific kind of thing. Normal and neurotypical are synonymous, but the first feels like a judgement (subjective) while the second feels scientific (objective).
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  9837. ​ @JCX-9  Not in Europe. They've completely brainwashed themselves over there.
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  9838. There are neocons idiots with great pull in Washington who've told themselves a nuclear war with Russia is "winnable". Victoria Nuland's husband has spent the last 25 years pushing for it.
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  9839. You're right: a childish person would have given up. His persistence has paid off.
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  9840. I'm curious as to which policies the Serbian population seems unable to understand or see as unrealistic and dangerous for Serbia to pursue.
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  9841. The Ukrainian side's lying, as usual.
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  9842. ​ @boggeddown778  Democracies, both ancient and modern, make sure only their citizens (excluding even legal aliens) can participate in their elections.
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  9843.  @nosuchthing8  Very, very few Israelis come from the ranks of those who survived Nazi death camps. Worse yet, as survivor memoirs have revealed, Zionists welcomed them with jeers and denigration, openly mocking them for their "weakness".
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  9844. Zionists were already using terrorism against the native Palestinian population in the 1930s.
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  9845. I think we're pretty certain by now that the Earth is round, for example, or that our planet orbits the Sun. Or shall we now pretend, in our post-modern epistemological correctness, that we cannot know this, that we have no access to anything like knowledge and understanding of reality, including the reality that the Earth is not a flat disk suspended in cosmic fluid, say?! P.S. Simon Blackburn would be out of a job if he didn't "complicate" and "challenge" the realist view.
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  9846. He does that all the time, but especially in the past few weeks.
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  9847. NATO was never designed for peace in the first place.
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  9848.  @vhawk1951kl  I'm a retired college professor.
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  9849.  @vhawk1951kl  What's your profession?
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  9850.  @vhawk1951kl  So what are you? A truck driver? A sewage cleaner? Maybe an honest carpenter? All of which are perfectly honourable jobs, so why are you suddenly dodging the simple question I asked you?
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  9851. 😅
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  9852. That's hilarious. 😂
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  9853. ​ @JJRM8  Yeah, yeah, yeah... 😅
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  9854. Free speech in America. Barbarism in full display, cheered on by other yahoos online.
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  9855. Except for my Reuters feed, which keeps me amused and bemused with its transparent silliness, I simply refuse to expose my mind (and heart) to any of the Western media. The analysts and the alt-media I do follow keep me fully appraised of what the presstitutes are pushing on the populations of the collective West. Putin named the whole Western civilization very accurately when he dubbed it the Empire of Lies.
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  9856.  @dananorth895  Biden gave the previous Ukrainian government a few hours to sack the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General who was ever so inconveniently looking into the dirty business Biden & Son were involved in over there. He used his position as Vice President to force them to sack the guy. This is a matter of public record, and the guy whom he had sacked has a YouTube channel himself, where he goes into some details of the case, I believe. The MSM have done a great job of hushing it all up. We have corporate media, not a free press.
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  9857. ​ @a_l_e_k_sandra  There's nothing sacred about how we make wine. We certainly do need to increase our production of wine if we want to export it to China -- and elsewhere.
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  9858. A lot of things I've feared never came to pass.
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  9859. Game changers, right? 😘
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  9860.  @fredericfuknchopin4552  You've been listening to some very imaginative liars.
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  9861.  @adz-ql6kv  That's precisely what the word occult doesn't mean in modern English, i.e. in English since the 17th century.
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  9862. Sweden has been integrating itself into NATO for over a decade now. Its neutrality was always a scam in any case: the supposedly neutral Sweden let Nazi Germany use its railway system to transfer troops to the Eastern Front to go and kill themselves some Russians. Swedish self-righteous hupocrisy is legendary.
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  9863. He always slurs his words.
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  9864. Because, like Germans in WW2, they fancy themselves the superior kind of humans, so how could they possibly admit they're no match for Russia? It's ego, cultural narcissism, and colossal, insatiable greed.
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  9865. Curious how the Germans seem to feel no debt of guilt for the 27 million Russian deaths they caused. Nazi Germany committed a genocide on Slavs, but nobody ever mentions that today.
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  9866. Other Western media -- the BBC, Washington Post, Al Jazeera (which is pro-Western) -- are now reporting (confirming?) that he's just visited Bakhmut. NO outside footage of him in Bakhmut whatsoever, though. All of them have only footage of him inside a building with about 40-50 soldiers around.
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  9867. It's also helpful to watch a few other videos by Michael Hudson. Not just interviews, which are extremely illuminating, of course, but his own lecture-like videos.
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  9868. How do you explain such acquiescence? The current attitude does seem to confirm that Germans are abnormally compliant, as if hypnotized at birth to accept whatever "the authorities" tell them or do.
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  9869. Watch out, Serbia. You're next in line for a colour revolution. The West is determined to oust Vučić and replace him with a far more obedient set. You may be (and rightly) unhappy with Vučić, but your entire (electable) opposition consists of the paid servants of Western interests, who will sell you down the river just like the Kiev political class destroyed Ukraine.
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  9870. Pay attention, darlin'. This has nothing to do with the UN. It's just the EU (NATO) trying to disguise its forces as peacekeepers. The UN Security Council would NEVER authorize this.
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  9871.  @mocki5665  Correct. The training wing of the Air Force still sports swastikas as its insignia, though.
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  9872.  @adityagajjar3118  I've seen the symbol and it's just a swastika.
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  9873. Where are you from and exactly what are you unhappy about?
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  9874. I don't want to see Russians dying again for the sake of a rotten, shameless Europe. Let the Europeans liberate themselves for a change.
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  9875. You forgot that Russia is fighting an army that's being equipped, trained, and financed by a consortium of 41 countries, including the US and all of Europe.
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  9876. ​@CrystalBulger It's obviously context-specific, specific to the culture that wove a reference to that time into their foundational narrative.
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  9877. ​ @Rhaenarys  Good point. It would make the collective memory instantiated in that story all the more astonishingly (but not impossibly) enduring.
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  9878. Nothing to do with socialized medicine. This is something profoundly perverse and in no way related to the cost of medical care.
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  9879. My impression is that Russia is still unwilling to completely abandon Europe to the most untender mercies of the USA. I may be misreading this move, but why else would it offer a new gas pipeline to Turkey, making it the energy hub for Europe, unless it still wants to keep selling gas and oil to Europe? In this connection, I suspect that both Russia and China would prefer to maintain and further develop trading relations with Europe, as is geographically and economically logical, then let the world split into two separate blocks, although this last does seem inevitable given the hostile intransigence of the collective West.
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  9880. I want one of them, too, and am so disappointed that they're banned in Greece, where I like to spend a month at a time vacationing. 🫤 I wouldn't leave a dog in a dog motel for that length of time, which means I can't get a Rottie after all. 😢
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  9881. ​ @PURENT  You doth protest too much. A lot of other people in this comment stream have also found the parents' behaviour bizarre and disturbing.
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  9882. ​ @theskyizblue2day431  Weak, eh? Perhaps the fates will be kind enough to arrange such a test of your strength one day....
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  9883. ​ @manapua83 Why should they?! What Israel is trying to carry out by asking 1 million people to leave their homes is called ethnic cleansing. It's a crime against humanity.
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  9884. ​ @ShadowSis  And no guilt about the tens of millions of Slavs they killed, the by far worst Holocaust Germany committed in WW2.
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  9885. ​ @grahamhireme9283  A complete and utter fantasy on your part.
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  9886. The whole idea of a great Russian offensive has come from the West alone.
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  9887. Ukraine hasn't*occupied* anything. It's made an incursion into the Kursk region, a military adventure even it's top general admitted just yesterday was a failure.
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  9888. Don't be silly. We're not a civilization.
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  9889. 1.5 for me.
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  9890. German ministers are claiming they have larger stocks of gas than last year. I suspect they're lying.
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  9891. Wolff has turned into a demagogue. It's obvious that he's speaking to the well-to-do and the comfortable middle class alone. Imagine a socialist who bewails the fact that some 10-12 American workers will get a living wage!
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  9892. AIPAC, plus the corporations and American oligarchs.
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  9893. Ever heard of post-facto production of "evidence"?
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  9894. It's already here: those who can afford it, go to the US for timely medical care.
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  9895. They're lying to us 24/7. The only wonder is that anyone still believes them!
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  9896. Sick of = fed up with, bored to death with Sick with = suffering from an illness
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  9897.  @arostwocents  I blame them for being willing vassals. If little Niger can throw US forces out of its territory, there's no excuse for any other country not to do the same AND firm its own, independent foreign policy.
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  9898.  @marinkovacevic8732  In that time, the USD has lost roughly 20% of its former standing as a global reserve currency. Keep going.
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  9899.  @marinkovacevic8732  In that time, the USD lost roughly 20% of the global reserve currency market it once held. May it continue so.
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  9900. 🤮
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  9901. ​ @kaimanyu586  She's right to call out people who make tasteless jokes about the toll of war.
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  9902. Thank you, Brian, for telling it as it is AND keeping your moral compass on. Both the US and Europe have used and abused Ukraine horribly, and almost entirely thanks to Ukrainian nationalists and its über-naive, racist urbanites, but there are now some among the independent analysts I've followed for the past 3 years who are suddenly claiming the US never had anything to do with this destruction of Ukraine and should wash its hands of it and hand the whole thing over to the Europeans. Sad to see such lack of ethics even outside the MSM.
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  9903. ​ @hmwong9235 Of course Scholz knew! Otherwise, the entire German government and the Bundestag too would be up in arms about the US blowing up their key energy infrastructure!
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  9904. Same here, and I wouldn't even describe myself as conservative.
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  9905. We don't need a world leader. The very idea of one man "leading" the world is fascist in spirit.
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  9906. Old British imperialist thinking. Russell imbibed it at his grandpa's knee.
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  9907. As usual.
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  9908. I'm disturbed that the Chinese might even be contemplating a meeting between Xi and Biden in the US. Xi's dignity is China's dignity and bowing to the senile, aggressive, deceitful Emperor of the West would be an embarrassment.
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  9909. Not in Canada, for sure.
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  9910. The only sensible, reliable thing for Russia's national security.
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  9911. Is that really a question?! 😅
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  9912. Or maybe you have at least two countries: Mexico and the US
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  9913. ​ @alexvoloshkin514  "Nothing will be done" because these attacks, and others like them, are designed to provoke a big reaction from Russia, to create an escalation in the months leading up to the US presidential elections to beef up support for Biden. Thank God that Putin and his team understand that and will NOT give Americans the satisfaction of over-reacting. But worry not, Russia will react, when and how it suits it, and with complete deniability, too.
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  9914. A nice fairy tale, that. Ukraine's been rotten from the inside by its ultra-nationalists for many decades now. Nuland et al merely exploited that spiritual corruption to their own ends.
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  9915. You haven't had free speech for over a decade now.
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  9916.  @soniavadnjal7553  His insistence that civilians be spared and protected is indeed humane, yes. But dragging a war out creates MORE casualties in the end, something his generals know very well and have, I have no doubt, been advising him against.
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  9917. ​ @georgesbv1 A "union of freedom" ruled by an unelected group of politicians! 😂
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  9918.  @pdballerina  I'm a Canadian, so you need to address that to someone else, but I agree with your point. I learned just today that De Gaulle threw NATO out in 1961 and had the US close down 29 of its military bases in France. A model to follow.
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  9919. And it doesn't. All of those territories were a part of Russia until Lenin annexed them to Ukraine to create a new nation.
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  9920. ​ @konfunable  Especially given the fact that Europe itself is a subcontinent of Asia. But saying Eurasia still manages to give some importance to Asia's European part, so... 😉
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  9921. It will, maybe decades down the road.
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  9922. 💯
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  9923.  @robbielad  Western propaganda. There's absolutely no evidence that Russia's received any weapons or ammo from North Korea. It did buy Iranian drones back in 2022 but is now producing its own in huge quantities. You can't believe everything (or most of the things) our MSM assure us is the case because they lie to us without any qualms.
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  9924. Pillage, piracy and genocide: the true 500-year tradition of the West.
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  9925. ​ @sulemanmalik8228  Debra would be mad to trust Turks, who colonized them in a most vicious way imaginable for 500 years.
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  9926. ​ @vangarus  Good.
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  9927. ​ @raskolnikov6443  The EU is known to have funded ISIS itself by buying stolen Syrian oil from them.
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  9928. I see on RT that Macron's latest statement is that he HOPES France will not have to fight a war against Russia. I don't believe him. Why "hope" instead of a firm statement that France will not fight against Russia under any circumstances?
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  9929. ​ @rauldelvillar374 Not particularly. Remember that most of them come from the Tibetan feudal overlord class.
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  9930. 50 most developed and richest countries in the world can't defeat Russia fighting them in Ukraine. All of it unfolding before the eyes of the rest of the world, of some 86% of humanity.
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  9931. 😂
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  9932. ​ @marcelljosim3191  I spent four years in boarding schools run by Catholic nuns and yes, they do pay a dowry to their religious orders in order to be accepted as nuns.
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  9933. Bought up.
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  9934. ​ @hrep14  Yes, the Astana agreement was despicable. I'm neither Russian nor Syrian, and I'm furious with Putin for it.
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  9935. ​ @ChucksSEADnDEAD  They were ethnic Russians, as are the other 80% of the people in those regions, which were a part of Russia itself until Lenin the Idiot annexed them to the borderlands to create Ukraine in the 1920s. In short, they weren't Russian citizens, only ethnic Russian Ukrainians.
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  9936. Americans still can't come to terms with the fact that it was the Soviets who put the first man in space.
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  9937. My thoughts too.
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  9938.  @desperatelyseekingrealnews  Entirely self-inflicted by the West's insane economic policies: (1) first, the Europeans' decision to move from long-term contracts and switch to buying Russian oil and gas on the spot market, at spot market prices; and then, (2) by the crazy sanctions the West has put on Russia.
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  9939. Serbs are solidly pro-Russian. As for Bulgaria, it was a Nazi ally in WW2 and has only continued to live up to its shameful history. I understand that a majority of Bulgarians support Russia, though, regardless of their NATO-controlled government.
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  9940. 😂
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  9941. ​ @juzzlookin  The Minsk Agreements were not signed with Russia but with the representatives of Donbas, and co-signed by France, Germany and the UK, I think. According to the accords, Donbas would have remained a part of Ukraine with full local autonomy, and Ukraine would become a federation, like Switzerland.
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  9942.  @juzzlookin  8 years of shelling. Plus the statements made by Ukrainian post-2014 presidents.
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  9943. Robinson comes across as arrogant and condescending, and strangely blinkered on several issues. The whole idea that Russians today are in search of a national identity, that they need to forge a new one, totally misses the reality of present day Russia. Russian identity today embraces and acknowledges all the contradictions of Russian history, without denying any part of it in a neurotic fashion. I also find his dismissal of the Russians sense of difference rather superficial in the sense that it's completely blind to the profound gulf between social life in Russia and in the West. I find the best way to describe that gulf in the testimonies of Westerners who, after living for years in Russia, find life in the West depressingly atomised, alienated, cold.
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  9944. A lot of especially young American Jews are very openly opposed to Zionism and a Zionist Israel.
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  9945. ​ @anonqwerty7845  No. The benefit is that they're getting properly educated, hard working, respectful employees and not the entitled, ever preachy, unreliable, constantly triggered semi-literates our colleges and universities are churning out. I should know because I worked all my life as a college prof who tried to maintain standards, a fight I lost. When I say we're producing semi-literate college graduates (employees describe them as having poor communication skills), I really mean it. Research shows that up to 21% of college/university graduates are semi-literate!
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  9946. Strategically of far less significance than Soledar and Bakhmut.
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  9947.  @monksnack  I often have to listen to him at the 1.25x speed, but even so, Alexander does drone on a lot.
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  9948. Of course.
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  9949. Holy hell? You a Satanist?
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  9950. Is that true?!
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  9951. A smart plan. I hope the Russians do it.
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  9952. The EU can't have sensible leadership because the people who run the EU are all appointed, not elected by the people of Europe. The EU is inherently anti-democratic, although most Europeans seem not to know this.
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  9953. ​ @hawkingdawking4572  Specifically how is it that we (whoever this we is) do bother about it?
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  9954. ​ @mahannaidu5228  Still wishful thinking. The Republicans will just carry on with this proxy war. They're in it to their necks, just as much as the Democrats are.
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  9955. 😅
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  9956. In that respect, the SNS is no different from its main rivals in the opposition who were in power during the 2000s.
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  9957. Felon? Envy?! Who gives such terrible names to their pets?!
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  9958. Putin had no business being naive about the West's intentions after what it had done to Russia during the 1990s. Tens of thousands of Russian men are dying on the battlefield because of his "naïvety".
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  9959. Because in war it always is a big deal when large numbers of soldiers decide to surrender.
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  9960. ​ @mokarokas-1727  Is that supposed to be irony? 😅
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  9961. 🎯
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  9962. The settlement will be Ukraine's unconditional surrender, with Russia dictating the terms. Anything else would be irresponsible foolishness on the part of Kremlin.
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  9963. Sounds just a tad racist to me....
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  9964. ​ @DannyKa-x8z  Europe disgusts me (and I'm a European).
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  9965. Why the gratuitous anti-Semitism?
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  9966. ​ @Michael_PL  Africa or whoever else it might have been sold to.
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  9967. There's no new empire. The rise of Eurasian powers is qualitatively different and other from imperialism.
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  9968. This farcical coup claim in Germany seems to me just a distraction from the fact that Germany is supporting a bona fide Nazi state in Ukraine these days. To me, it looks like a German version of January 6 in the US, i.e. a Democratic Party scenario to demonize the opposition.
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  9969. It's already in full swing. It's two months now that Ukrainian Telegram channels have been reporting on it. It's awful.
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  9970. 😅
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  9971. ​ @mik71 Oh but they do: anger, resentment, hatred, sadistic pleasure, rage.
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  9972. The EU started buying stolen Syrian oil from ISIS back in 2012 or 2013.
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  9973. The New York Times has reported on them in several articles published since the start of this year.
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  9974. Why not? And why are you apparently a supporter of genocide nations like the US and the entire EU?
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  9975. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump: all three are typical, textbook narcissists.
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  9976.  @redscope897  No, there is as no city in there when Catherine the Great ordered it built. Even Wikipedia, which is notoriously pro-Ukrainian, knows better than to claim that.
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  9977. But did not cancel it. "On 21 February 2023, Russia suspended its participation in New START.[8] However, it did not withdraw from the treaty, and clarified that it would continue to abide by the numerical limits in the treaty.[9][10][11]". Wikipedia
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  9978.  @jasonmaguire7552  Not being a slave to the US, for one.
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  9979. Dream on.
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  9980. Except that Ukraine's paying with the lives of its men. Something no amount of money can compensate for.
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  9981. Finally we get the admission that the Russian leadership has indeed been making some serious mistakes in Ukraine. Just think of it: fighting NATO+ in Ukraine -- the 40 countries that meet monthly to reassess and plan new arms and ammunition shipments to Kiev -- and still calling the whole thing a Special Military Operation!
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  9982. ​ @dancingferret6654  The EU itself is anti-democratic, ruled by a small group of people nobody ever elected into office. Literally incompatible with, opposed to democracy.
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  9983. Didn't Putin announce a year or so ago that Russia will resume the best practices in education from its Soviet period?
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  9984. You answered your own question: Poland's still sore its invasion and attempt to destroy the Russia failed. It's still dreaming of creating its own Polish empire in Europe, too.
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  9985.  @zorannedeljkovic4357  Serbia and Croats are genetically indistinguishable, yes. But that's not what determines a people's identity. Croats are Croats, and it's crazy talk to deny that. You might as well claim that Serbs are really Croats who are denying their true identity. Crazy talk, that.
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  9986. Deliberately, yes.
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  9987. No, this doesn't even begin to qualify as a reason for the RF to use its nukes. Not according to Russia's own military doctrine, and Russians are absolute sticklers for legality.
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  9988. Correct.
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  9989. I find them valuable although both of them irritate me for different reasons.
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  9990. Stay strong, Russia, and please take Odessa -- without it, these European idiots will use it to launch another war against you!
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  9991. Under 100,000 so far.
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  9992. The Warsaw Pact was the Soviets' response to NATO.
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  9993. I can't disagree when Col. Douglas Macgregor and Andrei Martyanov are saying the same thing, too.
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  9994. We know it wasn't Russia for the simple reason that Germany's already said they know who did it but can't release the information for the sake of its national security interests. If it had been Russia, the Germans would be screaming about it in all of their MSM.
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  9995. If they scrape together a 100 tanks, that'll be something. In the meantime, Russia has 10,000 tanks in reserve and can produce 1,000 new ones a year.
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  9996.  @ParikshitBhujbal  The UN, as well as almost all of its member states individually, recognizes Taiwan as a part of China. Eat your little Sinophobe heart out.
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  9997.  @ParikshitBhujbal  Since you don't agree with the rest of the entire world that Taiwan is China, and for all your protestations to the contrary, Sinophobe is exactly the right word for you.
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  9998. Just a bare faced liar.
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  9999. I think it's cruel to leave the hair hanging over his eyes. Not a criticism of Vanessa, of course, but I wish his owners would care about him being able to see properly over his breed standard. I know Vanessa's posted that his owners take care of his bangs, but he came in with the bangs seriously obstructing his vision, so I'm not confident he ever really gets a chance to see properly.
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  10000. The USSR had them but Russia got rid of them because they're so toxic. The use of DU should be a war crime.
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  10001. It looks a lot nicer than the average Canadian town/small city. Much nicer than Waterloo, Kitchener, London, Windsor, Brampton, etc., etc., etc.
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  10002. Russia is thinking long term, and Europe is but the westernmost peninsula of Asia.
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  10003. You should look into the organ harvesting "labs" in Ukraine and Kosovo. Human butchery on an industrial scale. Once you've seen the photographic evidence, you can never forget it. For China, on the other hand, all we have are unsubstantiated allegations, i.e. claims. As for the disgusting propaganda claims the US has been making about the Uyghurs, Muslim nations' investigation team has found NO evidence for them and has dropped the entire Uyghur story.
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  10004. I hope you don't have any children.
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  10005. Yes, it is.
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  10006. ​ @randallfox8920  Americans, as a nation, don't know what hardship is.
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  10007. 😅
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  10008. ​ @nakshatraroy7442  😂
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  10009. Keep telling yourself that.
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  10010. I don't believe that this is stupidity at all. It's utter corruption, arrogance, and a total lack of integrity. In relation to this, I don't understand why people continue to studiously ignore what Paul Craig Roberts, undersecretary for finance in the Reagan administration, revealed some time in the early to mid 2010s. Puzzled by the irrational willingness of the European political elite to follow Washington's dictates even at the expense of their own countries, Paul Craig Roberts consulted a former colleague of his who's now at the State Department. It turns out the reason for their behaviour is very simple: every month, the State Department flies suitcases full of cash to various EU capitals to keep the top in line.
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  10011. Has everyone already forgotten that it was Europe who bullied the rest of the world for centuries before getting eclipsed by the US?!
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  10012. No, it couldn't have been taken a couple of months ago. Not enough troops.
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  10013. Seems like an ideal property for the French state to buy out and turn into an orphanage, or a home for the elderly.
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  10014.  @rickvenlo1362  His beloved daughter converted to Judaism to marry that Zionist guy. Trump will be as bad or worse than Biden when it comes to Gaza.
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  10015. Teump and Musk just had a telephone conversation with Zelensky, in which they reassured him of continued US support and use of Starlink.
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  10016. Slovakia's Fico has already said Slivakia will veto any invitation to Ukraine to join NATO.
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  10017. ​ @rtry2072  You think it won't be liberated?
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  10018.  @Mick-iv6mk  When was that, pray? 😅
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  10019. 100%.
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  10020. 😂
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  10021. Nasty Trumpists, right? Trump started 0 (zero) new wars to Obama's 5 (five). And the senile hair sniffer currently sitting in the Oval Office has now gone on to involve us in this proxy war disaster in Ukraine!
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  10022. I agree that Peskov is a Western puppet. Am not sure about Medvedev, but I get the impression Putin doesn't trust him anymore (at least not since Libya).
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  10023. Totally, at least outside of the Collective West. Internally, most are still pretending things are as usual. 😅
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  10024.  @Spacedog79  Europe would need to agree on market terms, and now when push is coming to shove, it looks like the West doesn't really believe in free markets at all and is in looking to fix prices. Behaving as though they think they own the world while tanking their own economies in favour of the US.
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  10025.  @wadeday8706  In a proportional representation system, the RN would be called in to form a coalition government with the party of their choice.
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  10026.  @wadeday8706  In a proportional representation system, yes, RN would be called upon to firm a coalition government with another party. If they couldn't do so, the solution to the impasse would depend on the details of the particular system. In some, the elections would have to be called again; in others, the party or the coalition of parties that got the 2nd most votes would then be asked to form a coalition government of their own. The French don't have a system of proportional representation, though, and I've no idea what happens in this situation according to their specific laws. If you do, that would be interesting to hear.
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  10027. Vance pontificates about core values such as free speech, while at home the White House persecutes those who speak out in defense of Palestinian rights and bars the AP from its press briefings. And their Alexander nor the Duran call the new US administration out for hipocrisy.
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  10028. If what Alexander believes a Polish enlargement would result in, bring it on, I say! 😉
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  10029. The collective West told itself self-flattering stories about its superiority to Russia and its weakness and insignificance. Confirming the truth of the adage that pride comes before the fall.
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  10030. Because of our colonialist, imperialist mentality. We, especially Western Europeans, still think of ourselves as better than the rest of humanity.
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  10031. The evolution of law from roughly 5,000 years ago to now debunks that idea.
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  10032. 😂
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  10033. ​ @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  With pleasure.
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  10034. Different time zones.
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  10035. Yep. All built by Russia.
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  10036. 😧
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  10037. Do drop that shameful nonsense. She's the mother of 3, all from her first marriage.
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  10038. ​ @captainape6807 Candace Owens should explain to us how a transwoman -- which is what she effectively claims Madame Macron is -- can give birth to children. Macron's wife has three children from her first marriage.
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  10039. Kiev's been stinking of Notsees for well over a decade now.
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  10040. ​ @margaretcaine4219  And they were preceded by the late and sorely missed, irreplaceable Stephen F. Cohen, who was the first US academic (America's premier Russia Studies expert) to warn against trying to drag Ukraine into NATO. He spent the last 10 years of his life like Cassandra, warning and urging against the policy the US was following and being completely shut out by the msm.
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  10041.  @sbdmw1  It obviously suits you to make absolutely unfounded assumptions about me and what I've lived through.
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  10042. Yes, the international LGBTQ movement. The legal status of homosexuals and lesbians remain unchanged: equal in law with everyone else and protected from discrimination.
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  10043. ​ @william6223  You're still a member of a collective characterized by greed, aggression, hypocrisy, and arrogance.
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  10044. There's absolutely NO scientific evidence that contraceptive pills used by the mother cause gender dysphoria in the child. None.
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  10045. All of this Israeli/NYT/State Department propaganda reminds me of nothing so much as of the "reports" of baby-sacrificing Jews European anti-Semites concocted during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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  10046. American women, that's who. I've just seen the results of the latest poll: "Female voters have propelled US President Joe Biden into the lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump in the 2024 race for the White House, a newly released survey has shown. A Quinnipiac University poll, released on Wednesday, suggests that the incumbent Democrat has a 50-44 edge over Trump in a hypothetical one-on-one matchup. That compares with a 47-46 lead for Biden, essentially a tossup, when Quinnipiac conducted the same poll just a month ago. The major shift is due to support from female voters, who favor Biden by a 58-36 margin, up from 53-41 in December. The results were little changed for male voters, who prefer Trump by a 53-42 margin, compared with 51-41 previously."
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  10047. Most units have a couple of resident Nazis in them who will shoot dead anyone who tries to surrender or flee the battlefield. Ukraine's been using its Nazis to terrorize the conscripts since May at the latest.
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  10048. *m'en Learn how to write properly.
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  10049. Pentagon says it doesn't have the evidence confirming this.
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  10050. No, he stops it to explain the real facts behind her words.
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  10051. Ostensibly.
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  10052.  @robgeheim4842  I'm amazed at your ignorance. Reservists are not untrained recruits but former army men, fully trained and in need only of a refresher before they can be activated on the battlefield.
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  10053. About 70%-80% of Wehrmacht was destroyed in Russia, by the Soviets. That's where Nazi Germany lost the war.
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  10054. I've seen it pointed out that taking out the Russian early warning system facing south would be in Israel's interest, in an eventual attack on Iran.
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  10055.  @aryzen2781  I don't think I am. We all know that Russia has been conducting this SMO with both hands tied, but even so, serious mistakes have obviously been made and it's imperative that whatever's causing them be rectified.
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  10056. He's been living in the US the past half century.
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  10057. ​ @margaretcaine4219  Nobody wants to so much as acknowledge it, but a poll done in Germany in the late 2000s revealed that 27% of highschool students in Germany believe that Hitler was a champion of human rights. They must have been told that at home.
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  10058. I can't stand with Israel. The very thought of supporting such a racist, inhumane country twists up my stomach. I will always stand against anti-Semitism, though, and with Palestinians.
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  10059. What a bizarre title for this video! Btw, Nicaragua has long been a Christian country. You have no business trying to "convert" poor Nicaraguans to your capitalist versiin of Christianity.
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  10060. He's a man in drag. All transwomen are men in drag. Some are homosexual, some autogynophiles. Some are castrated, some not. Some have taken feminising hormones to produce some of women's secondary sexual characteristics, some have not. But all of them are men in drag.
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  10061. He also has the oligarchs to accommodate.
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  10062. 😮
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  10063. ❤
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  10064. ​ user-yp2mw2ko9k  It's the servile Germans, too, forever in thrall to "the authorities".
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  10065.  @paolorossi8470  Bush Sr came to the presidency from heading the CIA. I see absolutely no difference between that organization and the KGB.
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  10066. It's on its way out and is kicking and screaming obscenities all over the world, in a vain attempt to remain relevant.
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  10067. ​ @dwighthaberly1199  You mean those stings with him sexting with someone who pretended to be in her 20s? Those politically motivated set-up jobs? Because nobody's ever even tried to claim that Ritter ever interfered with a child.
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  10068. ​ @nightelfuser  I think the Russians will demand regional referenda, perhaps under the auspices of the UN, to determine the will of the residents of those regions, whether to remain under Kiev or to join the Russian Federation. Odessa and Kharkov are sure to vote for the latter.
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  10069. Of course the West has the obligation and the duty to supply Ukraine with however much it needs in the way of weapons and ammunition! It's the Ukrainian men who're getting blown to pieces in their tens of thousands -- close to yo or over quarter of a million of them by now -- because the West pressured Ukraine in April 2022 NOT to sign a peace agreement with Russia but to fight the West's proxy war against it. Had the West not insisted on its proxy war, Ukraine would have been at peace since early last summer.
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  10070.  @duncansmith7576  What's "the other side of the story" that he's leaving out?
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  10071.  @duncansmith7576  Never happened. You're both repeating our own propaganda talking points and adding your own lie here (the claim that Russia repeated last year something it absolutely never said). Once you start lying, your credibility is shot for good.
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  10072. ​ @katelovins9005 Never. Your cult will be hounded down from now on, remorselessly and without cease
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  10073. A symbolic gesture to provoke Russia. Pathetic.
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  10074. All I can say is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  10075. He's done this sort of a thing several times before and would already have been offed by the CIA or MI5 if he were an American or a Briton.
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  10076. ​ @cajun4me Why so surprised? We've been sheltering Ukrainian, Croatian, and Baltic Nazi collaborators (Ukrainian ones for the greatest part) for decades now. We even have a Deputy Prime Minister of Ukrainian descent who supports organizations founded by Stepan Bandera. And we've repeatedly voted against the UN resolution that condemns the glorification of Nazism and fascism. So why be surprised that our parliament openly celebrates a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator war criminal?
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  10077. Russians need to get serious about the importance of propaganda wars, about what purpose they serve. Russia stood by and did nothing throughout the whole decade of the 2010s while Europe was on a binge of extremely nasty anti-Russia propaganda. The result of that was the way European populations turned against Russians in 2022. If you want to protect your people, you pay heed to propaganda wars and you fight those, too, to win.
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  10078. 100%.
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  10079. Yeah, right. Hitler just gassed millions to their death.
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  10080. I'm afraid it will take quite a few rounds of this sort of action for the Ukrainian regime to crack.
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  10081. Max, they is a plural pronoun and cannot be used to refer to one individual. Let's please have some regard for the English language and basic logic as well as sanity. Refer to him as a he, since he's a human male.
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  10082. Macron will most likely finish his term in office, though.
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  10083. Not nearly enough terminals AND the US simply doesn't have enough LNG to make up for the loss of Russian oil and gas. In short, Europe got screwed by following America's dictates.
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  10084. Sure. 😜
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  10085. Ukrainians have been doing that -- using video game footage as well as scenes from war movies and the coverage of other wars and claiming these were shot in Ukraine -- ever since the start of March! It's been well documented by now. A bunch of clowns, fooling the public with their BS.
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  10086. Where did you get the 45 million figure? He misspoke and said 43 million. It's 43 thousand.
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  10087. 😅
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  10088. This guy's delusional. 😂
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  10089. What language is the family speaking? Although they do use a few Russian words here and there, it doesn't sound like Russian. Is that Lakut?
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  10090.  @Nedas-y7n  Thank you
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  10091.  @70AD-user45  Yes, and the one who said the death of 500,000 Iraqi children caused by US sanctions was "worth it".
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  10092. The US has never had any qualms about cooperating with the jihadis and other types of fascist dictators.
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  10093. ​​ @christopherhall5361  True but not the whole truth. As Freud famously said, nothing in the unconscious is ever erased. When, knowing that, in my early 30s, I managed to dredge out of my subconscious the memory of a trauma I experienced at the age of 8, my mother confirmed every detail of it. There was no elaboration, no fabrication of detail, no distortion: and I did it "cold",i.e. by myself and not under anyone's guidance.
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  10094. The quality of education in the US is quite abysmal. And utterly shameful for an economically developed country. The last thing the rest of the world should be doing is emulate a system in which college graduates, for example, believe that you can drive from the US to Europe. There are plenty of videos on YouTube of American college students displaying jaw-dropping ignorance for everyone to see, but I'm speaking as a retired college prof.
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  10095. ​ @robmcphail8147  Neither traditionalism nor nationalism is essential to fascism. As its current neoliberal globalist form demonstrates.
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  10096. How can the US have a (smooth, amicable) divorce from China when it absolutely depends on it for consumer goods?!
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  10097. ​ @rankoorovic7904  What do you expect from a propaganda machine Goebbels would have given an arm and a leg to have?
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  10098. To this day, the Greeks still produce a white wine flavoured with mastik. It's called Retsina, and it's my favourite summertime wine. We used to import it from Greece here in Canada, but I haven't seen it in the past few years.
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  10099. What's a nice boy like you in this den of nasty Putinistas, eh sweetie? 😘
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  10100. ​​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  It was an interesting, informative channel. Its banning is a real loss in the information space.
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  10101. A regional Canadian accident. 🙂
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  10102. Chunky, happy cubs!
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  10103. Alexander, can you please do something about your mike/sound volume as I had to put earphones to be able to hear you this time?
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  10104. Germany has a history of marching on Moscow, you mean.
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  10105. ​​ @zaphodsrealm1549  US jails have plenty of political prisoners. The lucky ones find freedom in Russia
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  10106. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  10107. Not yet, alas.
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  10108. Mearsheimer claims that. He doesn't recognize it because it's simply not true, i.e. it's simply NOT the case that China's an imperialist country. As the US unarguably is.
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  10109. Do they have the means to send them flying to Russia? What is the effective range of their missiles?
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  10110. Only in the US can neoliberalism be confused with anything to do with the left. Everybody else knows that it's a right wing phenomenon and the economic doctrine as well as the ideology of the ruling class.
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  10111. The vet has a great approach to his patients, but what's with the "we", referring to a dog? Nurses do that with people in their care, and it's annoying (because ridiculously patronising).
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  10112. Copium galore. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  10113. No, Russians call Crimea Krim (a short i, as in brim or fin).
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  10114.  @Sayid-al-Furat  Your repeating Western propaganda talking points. If Russia had been supporting the Donbass independence movement, there would never have been the need for the Minsk Accords nor would the UN Security Council have adopted them. You really need to detach yourself from our NATO-sphere narratives and study the events objectively, dispassionately. What Russia did is a very gentle, mild version of what the US would do in an analogous situation. Just think back to the Cuban Crisis, what provoked it (the placing of American nuclear bombs in Turkey), and what the outcome was (the removal of US nuclear weapons from Turkey).
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  10115. Just the artillery, as you can never have too much of that.
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  10116. Women are human. That's how.
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  10117. Too racist to see reason. If they view Russians as sub-human, as they do following in the footsteps of their Nazi grandpas and great-grandpas, imagine how they view the Chinese.
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  10118. ​ @louise_rose  I don't recall them addressing the General Assembly about it.
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  10119. As soon as you lot start gestating and giving birth to the new generations.
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  10120. Palestine is a geographical term. Israel is a country. I support the Palestinian cause, btw.
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  10121. Physics seems to be edging closer and closer to medieval scholasticism and its debates on how many angels can stand on top of a pin.
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  10122. Like all transgender males ("transwomen"), he's a man in drag performing his idea of femininity.
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  10123. ​@Alexandr-k6v. Well said.
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  10124. All this while Zelensky keeps threatening to produce a dirty bomb and use it on Russian forces. Should that happen, the USA will likely use it as a pretext to bomb Russia, which, in its turn, will unleash its nuclear arsenal on North America, turning the whole continent to glass. Is that what we want?!
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  10125. ​ @aitorhernandez7806  Absolutely nothing, but our Bulgarian friend just couldn't restrain his narcissism (how dare Putin talk about Russian history without mentioning Byzantine monks born in Thessalonica who adapted the Greek alphabet to Old Church Slavonic and proselytized to the Slavs, Saints Cyril and Methodius, the so-called Apostles to the Slavs, that he wants us to think were Bulgarian? 😂).
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  10126. Rissia doesn't need a second round of mobilization at this point. Apart from regular conscripts, it's also seen over 300,000 men join the army as volunteers. Nor is there a hope in hell for Ukraine to win -- even the Ukrainian officials are now openly complaining that nobody's ever defined what a Ukrainian victory would like -- in a war of attrition. Any idea that the collective West could win this proxy war of attrition in Ukraine is, logistically, 100% nonsense. And as every little boy and girl knows, or should know, wars are won on logistics. Always. Unless, of course, you want to go nuclear, in which case, so long, and thanks for all the fish! 😅
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  10127. I love your videos and the gentle pace you set. Thank you for your work!
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  10128. 😅
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  10129. Not just the Americans and their British friends. Israel is deeply implicated and invested in the failed attempt to oust Assad and break Syria up into fragments.
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  10130. It's for the Armenians themselves to take care of. They voted this traitor in, so let them remove him from office now. Armenia isn't and won't be another Ukraine.
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  10131. Appalling and so inhumane to let the old lady live in such horrendous conditions! Her family basically killed her with their neglect. They should be held criminally responsible for elder abuse! Btw, I wonder why you chose to do these videos in English instead of Russian. You'd have much greater impact and would be able to help the people in dire need of assistance if you addressed yourself to the Russian audience.
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  10132. How long can the media+government deception of the Western public last? To what end are all these lies and this theatre of the absurd? It's beyond doubt by now that Ukraine's done, that it simply can't do much except annoy and harass Russia here and there but to no real effect at all, that those 4 regions are now Russia and will remain Russia for good. So what is it that the West is waiting for in order to finally let its public know that Ukraine has lost? That there's no defeating Russia -- when do you think they intend to finally admit it? The Russians have already said, and publicly, that the frozen conflict scenario is out of the question, so what's all this fantasizing in Washington about managing perhaps to get the Russians to accept it about? Are these people really incapable of looking reality in the face and dealing with the horrendous messes they've made?! Is that what it boils down to?
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  10133. Trump will have to go to Moscow. Putin's not going to the US.
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  10134. 😂
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  10135. I don't think this will be over very soon, alas. It will take some time to liberate the Odessa and Karkhov regions, too, as the Russian public demands be done.
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  10136. 🙂
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  10137. As a Canadian, I'm ashamed that we have the granddaughter if a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and an ardent follower of the most infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and a genocide perpetrator as our Deputy Prime Minister. This is why Canada's financing the proxy war in Ukraine.
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  10138. The EU (US/NATO) rejected it over 20 years ago and have done nothing since except to demonize Russia. That's exactly how Europe behaved towards the Jews a hundred years ago. Let's remember that the Nazi plan, the essence of what they wanted in WW2, was to conquer Russia, annihilate most of its people and enslave the remnant.
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  10139. ​ @Steelhorsecowboy  I think she fully deserves both.
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  10140. "Impeccably placed palace sources" -- anonymous as always. Why should we believe any claims based on the supposed reports by anonymous someones?! Yet, it seems that most of us do.
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  10141. The Russian nuclear doctrine allows Russia first use if nuclear weapons if Russia's facing a numerically overwhelming force. NATO, with its population of over 800,000 million, definitely qualifies as such an enemy
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  10142. 😂
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  10143. BSW is the real left now. Die Linke has become a joke.
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  10144. He's not a doctor. He has a Ph.D. in psychology.
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  10145. Watching from Kitchener, Ontario (Canada). Maybe I'm weird, but I really like those Soviet-era buildings. The city looks just fine, certainly not a dump, or even close to it
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  10146.  @Kenny-yl9pc  Because this is the collective West's proxy war on Russia, with Ukraine used as a paid mercenary force, all the money going into the already deep pockets of the Kiev regime.
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  10147. I think he deliberately slow overestimates Russian losses just to be on the safe side.
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  10148. All NATO-stan mass media sing from the same choir book. Total uniformity.
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  10149. 👍
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  10150. ​ @SmiercbanderowskiejUPAdlinie  You're most welcome to it and its resident Banderites.
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  10151. I've just noticed that both RT and Sputnik have removed the article in which Volodin was cited saying that Russia would respond by destroying whole countries, not cities! A single Sarmat can remove the UK or Belgium or Denmark off the face of the Earth, and these idiots in Europe are babbling about how they'll defeat Russia! Correction:. The article is still on RT.
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  10152. Canadians are a bunch of sheep.
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  10153. Not happening.
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  10154. He has serious eye problems.
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  10155. The West has to rule the world, don't you know. Hence its absolute hatred of any country and any nation who refuses to bow down to it.
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  10156. Oh Pavel, don't play the naive. It's normal for people to celebrate when they've taken the enemy's MOST heavily fortified town of key strategic importance.
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  10157. Prayers for and blessings to all Russians! ❤❤❤
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  10158. The entire European political elite is in the pay of the US, literally bribed by the State Department which flies out suitcases full of dollars every month to various European capitals. See Paul Craig Roberts (undersecretary for economic affairs in the Reagan administration) about this.
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  10159. Hungary needs to protect itself by passing a law that requires all fully or partially foreign-funded media and other organizations to identify themselves as such.
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  10160. She's really asking for it, isn't she?
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  10161. ​ @billciervos A YouTube glitch. Not the first I've seen.
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  10162. Because they are neither free nor open. When a candidate for public office cannot run a campaign and get elected unless he or she is either independently wealthy (like Trump) or backed by the oligarchy, whatever elections are held are neither open nor democratic.
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  10163. In Europe and the US, perhaps. The only effect on the rest of the world will be to facilitate its flourishing.
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  10164. 🙂
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  10165. It's a code used internationally by white supremacists and neo-Nazis. 14 refers to a 14-word statement by David Lane (you can look it up in Wikipedia).
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  10166. My niece got her first computer from her father at the age of 8 or 9, and her first smartphone at 11. I understand that both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs didn't let their children use a computer until they werre 18.
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  10167. And, please, don't EVER forget how the West's treated you, how essentially racist it remains towards Russians. Your history tells me that if there's one weakness Russians have, it's their sentimentality and their too generous readiness to forgive those who wish it ill.
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  10168. They've been trying for the past 30 years, and he himself has just admitted he was too naive regarding the West's intentions.
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  10169. Crosston is seriously uninformed in believing that Russia will ever give back the territories of Novorossiya, which Lenin and Stalin had given to the borderlands in order to weaken Russia and create Ukraine. The main reason why Russia will never again part with those lands is that the Russian constitution forbids it.
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  10170. You seem gender confused. It's the pricks in charge.
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  10171. He talked for just under 20 minutes straight and in all that time he never found occasion to turn to his wife to ask for her input. Was her role there just to read him questions from the audience?
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  10172. It was a part of her plea bargain deal.
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  10173. Why? Syria, North Korea, Russia and Belarus don't and haven't formed a single aggressive geopolitical bloc or are out there exploiting half of Latin America and most of Africa, plus a third of Asia.
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  10174. They've never even met.
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  10175. Poor thing. 😅
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  10176. Or Washington or London.
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  10177.  @Anna-ib1kt  Why would you fight against Russia in the first place? Sounds like you've all succumbed to NATO- and media-induced paranoia over there in Sweden.
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  10178. The US has been interfering in other people's countries for two centuries now.
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  10179. His children would feel more at home in the US than anywhere else, and he might be close to becoming a grandfather, too.
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  10180. Not so low any longer. As for our quality of life, you ought to get out more.....  @zammmerjammer 
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  10181. What disaster? As so often, those videos released by the Ukrainian side were fake and most of Russian troops (and equipment) managed to pull back safely.
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  10182. ​ @1mol831 China's overtaken the US+EU in production. Russia's economy is now #1 in Europe, having overtaken Germany's and Russia's in the process of defeating a coalition of 40+ countries fighting the West's proxy war in Ukraine.
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  10183. I'd be terrified of that growl!
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  10184. He's just maintaining a pretense of not recognizing that.
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  10185. Kursk was a blunder born of desperation. Ukraine and NATO lost the war from the moment Putin finally approved a round of conscription back in September 2022. From that point on, Russia's inevitable victory was just a matter of time, and wars of attrition take quite a bit of it.
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  10186. You should never quote -- let alone take seriously -- anything that comes out of the Institute for the Study of War. It's the family stronghold of Victoria Nuland's clan, run by her husband and employing several other family members. A den of Russophobe vipers hissing out lies 24/7.
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  10187. Navalny's sudden death won't change anyone's views of Russia, but it will reinforce the Western propaganda narrative about it. Alex, please tell Alexander to clean his camera lens at last!
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  10188.  @Peroriperora  This has been a proxy war from the start and the West is no longer trying to deny it.
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  10189. Good for Tucker Carlson for not letting Gowdy off the hook about the whole nonsense about Russia supposedly interfering with the American politcal system.
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  10190.  @CutleryChips  So why did you put a question mark at the end of that sentence?
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  10191.  @CutleryChips  I don't think you understand the use of punctuation marks.
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  10192.  @AiGeneratedWaluigi  Spain and Portugal, yes. Eastern Europe is not a part of the West and was never such historically. As for your question as to why it should matter who does the colonizing and who's colonized: West European countries colonized the non-Western world, syphoning out immense riches from it for over 500 years, a historical era that isn't over yet.
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  10193.  @chairpants  It's a look Asian women, but especially Japanese ones, deliberately cultivate to please their perverted menfolk.
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  10194. He probably knew he'd have lost even then. Now, on the other hand, he has no real rivals since he's banned ALL opposition parties and closed down ALL opposition media.
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  10195. 😅
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  10196. Zionism is utterly and resolutely secular.
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  10197. Good.
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  10198. You got it. That's exactly what the global South and East are saying and your fellow Americans can only parrot what their propaganda machine has trained them to think.
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  10199. What drugs are you on, sweetie? 😅
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  10200. This guy is so affected, he can't say even half a sentence without batting his false eyelashes at 30 mph, jerking his shoulders in an imitation of a "feminine" come-on-I'm-so-sexy manner, flurreing his hands like demented goose wings, and drawling every third word. So much effort in that OTT performance of femininity. I hate to think how much if his life he wastes every day on his "transformative" makeup. Grotesquely "pretty".
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  10201. It could, if a part of the agreement is that Russia may, exclusively, have 5-10 military bases scattered around rump Ukraine, with up to 150,000 Russian soldiers stationed in them at any given point in time, to make sure Ukraine keeps its end of the bargain. Short of that, I don't see the point of any peace agreement with Kiev and Lvov.
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  10202.  @JosephBisio  Cry me a river.
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  10203. Sad to hear that. I thought Russians at least had kept up some standards of decency and proper behaviour.
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  10204. So this is what it's capable of achieving with 70% of its military capabilities?! Oy vey!
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  10205. They did. They'd spent the last 20 years hating Putin and spitefully underestimating Russia, so they talked themselves into believing their proxy war could work.
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  10206. These people are so inventive, creative, entrepreneurial that I can't understand why they don't get together to clean and spruce Dharavi and teach both the old and the young not to litter but to respect common areas.
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  10207. Cyprus.
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  10208. I'd never vote for that cackling opportunist, but "there's an argument to be made that she's not an Anerican because of her ethnicity"?!?!!! 🤮
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  10209. As expected. The Saudis flirted with BRICS precisely to bring this influx of US investment about.
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  10210. Stop rationalising the inexcusable.
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  10211. Google it. It's available online.
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  10212. Russia isn't interested in "going after NATO itself" -- that's NATO powers' projection of their own thinking and intentions onto Russia. It would never have launched even this limited SMO in Ukraine if the idiots in Kiev had had the gumption and the smarts to implement the Minsk Accords.
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  10213. They weren't really neutral in WW2. Sweden let Hitler use its railway system for free to transfer Nazy Germany's troops to and from the Eastern Front, i.e. enabling the Nazi war against the Soviets.
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  10214. Russia alone against 41 countries, including all of NATO -- and they can't prevail against it!
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  10215. What they deliberately left out of their account of the Sokal Hoax is that Sokal himself is a Marxist and that his parody of post-modernist discourse was meant as a direct critique of its FALSE leftism.
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  10216. ​@waterboy239 Your ruling elites are, though.
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  10217. They have to be a party to Amy peace negotiations as they were the ones who engineered and pushed Ukraine into this proxy war. Russia needs new security arrangements, a new security architecture in Europe as a whole, and that means necessary NATO involvement.
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  10218. Nima doesn't interrupt his guests.
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  10219.  @lilacer6841  Many? How many is that "many"?
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  10220. So you really believe we're a democracy?!
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  10221. So you say.
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  10222. Pentagon's just ordered a study about the effect a nuclear war in Eastern Europe (and Russia) would have further east and on the global food supply in general. The US has become the evil empire.
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  10223. The US has a couple of THOUSAND nukes.
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  10224. Yes. The US announced just yesterday that it's committing another $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
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  10225. ​​ @rubenoteiza9261  The majority of Chileans DIDN'T want or support the military coup.
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  10226. Yes, the next 3 winters will be especially difficult all across Europe. Maybe it's time for European populations to stage general strikes against EU's frankly insane foreign policy that's damaging Europe itself.
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  10227. Exactly. Personality disorders (sociopathy, psychopathy, narcissism, borderline, histrionic pd) are NOT mental illnesses.
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  10228. If only he would.
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  10229. Zionists, to be more precise. There are plenty of American Jews who loathe them and their policies.
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  10230.  @light3267  Ludicrous, my foot.That's what happens when you keep shelling ethnic Russians for 8 years while refusing to implement the peace accords you signed, after violating every agreement and commitment you've made not to expand your military alliance to its borders. Just thank heavens that Russians are not like you but are as rational and merciful as they are.
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  10231. I agree. That's now the decision Washington will have to make. Europe's getting restive and openly talking about the need for "strategic independence" while Pentagon knows it cannot fight the Russians and win.
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  10232. @lati long Except that Kiev cannot recruit in Donbass but only in other parts of Ukraine.
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  10233. ​@Vitamin_71 😂❤
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  10234. Ask all the countries attacked and destroyed by the US and NATO. This time, they just chose to use another minor country to fight their war against Russia, and Ukraine was stupid enough to agree to it.
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  10235. He did, on the day the media told us the White House had approved the use of ATACMS deep into Russia. He made a brilliant statement which has been completely blanked out by the media. So completely that most people are unaware of it.
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  10236. Is that a joke? 😅
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  10237. ​ @h91rex100  "In my Father's house there are many rooms." And room for different faiths, too.
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  10238. The States' biggest trading partner is not Europe but China. Trade with both Canada and Mexico, who stand as #2 and #3, also exceeds US trade with EU countries. The USA can well afford to sink European economies, while effectively forcing the EU to buy its oil and gas from the States.
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  10239. Of course they did. That's what a well-orchestrated propaganda campaign looks like.
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  10240. ​​ @user-mp3eq6ir5b  What? Aiding and abetting Ukrainian Notsees is the humanitarian thing to do?! 🤮
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  10241. ​ @teak932  Truth hurts, doesn't it.
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  10242.  purpleemp5221  In other words, NOT Europe and NOT the US. The Yanks have now officially refused to extend any humanitarian aid to Syria. Btw, DW is a propaganda organ of the German state.
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  10243. ​​ @WuJiZhang-wc9mc  It's only the benighted evangelicals (Protestants) who deny evolution. Both the Orthodox and Catholic churches have embraced evolution.
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  10244. I blame it on Putin.
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  10245. ?
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  10246. ​ @jasral7767  You absolutely don't know that she had the emotional, psychological, mental freedom to choose.
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  10247. The Redacted. A self-selected audience NOT representative of the US public at large.
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  10248.  @niemand6031  New York Times.
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  10249. Do European citizens care, or are they so drunk on their old-time Russia-hatred that they'll go down in their ridiculous, self-defeating attempts to stick it to the Russians?
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  10250. Except that Russia is no island! The very image is comical.
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  10251. Handsome boy Khan! 🙂
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  10252. You mean the US. The UN is not a country.
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  10253. Krainer's in denial here. Things are exactly as they appear to be: Trump deceived Iran.
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  10254. There was no US-led government overthrow anywhere in the Balkans in 1975.
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  10255.  @loliatti7104  Please check it yourself: very easy to do with internet access, which you obviously have. The guy is simply lying.
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  10256. Nobody's rejoicing at the appalling suffering of both Ukrainian and Russian men fighting this war. People are celebrating the liberation of Ugledar.
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  10257. ​@@heinrichhertz3686 Opinions reflecting Serbs of a certain type: forever imagining vast conspiracies, especially those involving their own governments.
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  10258. Seriously pathetic. And utterly neurotic. How can you have sex with an inanimate object? You can use it to mastrubate yourself, but that's all it is.
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  10259.  @azuragoddess  Of course not. These men are incels, involuntary celibates, men who for one reason or another, but mostly due to their attitude, can't find a woman who'll have any sort of intimacy with them. There are lots of incels in the West these days.
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  10260. Why? I'm surprised you weren't expecting this. It's been known for at least a year now that Trump's son-in-law is planning to develop a string of resorts in Gaza. And that Trump's campaign was funded to the tune of 100 million usd by Sheldon Adelson's widow. They who pay the piper call the tune. And this applies to all US administrations of the last 80 years. This particular land grab was planned by Tony Blinken and co. (and Elon Musk, whose visit to Gaza last year was also about it). Your foreign policy is set up by Israel and AIPAC. It looks like the only people oblivious to these facts are Americans themselves.
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  10261. ​ @cloudyskies7591  "As of March 2024, in four states there is no statutory minimum age when all exemptions were taken into account. These states are California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. As of June 2024, child marriage is legal in 37 states.[2][3][4][5] 13 states have banned underage marriages, with no exception." Wikipedia
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  10262. Or is lying.
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  10263. On the contrary! The vendor had the immense inner strength to restrain himself and instead of falling for this creep's provocations to secretly film him and post the video online. As a result, the creep has already lost his job.
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  10264. It's pretty much moribund. There's still a chance of rescuing it, but the country's too divided for it. Peaceful fragmentation may be the best way out.
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  10265. ​​ @fabianschrotter  The IMF has just upgraded the Russian economy to #4 in the world, displacing Japan, which has fallen to #5. Three out of four top economies in the world are BRICS members: China (#1), India (#3), and now Russia (#4). Eat your heart out.
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  10266. ​ @ninarobison2752 A lot has been written about that, and some of it is in articles available online. Just do an internet search.
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  10267. I can't make heads or tails out of it. None of it makes sense.
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  10268. A failed colour revolution, that's what happened. I'm seeing absolutely ludicrous claims here, so let me add this: Belgrade has seen truly massive protests in the past. During the 199s, we did have up to 450,000 people out in the streets, so those of us who where in Belgrade then know from experience what such numbers look like. The protest on March 15 had at most 1/4 of that number.
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  10269. ​ @dualtronix4438  BS. In the weeks leading up to its bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US had reliable intelligence that Japan was about to surrender. It chose to drop its nuclear bombs on Japan despite that
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  10270. Most ladyboys insist on being called lady-boys. As the second part of that term indicates, unlike Western transwomen, they don't deny they're men.
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  10271. ​ @luismariagomezdearanda5319  No such compassion for Russian men dying to protect their country from NATO encroachment, though?
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  10272. ​​ @JimCOsd55  Who says the SMO was supposed to end in days?! Western lying media? Russia itself has repeatedly and firmly rejected any preset timeline.
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  10273. Atomisation of the working folk: keep them isolated in their own apartments and houses so they never get the idea of getting together to overthrow the oligarchy.
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  10274. Russian troops inside Russia = panic and outrage US troops invading countries illegally here, there, and everywhere = "rules-based order" Btw, was all of America napping when Obama signed into law the "right" of the state to lie to Americans?!
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  10275. ​ @BabylonUnleashed  Running away from home is infinitely more difficult in Iraq than in the US.
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  10276. ​ @UFO_computers You keep repeating yourself.
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  10277. The EU is based directly on Hitler's plan for post-War Europe. It's a project of German regional (pan-European) economic hegemony.
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  10278. Alex is just soooooo beautiful! 😍. And your nonno's sculptures are amazing!
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  10279. All that's changed is that tgese days kids are being indoctrinated by one side instead of the side that used yo have the monopoly of indoctrination. The American public is the second most oropagandized and brainwashed population on Earth, right behind that of North Korea.
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  10280. The one started 5 new wars, the other didn't start a single one. Obama's literally a psychopath who told us all openly how he enjoyed ordering drone assassinations around the world, knowing full well that 90% of the victims of his psychopathy were civilians.
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  10281. ?
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  10282. Except that most of the people who still watch CNN will never vote for Trump.
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  10283. Since he pleaded guilty, there will be no compensation. Assange wrote it off as the price of his freedom.
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  10284. She's been recorded demanding the slaughter of 5 million people in Donbass.
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  10285.  @clandestinereactionary1842  And even less when consumed with enough fat. 🙂
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  10286. Keep it real. Trump's as bad as anyone outside the MAGA crowd knew he'd be, but Biden's in a league of his own.
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  10287. Chinese countryside is very beautiful. I love the music you used here!
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  10288.  @jakeg3733  It's just an investment. And pretentious BS.
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  10289. I pray that most Ukrainian soldiers surrender and save their lives. Zelensky and the criminals in Washington, London, Berlin, Paris and Brussels are NOT worth dying for. And not worth suffering through such hell.
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  10290.  @karlenedream7790  Russia's using 10-15% of its military capacity in Ukraine, so it has another 85% to draw on if it decides to do so..
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  10291.  @bojanakolak7451  Only some of us do (have a garage). Many people, especially those in big cities, don't have them.
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  10292. The moral of that experience is: never trust a fascist or a liberal.
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  10293. ​ @henrik4438  So, ten times as many German soldiers died on the Eastern Front as on the Western. It's clear who actually defeated the Nazis.
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  10294. ​​ @henrik4438  So, according to the figures recognized in the West, ten times as many German soldiers died on the Eastern front as on the Western. It's clear who defeated Nazi Germany.
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  10295. ​ @henrik4438 So, according to the figures recognized in the West, ten times as many German soldiers died on the Eastern front as on the Western. It's clear who defeated N a z i Germany.
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  10296. ​ @calicocat8213 Not always. Strictly for a limited time only now.
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  10297. ​ @richardreich5090  I don't know much about Hungary, whose economy I understand is in an excellent shape, but Serbia's pretty amazing. The only one of ex-Yugostav states to have had 10 years of (illegal) Western sanctions on it, the only one to host over 250,000 refugees, the victims of Croatian ethnic cleansing, and the only one to be subjected to 78 days of (illegal) NATO bombing. Yet, economically, it's doing better than even those ex-Yugostav states that have income from both tourism and EU transfer payments. Debt to GDP ratio for Serbia = 50% (down from 52.7%) Debt to GDP ratio for Slovenia = 66.1% Debt to GDP ratio for Croatia = 73.2% Whatever it is the Serbs are doing, they're obviously way ahead of their immediate neighbours to the west.
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  10298.  @richardreich5090  I don't know what you're talking about. There are 252 Serbian citizens living in Poland (and 1,000 Poles living in Serbia)! 😂
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  10299.  @richardreich5090  They've been in Germany since the 1960s, i.e. when Serbia was still a part of Yugoslavia. Their numbers have not increased since.
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  10300.  @richardreich5090  Only 250,000? They've been in Germany since the 1960s, i.e. when Serbia was still a part of Yugoslavia, and their numbers haven't grown since. In contrast, Croatia, with about half the population of Serbia, has 430,000 of its citizens in Germany. As for Slovenia, I guess that explains its extremely high debt to GDP ratio: the two million Slovenes are all living way beyond their means! 😅
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  10301. Apart from the 14% of the most heavily propagandized population on Earth, the people of the collective West, nobody else fears China. China's the only great power in world history to voluntarily choose NOT to engage in imperialism, going so far as to burn down its own (at the time largest and most advanced) navy so as not to be tempted into military adventurism aboard. YouTube's already deleted this comment once....
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  10302. Who's this "we"? You're just a part of only NORTH America. South America doesn't belong to you.
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  10303. There's a whole village just outside Moscow built for American expats!
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  10304. Reported? 🤣
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  10305. Presumably because it got more votes than either of the other two parties/coalitions.
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  10306. ​ @ChristyBermingham  NATO is fighting this via their proxy Ukrainian force. And is losing to Russia. Thank god!
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  10307. Waste of time hoping for the impossible. Most Canadians would have conniptions at the very thought. We're among the most brainwashed populations in the world.
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  10308. I appreciate the wisps of humour you provide. Playing the village fool takes both intelligence and stamina. 🙂
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  10309. Germans have a bit of a record of doing crazy, irrational things, at least in the past hundred years or so. It's deliciously ironic that they pride themselves on being super rational. 😅
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  10310. Truss HAS announced her resignation.
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  10311.  @ksneoh3572  It wasn't much better before the Wonder Boy either.
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  10312. The (neo)liberal West has turned fascist.
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  10313. At some point?! What are we waiting for? These criminals are KNOWINGLY damaging our health and killing us!
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  10314. Can't they use VPN software to mask where they're accessing this material from?
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  10315. ​ @stella3265 Did he say he realized it only ten years ago?
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  10316. Neither Japan nor Germany nor Italy should ever be allowed into the UN Security Council, not as permanent members for sure. As for German Greens, they turned to "moralistic" militarism with Joschke Fisher and his rabid support for NATO'S illegal bombing of Yugoslavia
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  10317. 😮
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  10318. What's to say about it?
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  10319. ​ @ФёдорИванов-с5б 😂
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  10320. This is hilarious: Trump's not confirmed anything. He's just doubled down on his lie that he's spoken with Putin. The Russians have once again, just hours ago, made it perfectly clear that the only contact currently being made is at the level of the State Department and the Russian Ministry of Foreign affairs, with NO substantial, specific proposals from the Americans.
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  10321. You're in denial about congenital psychopathy and are lashing out at the messenger. It's absolutely NOT normal for an infant to refuse food (milk) for 3 days straight, preferring to bite the mother's breast instead.
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  10322. I understand that the Russian media are indeed covering these war crimes.
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  10323. 😅
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  10324. How else are they to dominate the world and bully others around?
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  10325. Nah. The Russians aren't interested in governing (and having their economy drained by) Eastern Europe.
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  10326. That's all very nice, but it's also completely unrealistic. The West is driven by greed and an insatiable lust for power and dominance. It will never leave Russia alone, respecting its security interests, until the West has been degraded economically (and therefore militarily, too) to a second or third rate status, globally. Until it's been rendered incapable of wreaking havoc, grabbing other people's riches, and strutting around intimidating others. I'm afraid that the Russian governing elite still refuses to understand this.
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  10327. Old women? Children under 16?
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  10328.  @MrRoyalbeers  Because the Ukrainian side is torturing, shelling and killing them, that's why.
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  10329.  @shooster5884  No, dear, that's what Ukraine and its shameless Western sponsors want you to believe. People on the ground tell us otherwise, and thank goodness we have a number of independent Canadian, British, German, French, and American journalists reporting from there so we don't have to swallow whole the propaganda pushed on us by all our MSM.
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  10330. The Ukrainians were shelling the Zaporozhye NP throughout 2022 and part of 2023. Let's hope they don't use something stronger on it this year.
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  10331. For real?! 😮
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  10332. ​ @annamallen90 In so doing, you'll only continue to enable their evil behaviour. Paul wasn't always right.
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  10333.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Show me the videos or even still photos of the ruins left after Russia supposedly bombarded Kiev.
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  10334. Most of us Serbs are. 🙂
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  10335. Because the West is committed to its domination project, not realising that era is over, for good.
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  10336. They and the Anglos.
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  10337.  @orange1832  I see. Ah, those fine European values. I guess it's fine for neighbours to try to destroy each other when one of them is down. 😂
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  10338. ​ @ianxyoutube They're deprived of their civil rights, including the right to vote.
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  10339.  @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus  They're all so slimy. But it also us, for tolerating a lobby system and a system of election financing that are contrary to what a democracy is supposed to be.
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  10340. 🎯
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  10341. In Moscow?! Really? 😂
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  10342. 🎯
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  10343. ​ @viaceslavmikhailovich9825  Your academics are notorious for their alternate-reality approach to historical fact.
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  10344. ​ @Jbo2000  No, he didn't. He sexted with a 15 year old whom he never met in person and who lied about her age. It was a classical sting operation. That's how the US treats its dissidents and critics.
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  10345. The whole world can see that NATO isn't capable of containing let alone defeating Russia, who's fighting it single-handedly in Ukraine. This is a colossal, history-making defeat for the West. All of its own making, too, as they could have chosen friendly and cooperative relations with Russia. Their greed, arrogance and lust for power made them choose otherwise.
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  10346. British Bull**it Corporation
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  10347. ​ @BeautifulSoul-zk6lo  There are always exceptions to every rule. You were lucky (as I'm sure your husband was, too).
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  10348. Well, the populations aren't much better either.
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  10349. True. It's tragi-comic (more tragic than funny) that our successes in science, themselves possibly only in a universe that's itself structured in such a way as to be intelligible to us, have made it so difficult for us moderns to see this.
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  10350. ​ @Andy-ub3ub  Oh, it does. The West has admitted that Russia produces three times the munition the US plus the rest of NATO do in a year. Conservatively speaking, the ratio is actually 5:1. 🙂
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  10351. Climate change is a constant. Only a fool would deny that.
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  10352. Nothing of serious substance would change, though I expect Trump would repeal federal decisions that allow men-who-imagine-they're-women to use women's toilets and compete against women athletes, so he wouldn't be completely useless.
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  10353. We all know that the electable part of the opposition (the parties that get more than 5% of the vote) are all but two pro-EU and pro-NATO. And the unrest in Belgrade was most certainly carried out on the instructions from Berlin and Washington.
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  10354. 😂
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  10355. I guess this is why nobody's seen the Skripals in years.
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  10356. 😂
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  10357. In Europe, the 1960s and 1970s were the era of British rock.
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  10358. The State Department Zionist neocons.
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  10359. The Vatican organized and ran the infamous rat lines through Switzerland by which mainly German Nazis evaded justice in post-war Europe by escaping to South America. Pope Francis debased himself last year by hosting the wives of Azov commanders, as Nazi as any SS.
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  10360. Why is Campbell so much smaller than Lupo?
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  10361. Do the Europeans have the military capability to start or cause WW3? I need to get clarity on that so I can figure out whether to take my family out of Europe ot not.
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  10362. Yes, this is not an ultimatum.
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  10363.  @kathylarson8876  ? 😂
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  10364. I think it'll be enough to simply refuse to trade with the collective West in anything but rubles. Oh, and take them to court about the money they seized and are stealing the interest on.
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  10365. They're monsters.
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  10366. No.
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  10367. Are you sure about that last? The Serbian Orthodox Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Copts, and the Russian Orthodox Church have certainly not done so.
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  10368. Watch the euro lose in value after this decision to syphon off the interest from another country's foreign reserves illegally seized and held by the EU to give to a third party.
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  10369. I came down with it the first week of January 2020, complete with a high fever and a loss of the sense of smell and taste. Took me another to recover.
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  10370. ​ @mcscotty325 But without the very real excuse South Koreans have.
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  10371. That's scary.
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  10372. 40% of Germans now KNOW they've been lied about Russia and Ukraine and are not buying the official narrative any longer.
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  10373. The decay set in by the mid-1990s. Trudeau just accelerated it.
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  10374.  @chosen7127  Germany is even worse.
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  10375. Yes, it's free. Lend lease is pure fiction as everyone knows Ukraine will never repay a cent. Just today Ukraine started demanding a cut of the profits Western (mostly US) oil companies have made and are making as a result of the sanctions on Russia. You used them as a proxy army, with Ukrainians getting blown to pieces instead of Americans et al, so why shouldn't they feel entitled to at least a cut of the profits Western energy companies are making over the dead bodies of Ukrainian men?
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  10376. 😮
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  10377. You forgot to mention that 40% of new immigrants leave Canada within the first year of arriving here, a fact that speaks volumes for the quality of life they actually encounter here.
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  10378. ​ HassiYahaya  The reality is exactly the opposite: Ukraine's lost anywhere between 400,000 and 500,000 men (not counting the wounded, who in any war number 2-3 times the dead). Russia, who the Washington Post and New York Times have repeatedly told us was suffering only 1 casualty to every 7-10 Ukrainian casualties, has lost 40,000-60,000. On top of that, the West, who's proxy war this really is, can't come even close to the amounts of ammunition the Russian military complex is producing (again, the amounts are 10:1 in Russia's favour). Don't expect to learn any of this from our MSM, including WION.
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  10379. What Left?! There's none in Europe. The MSM have had a great success in manipulating people's perceptions and understanding or you'd have no trouble recognizing the establishment as the dictatorship of the corporations. That's what globalism is and all of these politicians are globalist neoliberals, center right themselves.
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  10380. What Left?! There's none in Europe. The MSM have had a great success in manipulating people's perceptions and understanding or you'd have no trouble recognizing the establishment as the dictatorship of the corporations. That's what globalism is and all of these politicians are globalist neoliberals, center right themselves.
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  10381. I suspect the Russians won't be selling their oil and gas to Germany at pre-2022 prices ever again.... Actions have consequences.😢
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  10382. They may drag things out a bit still, but for all intents and purposes they're walking away as we speak, with a clear understanding they lost to Russia yet again. More fools them for even trying to undermine it.
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  10383. According to the survey done by the British journal The Economist, 75% of the people of Niger want the military government to remain in power.
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  10384. Their entire political elite and their "nationalists", too.
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  10385. No she didn't. Go back and listen to what she's saying: that people will rightly NOT accept being monitored and regulated by the government. She's talking about energy use, specifically. You've probably missed it, but in several European countries -- Switzerland, Austria, Germany -- your private energy use is monitored by the government and you can be fined for overconsuming or heating/cooling your home above a certain temperature limit set by the government. Is that what Americans want? Anya's clearly against it.
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  10386. It's about all those things, but mostly about trying to destroy the Russian state. Both the US and Europe have been clear on that.
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  10387. Their "leadership" -- the most corrupt set of people on Earth -- agreed to it. Ukrainians themselves wanted the implementation of the Minsk Accords and a resumption of friendly relations with Russia. Zelensky ran on that platform and was elected with a huge majority of 71%. The problem is that he lied and play-acted his way to power, betraying every single Ukrainian who'd voted for him.
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  10388.  @CalicoCooperFan  You're citing figures which are absolutely irrelevant to all of us children of parents who chose to and had to stay in lousy marriages and who've never been the subject of research so nobody has the figures on how many of us ended up divorced and/or in a series of destructive relationships.
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  10389. 😮
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  10390.  @firetree2007  Are you threatening India with hypersonic missiles now? Is that what China's contemplating? Or is this piece of idiocy just your own?
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  10391.  @Lynn-i2w  I do boycott products from Israel and by companies that do business with Israel. But I can't bring myself to watch the horrors Israelis are perpetrating with pride and exultation. I read about what's going on and follow political and military analysts who keep me up to date, instead.
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  10392. Ok.
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  10393. If so, he's too compromised to rely on.
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  10394. It's obviously the latter. Israeli lies have become all too bare-faced and blatant.
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  10395. What's inconvenient about it?
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  10396. Polygraphs also give false positives on lying. They're not reliable, which is why they're not permissible as evidence in the US and Canada.
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  10397. ​ @urrywest  Of course he does. Russia can sell its energy products literally to the rest of the world, ignoring Europe altogether.
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  10398. What on earth is racist about pointing out the racism inherent is saying that "it's not ok to be white"?! The very question itself is blatantly racist. Incredible that today's America doesn't seem to understand that.
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  10399. The West needs to be taken down a notch or two as it's refusing to kick its 500-year old habit of violently lording it over the rest of the world. It needs an attitude adjustment, that's all.
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  10400. We're possibly THE most conformist, compliant people in the world. We'd be lucky if 40% of us wanted this government gone.
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  10401. You need telling?!
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  10402. ​ @FUAlexander2028 Sodomy, eh? Homophobe, much, aren't you, sunshine. 😅
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  10403. It's too hot to be out and about.
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  10404. Given the extreme levels of political repression in Ukraine, getting people to actually tell you what they think or want is pretty much impossible, so whatever you hear has to be taken with a lot more than a pinch of salt. A rough indication of what a majority of Ukrainians think, however, comes from the percentage that elected Zelensky believing his campaign platform promise to implement the Minsk Accords and re-establish friendly relations with Russia: 73% of the electorate. Apart from that, millions of young Ukrainian men capable of serving in the army left the country in March and are scattered all across Europe because they don't want to die in NATO's proxy war with Russia.
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  10405. 😂
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  10406. Who's this "us" we don't consider a force of darkness?
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  10407. No problems here.
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  10408. I couldn't tell from seeing Trooper in this video that he's brain damaged at all. Vanessa mentioned recognizing it in his eyes, so I paid particular attention to them and still couldn't detect a thing.
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  10409. Freeland, I think. She really has no qualms about worshipping a Nazi collaborator.
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  10410. Lavrov warned of exactly that just a day or two ago.
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  10411. The old saying needs updating: Go East, young man, go East!
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  10412. ​ @davidkiely1727  It's they who own the US military-industrial complex, is it? 🤡
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  10413. Israel's behaviour today cannot wipe out the 2000+ years of first Pagan and then Christian persecution of Jews.
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  10414. Wishful thinking.
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  10415. What makes you think the takfiris will let them?
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  10416. ​ @MilanGR-888 The first figure is entirely made up (see the CIA report on this topic from the. 1950s).
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  10417. Did you watch the video?
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  10418. And yet you understood perfectly well what she said.
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  10419. So why hasn't he humbled Obama or Kissinger, the Bushes, and any number of American neocons who've been calling themselves "Masters of the Universe"?
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  10420. Really? 😂
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  10421. ​ @JK-dv3qe Nuland's Jewish and so far, I've seen no evidence of any Nazi affiliations on the part of her grandparents. She's a former Trotskyite, like her husband Robert Kagan, and ardent Zionist of course.
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  10422. Very clearly.
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  10423.  @gayedawn1  Four.
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  10424. Russia clearly didn't war game this at all seriously. What were the Russians expecting the collective West would do once it walked into Donbass?! What were their intelligence services doing, if nobody in Kremlin foresaw the energy war and the economic attack on Germany and the rest of Europe, launched by the US and the European political elites?! Was all of that really unforeseeable? And is Russia really sparing its own forces by this slow, incremental, stop-and-go, half-arsed way of waging a war? Or is it actually sacrificing MORE soldiers and more resources by this approach? (If I sound somewhat exasperated, it's because I share the exasperation of many Russians at how irrationally they're fighting this war in/with a NATO-proxy Ukraine.)
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  10425.  @aaronvarela89  The BBC, Washington Post, and Al Jazeera are all reporting it now.
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  10426.  @marcmcreynolds2827  Imported inflation, according to even the conservative Western press, is the result of the dollar's "exorbitant privilege", as de Gaulle put it back in 1960.
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  10427. I bet that when this is over we'll all gasp with horror at the extent of Ukrainian losses.
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  10428. What did you expect from an avowed fascist?!
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  10429. Yes! 🎉❤
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  10430. Jared Bernstein has a doctorate in social work. None of his degrees is in economics.
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  10431. The deterioration set in during the 1990s and, in our case, is unrelated to our immigration policy.
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  10432.  @TheMusicolophile  Most Americans and Canadians are scared to say anything that challenges the official narrative and many people who do try to voice a divergent view report losing friends and falling out with their family members. Nor do they dare voice their views in the workplace. There hasn't been a single -- not one! -- large protest in the US or Canada against our governments' foreign policy towards Russia (and China). Only large-scale protests, involving millions of people out in the streets, could have any effect on the powers that be. I don't believe we'll see anything of the sort in North America. Even in Europe, whose populations have been far more severely affected by their anti-Russia policies, there's as yet no sign of any such large-scale protests. Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, won't do. Such protests are simply ignored and purposely not covered by the media, which cannot be called free or independent in any substantive sense of the word.
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  10433.  @kathylarson8876  We do have a say, actually. It's just that we can't be bothered to organise ourselves and go out into the streets in our millions. Not in our tens of thousands, but in millions.
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  10434.  @kathylarson8876  The one thing guaranteed to make them stop and reverse direction is general strike. They know this, which is why they've destroyed the only force that could organise a general strike, the most powerful peaceful weapon we the people have.
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  10435. The Russian General Staff is reportedly very unhappy with how Putin's been interfering with their work and preventing them from doing what know needs to be done.
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  10436. It won't be just this century. Geopolitical changes of the magnitude we're seeing set the course for centuries to come.
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  10437. And has been doing for 90 years now, starting with the pre-WW2 terrorist actions by Zionists.
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  10438. Reality check: the Russians can't be beaten. Deal with it, child.
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  10439. ​ @JohnMoran  One third of them are foreign nationals.....
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  10440. It's not just this Biden administration. The whole thing started under the Clintons The Americans tried for supremacy, exceptionalism, and for lording it over others instead of friendly competition, coexistence and co-operation.
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  10441. How naive of you! It's the Liberals who started the culture wars!
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  10442. It's a tool of the USA.
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  10443. The US has been actively in this conflict from the get-go.
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  10444. ​​ @gutzuwissen-derstandderdin8655  The delegation sent by Muslim countries to Xinjiang found NO discrimination against the Uyghurs. This woman is a vile liar and propagandist.
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  10445. They're bribed by the US State Department to toe the line.
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  10446. Moscow Times also claimed two days before Kremlin formally refused to renew the grain deal that Erdogan had announced that Friday that Russia had decided to renew it. There's absolutely no point in paying attention to Moscow Times.
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  10447. The results of the Ipsos poll done July 1-2 are out: "The only person who could beat Trump is Michelle Obama, the poll suggests. In her matchup against the former president, some 50% of registered voters said they would vote for her, compared to 39% who said they would vote for Trump. The former first lady also appears to have a better public image than the other candidates. The survey showed that around 42% of voters have a favorable opinion of Trump, compared to the 38% who have a favorable opinion of Biden. But Obama had an approval rating of 55%, beating all other potential Democratic candidates."
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  10448. And Dima tends to favour the Ukrainian side, to boot!
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  10449. I've consistently refused to take anti-depressants for fibromyalgia and have got considerably better over the last 10 years, but you're incredibly lucky to be one of the very, very few people whose fibro clears up altogether.
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  10450. ​ @dorrisday1518  No, that's not what he said. The 16% are the collective West and its satellites in Asia and South America.
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  10451. I strongly dislike it because (1) they were just being trendy, and (2) obesity does increase the risk for cancer.
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  10452. The skies are blue and there's clearly no smog in the video! 😅
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  10453. It's getting that lesson now. 41 countries against Russia, and Russia's calmly putting them in their place. Z!
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  10454. ​ @Richardxx11xx  And two years later, NATO's still losing its proxy war against Russia
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  10455. ​ @Jianju69  Trump rescinded Obama's ban on sending heavy weapons to Ukraine and kept Victoria Nuland and her gang in the State Department. He's as much responsible for provoking this war in Europe as Biden is.
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  10456. Erdogan is such a pos, an ingrate. Putin and Russia saved his skin when the West staged that coup attempt in Turkey. He thinks he's clever, but he's totally missed the opportunity to take Turkey into BRICS, which would serve Turkey so much better than staying in NATO.
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  10457. A sociopath. He's amassed a cool billion out of sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men to their deaths.
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  10458. They're all too happy to be brain-washed into an economic suicide by their politicians and their media.
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  10459. ​ @pippip8744 😂
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  10460. We let it.
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  10461. Become "America's followers"?! Become?! 😂 Europe's nothing but a group of willing bitches for the US.
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  10462. 😅
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  10463. YouTube might take them down if they did.
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  10464. No, they actually deluded themselves about Russia so badly, they really thought they could destroy it by drawing it into this proxy war.
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  10465. I don't think Turkey ever joined the sanctions war on Russia.
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  10466. Turkey is not an Arab nation. Like the Afghanis, Turks are Muslims but not Arabs.
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  10467. ​ @vladtheimpala1  Projecting much? Of course you are. The whole world knows who's supporting the Nazis in this proxy war.
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  10468. ​ @mcstarioni4871 🤮
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  10469.  @annamack5823  The original Nazis, the top leadership, were heavily into the occult and Satanism. Hitler, who was born into a Christian family, posed as a practicing Catholic to conceal that from the German public.
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  10470. She set up Ukraine for this disaster by letting the EU violate Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum back in the fall of 2013. A thoroughly nasty piece of goods, Ma Merkel, which makes Putin's soft spot for her all the more incomprehensible (and reprehensible).
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  10471. ​ @magicponyrides  You just flipped that, and anyone pushing Ukraine to carry on should be tried as a war criminal.
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  10472. For all of his protesting and complaining, I still think Benji's a sweetheart!
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  10473. ​ @mariaannainditahernawati7132  I don't think so, though I'm sure Russia will invest very generously into its 4 new regions. As for the rump Ukraine, it can ask IMF and the World Bank for loans. 😉
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  10474. It can't. Germany's really shot itself in the head, and frankly it serves the Germans right for supporting a Nazi Ukraine.
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  10475. ​​​ @neutralitystudies Pascal, you don't need to apologize for what Americans perceive as pronunciation errors. Order is pronounced aw-dah in British English, exactly as you pronounced it. P.S. Just imagine what the person who corrected you would sound like in your native tongue! 😉
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  10476. The correct British pronunciation is "oder" (aw-dah). Absolutely nothing like the American "oRder".
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  10477. You can't overestimate just how delusional Ukrainians are. Read Arestovich, former advisor to Zelensky, on this. He's written a couple of articles about it
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  10478.  @homeguardster  😂 That $1 stake tells me just how much confidence you have in winning that bet. 😉
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  10479. He's doing a pretty good job of it, given how unfamiliar Westerners are with the language.
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  10480. There's an interview with Arestovich from a year and a half ago in which he says, everything Ukrainians believe about themselves and Ukraine is based on lies and fabrications. He's also on record explaining in a TV interview in 2019 that Ukraine was given just one condition for joining NATO, namely waging a war with Russia on behalf of the West. Asked when that war would start, Arestovich said "anytime between 2020 and 2022."
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  10481. Serbia sold ammo to NATO countries in the full knowledge that it would just be passed on to Ukraine to help kill Russians. There's no getting around this fact.
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  10482. What if the aliens did it? 😂
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  10483. The police have so far refused to act on this case.
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  10484. 😮
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  10485.  @Balrog2005  Google it. I found several sources within 15 seconds.
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  10486. The Soviet economy wasn't in tatters at all. That came as soon as the Wall Street and the Harvard Boys came onto the scene and destroyed it with their advice.
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  10487. Way past time, but better now than never.
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  10488. When that's the case, the Russians invariably say so.
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  10489. It could have been settled 8 years ago with the full implementation of the Minsk Accords, but as we've learned from Poroshenko, Angela Merkel and Hollande, Ukraine and the West were acting in bad faith all along, never for a moment intending to honour the Accords. They wanted this war from 2013 on.
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  10490. They will not be allowed to do so quite yet. By next fall, maybe. It all depends on just how callous Washington, London, and Warsaw continue to be about Ukrainian lives.
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  10491. The Minsk Accords didn't fail. They were just window dressing by the West, never meant to be implemented by Ukraine, for whom they were THE optimal solution of the crisis the US and EU (NATO) engineered to "extend" Russia. The Rand report of 2019 explains this in detail. Had Russia gone into Ukraine back in 2014, as many inside Russia were urging Putin to do, all this would indeed have been over in a matter of weeks since the Ukrainian army was in a total disarray at that point. Even Putin himself has admitted in public that his decision to hold back in 2014 was a grave error.
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  10492. German minster of defense stated today that Ukraine's current territorial gains are of no significance, that they cannot effect the final result of this conflict.
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  10493. Our media are despicable. I no longer follow any of them.
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  10494. ​ @OtisMoto  Not really. Research shows that sociopaths and psychopaths gravitate especially to careers in law enforcement, the military, the judiciary, and medicine.
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  10495. ​ @corinnekelley8133 She needs to want to get help. Until then, she's a danger to others because she hasn't developed a basic moral sense, a developmental arrestation she shares with psychopaths.
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  10496. The Nazis were there long before Zelensky.
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  10497. You do realise that EVERY government in the West employs an army of people to seed online comment sections with such stuff? What the Germans really feel and think was obvious when they booed and yelled at Scholz yesterday.
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  10498. The US was never great. Its founding act was genocide.
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  10499. It's a mental disorder called Russophobia.
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  10500. Nah.
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  10501. The word for "white" comes from Russian (as it does in other Slavic languages) and derives from the Sanskrit bhel, or "shiny", "bright".
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  10502.  FREE HUMAN  You'll never be free for as long as you think racially.
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  10503. ​ @wasilisalewski969  Another fool who still believes in the Holodomor myth, created out of the whole cloth by an American forger and bigamist who'd served time for fraud and for forging checks! 😂😂😂
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  10504. You mean restore its bully powers.
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  10505. 🎯👍
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  10506. ​ @randymillhouse791 The most indebted country in the world, you mean.
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  10507. The empire and the hegemony part is over, yes. But the US, and even Europe, could still salvage a decent place for themselves in the new order of things if only they'd come to their senses and decide to genuinely co-operate with the rest of the world. Only their arrogance and their sense of entitlement stand in their own way. That and the greed of their oligarchy, a.k.a. the corporations.
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  10508. ​ @HisbelovedW  Not even then. It was set up expressly to threaten the Soviet Union, which then set up the Warsaw Pact IN RESPONSE to NATO.
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  10509. Palestine's been invited to attend as a guest. It's not been invited to join, something that first requires the establishment of the state of Palestine.
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  10510. 😂
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  10511. ​ @ThinkBRICS  The world is already divided between the collective West and everyone else. That division will erode only once the US and the EU economies are so degraded that neither Europe nor the US can pose a threat to the rest of the world. That process will take at least till the end of this century, and perhaps the next. Russia's greatest, if not its only, weakness is the naivety of its people, who, despite of centuries of Western attempts to destroy and conquer Russia, still don't seem to understand that greed and aggression are key features of the Western ruling elites, who've envied and hated Russia for a thousand years now. Hated it for simply existing (all those natural resources the West could otherwise steal!) and envied it for its enormous natural wealth and the incredible resilience of its people.
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  10512. There are recorded cases of wild male orangutans raping women in Borneo.
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  10513. For what it's worth, Wikipedia tells me there are "almost 2,000 mosques and Islamic prayers rooms in the UK, serving 4.1 million Muslims, or 6.3% of the UK population. About 1,500 of those Mosques were located in London as of 2016."
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  10514. I stopped listening at that point. Shameless American propaganda.
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  10515. Just a slip up.
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  10516. ​ @dittohead7044 Debbie's sister works full time, which is why the baby didn't go to her.
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  10517. You're so right. The system itself failed that young woman as much as it failed her baby. I keep wondering just how much the aunt knew and understood about the seriousness of postpartum psychosis. How much the social services actually explained to her and the rest of the family beyond impressing on her that the mother must not be allowed to be alone with the infant even for a minute? Such a tragedy, especially for the poor baby and her mother. But also for the rest of the family.
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  10518. You don't say!
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  10519. Call him what he is: not a misogynist but definitely and aggressively a sexist. A sexist who supports genocide. Pretty despicable, in my book.
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  10520. ​ @patdttr225 How so? It was Germany who chose to stop buying Russian gas, not the other way round. The stupidest decision made a by a post-1945 German government.
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  10521.  @bellakrinkle9381  And women. And the entire West is in the hands of a bunch of lunatics.
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  10522. In someone's malicious dreams, yes. 😂
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  10523. He's too right-wing for it.
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  10524. In Europe, many people live in their parents' home into their late 20s and even 30s and nobody thinks the worse of them for it. Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, etc. It's the norm in Europe, not the exception. Scandinavian countries and the UK are different, but they're the odd ones in Europe.
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  10525.  @almatirkey7748  He's the real originator of the Great Reset idea. He's also massively into depopulation.
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  10526. That's way too simplistic.
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  10527. ​ @Србомбоница86  Ignore the troll. 🙂
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  10528. Putin currently enjoys 85% popular approval, according to the Western-funded Levada Analytical Center.
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  10529.  @Redmanticore  It's perfectly well known what he thought of war mongers.
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  10530. 😂
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  10531. ​ @teddybearroosevelt1847  Russia's never been an enemy to Germany or France. Both have been Russia's enemies, though, both invading Russia without cause and causing the deaths of millions of Russians.
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  10532. Gersckovich is on videotape receiving materials from a Russian source in a restaurant washroom. He didn't just ask questions about top secret military stuff in the midst of a war. He was convicted on hard evidence of espionage.
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  10533. 😂 Very imaginative. Russian forces are routinely sent home for 2-3 weeks of R&R before returning to the battleground.
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  10534. China's already overtaken the US.
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  10535. Oh Andrei, the Japanese already think it was the Soviets who threw nuclear bombs on them! A couple of years ago, I came across an article citing public opinion polls from the 1970s and 1980s. Turns out Japanese history texts carefully omitted to specify which country had used nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a result, a great number of young Japanese (I forget the exact percentage now) believed it the USSR who'd done it. The Empire of Lies lies by omission, too.
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  10536.  @vinniemartinez6125  The Philippines and Thailand have the best beaches, though you can also find great beaches in Indonesia (not Bali, unless you're into surfing, in which case, it's a great place to go to).
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  10537. I hope not.
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  10538. 😂
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  10539. Would that we were so lucky!
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  10540. Just yesterday Gen. Syrski admitted that the Kursk incursion has failed. It's pointless listening to the MSM any more, except to find out what it is the authorities want us to think. 🫤
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  10541. ​​ @fullmetalmello  They're now talking about building up their 4th army, each one smaller and more poorly trained and equipped than what they'd started with. You, like all the other so-called supporters of Ukraine, are in effect urging on and applauding a wilful and pointless destruction of a nation just to satisfy your (Western) vanity. And your ethnic hatred of Russians. The rest of the world is watching all this is utter disgust with the West.
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  10542. Who are you referring to?
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  10543. Sweden has no integrity. This is not new. Their "neutrality" consisted of letting the Nazis use their railway system for free in ferrying their troops to and from Russia, as they went on with the business of killing as many Russians as they could.
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  10544. 👍
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  10545. What's supposed to be new about it?
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  10546. I agree. I wish Kremlin took such warnings more seriously especially as I also remember Paul Craig Roberts warning throughout the 2010s that Putin's conciliatory stance and passivity in the face of the farce Ukraine and the West made of the Minsk Accords would end in a war. Exactly as happened.
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  10547. An excellent idea, actually. A group of German citizens should take her to court for it, as you say.
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  10548. Too bad her father betrayed her by encouraging her not to go to rehab. She'd probably be alive and feeling much stronger psychologically if she'd checked into acrehab for good 6 months.
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  10549. I've never been an anti-vaxxer (am fully vaccinated and get the flu shot every fall), come from a family of physicians and scientists, and am absolutely appalled and disgusted with the covid-19 vaccine scam not just Faucci but most of the medical community and the media helped Big Pharma pull on us all. Do try to keep up with the results of scientific research that have been coming out the past 6-12 months and not merely with our MSM misrepresentations of the facts.
    1
  10550. You gotta be kidding! 😂
    1
  10551. You do realize it was Trump who started the whole arming-Ukraine-extravaganza. Biden only continued it.
    1
  10552. ​ @FODrive  Ask YouTube: it's their doing.
    1
  10553. Ukrainians should have risen up and deposed this regime a long time ago. They, too, bear responsibility for what's befallen them.
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  10554. The westernmost peninsula of Asia. A subcontinent, like India.
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  10555. ​ @RobertMartin-ru2lx  You definitely are an enemy to Russia, but Russia isn't an enemy to the US.
    1
  10556. I've never heard of Putin meeting with the defense minister of another country. This is beyond exceptional!
    1
  10557. One can only hope so.
    1
  10558. What are the scare quotes doing around the world mother?
    1
  10559. ​​ @averageamerican6727  If Gaza's occupied Palestinian territory, Kosovo is occupied Serbian territory. (Incidentally, a completely different situation than in Donbass and Ukraine.) Settler colonies don't get to legitimise themselves by occupation.
    1
  10560. The latest Ipsos poll has shown them that the only chance of winning they have is with Michelle Obama, a 60-year old woman who's NEVER been elected to ANY office up until now.
    1
  10561. There will be no guerilla war in Russia's four new regions.
    1
  10562. I recently spent two months in Sri Lanka, and it's by far one of the most affordable countries I've ever visited. Try renting a 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom house outside Toronto or LA! 😂
    1
  10563. 😂
    1
  10564. Too late now, I think.
    1
  10565. It's very unusual but not unique for a Slav to speak with an RP (received pronunciation) accent. He probably went to a boarding school in the UK.
    1
  10566. A little over 48% of Americans voted for the DemParty candidate -- that's not really a minority and it's certainly not the elite. A lot of people in that 42% are working class folks of both sexes and all skin colours, so to say that Trump and the Republicans got the working and middle class vote and the Dems the elite us patently false. The troubling thing is that the two sides might as well split up into at least two countries as they insist they have little to nothing in common and have come to view the other half of the polity as evil, twisted, despicable, etc. This is the language of hate, and the only wonder is that, to date, there's been comparatively little violence between the sides. Rheyorical violence, the discourse of hate and derision, is usually, almost invatiably, prelude to other forms of violence. Dangerous times.
    1
  10567. Both are responsible. The EU was active from the start in subverting the Ukrainian constitution back in 2013/14 and had pushed an association agreement on Ukraine that directly, explicitly violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum. It's also been actively financing the proxy war and sending weapons and armaments to Kiev. It's waist deep in this 💩.
    1
  10568. Yet most children of divorced parents don't end up as sociopaths and murderers. ​ @annazaman9657 
    1
  10569.  @dustinslesinger3697  Thank you!
    1
  10570. Apparently.
    1
  10571. We in the West used to expose unwanted infants to the elements for many hundreds of years, or rather for several thousand of years. It was considered normal then.
    1
  10572. ​ @JosephBisio  Except that even HIMARS are now going astray, as Russians play around with their controls electronically.
    1
  10573. ​ @josephvanwie6706  😢
    1
  10574. Who are these communist billionaires and oligarchs who are funding this takeover? Can you give us some names, please.
    1
  10575. He's ill -- sounds like a strep throat or a bad flu. He posted to say he hopes to be back with his terrific roundtables next week.
    1
  10576. I think it will take another couple of years before they end this war.
    1
  10577. Not that any American accent is any less detestable.
    1
  10578. Do you think that the Alternative for Germany is comparable to Hitler's Nazi party?
    1
  10579. Thieves and bandits. The West has been at it for the past 500 years. Shameless.
    1
  10580. The Ukrainian army's all but destroyed by now. The Russians are deliberately holding back (as they've been doing for the last 12 months, in fact) to minimize their own manpower losses, so it'd be seriously misleading to try to conclude from that that Russia would have too great a difficulty in taking all of Ukraine (except Lvov, which I'm sure the Russians will be happy to give to Poland to deal with). This doesn't mean that the Russians actually want to take the rest of Ukraine; only that they most certainly can.
    1
  10581. Blinken's a really pathetic liar. Some Americans might even believe him, but the world's quietly sniggering.
    1
  10582. The liberation evil offers is 100% deception. There's nothing more enslaving than evil.
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  10583. 😮
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  10584.  @schepvogelk5971  That's what this is the lead-up to. Will take another few months, but the end is definitely in sight.
    1
  10585. Rachel looks pretty every day. 😍
    1
  10586. Russia has already absorbed a couple of million refugees from Ukraine.
    1
  10587. We don't need to extend the current mail-in system, but a poll done in 2021 revealed that 76% of Canadians favour introducing a proportional representation system to replace the first-past-the-post system we inherited as a UK colony. (Proportional representation is a far more democratic system than the one we currently have.) Trudeau originally promised to implement it when he was first elected but has since refused to so much as engage in a nation-wide debate as to which specific form of proportional reprentation most Canadians would back.
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  10588.  @nicolasolton  He has to keep saying that to calm down discontent at home. A lot of Russians want this done quickly, with no foot dragging, and are very angry with the leadership for dragging it out.
    1
  10589. That's a violation of the laws of war. Shame on the Russian army for doing this!
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  10590.  @suzannederringer1607  You should hear first what Africans have to say about China's involvement there. (Hint: it's a total opposite of the "resource grab" story our MSM have been serving out to us.) There are some African channels here on YouTube that discuss the geopolitics of their continent that are well worth checking out.
    1
  10591.  @mikehunt-w8u  You can bviousky haven't been to Africa when you associate it with jungles.
    1
  10592. NATO was formed to threaten the USSR, not to prevent its expansion (as Hedges claims). It was only AFTER the US and Western European countries formed NATO that the USSR responded by forming the Warsaw bloc. None of this would be happening today had the irresponsibly naive Gorbachov said no to the re-unification of the two Germanies, as Mrs Thatcher advised him to do, or had Bill Clinton not broken the word the US had given Gorbachov NOT to expand one inch east of the German border with Poland.
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  10593. By Christmas or by next Spring or Summer -- I don't care when, but I do very much hope the Russians will liberate Odessa, too.
    1
  10594. Over the years I've had the summer flu several times.
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  10595. ​​ @rebuzz6866  And the more fools them. Had the UK, France and Poland formed a defense alliance against Nazi Germany, Hitler would most likely balked at the idea of invading Poland and a little later on France, too, and WW2 would have been averted. Polish hatred of Russia (dating from Poland's invasion of Russia and its failed attempt to destroy the Russian state and conquer the country) and Poland's own imperialist aspirations -- Poland invaded Czechoslovakia together with the Nazis -- have time and again cost Europe millions of lives and set Poland itself back.
    1
  10596. At a minimum, it will be neutral. Greece did this to itself.
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  10597. Jogging accident?! And we're supposed to believe that? 😂
    1
  10598. What happened to the 3+ TRILLION the Pentagon can't account for?
    1
  10599.  @nevillemignot1681  Isn't that the new talking point phrase all of the EU is now busy using?
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  10600. The Baltics are a part of NATO. Have been for the past 20 years now.
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  10601. It's prestige and influence world-wide, yes. The Russian economy has only grown and continues to grow at the latest rate of 5.6%. Russian men continue to volunteer for the military at the rate of over 1,000 a day (380,000 volunteers signed up in 2023 alone). BRICS+ is growing by leaps and bounds, while all the sanctions the West has (illegally, btw) placed on Russia have boomeranged against them, resulting in galloping poverty all across the EU and North America. The soup kitchens in Canada and the US are stretched beyond limit, the number of homeless continues to rise, while Russians continue to enjoy a steadily improving standard of living. as their economy's overtaken Germany's to be the #1 economy in Europe. Yeah, they sure did extend Russia.
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  10602. Did they really say that?! 😅
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  10603. The BBC has been keeping track of Russian losses, going as far as to count funerals in Russia, etc., and they're inconsolable at the small number of Russian casualties they can confirm.
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  10604. FIFA is a disgrace. It's now a badge of shame, of genocide enabling, to be a part of FIFA.
    1
  10605. And that's why the NATO-sphere is having conniptions and Trump has no idea how to negotiate an end to the proxy war in Ukraine in a way that would not implicitly acknowledge Russian victory and Western defeat.
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  10606. The electorate's not much better either. They wanted second-hand satisfaction of their revanchist fantasies against Russia so they gleefully went ahead supporting a Nazi Ukraine.
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  10607. Genuises can be narcissistic. No contradiction there.
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  10608.  @aaloh6154  By a narcissistic middle-aged woman, rather.
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  10609. 😂
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  10610.  @wrongthinker843  Not absence. Non-existence.
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  10611. The terms of the ceasefire were that the Russian forces were free to defend themselves and respond to any provocations by the Ukrainian side.
    1
  10612. Canadians starting to resemble Americans more and more.
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  10613. Really affordable for those who can spend $10,000 a piece on a formal dress.
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  10614. You insulted him/her. What did you expect?
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  10615. Odessa, Kharkiv, Dniepeopetrovsk. And then offer peace at the price of Ukraine's unconditional surrender and acceptance of all the terms Russia will demand and enforce. Terms that will include the hosting of at least five Russian military bases on the territory of rump Ukraine, with at a minimum 100,000 Russian forces permanently stationed there. Seems reasonable to me, though I fear Putin will choose to be much more lenient and generous with Ukraine that it is wise for Russia to be. Krushchev's lenience contributed to what's happened since, but I'm not sure the people in Kremlin appreciate that as much as they should.
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  10616. Isn't the US a part of NATO? Even synonymous with it.
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  10617. Lucky you. According to UK media, 27% of your compatriots are skipping meals because they can no longer afford to have 3 meals a day. That was the situation in June; by now, it's much, much worse.
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  10618. Only in Kursk, which is legally an anti-terror operation. I.e. the laws of war don't apply.
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  10619. Victoria Nuland is on the record saying the US had invested 5 billion into the Euromaidan "revolution".
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  10620. Who cares what 15% of the global population wants when the 85% of the world is more than happy to trade with Russia in rubles?! 😂
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  10621.  @IvanIvanov-ug5dc  That was just sarcasm at the expense of the West. 🙂
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  10622. Over 70% of Ukrainians also didn't want to join NATO.
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  10623. I very much hope so! Ukrainian men should not be dying for this rotten, Nazi-infested regime and its Western enablers.
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  10624. Who's this "we"? 😅
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  10625. ​ @Steven-l7b1t  The whole world spent 4 years sniggering at the US and its senile president during the Biden years.
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  10626. ​ @poros4588 Like they have a choice. Only when elections are fully taxpayer-funded, and only taxpayer-funded, and decent people can afford to run for office, will the electorate have a meaningful choice and can be held accountable.
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  10627. ​ @corinayuen2487  Exactly. And I expressed American exceptionalism perfectly. The nice thing is that the world is watching and learning...
    1
  10628. Brilliant as always, Prof. Diesen. Fair, impartial, fact-based. The short answer, of course, is that the collective West has to lie, both by omission and directly, or how else could it blame Russia for a proxy war it engineered and demanded of Ukraine?
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  10629. ​​ @Extra-Celestial7  Not Kursk -- thankfully, he failed in that objective and has no more forces to spare on it anymore. It's the 3 unnamed NPPs he claims Russia plans to blow up (to kill its own soldiers and the ethnic Russian population of the area 😂). It's hilarious, the things the Ukrainian regime wants us to believe!
    1
  10630. Whatever they do doesn't reduce me to what they are: self-mutilated men in drag.
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  10631. Oooh, baby, don't cry. 😅
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  10632. It's the systemic violation of international law perpetrated by the US and its European satellites.
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  10633. Operation Paperclip involved a lot more than NASSA. Hundreds of Nazis ended up as CEOs of American corporations and chairs of US university departments. Read Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity Rainbow" to learn more about this. Arguably the greatest, relatively mild unknown American novelist of the last 50 years, whose work is based on first-class historical research.
    1
  10634. Ancient philosophers dismissed women as lesser, defective men. Modern biology knows that men are modified women.
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  10635. The Noah's Ark story is just that: a piece of fiction. I'm a Christian, btw.
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  10636. Long, not long winded (which means boring, tedious).
    1
  10637. 🙂 @scottstevenson8989 
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  10638. They have no authority to do any such thing. They're simply and brazenly violating international law and the rules of war. Israel's a rogue nation with no respect for law.
    1
  10639. ​ @estherbaettig  You actually have to seek it out and use a VPN program to watch it on the internet.
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  10640. I've learned from my naturopath that "normal range" is incredibly misleading.
    1
  10641. You bring a sociopath like Harari to talk about peace?! You may lie to the American public 24/7, as you indeed do, but the rest of the world knows who's been rejecting peace in this region for decades now!
    1
  10642. The closest Prigozhin ever came to Putin was in serving him dinner.
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  10643. And the moment someone says it out loud, in public, as you've done here, there comes the thought police in the shape of a troll, reminding you of the correct way of thinking about this.
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  10644. ​​ @dinopanteloukas6868  great many of the US neocons -- Victoria Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan and his brothers, for example -- are all former Trotskyites.
    1
  10645. 😮
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  10646. Of course it is. No question about It.
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  10647. No one with any sense pays attention to Boris Johnson and his confabulations. The man's not just a cliwn but a pathological liar to be boot.
    1
  10648. And?
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  10649. 😂
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  10650. I don't care how many genders people invent. There are only two sexes. Period.
    1
  10651. Because each unit has at least one Nazi who would shoot them dead if they tried. It's happened so many times by now that our media's silence on it is itself a war crime.
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  10652. ​ @commandercorner5575  And you base this claim on what data? 😂
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  10653. The kid is NOT "a mathematician and a physicist" but an undergraduate student.
    1
  10654. I'm very skeptical about that figure of 40%. Even though, the US has the highest percentage of sociopaths and psychopaths -- #1 in that, for sure -- it's still "only" about 4%. Which means that out of every 100 Americans you meet, 4 are serious predators....
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  10655. Politics, as Aristotle pointed out, is a branch of ethics. Or it's the gangsterism of the wealthy.
    1
  10656. Sounds like the Yanks are getting desperate for a win somewhere, somehow, and are banking on being able to do it in Mexico. I really hope it doesn't come to that, and if it does, that the entire world will instantly condemn them. Let them protect their borders, instead!
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  10657. Whatever pathetic story these spinless, shameless political opportunists may offer, and here I'm thinking specifically of Ilan Omar's rubbish about new military intelligence that Ukraine is winning, the fact is that the Ukrainians themselves are now admitting their attempts to retake Kherson have stalled/ended (with the promise that they'll try again at some indefinite future point) and there's NO sign of any Russian pullout from Kherson. If the 30 Democratic invertebrates did see any new military intelligence in the last 48 hrs, this is what they'd have learned since both pieces of information come from Reznikov, the Ukrainian minister of defence, who revealed them in an interview with Japanese media just yesterday. The same was subsequently confirmed, in what Alexander Mercouris describes as very colourful language, by Alexei Arestovich, Zelensky's spindoctor-in-chief.
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  10658. You can be sure that the Russians don't trust him. They just have to put up with him so he doesn't open the Bosphorus to NATO navies while the SMO is on.
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  10659. You need to win the White House first to make that happen. And you can't do that with Trump.
    1
  10660. The GDP is a joke. What counts is what we produce. And we let US corporations move production abroad so we now produce a fraction of what we used to. For comparison, China now produces both us and all of Europe combined!
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  10661. Alexander would know but for his provincial British education. La Manche is the name used all across Europe to denote what the Brits call "the English Channel".
    1
  10662. Maybe they're just bad at teaching. Good mathematicians, but lousy teachers.
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  10663. Polygraphs are so unreliable that their use as evidence is not permissible in court in both the US and Canada.
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  10664. ​@@thomashancock7441Tell that to the people of Latin America.
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  10665. 100%. 🎉
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  10666. I think the EU will scramble up some funds to keep Ukraine afloat for a while longer.
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  10667. ​ @Useaname 😂
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  10668. It doesn't.
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  10669. They sold out. A bunch of nasty Russophobes now.
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  10670. ​ @HappyEnchantress  And what is it exactly that you accuse Russian authorities of doing? How did your government "act badly"? I hope you will reply because I'd really like to understand what it is that Russians like you blame Russia for.
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  10671. ​ @naynay1139  Don't they realize that there will be NO Russia if the collective West has its way?! That all this was carefully engineered and staged precisely to destroy Russia -- don't they know that? The Rand Corporation wrote a whole paper on this topic in 2019 and Western leaders have been quite open about it, too. Just last June, Macron felt it necessary to say in public that he is not one of those who are talking about annihilating all Russians -- because that's the kind of Nazi plans other EU and NATO leaders are again talking about among themselves!
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  10672. NATO can't admit NATO's lost its proxy war in Ukraine.
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  10673. While the West tries to keep its dream of hegemony alive with proxy wars and threats of more such wars, the Global South is busy building networks and institutions of global solidarity via BRICS+.
    1
  10674. F*uck Wall Street and corporate terrorism! Solidarity with railway workers!
    1
  10675. ​​ @alrent2992 Forget Europe. It's unquestionably in decline and as condescending and is racist towards Russia as the Nazis were/are.
    1
  10676. ​ @softlifejasmine I think she's lying about that, too.
    1
  10677. ​@SamiBayasi So you're a Sunni supremacist.
    1
  10678. SWIFT is basically a messaging services used by banks worldwide. It's used to transfer money -- in any currency, not merely in US dollars -- from one bank account to another. The Chinese alternative system already handles a far larger turnaround in financial transactions than SWIFT does.
    1
  10679. True.
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  10680. Maybe it's time for Putin to step down and Medvedev to take over. Putin's refusal to call a partial mobilization in June, as advised by the Russian military, is inexcusable. No army can fight and win with such catastrophic bad judgment on the part of a political leadership that insists on imposing its bad-judgment decisions on it.
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  10681. Colour me shocked, especially since the US has been openly planning a war against China for at least a decade now. 😅
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  10682. 😂
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  10683. Both Peskov's and Lavrov's daughters live and work in Russia.
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  10684. Democratic socialism is the way forward.
    1
  10685. 😂
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  10686. Sexes. Genders are irrelevant.
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  10687. On the conscience of mankind?! Nonsense. It's entirely on the conscience of Germany and the Nazi collaborators in other countries in Europe who assisted Germans in it.
    1
  10688. You're very fond of fascism., evidently.
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  10689. A typical Zionist.
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  10690. The West has tried to destroy you time and again and will continue to try until it's lost the economic power to do so.
    1
  10691. That'll work for sure. Just ask them nicely. 😂
    1
  10692. ​ @Robert_D_Mercer 😢
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  10693. EU parliament -- cowards and hypocrites who can't stand to sit and listen to Claire telling it as it is.
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  10694. It's NATO's proxy war against Russia. Using the expendable Ukrainians -- expendable to the ever cynical, inhumane West.
    1
  10695. Because it's joined the West's illegal sanctions on BRICS members.
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  10696. Even more, this is a clear demonstration to Europe what the cost of being America's bitch is.
    1
  10697. Such a beautiful dog!
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  10698. Mercouris now thinks he knows better than Lavrov, with the Russian intelligence services behind him, about what the West has planned all along. Colour me unconvinced.
    1
  10699. This is a pro-Switzerland move, not a pro-Russian one. Switzerland knows that it can only stand to lose by betraying its benefactors (i.e. its financial services customers). As a direct result of its theft of Russian assets in the US, the US has seen an 80% drop in foreign investments in its economy in 2022!
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  10700. ​ @rockfella1377 Putin didn't know that at the time. See how it works both ways.
    1
  10701. ​ @quemades  There's no such thing as a "donor democracy". That's what an oligarchy is.
    1
  10702. Don't be lazy. Google it first, and the answer to your other questions will become clear.
    1
  10703. Considering what living well requires in the US or Norway or France.
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  10704. The US doesn't want to cooperate with others. It wants to dominate and exploit them.
    1
  10705. I'd be surprised if at least half of the Ukrainian men currently scattered in several EU countries don't move outside EU's reach before Brussels gets the chance to round them up.
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  10706. Not the first. They destroyed a couple of Leopards about 10 days ago.
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  10707. Patrick Lancaster's interviews on the ground lead me to believe that many people are terrified of voting, intimidated by Ukrainian propaganda and afraid the polling stations may be shelled at any time.
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  10708. 😅
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  10709. ​ @dainagrn7030  Except that both the USA and Canada, like Australia and New Zealand, are settler colonies themselves, all of them based on the genocide of indigenous people -- none of which holds true for Russia, whose 190 ethnicities live in harmony and have all retained their culture and language.
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  10710. They both laid the ground for it, Clinton by extending NATO eastward and Obama by actively engineering and staging a virulently, Nazi-led anti-Russia coup d'état in Kiev in 2014.
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  10711. Absolutely. Suddenly, clinics and psychologists are noticing that there are no more adolescent lesbians around. They're all being diagnosed as trans. There's a hell of a lot more money for Big Pharma and the cosmetic surgery industry in that.
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  10712.  @uselesstable2058  I think the reason is even more venal than that: Biden needs to keep alive the fiction of a Ukraine capable of perhaps taking back at least some of the territories that chose to secede and join the RF so as not to have to admit US and NATO defeat in their proxy war in Ukraine -- until the election is over.
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  10713. What imperialism?! 😅
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  10714. Dr. Jill Stein was the best choice but Americans are brainwashed into voting for their duopoly. If only you (plural you) could snap out of that hypnosis.
    1
  10715. Horrible! 😱
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  10716. Libyans had a very good quality of life before the West gave military suport to radical Islamists and destroyed the Libyan economy and society.
    1
  10717. ​​ @urrywest  The US has largely de-industrialized itself (thank your corporations and their greed). Without the industrial strength it had until just 30 years ago, and in the face of continued de-dollarization, the American economy will not be able to do much. The US now even lacks the skilled labour force needed to turn things around. Trump is not talking about any of this, either because he thinks it would damage his chances of getting elected again, or because he has no intention of actually dealing with these systemic problems in any meaningful way.
    1
  10718. 🎯
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  10719. 🎯
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  10720. 😂
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  10721.  @MrJocko111  And yet, it's defeating the entire collective West single-handedly.
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  10722. Is Europe militarily capable of triggering WW3?
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  10723. Stop being so provincial! American Evangelicals are but a tiny portion of Christians worldwide, and they're the only ones who support Israeli violence in their demented belief that this will force God's hand and bring about the end of the world and Christ's triumphant return that much sooner. Most Christians consider their version of Christianity nuts.
    1
  10724. The Abundant Ally! 😅
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  10725. It has no choice but walk away. It has nothing, except nukes, to fight Russia with, and there are thankfully still some sane people in the Pentagon who know that the US would be roundly defeated in any conventional military conflict with Russia. Eventually, the US will walk away from Ukraine as it walked away from Afghanistan.
    1
  10726. The US has nothing to fight Russia with except its nukes, and both the Pentagon and the White House (whoever's running it these days) both know what Mutual Assured Distraction means. Eventually, the US will walk away from Ukraine as it walked away from Afghanistan.
    1
  10727. ​ @paulmaxwell8851  Krystia Freeland is responsible for her own actions, among which are these: 1. Lying about her grandfather to the public and trying to whitewash what he did 2. Herself being a proud follower of Stepan Bandera and OUNb, with whom she's been photographed celebrating Ukrainian Nazi collaborators.
    1
  10728. The EU is now going to criminalise attempts to get around their sanctions. They'll be jailing and fining their own -- to spite Russia! 😂
    1
  10729. ​​ @michellepiper6444  66% of German gas came from Russia. Since last February, Russia's diversified its client portfolio to the extent that it no longer needs Europe as a customer.
    1
  10730. Always ask, cui bono.
    1
  10731. ​ @radio9730 You're dreaming. All of Ukraine's best trained forces have been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of second-best wounded and unable to return to the battlefront, and it's now reduced to literally dragging 15 and 16 and 60 year olds off the streets to thrown them as cannon fodder. Even such propaganda organs like The New York Times, Washington Post and the Guardian are now admitting it.
    1
  10732. ​​ @cyrieldessers8428 t's on YouTube. In Ukrainian, naturally. With subtitles in English.
    1
  10733. Just following orders again? Seems to a perpetual German excuse, that.
    1
  10734. ​ @ScottKulik-f6q  Living above your means is all fine and dandy until it no longer is.
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  10735. ​ @ScottKulik-f6q  Living beyond your means is great while it lasts.
    1
  10736. It shouldn't be. Americans have no shame, guilt or remorse about all the nastiness they've committed against so many countries -- and are just as unrepentant and remorseless about their destruction of NordStream 1 and 2. Like any sociopath, they cannot reform and cannot be expected to reform for as long as the US remains an empire, for as long as it stays in once piece.
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  10737.  @Andy_Sidaris  Please elaborate on that comparison with facts and details.
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  10738. The US has NOT approved the use of ATACMS inside Russia. Stop spreading fake news
    1
  10739. Yes. Two drones.
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  10740. 👍
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  10741. The root problem is entrenched in our Schools of Education, which indoctrinate new teachers and future administrators into believing that these methods are "progressive" and more egalitarian. That the methods don't work for the majority of students (which is why only a minority read at their actual grade level) is completely ignored and indeed actively denied. This is, ultimately, a problem that requires political action.
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  10742. ​ @louise_rose Nuland comes from a family of Ukrainian Jews -- i.e. with an animus (understandably so) against a nation that stood behind the vicious destruction of Ukrainian Jews in WW2. I think it's now beyond controversy that she and other members of her tribe at the State Department have used the nationalists, the descendents of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, they brought to power in Kiev in 2014 to wreak historical revenge on Ukraine. I would argue that that's exactly what they're doing to Germany, too, by forcing it to destroy its own economy.
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  10743. London is not the UK. It's not even representative of other UK cities, let alone its towns and villages.
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  10744. The West has lost this proxy war as is. 80% of this 61 billion dollar package will remain in the US, going directly to Raytheon et al.
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  10745. When did you Greeks do anything for Russia? It's your job as Greeks to save your own country.
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  10746. Who's this we?
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  10747. Don't rejoice in their deaths, either. Many of them are ethnic Russians from other parts of Ukraine Kiev maliciously forces to the front to kill and be killed by the Russian forces.
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  10748. The last Soviet regime change operation took place half a century ago. Alexander forgot Czechoslovakia (1968).
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  10749. Germany's economy has dropped to the 5th place worldwide and 2nd place in Europe. According to the World Bank and the IMF, the Russian economy overtook Germany in 2023.
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  10750. ​ @theblackdog2399  America got rich because it stole other people's land and then committed the largest genocide in history. The richest land in the world is in Russia, which is why the West has been trying to conquer and grab it for centuries now.
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  10751. I think we should accommodate people with disabilities over which they have no control: people with dwarfism, gigantism, people who need to use walkers and/or wheelchairs, the blind. Pregnant women should also have priority seating and boarding. Overweight and obese people do have control over their condition, something they've chosen not to apply. Even people who gain weight due to the medicines they're on can lose weight and maintain that weight loss over time. Obesity is such a health hazard that it was one of the co-morbidities most likely to result in death from covid.
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  10752. They won't. They haven't got the gumption for it, and their political elite is fully bought up and/or intimidated by Washington.
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  10753.  @josephvanwie6706  Where exactly does he say "and no one else"?
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  10754. I'm concerned that the West may be planning a nuclear provocation or a nuclear false flag together with Zelensky. Rumours began circulating in Europe a few days ago that EU officials are telling their aides, assistants, etc. that they'll always remember where they were on Sept. 24. The Redacted had a report on this just this past week.
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  10755.  @Srbenda126  Brian is of Croatian extraction.
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  10756. Mike of iEarlGrey reported today on the leaked peace terms Zelensky sent to Putin via Erdogan. They're so ridiculous, so insane, that I really can't understand what on earth Putin's waiting for now. So far, instead of instructing the RF army to go hard and force Kiev to unconditional surrender by the end of this year, I see on Sputnik that all he's doing right now is moaning how Russia's willing to negotiate peace but Kiev wants a military solution, and, in the last hour or so, issuing some vague threats. Let's see if he'll deliver on them.
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  10757. Typical Israeli mentality. Israeli Jews mocked and derided Jewish death camp survivors when they reached Israel post-WW2.
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  10758. That's not true. Ukraine's being supplied and financed by a consortium of roughly 40 countries, i.e. NATO plus a few other US satellites. 86% of the world is NOT supporting Ukraine in any way.
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  10759. Keep telling yourself that. 😂
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  10760.  @roxanenana6274  You'd also look fabulous if you underwent all sorts of cosmetic surgery and made make-up and physical self-presentation the major focus of your life.
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  10761. ​ @choonhockong8215  An event devoutly to be wished for.
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  10762. No wonder the overwhelming majority of Chinese are happy with their government.
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  10763. ​ @highwayxj9397  He certainly had the energy to fly off without a problem.
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  10764. 😂
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  10765. The effect of the last 10 years of relentless anti-Russia propaganda by the European MSM.
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  10766. Navalny the guy whom his own party expelled for racism? That Navalny? 😂
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  10767. The current set in Kremlin are too indecisive and still too attached to their dreams of some future friendship Ukraine (and the West). Just look at the stuff RT is publishing these days.
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  10768. ​ @Agent00KK No. Mental illness and demonic possession are two different things, although the latter can and often does mimic the former at least at first glance. I don't believe that this adolescent boy was possessed. Not all evil is supernatural. Plenty of it just plain natural.
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  10769. Budanov is the head of Ukraine's spy/intelligence services. Sykorsky is the head of the military.
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  10770. Ah, that ogre of all Western children, Putin!
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  10771.  @kunik61  Fool! It's your beloved West that's destroyed your country! When will you acknowledge what the whole world knows?!
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  10772. 😅
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  10773. ​ @elainemagson213  I'm sure there were people telling themselves the same thing back in July 1939, too
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  10774. Putin had no business being naive about the West's intentions after what it had done to Russia during the 1990s. Tens of thousands of Russian men are dying on the battlefield because of his "naïvety", his yen for buddying up with his Western "partners".
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  10775. 😂
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  10776. The way things are going, the USA may end up imploding from within, collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions and a debt burden no amount of money printing can help lift.
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  10777. Definitely not the alphabet.
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  10778. The Ukrainians should have implemented the Minsk Accords. Or, second best, signed the peace agreement they initialled in Turkey in March 2022. Their only realistic option now is to capitulate and agree to all of Russia's terms. Better that than tens of thousands more needless deaths!
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  10779. ​ @user-iu5vc5ki8p So stop warmongering and threatening to go to war with Russia.
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  10780.  @anonymous3396  I don't like the smirk on Alexander's face, but the nonsense coming from the West is beyond ridiculous. Let me put it this way, and just sticking to the known facts. Russia withdraws from an area 45 km x 40 km, Ukrainian forces walk in, Kiev claims a great victory, and all of the West goes into an orgasmic swoon. The Clown World of the collective West.
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  10781. 1,5 million Israelis are Russian Jews, many of them with family and business links to Russia.
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  10782. ​ @Aristaifly  Well, many of them take part in Nazi torch-light parades while the rest do nothing to oppose them.
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  10783. 😅
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  10784. Kiev announced the other day that Zelensky's ordered NOT to accept more than 500 bodies of killed Ukrainian soldiers a day.
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  10785. Went up 15%-20% during the winter 2021 and then another 20% on top of that in 2022. I don't know how people are managing!
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  10786. Rubio's the one who publicly admitted the conflict in Ukraine is America's proxy war with Russia.
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  10787. ​ @Mister.Blobby  Too much crime. Argentina should be fine.
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  10788. ​ @s.c.2924  I think that's Venetian usage. In Piedmont, the polite form would be "il suo cane".
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  10789. I doubt it. They're still lying and fabricating their "facts" about the situation on the battlefront, and I suspect the Biden administration will find a way to continue funnelling tens of billions of dollars to the most corrupt country in Europe.
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  10790.  @YoMomma-v8b  Thanks. I don't hear him say anything about American soldiers there. He just makes the obvious point that aside from Russia and China, no other country in the world can go mano á mano with US, AND the US is coming close to not being able to go mano á mano with either of those itself.
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  10791. ​ @jihigh482  As Putin said a few years ago, Russia has many Putins and will do just fine when he decides to retire.
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  10792. Radical change for its own sake is fool's gold. It can be a change for the worse, something even a child of 10 can figure out. Media power in dumbing down and hypnotising the masses is at the bottom of this.
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  10793. A surprising number are.
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  10794. He's pathetic on politics. His one sensible and courageous stand was and remains his refusal to go along with transgender delusions and demands. Apart from that, and the value of keeping your room clean, he's best ignored.
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  10795. Come on, India! Time you learned to get over your silly rivalry with and envy of China.
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  10796. ​ @moodist1er  There are none. I guess you're referring to Anglo-Saxon settler colonies in North America and Australia and Spanish and Portuguese colonies in South America.
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  10797. Thanks, but no thanks. You go ahead, though.
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  10798. You mean that no NATO country that decides to enter directly into a conflict with in Russia in Ukraine can count on Article 5 if Russia retaliates by invading it. Nice.
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  10799. Couldn't help but chuckle at that last. 🙂
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  10800. Yes, to worsen is a fine old English verb.
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  10801. At a meeting in Prague, Macron proposed setting up a pan-European co-ordinated operation to protect and ensure the security of Europe's underwater infrastructure, following the terrorist attack on Nord Stream 1 and 2. It's as clear an admission of their common knowledge of who ordered that attack as we're going to get at this time.
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  10802. It's always a mistake to trust Turkey. Turkey invariably betrays its friends.
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  10803. Keep dreaming! 😅
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  10804. To frame the dilemma in terms of individualism versus collectivism is both myopic and wrong. This aspect of Malone's uber-liberal ideology worries me because, while it calls upon the US constitution for support, it simply isn't as respectful and considerate of ALL individuals as it seems to be: what about the sanctity, not to mention the health and life, of the individuals another individual's choice then puts at risk?
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  10805.  @snowwhite7704  The sane agreement all the other member states have signed and are bound by: the UN Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.
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  10806.  @snowwhite7704  If respecting international law would be the death of the USA, the sooner such a law-despising political entity is gone off the face of the Earth, the better. But I doubt that the USA could not survive following the rule of law. You'd have to give up your empire and your bid for global hegemony, sure, but you'd then be able to recover your democracy, renew your economy by bringing production back home, and actually thrive as a society instead of having the world's largest prison population, highest murder rates, and the absolute worst in child poverty, homelessness, and infrastructure decay in the collective West.
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  10807.  @snowwhite7704  Nonsense. You clearly have no clue what's in the UN Charter!
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  10808. The latest polling shows that most Germans still support them.
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  10809.  @cloudybeforerain7134  I can only hope you're right, but so far we've seen NO real push-back from the German public.
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  10810. Off topic: Rahdika is looking particularly lovely today. 🙂
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  10811. Seconded by this "old-fashioned" feminist college prof (retired).
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  10812. Zionists adore Trump and most definitely prefer him to Biden, so....
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  10813. African Americans fought in the US army in WW2. The integration of the US armed forces took place long before the social justice movement of the late 1950s and 1960s and has nothing to do with wokism.
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  10814.  @TessTearoe-zp5xv  I know. That's how we're kept in the dark in our Western "democracies".
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  10815. The boys are being brought up by a lesbian couple. They might have adopted these children, or they might have had them through artificial insemination. Some lesbians will also have unprotected sex with men in order to get pregnant, without ever letting the men know their intention or the fact that they've fathered a child. Some lesbian acquaintances of mine from graduate school openly boasted of doing this, but that was 35 years ago. I can't be sure that this practice is still common.
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  10816. Not that the past 3 years have been any better, in truth.
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  10817. I had no idea. Fascinating!
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  10818. In an article devoted to precisely this as a key part of American foreign policy. Try doing an internet search with appropriate search terms.
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  10819. The daughter needs to want therapy.
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  10820. I don't think I've ever seen so many trolls here as today. I guess now that Ukraine's admitting its counter-offensive has petered out and things are looking bad for it in Kherson, it's imperative to deflect attention and pretend Ukraine's "winning". How pathetic the collective West has become!
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  10821. ​ @stephenscering1776  As if the rest don't think exactly as he does. If they did, they'd have stopped this proxy war long ago.
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  10822. Kosovo is a part of Serbia. UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
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  10823.  @alrent2992  Berlin will be just fine unless the Germans do something stupendously stupid.
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  10824. You must be an American.
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  10825. When will you, Russians, stop being so bloody sentimental about your enemies, making excuses for those who mean you harm?! It's exactly the attitude that got you into this mess: had Gorbachev not supposed that "Germany had learned humanism by now", there'd have been no reunification of Germany, no eastward expansion of NATO, no revival of a Nazi Ukraine supported by the fascist West. Tens of thousands of Russian men would not have had to die in this proxy war either. It way past time you faced facts: Europe remains profoundly racist and contemptuous of Russia and Russians. This will not change until the West is rendered toothless and impoverished.
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  10826. ​ @Samuel-hd3cp  He moved to the UK as a small child.
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  10827. Russia's more than capable of hitting the UK with its supersonic missiles, as the Brits risk finding out for themselves if they continue this way.
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  10828. ​​ @daiday3191  A sizeable portion of East Europeans, Slavs as well as Germans and Russians, feel that they enjoyed better quality of life before 1991. In a referendum held in 1991, 75% of the citizens of the then USSR voted against its dissolution.
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  10829. I'm not sure you'd be wrong in those conclusions. Mercouris has been known to interpret statements by EU states in ridiculously optimistic ways. I'll never forget him opining that it may have been Russia itself who'd asked the Germans to defer the certification of NordStream 2 when Germany halted the process back in January 2022. He was simply unwilling to believe that this was the work of Germany itself. Ever since then, I've taken his pronouncements on the Europeans with a fistful of salt.
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  10830. And the entire West gasped and tsk-tsked at Trump! Now they're all kissing Biden's ass and running down their economies to please their demented pay-master. 😅
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  10831. ​ @asecmimosas4536  So, pluralist is now a synonym for unfair?
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  10832. People living in their parental home till their late 20s is fairly common all over Europe: France, Itly, Germany, Poland, etc. It's actually the norm.
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  10833. ​ @AgentDoubleOSeven77 Yes, and was wrecked by the EU when it violated its Article 3 in 2013.
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  10834.  @yukiko6137  That was exactly my point. Durov's French citizenship did not protect him.
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  10835. No, Hamas did not target civilians. Two things: most of the alleged civilians killed in the Hamas attack were caught in the crossfire between Hamas and the IDF. I've seen an interview in Hebrew (with subtitles in English) with an eyewitness, one of the early released hostages, who is categorical on that point: that the Israeli civilians who died in that operation were killed by the Israeli forces fighting Hamas and we're not targeted by the latter. Coming from an Israeli eyewitness, this carries enormous weight for me.
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  10836. ​ @Birthday92sex  Exactly what Larry pointed out: Ukrainians have been deleting their social media posts in which they boasted of and rejoiced at downing that plane.
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  10837. You're either terribly misinformed or a brazen liar, I can't tell which, but in the interest of historical truth and accuracy, you may want to mention the following: Having approached the French and the British twice during the 1930s with the offer of a defense alliance against Nazi Germany and having been rebuffed by both France and Britain on both occasions, Stalin finally signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in August 1939, AFTER the British and the rest had already done so AND with a view to buying the Soviets some badly needed time to prepare themselves for what he and the rest of Europe knew was coming: the Nazi invasion of the USSR.
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  10838. 😅
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  10839. ​ @isaojable And then, oops no, some had their throats cut.
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  10840. ​ @meetontheledge1380  Resisting immoral laws is an act of ethical courage.
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  10841. 🎯
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  10842. ​ @moustaphadiallo600  They have plenty of personal experience with the US by now.
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  10843. ​ @donquixote... I agree. Americans don't believe in tragedy, so they didn't and still don't understand what hubris is and where it leads to.
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  10844. It seems to that this massive deception by the Democrats was meant not only to discredit Trump but to demonize Russia itself and turn as many Americans as possible antagonistic towards it in preparation of this proxy war on Russia in Ukraine.
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  10845. I blame Putin for dragging it out.
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  10846. ​​ @kgkg4118 Of course it's relevant to know that slavery in Africa began with local African and Muslim slave traders, who preceded European traders by centuries. Without that knowledge, the young generations are being brainwashed into believing that slavery is a preeminently "white" issue. It's an indirect but very potent way of installing anti-white racist views and sentiments, and indeed very relevant today.
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  10847. There's no such thing as non-lethal weapons. This whole thing started under Obama, was seriously exacerbated by Trump, and brought to the current disaster by whoever's making decisions under Biden.
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  10848. Arab Jews were NOT forced to relocate or leave Arab countries. It is as Israeli Zionists who fed them lies and deliberately created panic among them, inducing them to leave Arab countries and come to Israel. Zionism is every bit as nasty as Nazism and shares a great deal with it.
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  10849. Depends for whom.
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  10850. It truly must be the hand of God that's enabled Russia to survive this long as a nation and a state given that Russian sentimentality and chronic failure to recognize who's your enemy.
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  10851.  @NP1066  Zionists always descend to absolutely unfounded ad hominem attacks.
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  10852.  @fredgillespie5855  Then you no doubt sympathize with how the Palestinians have felt ever since 1948.
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  10853. Same in Canada. Except it wasn't a portion of the population but the majority!
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  10854. What Ray McGovern's friends in Germany will never admit to him is the carefully concealed revanchism against Russia that's baked into the German post-WW2 psyche. Such things get passed down from one generation to another for hundreds of years on.
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  10855. 🎯
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  10856. They never did de-nazify themselves.
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  10857. A disgusting man.
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  10858. ​ @carlporten7312  Minimally. Two thirds of our economy depends on trade with the US.
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  10859. Gaza is a huge Warsaw ghetto, that's what it is. I stand with Palestinians!
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  10860. What a joke she is! Citing the nothing-burger that the Jeddah meeting was. 😄
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  10861. This is pretty mild stuff compared to what's going on in our schools, on our streets and in our homes. Lots of videos on that on YouTube. Quite disturbing and not for the faint of heart.
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  10862. Not just any other nation -- it's Russia, specifically, that they'd like to destroy. That it's boomeranged on them is the problem. Otherwise, they'd be deliriously happy to do to Russians what their own sanctions are actually doing to their own people.
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  10863. Exactly!
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  10864. ​ @staffan144  He's a Ukrainian Jew, alright, born and bred in Ukraine. A bona fide citizen of Ukraine.
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  10865. ​​ @aleksandersever3039  One of the attributes of Yahweh, in fact.
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  10866. ​ @balbagsaginz 😅
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  10867. You play them with Russia, to your regret.
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  10868. ​ @patb5266 As does the UK, for that matter.
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  10869. Jimmy Carter's wife regularly sat in on Oval Office meetings.
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  10870. Jimmy Carter's wife regularly sat in on Oval Office meetings.
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  10871. Wasn't her father a high state official in the communist era?
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  10872. Wasn't her father a high-up official during the communist era? A family of opportunists.
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  10873. ​ @ninopavkovic64 So did mine, just now.
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  10874. Macron was met by a WH staff member (a woman). He later met with Trump.
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  10875. I live in Canada, have had covid twice, first in January 2020 and then again in May of this year (a different and much more virulent strain), and here in Canada even those with robust natural immunity have to get two doses of a Western corporate-made vaccine to travel abroad. Since I have family in Europe, this means that I will have to accept totally unnecessary and medically unjustifiable shots so the US corporations our government (and its medical advisors, evidently) are serving instead of us.
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  10876. You want to see that there, but that creep doesn't hate himself. On the contrary, he thinks of himself as one of God's chosen.
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  10877. The US has lost its proxy war in Ukraine.
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  10878. What about him? They withheld medical care from Milosevic -- literally killed him -- because they knew they couldn't prove their charges against him.
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  10879.  @spinnakerthegreat2612  Zakharova made no statements on February 23, 2022.
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  10880. 😉👍
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  10881. That's probably too optimistic. But whatever the final timeline, it's hard to see how the present arrangements can last much longer.
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  10882. I knew it was a Thai curry the moment I saw shrimp paste and lemongrass in the list of ingredients. 🙂
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  10883. It didn't.
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  10884. 👍❤️
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  10885. ​ @axelcv10  Turkish economy is in dire straits, as a matter of fact.
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  10886. ​ @juancarlosjuancarlos4629  Keep telling yourself that. 😘
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  10887. ​ @AugustusOmega That's the nonsense Americans and their satellites have been telling themselves for decades. It's simply not true. The world needs a democratic world order in which no country acts as the führer.
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  10888. ​ @itsgoodforyou4235  Do you?
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  10889. Making an incursion does not equal capturing territory.
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  10890. 🎯
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  10891. ​ @Johzao  Science doesn't support the notion of a master race.
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