Comments by "andrew worth" (@andrewworth7574) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

  1. Almost certainly an issue with the cabin atmosphere leaving crew and passengers unconscious or dead.
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  2.  @Arguseyed_  you obviously have not been following the conflict very closely. Russia has used its artillery on cities like mariupol with no regard to the civilian casualties, Russian soldiers murdered civilians in Bucha, Russia has continued to target cities across Ukraine with no regard to the civilians their poorly guided missiles have endangered, injured and killed.
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  3. What you are seeing is Russia running out of bang.
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  4.  @Arguseyed_  even on HT we see the endless boasting of Russian drones and missiles being used against the civilian population of Ukraine cities.
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  5. I've realized that when a comment starts "as a [some nationality other than Russian]", the person or bot is Russian.
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  6. That would finish Russia once and for all.
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  7. You're funny, the GMLRS rocket that himars fires is far less expensive than the missiles Buk is firing to intercept them. $168,000 per M31 GMLRS rocket, the Buk missile costs about $500,000 and they're firing 2 to intercept 1 GMLRS.
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  8. ​ @mugenmugen9632 an aggressor is someone who attacks, the nation's that joined Nato were exercising their sovereign rights to join whatever alliance they chose to. They chose Nato because Russia is an habitual aggressor.
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  9. 2015 a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M.
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  10. Russia has used everything it can, still 2nd army in Ukraine.
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  11. Sinking your own ships??
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  12. Every year the US retires or throws away billions of dollars of older military equipment, they have thousands of Abrams tanks sitting in storage. Almost all the stuff they're throwing to Ukraine was going to be thrown somewhere, and with a lot of the munitions it's actually cheaper to ship it than decommission it.
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  13. Russia.
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  14. Do the math, if your fantasy was correct Russian forces would have won as there wouldn't be a Ukraine army left.
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  15. @reaper666-kp8zm  so in your fantasy 60,000x28=1.7 million eliminated, presumably 4 million more injured and out of action. That would be all of the men suitable for military service. So why hasn't Russia reached Kyiv? Answer: the figures offered by Russia are nonsense. Yes, Russian casualties are likely greater than Ukraine casualties because Russia has been trying harder to advance, and casualties are expected to be higher for the attacking force. That's the nature of warfare.
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  16. The Ukrainian people voted him in, only they get to vote him out.
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  17. If Russia has the right to use nukes in Ukraine the US has the right to use nukes in Moscow.
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  18. Why the stupid headlines?
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  19. ​ @HhhGt-r2l I didn't realize Russia invaded the US, I thought Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  20. I'm betting you've never set foot outside of Russia.
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  21. ​@Sandman_9 you made me laugh, they committed most of their army to the invasion of Ukraine, have lost 2/3 of their active tank force, over 10,000 other vehicles, have conscripted hundreds of thousands and still can't advance anywhere at more that snails pace.
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  22. Ukraine has the right to defend itself against Russian aggression.
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  23. "We know it" typical dunning-Kruger, falling over itself to know without any actual knowledge.
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  24.  @terrence8634  you realize that Crimea was cut off from the water supply from the Dnipro from 2014 to 2022? No, I didn't think so. They coped. The cost to Ukraine from the destruction is far greater.
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  25. And you've never looked at sources that don't support Russian claims.
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  26. ​@philipfry9065 the evidence is what makes it true. Go look at the analysis by bellingcat: Russian missile identified in Kyiv children's hospital attack. You can then make an informed judgement.
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  27. Pregozhin speaks the truth about the evil waste and death caused by the Russian aggression.
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  28. ​ @catdorf not very good at literacy are you?
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  29. I expect he means that the border guards are not to impede the imminent flight of Russian soldiers on their way out of Ukraine.
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  30. It would have to wait until the conflict was resolved and the ships in question would have to belong to Nato countries with a coast on the Black Sea.
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  31. @adelarsen9776  strange how Ukraine continues to fight without an army. The Russian army must be amazingly incompetent not to be able to advance at any speed in the face of no opposition.
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  32. ​@Nicholas #51 there are no US controlled nukes in Europe and no nato nuclear missiles based in continental Europe.
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  33.  @tombyrne7784  the Russian "peace plan" is analogous to Pakistan proposing a peace plan that India withdraw from all disputed territory and disband the Indian armed forces.
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  34. Yep, they should be kicked out of the EU.
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  35. Imperialist Russia also gets a lot of praise from many Indian commenter's.
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  36. They voted against because Russia defines Nazism differently from other countries, Russia has been labeling all the countries supporting the democratic country of Ukraine nazi. The countries that voted against stated that they continue to oppose true nazism.
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  37. Did the US run away from Iwo Jima? Did it run away after Pearl Harbor? Your recollection of the Korean War is faulty, the Incheon landings saved South Korea from communist aggression.
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  38. Putin had the option of never even starting the war.
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  39. How can you talk such nonsense? Russia has flattened ever Ukraine city with in reach of its artillery, it supported a regime in Syria that killed 500,000 Syrian's.
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  40.  @mattcamota  and amnesty later acknowledged that that report was incorrect and revised those claims, instead laying the blame where it belonged with the Russian indiscriminate use of artillery.
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  41. ​ @myhonorwasloyalty  several African countries are doing well, the continent will increasingly become an important player in the global economy.
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  42. Russia has no right to dictate whom the Ukrainian people elect to be their leaders. That Putin thinks otherwise is just a reflection of his contempt for democracy.
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  43. Ukrainians continue to defend their country against the imperialist Russian invaders. As a sane person would expect the people of any country to defend their country against such a brutal aggressor.
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  44. There was no commitment for US missiles to be withdrawn from Europe, only from Turkey. There was no agreement that central European countries couldn't join nato, there was though a commitment from Russia to respect and defend Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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  45. God saving the Russian Federation is their last hope.
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  46. Putin is getting more and more unhinged.
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  47. Misleading is HT's middle name.
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  48.  @rameshande9600  Putin was there years ago.
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  49.  @Bashnja1  Russia was supplying the Donbas separatists with artillery which was used to kill Ukrainians. Fortunately the conflict was at very low levels through 2019, 2020 and 2021. Unfortunately the Russian invasion has increased the number of civilians killed by the conflict a thousand fold over those more recent years.
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  50. @Judith Arnett  Russia had the motive; it reduced the options to the Ukrainians for their offensive, and Russia had the means, it was a massive explosion from within the dam that destroyed it, it's very difficult to explain how Ukraine could have planted the huge amounts of explosives when the dam has been under Russian control for a year. Ukraine also has every intention to reclaim the whole of the Kherson oblast, now they'll have to find the billions of dollars to rebuild the dam.
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  51. More like you think they own the world and are bitter that your country is so unimportant.
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  52. On 27 February 2019, following six Pakistan Air Force airstrikes in Indian administered Kashmir, Pakistani officials said that two of its fighter jets shot down one MiG-21 and one Su-30MKI belonging to the Indian Air Force. Indian officials claimed to have shot down one F-16 belonging to Pakistan air force. This was denied by the Pakistani side, considered dubious by neutral sources, and later backed by a report by Foreign Policy magazine, reporting that the US had completed a physical count of Pakistan's F-16s and found none missing.
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  53. Your first thought shows how biased you are.
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  54. The elected president of Ukraine asks for military support from other countries because it was his country that was invaded. It's not complicated.
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  55. It can protect itself by calling its army home.
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  56. Russia should take its army home and end the war.
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  57. So HT offers lots of Russian training footage to support a Kremlin propaganda release.
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  58. Nato are also supplying logistical support, and nato's logistical resources are huge compared to Russia, especially that of the US, which is able to support allies globally.
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  59. ​@Glen Bolderson they will very much have the support of US AWACS, how do you think Ukraine knows when Russian aircraft take off on missions to launch missiles over the Caspian sea.
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  60. Tens of thousands of young Russian men have died simply to expand the territory controlled by Putin's regime.
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  61. It's in Iran's interests to have good relations with as many countries as possible. In that respect, it's a lot like Vietnam, which deals with all, and benefits from huge trade with the west today, despite the conflict of the past.
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  62. @user-bk6gx7sg3j  the UK has 157 operational Challengers, and those sent to Ukraine were from the reserves.
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  63. I heard Ukraine claim 36 out of 36. You wouldn't just be making BS up would you? Like the Russian MOD does?
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  64. @stayhungry1503  that's because Ukraine was invaded by the Russian imperialists and the country is united against the invaders.
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  65. @konrad9240  madness for Putin to invade in the first place, Ukraine hasn't needed to import foreign fighters. Russia cannot win in Ukraine for the same reason the US and the Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan and other countries, why Russia couldn't keep Eastern Europe, why Britain couldn't retain her empire. There will always been resistance against imperialist invaders by the local peoples.
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  66. Russia isn't averse to committing a little terrorism, look at what they did in Mariupol and Bucha.
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  67. Everlasting peace between China and India can be achieved by just having China appoint the leadership of the Indian government.
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  68. Meanwhile Russia loses 18 tanks, which HT neglects to mention.
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  69. ​ @mugenmugen9632 there're a lot of comments that aren't shown in "top" comments that can be seen in "newest" comments. It's affecting a huge number of comments, on both sides of a discussion, on every YouTubers site I visit.
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  70. Must be a bot, same comment has been posted several times and refuted. There was no agreement to remove US missiles from Europe, only the Jupiter missiles from Turkey.
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  71. And don't sniff any flowers from Putin.
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  72. Kinzhal's and iskander's can also carry nuclear warheads, so can the various Soviet era multirole aircraft Ukraine now flies. So what's Russia whining about? Their bleeting is just a red herring.
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  73. ​ @janko6608 in Nordic countries most people support Ukraine, you must live in Russia.
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  74. "As brutal as what happened in Syria" You are totally disconnected from reality.
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  75. ​ @tonyhunt9001 running away from Hitler didn't bring peace, running away from Putin won't either.
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  76. No, Russia is begging Iran, China, Belarus, and North Korea instead.
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  77. I don't believe Russia deliberately targeted the hospital, but bellingcat's analysis of the video of the missile ("Russian missile identified in Kyiv children's hospital attack") makes it beyond doubt that it was a kh-101. I assume that, unlike other supporters of Russia, you don't claim that the deaths and injuries of civilians on the beach near Servastopol was a deliberate attack?
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  78. Confirmation that Orban doesn't care what the facts are.
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  79.  @Zakaius  the reason all those former Warsaw Pact countries are now in Nato is that Nato is freedom from Russian subjugation.
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  80. What? ANOTHER warning from Putin? That must make 150 since last February.
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  81. What "modern big toys", I see nothing new from Russia on the battlefield, are you familiar with and referring to toys in Putin's bedroom?
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  82. @Opus Dei  unless such claims are confirmed by Ukraine or nato, such claims from the Russian MOD are nothing more than optimistic guesses.
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  83. Why shouldn't the US, Russia has moved nuclear missiles into Belarus, and has been making nuclear threats for the last 2 years.
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  84. Why? The people of Syria were sad, but now they're much happier.
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  85. Russia has been losing people at 10 times the rate that the US did in the Vietnam War, if the Russian leadership was sane they'd never have invaded, or quit months ago.
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  86.  @johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763  that's 54,000 confirmed by name, which is known to be an undercount by a wide margin. BBC estimates of Russian kia are around 100,000. Other agencies estimates around 150,000 KIA with total Russian casualties (KIA, wounded, missing) estimated around 500,000.
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  87. ​@UnclePutinAnnex TheShitoutofmedaddy nato hasn't invaded Russia, it hasn't even send troops into Ukraine. Russia did invade Ukraine, the Putin fan boys disconnect from reality is profound.
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  88. Yes, and imagine aliens from space using a big ray gun to vaporize the White House, oh all the things we can imagine!
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  89. @HANSMKAMP  the US didn't force Yanukovych to run away, the Ukrainian people did that. They revolted against their president, as did their parliament, after Yanukovych announced that he was going back on his promise to get Ukraine into the EU. An association agreement had been agreed, which Yanukovych, after a chat with Putin, refused to sign, instead announcing that Ukraine would instead join the Eurasian Economic Union, an economic alliance currently composed of 5 former Soviet states. Here's the shocker, Ukrainians didn't throw their president out on behalf of the US, they threw him out on behalf of themselves. The narrative you've bought into is straight from the Kremlin. The US didn't have any resources in Ukraine to remove a president, and Victoria Nuland doesn't have super-villain mind control powers that enable her to control hundreds of thousands of people, causing them to revolt against their elected president. It was Yanukovych's own actions that led to his downfall.
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  90. I doubt Russia has any more idea what it hit than it did when it struck the children's hospital.
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  91. Wagner's the only serious fighting force Russia has.
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  92. @Lili Dežman  you offer nothing that supports your conclusion, the Soviet Union and the US were far stronger than Russia today, especially if we compare their strength to that of Afghanistan and compare Russia's strength to that of a nato armed and trained Ukraine. The same applies if we compare Israel's strength with its adversaries back then. Ultimately the motivation of the people of a country is a major factor. The Russian motivation has been noticeably lacking compared to that of Ukrainians. Putin's own strategy in this war is a demonstration of this. If the Russian people were committed to the "special military operation" Putin would have called up all the men required to defeat Ukraine from the start, Instead he's even avoided calling it a war and passed laws banning Russia's from calling it a war. He's done this because he doesn't think Russians are motivated enough to commit to the conflict enmass, Ukrainians clearly are committed to the defense of their country. Russia is going to lose. Russia has had one arm tied behind its back by Putin from the start, while Ukraine has been supplied with a lot of extra military muscle.
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  93.  @riccccccardo  there was no one able to "finish" the US. The global response to a Russian use of nukes in Ukraine is probably beyond your imagination, but it's not beyond Putin's imagination. China has, for example, told Russia that its use of nukes is unacceptable, and no other country in the world (other than North Korea) wants the use of nukes to become politically acceptable through Russian use being accepted.
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  94. You should have been pitying them living under the brutal Assad regime with that regime kept in power by Russia.
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  95.  @hicm1of12  I think your figure of hundreds of pac-3 missiles being fired is way off, the pac-3 is specialized to intercept high velocity missiles on a ballistic trajectory, they're just not suitable for low altitude cruise missiles and drones, the iris-t and Gepard and similar systems are the defensive platforms they'll be using for those, pac-3 would, I expect, be saved for iskander, S300, S400 and kinzhal.
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  96.  @rodiculous9464  when Wagner first became involved in the battle for Bakhmut they were fighting on an 80km wide front, over the last few months their numbers have been so depleted that in the last weeks all they were fighting was a front 5km wide, with the rest of the fighting around Bakhmut being put in the hands of Russian regular and "elite" forces. Pregozhin has confirmed the huge loses Wagner has suffered. While Wagner continued to go forward in Bakhmut the other Russian forces have been losing ground on the flanks around the city. Wagner is the ONLY unit on the Russian side that's been moving forward for many months.
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  97. ​@keonliller_2287 obviously you're a supporter of imperialism.
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  98. You sure you didn't just make that up? I'm not finding that story with Google, is it from the Russian MOD?
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  99. ​@salehkhalfan7345 no, Russia is trying to rebuild its empire. Do you suggest other imperialist countries should be allowed to retake former colonies?
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  100. @wakandanlivesmatter3501  the US has not destabilised South America, those countries carry on, stumbling along, as they have always done.
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  101. @lancerevo9747  as I said, it's all over youtube. Several of my comments included. I've had many good conversations with Putin supporters that have had to end because both of us had comments disappearing, the result being the conversations become impossible. Often some missing comments from someone can be seen by clicking on their thumbnail.
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  102. @TeeSpells  Minsk was broken by Russia, Russia supplied the separatists from the start. But Minsk was always going to fail because it was rushed and didn't even detail where the line of control was to be
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  103. @TeeSpells  Ukraine didn't make war on Russia, Russia made war on Ukraine. In 1994 with the Prague agreement, Russia recognized Ukraine's internationally recognized borders and agreed to support the integrity of those borders. Western countries also pledged to defend the integrity of those borders.
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  104. ​ @juliequinn2935 there is no agreement with Russia that bars Ukraine, or other countries, joining Nato. If you disagree, name the agreement and the date it was signed.
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  105. You probably should go look up what Occams razor actually is before pretending you know what you're talking about on anything more complicated (see what I did there? No? I didn't think so).
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  106. The duplicity is all from Russia
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  107. 120,000 Russian service men have died since Putin ordered the invasion.
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  108. @Gopal Meharwade  do you know that when Russia invaded there were 80,000 foreign students in Ukraine? Most of them from Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The closest you can get to a Nazi policy is the standardization of Ukraine as the official language. The wider policies of the Ukrainian government were absolutely not fascist. There was a single far right representative in the Ukraine parliament and he was in opposition. The Russian invasion was condemned not just by the governing parties but also by the pro-Russian parties, who are now advocating for Ukraine to join the EU.
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  109.  @boydw1  you've made yourself a fool to Russian propaganda.
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  110. @Gopal Meharwade  without supporting facts, analysis and reasoning your opinion is only an unsupported opinion.
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  111. If Putin sees Ukrainians as brothers why did he make war on them, killing tens of thousands of Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Russians while he is doing it?
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  112. There are two types of government: Government that is answerable to the people, and government in which the people are subservient. The two are not natural allies in international affairs.
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  113. If Russia wants to be left alone it should keep its army at home.
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  114. ​ @HenryKajana  perhaps you can tell me the number of civilian deaths each year in the Donbas conflict, the causes and how many on each side? No? Doesn't sound like you've done a lot of research.
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  115.  @MrThartofwar  I'm sure you can offer some wildly inflated claims.
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  116. Any Russian source says something that HT can build a narrative around and HT will gobble it up without question, that's propaganda, not journalism.
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  117.  @anthonymitchell8893  countries in Europe are free to have foreign policy not dictated by Russia, the threat Russia poses is the reason why central and Eastern European countries choose to join nato. I know far more about the Minsk agreements than you, it's not disputed by Russia that Russia also failed to comply with commitments that Russia made the the Minsk agreements. Are you aware that Zelensky was elected in 2019 and that there has been little conflict and few civilian casualties in the Donbas since then?
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  118. ​​ @advanleeuwen672 not true, don't be sucked in by nassi's propaganda, the photos don't match the aim-120
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  119. Zelensky was elected in fair elections and remains his countries most popular politician.
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  120.  @johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763  the UN recognized his election as fair and opinion polls in Ukraine show solid support for his efforts in leading his country against the Russian imperialists. Putin invaded because he thought Zelensky would run away. Well, Zelensky could have, but he chose to lead his country against the invading imperialists. Not the actions of a weak clown, the actions of a true leader fighting for his country.
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  121. ​ @zanza8197  there was a referendum in Ukraine on independence in 1991, a majority in all oblasts voted in favor of independence. The Crimea "referendum" has been ruled as illegal and corrupt by the United Nations.
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  122. F16 with HARM missiles will see S300, S400 gone.
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  123.  @michaelschuenemann3505  Zelensky was elected.
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  124. @thetad1242  the UK deferred their elections, sceduled for 1940 until 1945, and the UK hadn't even been invaded. The Ukraine elections were deferred due to the Russian invasion, so far that deferment has been just 3 months. If Russia brought its army back to Russia and ended hostilities, Ukraine would be able to hold elections.
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  125.  @mikewardrop5962  there you would be wrong, the kh-101 is a Russian missile designed in the 1990's, and entering service after 2010.
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  126. Putin's campaign to increase his power has failed, his minions now see him as both harming Russia and weaker and now think about taking him down.
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  127.  @dwightsunn3937  you're the one not thinking, his point is that Russia uses force and intimidation, you pointing to the results of a rigged referendum, condemned by the UN as such, is not a refutation that the referendum was rigged.
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  128. Good to see the UK has finally confirmed Storm Shadow may be used against military target's in Russia.
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  129. As Spain doesn't have F16's try not to get to excited by this HT BS.
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  130. Russian strength in Ukraine is likely more than 250,000, but Ukrainian strength is around 700,000 (Pregozhin used that figure and it appears well based) the 13 brigades which are claimed to be the main offensive force would punch through Russian lines across a front a few tens of km wide and lead the attack, they would be supported by the other 650,000.
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  131.  @КонстантинСаченко-о3й  Putin lives in the distant past when acquiring territory by force was how things were. Today civilized countries get to pick their own leaders, Ukraine elected Zelensky, they didn't elect Putin and most Ukrainians would like to see Putin imprisoned for his war crimes.
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  132. What has Zelensky done that's evil, bring his country together to defend against an imperialist invaders?
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  133. What, more whining from Russia over countries coming to the aid of victims of Russian aggression?
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  134. Peace is easily achieved, have the Russia army in Russia rather than in Ukraine.
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  135. The Russian military is spent and exhausted.
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  136. Name these independent media.
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  137. Actually, Ukraine deaths are 30,000-50,000
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  138.  @Zakaius  in terms percentage of their GDP, the countries giving the most support to Ukraine are the countries that have experienced Russian subjugation.
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  139.  @nightdipper5178  yes, saved South Korea, on 25 June 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea. At the end of WW2 Korea had been divided into the Soviet administered north and US administered south along the 38th parallel. When the Cold War developed that administrative division turned into two Korea's. The invasion of the South by the North nearly got to Seoul, but was stopped by the US amphibious landings at Incheon, those landing cut the invading Chinese and North Korean supply lines, forcing a withdrawl. If the South had lost all 80 million Korean's would now be living in the poverty and oppression that exists in the North.
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  140. Meanwhile 46 Russian's surrendered in the same week.
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  141.  @anthonymitchell8893  that would be Trident 2 at Mach 24.
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  142.  @wolfswinkel8906  just your own
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  143. @Wolfs Winkel  ohh dear . . .just relax on the couch, now, can you describe these items you're seeing?
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  144.  @KnightWing408  don't be naive.
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  145. Those systems did their job, now there're no more Russian tanks left for javelin, no more Russian bases for himars, no more kinzhal for patriot, soon no more migs and Su for F16.
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  146. You are correct, HT is dropping to new lows in attempting to create its pro-Russian nonsense.
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  147. @Peter Bloemer  it's not about Ukraine or even really about Russia, people in some segments of Indian society have a deep anti-west chip on their shoulder. They'll cheer for any country that the west is opposing. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was an evil action by a man corrupted through being in power for 20 years, but for those with a deep hatred of the west in general and the US in particular that doesn't matter. These people feel that the West has humiliated them and they'll rationalize whatever they need to rationalize to justifying supporting any country the West is opposed to.
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  148. @damienkavanagh4912  what?? There's a routine war going on, it's been going on for nearly 2 and a half years.
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  149. About time they had a training day. In other airforces they train every day. That lack of training is why the Russian airforce hides in Russia.
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  150.  @johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763  and how can you say "just 54,000"?? Since when have 54,000 people killed been "just"?
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  151. ​ @donHooligan I know nothing about Maddow other than she's an American. This weird crush on Putin is however a lot like the crush Germans had on their ww2 leader.
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  152. @Barin-hn1bf  no, only 155mm artillery ammunition is significantly depleted, next would be patriot missiles, but over 10,000 patriot missiles have been manufactured. With about a thousand launchers produced. Artillery isn't central to Nato military doctrine.
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  153. Slovakia has had 34 months to sort our alternative supplies. The fact they haven't is Slovakia's problem and Slovakia's mistake.
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  154.  @rstefan1821  you realize that there's been very little conflict in the Donbas and very few conflict related civilian deaths there since Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine in 2019? What, you didn't know that? And you accuse others of ignorance!
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  155. ​@jason miller amazing delusional thinking on your part.
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  156. @Colton Tuers  do you actually want to address the points I've made with actual arguments or is that too difficult for you? Also, I invite you to list the sources you rely on for your information on the conflict and its causes, I invite others that attack me as not using sound sources to list their own, inevitably when I do so my critics run away. I don't pay a lot of attention to the MSM, I look for sources that don't show pejorative bias and that supply references for the information they provide.
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  157. ​@hansb.8 what advantage do motorcycles have over horses?
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  158. The nazis are in the Kremlin.
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  159. @shafts2447  he was there with Rusich, the Imperial Legion and RNU instead, holding hands with Utkin, Barkashov, Milchakov and Petrovsky.
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  160.  @jimmyc974  there's been very little conflict in the Donbas since 2015 and very few civilian casualties, currently 50 times as many are being killed in Ukraine cities each month as in the Donbas despite hardly any Russian missiles getting through.
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  161.  @HANSMKAMP  I replied to you, my comment disappeared, try checking sources outside of your normal feed. Did you know Zelensky was elected in 2019, beating also elected incumbent Petro Poreshenko? Did you know that by the time of the February 2022 invasion, civilian deaths in the donbas had dropped to about 10 a year from active military operations? From 2000 in 2014, 900 in 2015?
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  162.  @Andrzej-uw1ho Zelensky's response to the February 2022 Russian invasion pushed Zelensky's approval rating with Ukrainians to over 90%, it has fallen since then but remains strongly positive. If Zelensky is a puppet, it's to his own people.
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  163. @jimmyc974  are you quoting from the Human Rights Watch report, which goes on to say: " . . at least 8,000 people died from fighting or war-related causes, though how many of those were civilians remains unknown. The total number of dead may be significantly higher: some graves contained multiple bodies and the remains of others were most likely buried in rubble. Some may remain in makeshift graves, and others may have died later of war-related causes. Some relatives of those missing are still looking for their loved ones."? The report also states that Russia appears to have committed serious war crimes in its disregard for the lives of civilians in Mariupol.
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  164. @gkrstini  Mariupol was a large city of 425,000 before the February 2022 invasion, the initial surprise attack moved quickly to encircle the city, trapping hundreds of thousands of civilians. Then the city was shelled continuously by Russia for a couple of months, destroying about 90% of the buildings. The civilians were "fish in a barrel", unlike soldiers who can disperse to avoid being such easy targets. Compare the death toll in Mariupol with the average of 10 (that's ten, not ten thousand) civilians killed each year in the Donbas from active military operations from 2019 to 2021.
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  165. The US is there to defend Europe and European nato people know this, Russia is in Ukraine as an invading enemy, and Ukrainians know it.
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  166. Your claim is Russian propaganda, between 2019 and Feb 2022 there had been very little conflict in the Donbas, Zelensky was elected in 2019, the separatist controlled city of Donetsk was not shelled despite being in easy artillery range in recent years.
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  167.  @lilidezman624  there's a simple principle you've missed: economic growth is not a zero sum game, countries do not get wealthier by taking wealth from other countries, wealth is something that is created within countries through efficient economic activity, and the more countries with strong economies the more markets to trade with. If there's strong economic growth going on in the US or in China the rest of the world is better off, we worry about a recession in America or in China. Strong economic growth in Russia would be something to look forward to.
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  168. Obviously you mustn't see anything that doesn't suit your preferred narrative. The shock could drive you to thinking for yourself.
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  169. ​ niva0809 yeah, you can tell by the way Putin created the whole mess.
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  170. ​ @Ozspeak in February 2022 he decided to conquer Ukraine, how clever of him . . .
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  171. @henrikstephenson2246  143 in favor with just 5 against.
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  172. Putin has been killing civilians in Ukraine, including with attacks against hospitals and schools. He has no integrity.
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  173.  @hicm1of124  you state Russian propaganda as fact, there's no evidence available to support that propaganda and that propaganda is contrary to claims by US officials. So basically your claim has no informational value.
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  174.  @williemrebekahmaclutchie-e7654  evidently Russia wanted the war, Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  175. ​@Lombu Gilbert Ndjatcho trillions of rubles wasted too, none of it would have happened if Putin had kept his greedy hands to himself and his army at home.
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  176. @Samsung S10  surveys show Americans 2:1 in favor of the US sending military aid to Ukraine, without that support US politicians wouldn't be sending that aid.
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  177.  @SamsungS-or1qf  ahh, you're the political version of a flat earther, convinced there's a deep state conspiracy.
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  178. Biological laboratories are in almost every hospital around the world.
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  179. If Zelensky were governing Nato Ukraine would have gotten at least 10x as much military aid.
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  180. @VK-zt6sw  "ask Ukrainian[s]" You're not clear on your meaning, but they'll say they wanted more support than they've gotten, they'll say Ukrainians are people, just like other people in Europe and the rest of the world, wanting to live in peace in their own country and not under Russian imperialism.
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  181. @Italy 🇮🇹  the sad thing is that Russia shells schools and hospitals so often it's only briefly mentioned these days, it's happened so often it's not really a big story. . .but if a Russian hospital or school is hit it's a major calamity.
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  182. @Dark Cloud  maybe you shouldn't use the Russian MOD as your main source of information. There have been no referenda in Ukraine territory where people have voted to join Russia unless it was done at the point of Russian guns, with the counting done by Russian appointed officials. This is why the United Nations rejects such referenda as corrupt, unreliable and illegal.
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  183. @DeeKayDaGreat  why is it that Z translates to immature brain?
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  184. Russia's sabre rattling is just embarrassing.
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  185.  @deruntergangvannederland1868  I agree that the hospital was almost certainly not the target (or if it was, it wasn't recognized as a hospital). Similarly, the claim that Ukraine deliberately used very precious atacms missiles against beach goers is also ridiculous.
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  186. It is.
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  187. @TeeSpells  in 2014 there were a lot of civilians killed by both sides in the Donbas, since 2019 the civilian death toll from active military operations has averaged about 10 a year. In 2022 Russia increased the rate of civilian deaths a thousand fold.
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  188. ​@TeeSpells the UN observers mission. Not disputed by Russia, but often Russian propagandists will claim "Ukraine killed 14,000 civilians". 14,000 includes all casualties: civilian, paramilitary and military on both sides.
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  189. ​ @juliequinn2935 you're a propagandist. Nothing you said stands up to scrutiny. You should have dumped the "bio weapons labs" nonsense, that lie ran out of credibility years ago.
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  190. ​​ @followthemoney219 "saving humanity" by repeatedly threatening nuclear war. SMH.
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  191. Another wet dream from HT.
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  192. ​@KoPoRozz say it often enough, and if you really, really believe, maybe it'll be true. Next up for you: the tooth fairy.
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  193. Your claim is a lie, there was very little conflict in the Donbas for the 4 years prior to Feb 2022, with less than 10 civilians killed each year on both sides from active military operations.
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  194. @Leyla  you certainly haven't done your research, my figures are from the United Nations observer mission.
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  195. @Donal Clarke  14,000 total includes military and paramilitary on both sides, of those 3,500 were civilians. By year and excluding deaths from mines and explosive remnants of war (which in recent years have mostly been due to munitions planted and expended in the earlier years of conflict) civilian deaths: 2014: 2040 2015: 800 2016: 60 2017: 50 2018: 20 2019: 10 2020: 9 2021: 13 Figures are rounded and include civilian deaths on both sides.
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  196. ​@Rusbomb21 why shouldn't Ukraine accept military support to defend their country from the invaders?
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  197.  @MariaMatic-qb9mj  your source for that claim?
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  198. @Hi Friends  Russia is a country that invaded its neighbor, initiating a major war that has so far killed over a hundred thousand people. To end this conflict all that is required is for Russia to honor its commitment to respect Ukraine's independence and sovereignty.
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  199.  @firstordertrooper3339  you just demonstrate that you can't refute what I've said.
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  200. @Boyd W  I made a comment addressing your claims in detail, unfortunately like most of the comments by people in this thread it hasn't appeared (of 51 replies only 22 at most are visible to the public), I might try again in a few hours.
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  201. "Fascism often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition" That is, Russia today.
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  202. @THE Apocalypse  nope, not troubled at all.
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  203. What, another red line? Medvedev has been threatening to use nukes against nato for months.
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  204. Motorcycles are just Russian desperation.
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  205. ​ @izevbizuatrustine611  what no one told you is that Russia invaded Ukraine killing tens of thousands of civilians, shelling cities to rubble. Try to pay attention.
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  206. Meanwhile Russia sacrifices tens of thousands of its young men on a foolish campaign to achieve nothing but more power to Putin.
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  207. ​@Egbert Andrew what's your point, that it's foolish for countries to invade and try to conquer other countries? On that we can certainly agree, and Russia is discovering that it was foolish of Putin to invade Ukraine.
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  208. ​@Shivappa Nayaka you have evidence that Russia didn't invade Ukraine?
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  209. That would be the end of Russia.
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  210. Putin's way of getting control of Belarus
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  211. @Ashton  but Belarus isn't yet part of Russia so not under Putin's control, Putin wanted Belarusian troops to invade Ukraine along with Russian troops, Lukashenko said no.
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  212. @NHG Emperor no one has threatened Russian sovereignty, Russian aggression threatens other countries sovereignty.
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  213.  @metasploit5660  nato isn't expanding or redeploying its nuclear forces closer to Russia.
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  214. ​@user-zm7se3tn7u why don't you tell Russia to leave Ukraine, Syria, Mali and Georgia?
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  215. The proof of a weak and disorganized Russian military is there for all to see, it started a war that it's been losing. It lost territory North of kyiv, around Kharkiv and Kherson. All it has to show for the last 8 months is the rubble of bakhmut.
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  216.  fuukrnassi  the problem is that Russian attacks on non-military targets have been frequent throughout this conflict.
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  217. I thought Biden was losing his marbles, but at least he recognizes a murderous madman when he sees one.
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  218. Yes, Putin's goals are clean - more power, more territory.
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  219. Putin's way of getting control of Belarus.
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  220. Exactly, and it's $85 million over 5 years, with the parts worth on average $85. Really is peanuts.
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  221. ​ @zanza8197  how many civilians were killed in the Donbas on both sides in 2014, how many were killed in 2019, 2020, 2021 and about how many were killed since the February 2022 Russian invasion?
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  222. International trade in arms is not an act of war. Invading a neighboring country certainly is.
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  223.  @thetad1242  just 3 months overdue, due to Ukraine being invaded. The UK deferred their 1940 elections until 1945, and the UK hadn't even been invaded. No doubt you think Winston Churchill was a dictator.
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  224.  @district5198  be serious, if you were really Canadian, would you really admit to it??
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  225. @lelanalela7932  verifiable facts is what makes things true.
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  226. Yes, we saw the same thing with saddam attacking Iran in an attempt to unite his country behind him, and in Argentina where Galtiere picked a fight with Britain when his government was in trouble. Now Putin is in trouble.
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  227. Yes, that was the original claim from Russia, that they hit the building where a top brass meeting was going on. They're not making that claim now, now it "no, it wasn't us, honest"
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  228. ​ @viacheslav1  "20 states" So you think the US invading other countries is a good idea so it's a good idea for Russia to invade other countries??
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  229.  @henryseidel5469  it's very difficult under the first past the post (FPP) electoral system for third parties to break through, most voters will see a vote for a third party as a wasted vote, which it usually is. Under electoral systems of proportional representation voters will see their vote counting as candidates with even a small minority of the vote getting into the parliament/house, so voters are not nearly as discouraged from voting for smaller parties. One system I'm familiar with is the mixed member proportional system (MMP) a version of which Ukraine uses, under that system each voters gets a electorate vote and a party vote, with candidates on the party roll distributed to make the representation in the parliament proportional to the party vote. Under that system, if the electorate vote in itself is FPP it's still often a 2 horse race, and it's the party vote that brings the representation of smaller parties into parliament. I prefer proportional systems, though if taken to the extreme they can end up with instability with a situation where no single party or coalition of parties has the power to form a stable government. (Israel springs to mind)
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  230. @Larry Perera  yes, patriot doesn't have to catch up with kinzhal, it just has to step in front of it.
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  231.  @frutbum  why do you make up such nonsense? A small nuke (1 kt) has a blast radius (light damage) of about a km.
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  232. @junominame2490  the warhead in an aim-120 is about half the size of a 155mm artillery projectile, would a single 155mm round do that much damage? No
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  233. Of course they say "yes, why not", any other answer is suicidal.
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  234. ​ @benjaminjohnsonboston  no, they're not using patriot missiles against drones, just AA guns.
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  235. @philipfry9065  the war ends when the aggressor leaves its neighbors place and goes home.
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  236. If only Russia still had heavy weapons available that they could deploy to Ukraine. . . or are you referring to T54/55 tanks?
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  237. @jimbobjimjim6500  On 12 April 2014, the Donbas town of Sloviansk was captured by a fifty-strong unit of heavily-armed pro-Russian militants. They attacked and occupied the town's administration building, police station, and SBU building. The unit were Russian Armed Forces 'volunteers' under the command of Russian GRU colonel Igor Girkin. Girkin said that this action sparked the Donbas War. He said "I'm the one who pulled the trigger of war. If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out, like in Kharkiv, like in Odesa".
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  238. ​@Pat B the flag referred to is the Ukraine insurgent army flag, the flag symbolizes Ukraine blood spilt on black soil. The ukraine insurgents fought against outside forces opposed to a sovereign Ukraine including Poland, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
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  239. ​ @saveriodipoce2201  you're clueless about the difference between fighting an insurgency and a regular army. An insurgency by irregular forces disappears into the civilian population when they're under threat of destruction. That's not an option for the Russian army in Ukraine. That problem with insurgents is not the problem for Ukraine throughout most of Russian occupied Ukraine, it is though a problem for Russian forces occupying Ukraine.
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  240.  @joeenergy973  the only thing that makes sense in your comment is that you drink.
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  241.  @BenRover2961 the houses of nato member countries have not expanded, what's happened is more countries have joined the neighborhood watch.
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  242. ​ @cosimodomanico4341  Zelensky was elected by Ukrainians in 2019, he defeated the incumbent Petro Poreshenko, so no, Zelensky, like any other elected leader answers to those who elected him, and the Ukrainian people are utterly determined to see the invading Russian scum forced out of Ukraine.
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  243. What big guns?
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  244.  @SG-gt3zm  you just accept the claims of the Kremlin without question.
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  245.  @henrikstephenson2246  not that many have died, actual is about a tenth of Russian claims
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  246. @Umeshukitsune  The minimum age for conscription in Ukraine is 25, the minimum age for conscription in Russia is 18. The average age in both armies is about 40.
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  247. @Umeshukitsune  these differences in the age of the younger soldiers probably contributes greatly to the far higher death rates in Russian forces. Younger men are less cautious and more easily led into folly.
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  248. @davidlum2001  the US has not invaded Cuba, Venezuela, or Nicaragua even though it is against the policies of those governments.
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  249. No, that's your fantasy.
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  250. ​@TheEpicCreator he's a BS artist, Ukraine has received over 200 western tanks and they're operational.
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  251. It would have been F16's that caused any sonic boom rushing to get to it quickly
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  252.  @martinvidenovic5767  where did you get that figure (2100) from? Ukraine has not admitted 500,000 dead.
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  253.  @stevevojtek8856  source? Kremlin
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  254. @user-ty3mk2do9r  why Russia deploy troops in Ukraine instead of its own territory? The US missiles are welcome in Germany, Russian troops are not welcome in Ukraine - obviously.
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  255. @Habibi-vy4hy  in the first place Ukraine stopped the Russian invasion before significant weapons arrived from the West. In the second place, Ukraine is more important to Ukrainians than it is to Nato or Russia, that is why Ukrainians have been fighting so hard and for so long. In the third place Ukraine deaths are certainly below 100,000. Military deaths probably around 50,000. Please stop getting your misinformation (as HT does) directly from the Kremlin.
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  256. @danielculpepper9258  what an amazing analysis it is that you offer to refute my point . . . Sorry, I was being sarcastic, you offer nothing but your empty head and nonsense.
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  257.  @Persev444  hey, what you should do is pretend that I've attacked or insulted you. Victimhood, it's so trendy and effective!
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  258. ​ @calabuzkal8080  you still believe Russian propaganda that kinzhal is more than over hyped junk?? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  259. Ukraine isn't using the top end equipment and missiles against the Iranian drones, mostly just radar directed AA guns, so your theory doesn't make any sense.
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  260. @Daphne Thurlow  no, not one of my sources. But what sources do you recommend? Edit: (this is where Daphne runs away because the only sources she likes are absurdly partisan).
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  261. @Z  Western colonialism ended last century, for India in 1947, for most of Africa in the 1960's. Which parts of the world are now under the rule of the colonial powers rather than the people who live there? For the Western democracies the only overseas territories are overseas departments of France and territories like American Samoa that choose not to be independent countries. A colonial power is reasonably defined as a country that subjugates the population of another country, today that would be Russia which is attempting to take away Ukraine sovereignty through military action.
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  262. ​@@mariadamen7886 weird that you think that's sadder than Putin's pointless war killing over 100,000 people.
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  263.  @frostflower5555  Zelensky is doing the job the people of his country expect from him: doing everything he can to see a successful defense of Ukraine against an imperialist Russian invader.
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  264.  @Saffsa  Zelensky was elected in 2019 after beating incumbent Petro Poreshenko. If you're referring to the populist revolution against the Russian puppet that happened 2014.
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  265. @YUD0NSAY 111  Merkel said the Minsk agreement gave Ukraine time, as in time to prepare for Putin's invasion, there was no "admission" that Ukraine or western countries were going to initiate aggression. There are no biological weapons labs. The conflict in the Donbas had dropped from 2000 civilian deaths in 2014 to around 20-25 civilian deaths a year in recent years, and most of the deaths in recent years have been due to landmines and explosive remnants of war planted or expended in the earlier years. In recent years civilian deaths a year due to shelling was less than 10, that's on both sides. Compare that to the tens of thousands of civilians who have died from Russian shelling and bombing in the last 15 months. The heavy weapons claim is Russian propaganda, a justification for an invasion similar to that which Hitler used, Hitler invaded several of his neighbors after claiming they were planning aggression against Germany.
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  266. Did you not notice that it's Russia that's the imperialist? It's Russia that invaded a neighboring country to annex territory? Again.
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  267. This "peace plan" is just repeating the demands that Russia has been making, and that have been rejected for 2 years. Plans that demand even more territory, and demand Ukraine leave itself vulnerable to future Russian attempts at imperialist land grabs.
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  268. There are no nato nuclear missiles in continental Europe. Russia and Belarus are the only countries deploying nukes as a threat.
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  269. There is no red army any more.
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  270. So, there was a routine RAF flight over international waters in the Black Sea and a routine interception and a routine continuation of the RAF flight and a routine return of the Russian aircraft to base at the end of its mission. I await with baited breath the overblown report from HT of tomorrows exciting routine missions.
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  271. After Russia has been targeting Ukrainian schools and hospitals for months.
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  272.  @donHooligan  Putin has become the fascist - defining fascism by the actions of nationalism, oppression of opponents, murder, control of the media, the demonization of foreigners, invasion of neighboring countries justified with lies. Putin uses Hitler's playbook, he just points at others and screams "Nazi" to stop people looking too closely at his own form of fascism.
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  273.  @donHooligan  Putin is the fascist, same playbook Mussolini used, with inevitably the same failure awaiting him.
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  274. ​@user-bk6gx7sg3j Britain has 157 operational Challengers, and the ones sent to Ukraine were taken from storage, not from operational units.
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  275. @Barin-hn1bf  sources say 157. British army says: "The regiments are called The Queen’s Royal Hussars, The King’s Royal Hussars, The Royal Tank Regiment, and The Royal Wessex Yeomanry, which is the reserve regiment. Each regiment operates 56 Challenger 2 tanks." So 157 might be low.
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  276. @Barin-hn1bf  what sources have you got that claim patriot missile stocks in Nato are low? I don't claim Nato has 10,000+, which is the total manufactured over 40 years, but current Nato stocks will be in the low thousands.
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  277.  @Baron-hn1bf  total Nato modern MBT number is over 6,000.
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  278.  @Burebista_82-44BCE  you dream up nonsense and think it has some value. I won't both to ask you to support your claims with evidence, I know you can't.
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  279. @Burebista_82-44B.C  I'm looking forward to seeing your sources.
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  280.  @Jan_Miklas  is your reading comprehension lacking? Has Slovakia existed for more than 34 months?
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  281. And Russia invaded another UN member and has been condemned by the UN for it, with the UN general assembly demanding Russia return to its own borders.
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  282. @faizansalar  are you offering so sort of 'two wrongs make a right' argument?
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  283. @haydonditchburn2194  there has not been constant shelling, in fact between 2019 and February 2022 there was very little military action going on in the Donbas, the annual death toll of civilians from active military operations was about a dozen a year on both sides, compared to 2,000 in 2014, 800 in 2015, and up to 20,000 in 2022 after the Russian invasion.
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  284. @haydonditchburn2194 former Russian FSB Colonel Igor Girkin claimed responsibility for igniting the Donbas conflict, he said:  "I'm the one who pulled the trigger of war. If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out, like in Kharkiv, like in Odesa". He explained that "nobody there wanted to fight" He had entered the Donbas in early 2014 with 50 heavily armed men and initiated violence against Ukraine administrators, including murdering some of them.
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  285. @juliequinn2935  spoken by someone whose understanding of events is based entirely on reading Kremlin disinformation outlets.
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  286. @BBme  not true, your fantasies don't make reality.
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  287. @EndIslam4ever  Ukraine has been a member of the UN since 1946. Russia pledged to respect Ukraine's internationally recognized borders in 1994.
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  288.  @HadEnough79  you funny.
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  289. I'm no fan of Netanyahu, but how about acknowledging the reality that Syria has been through under Assad and that it's the Syrian rebel factions that now have power, Netanyahu is not the most important factor of where Syria goes from here.
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  290. It's Russian military stuff that's overrated crap. And it's that crap that Russia needs to sell to foolish countries to keep its arms industry alive.
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  291. Ukraine's chosen path is one of a functioning democracy in which elections bring changes of government. That is the problem for Putin, he doesn't want Russia catching what he sees as the democracy and open government disease.
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  292. Ukraine already flies Soviet era aircraft capable of carrying nuclear bombs, this Russian whining is just a line to sell to fools.
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  293. ​ @jackclient3135  you run the usual line of people who themselves know nothing about an issue, pathetic.
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  294.  @jackclient3135  "Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko said the country’s Air Force now has aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. “Some time ago, me and Putin announced in St. Petersburg that we were going to modify Belarusian Su-24 aircraft so they could carry nuclear weapons. You think we were just shooting our mouths off? It’s all ready!” Lukashenko said, according to Ria Novosti on August 26, 2022." Ukraine also has SU24's, so already has the theoretical capacity to carry nukes.
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  295.  filippalund TARTARIA an Empire hidden in history  the destruction of that dam is a major disadvantage to a Ukraine counterattack, an advantage to the Russian defense. Russia destroyed it.
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  296. @filippalund TARTARIA an Empire hidden in history  you're spouting Russian MOD gobbledygook. There is and was no Ukraine dirty bomb, the claim is a complete fabrication.
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  297. @Lebohang Mokheseng  Ukraine was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945, a republic, not a Russian state.
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  298. @Kabo Mathibela  you're a genius, when did you work out that Russia is not Japan? Why did you previously think that Russia was Japan?
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  299. @budmaister1799  if Putin wanted peace for Ukrainian's, he would never have invaded. What Putin wants is RuSSian imperialism.
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  300.  @costa4545  no, after 2 years of his madness I'm just resigned to his empty threats against all who support the Ukrainian's battle against his imperialist megalomania. Countries belong to the people who live there, Ukraine belongs to Ukrainian's, not Russia, and India belongs to India.
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  301. I read your comment and I'm left wondering if you know anything at all about this conflict other than having a conviction that "Russia good". Putin invaded Ukraine expecting Zelensky to flee, he did not, and now that Russia has been exhausted while Ukraine has been strengthened, Zelensky is going to stick around for Ukraine's inevitable victory.
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  302. It's Russia that's been the meddler in Ukraine.
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  303. Ukraine belongs to the people who live there. If there had been no Russian invasion, Ukraine would be exporting those minerals to buyers around the world, those buyers would then produce goods that would also be exported around the world. There is no mineral profit in this conflict.
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  304. If mined those minerals would be sold on international markets, then turned into goods sold around the world. For everyones benefit. There's no mineral profit from this war.
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  305. Don't be naive. Killing Lukashenko is Putin's way of getting control of Belarus.
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  306. There wouldn't be a war if Putin had kept his army in his own country.
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  307. Yes, Russians should fight against their own country's murdering aggression.
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  308. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine.
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  309. Strong Russia for war against its neighbors.
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  310. @Colton Tuers  yep, I only see 21 of the 37 replies in this thread. YouTube doesn't let comments with links through. I'm familiar with many of the sources that the fans of Russia's aggression like to reference. I'm happy to go hunt for the sources you recommend if I've the title of an article and the name of the site, as long as it's not the rubbish from lunatics like Ritter, the Duran, the Gray Zone, Hindustan Times and The Dive. That is, sites that exist to rebroadcast Russian MoD propaganda.
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  311. @princesmooth8302  I've ridden both, a horse can go places a motorcycle can't, a horse can swim, a horse can eat the fuel at its feet, a horse can move about quietly.
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  312. @princesmooth8302  you're not in a position to judge the morale, Russia has mostly been putting refurbished older Soviet equipment into the field. Those stores are running low. If other countries continue to supply Ukraine at rates similar to that which they have, Ukraine's position in equipment will improve over Russia's. Neither country is close to running out of men, both have millions of men fit for military service, Ukraine currently has its minimum conscription age at 25, Russia has conscription from 18.
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  313. @princesmooth8302  the number of men Ukraine has 25-55 is about 7.5 million. Don't buy Kremlin propaganda on Ukraine casualties, actual are around 150,000, including injured. Those that left Ukraine were the women and children. Putin started the conflict using their best equipment, now they're more reliant on Soviet era gear from storage. If you disagree, name this more modern equipment that they're keeping back. Ukraine on the other hand started off with less sophisticated equipment from the West with steadily more expensive and advanced equipment coming in more recently, more Patriot batteries are arriving soon, then F16's with the munitions they carry. The F16's will push Russian aircraft further back from the front lines.
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  314.  @princesmooth8302  7.5 million Ukrainian men 25-55. It was the women and children that left Ukraine. Specifically, what modern do you claim Russia has held back. Don't buy Russian propaganda on Ukraine casualty rates.
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  315. @princesmooth8302  "not a good sign" I guess Putin begging for weapons from NK and Iran is proof that Russia is running out of weapons then.
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  316. ​@worfkiller Putin had to pull so much out of Syria that he didn't have enough left in Syria to protect the regime from the people.
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  317.  @worfkiller  he's lost half a million, the 30,000 a month of new recruits are going straight to the front where they survive, on average for 2 weeks.
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  318. Putin cannot be trusted at all, lying is his trademark.
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  319. Nato has been warned: Don't send artillery or Russia will launch utter destruction Don't send Himars or Russia will be very angry Don't send Tanks or Russia will stamp foot and give nasty look Don't send Storm Shadow or Russia will throw toys out of cot.
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  320. It was Russia that invaded, not Nato, Ukraine is fighting a defensive war against an imperialist invader.
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  321. ​ @Thewhippedhippie I've no idea what "foreigners influences missiles on the Russian border" is supposed to mean. Ukraine couldn't join Nato. The conflict in the Donbas had declined to a level that civilian deaths in 2021 were less than 1% of what they were in 2008. Ukraine was not prepared for major conflict on the borders - that's obvious from the rapid advances that Russia initially made in their invasion in February 2022. Putin has made it clear over the last 2 years (and in his writings before that) that he sees Ukraine as Russian territory. That's why he invaded. In the West, since the end of imperialism, the view has been that countries belong to the people who live there, not to neighboring imperialist's like Putin.
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  322. Putin wants them to be one country - under Putin: Ein Reich Ein Volk Ein Fuhrer
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  323. Its absurd to think that Ukraine should continue to allow the oil from a country that has invaded Ukraine and continues the war against Ukraine, to be piped across Ukraine to market.
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  324.  @BasedInBrazil  Russian military spending as a percentage of GDP is higher than that for the US.
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  325.  @rameshande9600  Putin's been running with Hitler's playbook for 15 years.
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  326. Putin's been using Hitler's playbook for years.
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  327. @shafts2447  how about Russian nazi military units like Wagner, Rusich, Russian National Unity, the Imperial Legion, and Espanola? And their nazi leaders: Utkin, Alexey Milchakov, Yan Petrovsky, Alexander Barkashov? Today, there are more fascists in Russia than in any other country.
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  328. @irinashapovalova2494  perhaps you don't realize that most Germans, under the rule of Hitler, thought he was leading their country to greatness against the hostile foreigners. Because Hitler controlled the narrative, inside Germany, as Putin does today inside Russia, they believed Germany's aggression against its neighbors was justified, just as most Russian's today see Russia's aggression as justified.
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  329. @irinashapovalova2494  Russia invades its neighbors as Germany did, Russian's are told their countries aggression is justified, just as Germans were.
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  330. Why do you even bother typing out such a dumb comment?
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  331. Hard to believe you said that given all the barking Putin has been doing at the west, with endless threats about "consequences" if the west supplies Ukraine with nlaws or javelin or artillery or himars or tanks or storm shadow or patriots or F16's.
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  332.  @HANSMKAMP  of course you don't believe it, you've been fed a carefully constructed narrative through anti western outlets, supported by the same narrative on social media by Russian troll farms. There are other falsehoods that are also fed in to support the narrative: That Zelensky wasn't democratically elected - he was in 2019, beating incumbent president Petro Poreshenko. That Ukraine killed 14,000 civilians in the Donbas - total civilian casualties 2014-21 was 4000, 1000 of those in 2014, 900 in 2015. In the 3 years between Zelensky being elected and the February 2022 invasion by Russia the civilian death toll was about 75 on both sides, and the majority of those were from landmines and unexploded munitions mostly planted or fired in earlier years. In those 3 years the civilian death toll from active military operations was about 10 per year on both sides, the conflict was petering out, with static lines of control. Life was actually fairly on both sides in the Donbas. There's a UN monitor report online with the details. After Yanukovych fled there was an armed revolt in the Donbas supported by Moscow that attacked police stations and other government people and facilities that didn't support the revolt, so it was the separatists that initiated the violence, it was after that that the violence really kicked off with efforts by the Ukraine government to suppress the revolt. Russia supported the revolt and war against Ukraine from the outset - (Putin actually acknowledged that in one interview).
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  333.  @HANSMKAMP  you've also no doubt been fed the narrative that opposition parties have all been banned in Ukraine. That's a half truth, explicitly pro-Russian parties were initially banned after the 2022 invasion, but their ministers of parliament were not, the Party for Life, was banned, but it's leader ethnic Russian Yuriy Anatoliyovych Boyko simply renamed it the Platform for Life and Peace and it and its MPs remain in the Ukraine parliament to this day. There are vacant seats in the parliament, (about 46 from memory), these are in electorates now under Russian occupation.
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  334.  @HANSMKAMP  did you know that the ethnic Russian political opposition leader Yuriy Boyko hasn't been banned or imprisoned, that he still sits in the Ukraine parliament, along with the rest of his party?
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  335.  @HANSMKAMP  in everyday life, Russian is not banned, it can be taken as an option in schools. Most Russian speakers in Ukraine are choosing Ukraine over Russia because Russia invaded their country. He was pro-Russian before the Russian invasion in February 2022. Putin has united 85% of Ukrainians against him.
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  336. the vast majority of ethnic Russian Ukrainians are opposed to the Russian invasion. Russian is not banned in terms of education and everyday use.
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  337.  @geraldgeaf1292  As far as I know, Yanukovych ran before anyone had reached a decision on his fate should he have been captured by the revolutionaries. But if you've got actual information that he had been informed of his future beheading were he to have stayed, I'd be interested in seeing it.
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  338.  @geraldgeaf1292  your comment doesn't support your earlier claim or address my question about it.
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  339.  @geraldgeaf1292  where was this cliff?
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  340.  @geraldgeaf1292  his motorcade drove him to Berdiansk, where he met a Russian helicopter that took him to Russia.
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  341. ​ @geraldgeaf1292  "Azov" Now you're just trying to embellish an already embellished story. Try not to buy everything you read in Kremlin propaganda releases.
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  342. @Tellzel107  nato's army's stayed home, if Putin's army has stayed home, no war.
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  343. @Tellzel107  countries have joined Nato, that's not the US moving into other countries. The reason countries join Nato is because Russia is a threat, it conquers neighboring countries and subjugates them. It subjugated several central European countries for 45 years and when they escaped that subjugation they joined Nato as a way of reducing the risk of it happening to them again.
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  344.  @Pamela-m9j  countries join Nato to reduce the risk of being subjugated by Russia.
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  345.  @Pamela-m9j  those countries that joined Nato stayed home.
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  346. @Tellzel107  countries neighboring Russia are not "in Russian's backyard" unless you think Russian's "backyard" is on the other side of the border with sovereign nations.
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  347. @Tellzel107  it's Ukraine that is fighting to defend its territory against an invader.
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  348. @Tellzel107  if you (at number 10) have friends next door (at number 12) whose home is invaded and ransacked by the people in the gang house at number 14. Do you defend the right of the gangsters, because in their view, the people at number 12 "live in their backyard" Well, that's what you're doing.
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  349. @Tellzel107  the countries giving the most support to Ukraine, in terms of the proportion of their GDP, are the small countries closest to Russia, this is because they see Russia as a threat that needs to be stopped.
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  350. @Tellzel107  there is no prospect of Ukraine joining Nato. Putin wants to expand Russia's power in the region, and do it by conquest if that's the only option open to him. All those former Warsaw Pact countries, so strong in their support for Ukraine, know exactly what that means.
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  351.  @Pamela-m9j  nato isn't expanding into Ukraine, Russia is being blocked from expanding into Ukraine.
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  352.  @Pamela-m9j  have a look at a map of where the Russian army is.
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  353.  @ViceCoin  Putin is just like Stalin, but Russia is not the Soviet Union.
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  354.  @elodia57  URAAA2
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  355. @gkrstini  you've got it backwards, as oryx shows. Russia invaded with the best they had, now they're having to pull old Soviet junk out of storage, the quality of the equipment Russia is using is declining, while the quality of the equipment Ukraine is getting from the west is improving .
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  356.  @gkrstini  oh, and Russia shelled Mariupol to ruin, killing over 20,000 civilians in the first couple of months of the war.
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  357. @johnringoo756  none of those, and I rate HT as of a similar quality to those BS producers.
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  358. @jimmyc974  dilten made a reasonable and sound comment, Jimmy's comment was the comment expected from a child.
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  359. @michaelradisis2980  Russian leaders have always placed a low value on human life, from Lenin to Stalin to Putin, and that includes placing a low value on Russian lives.
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  360. @derrickjoe1872  only around 0.1 to 1% of artillery rounds fired actually kill anyone, the kill rate at the higher end if it's well directed and against more densely grouped troops exposed through launching an attack. The kill ratio is at the lower end when artillery is used against soldiers in trenches and fortified positions. Ukraine has been trying to concentrate artillery against the Russian's when they group and are attacking, Russia has been mainly using artillery against troops in entrenched and fortified positions.
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  361. @konrad9240  Russia is the largest member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the other members: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Tajikistan have not been supplying Russia with much in the way of support because they know that Putin is the aggressor and that they could easily be next on Putin's list.
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  362.  @bidemibadmus5700  is that nonsense what you call reasoning?
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  363. Notably other CSTO members have not provided significant support to Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Other CSTO members see Russia as more threat than friend.
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  364. ​@WoWa-C the Soviet Union liberated East European countries only to then occupy and oppress them for 45 years. That's why they don't trust Russia, and why they're willing to contribute to the defense of Ukraine, to protect Ukrainians against oppression by Russia in the future.
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  365. ​ @3o3tigger correct if you believe in authoritarianism and support imperialism.
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  366. ​ WoWa-C the "bodies moving" video wasn't Bucha, it was of a protest filmed in Austria years earlier. Putin is trying to rebuild an empire through military conquest.
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  367.  @savanthsunnyt  there's no treaty saying the US has to withdraw its troops from Europe, what have you been smoking?
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  368. The fall of Assad is celebrated around the world because his regime was murderous. His fall is not celebrated in Russia because his regime was murderous.
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  369. ​@Abdulsalam Ibrahim recently Russian forces have been losing more territory in the bakhmut area than they've gained, there have been no significant changes in territory elsewhere.
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  370. ​ @josefigueiredo215  the nazis are in the Kremlin.
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  371.  @franciscoruvalcaba8864  if you believe the fake "8 Ukrainians to 1 Russian" narrative you're a fool.
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  372.  @thinkingtoomuch7974  islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack, the attackers were caught, and were Muslims from Tajikistan. But don't let the facts get in the way of whatever you want to believe. Oh, and you're thinkingnotenough.
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  373. Obviously kinzhal and iskander can carry nuclear warheads, the fact that nato and Ukraine haven't tried to sell their supporters on any nuclear threat from those missiles but Russia tries to sell the F16 as a nuclear threat is a reflection of the higher IQ of Ukraine's supporters, we're not so easily fooled by shallow BS.
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  374. @Lili Dežman  why is it ridiculous to think Russia can lose? Was it ridiculous to think that the US could lose in Afghanistan, that the Soviet Union could lose in Afghanistan before that? Was it ridiculous that the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq could lose to Israel, a country with one twentieth their combined population and a fraction of their military strength?
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  375.  @Staann  some of them are reasonable enough to be forced to consider the holes in their positions if your argument is comprehensive.
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  376.  @lilidezman624  the defeat of Russia could mean the end of Putin, Putin has pushed the argument that "it'll be the end of Russia" and unfortunately many will believe, but by far the cheapest way for the west to obtain Russian resources is to buy them, it's also the cheapest way for Russia to get resources from around the rest of the world. Why would the West need to destroy Russia? What's to be gained? Far better if Russia were to join the West, as most of the rest of Eastern Europe has done. You seem to think that an impoverished Russia is to the West's advantage, how is that? China's strong economy has been a huge benefit to Western economies, the cheaper manufactured goods a boon to western consumers.
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  377.  @lilidezman624  Luke said Ukraine has never attacked Russia, your NYT article, claiming the use of cluster bombs by Ukraine in the Donbas, doesn't contradict Luke's claim.
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  378.  @lukebandolino882  there are good grounds to believe that there were war crimes committed by both sides in the Donbas in 2014, arguably Ukrainian forces were responsible for much of the worst of it. However, the civilian deaths quickly tailed off after 2014, from about 2,000 in that year to 900 in 2015, that decline in civilian casualties continued so that in 2021 it was down to around two dozen civilians killed on both sides, with the majority of those deaths being front landmines and explosive remnants of war expended in the earlier years of the conflict. Total civilian deaths 2014-2021 was about 3,500. With it's February 2022 invasion, Russia, which used it's reliance on concentrated artillery fire, increased the rate of civilian deaths in the Donbas from that two dozen a year to over ten thousand in a year.
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  379.  @lilidezman624  the claim that the west got rich from cheap Russian energy or poverty in the rest of the world is a political myth. Russia sold fossil fuels to Europe at fair prices and benefitted from the transaction. Poverty throughout the world has been rapidly declining through trade with western countries. Life expectancy and education levels in Africa are now higher than in western Europe in the 1920's. These facts are easy to check.
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  380.  @lukebandolino882  you said "Putin claimed Russian speakers in the Donbas. . . . Being slaughtered by Ukraine" There's a strong case that some were victims of Ukraine war crimes. That's what I was addressing.
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  381.  @lilidezman624  the Donbas was part of Ukraine. Putin encouraged Yanukovych to go back on his commitment to sign the EU association agreement. I wonder how much Putin encouraged the revolt in the Donbas when Yanukovych fled, it was when that armed insurrection occurred with armed attacks on government buildings and officials that the conflict kicked off.
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  382.  @lilidezman624  Putin lies, there are many occasions he's been proven to have lied.
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  383.  @lilidezman624  the majority of voters in each and every oblast voted for Ukraine's independence in 1991, that includes the Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea. Russia then recognized the then Ukraine territory and promised to protect Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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  384.  @lilidezman624  the Donbas revolt was not a mass movement, it was a coordinated armed insurrection, the protests that forced Yanukovych to flee were hundreds of thousands strong and those hundreds of thousands were not all armed to the teeth. Nor were they under the mind control powers of Victoria Nuland. After Yanukovych fled there was peace throughout Ukraine except in the parts of the Donbas where the insurrection occurred. Within 3 months there were presidential elections, then 5 years later and on scedule the following election occurred in which Zelensky defeated incumbent Petro Poreshenko. Since that election the amount of conflict in the Donbas had continued to decline - until the February 2022 Russian invasion.
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  385.  @lilidezman624  every country, except possibly Japan, is a mix of many nations. What counts is whether or not those people build a coherent national identity. That has certainly happened in Ukraine outside of separatist Donbas. It's how it is in most European countries today, where such a national identity didn't exist - the former Yugoslavia, the country disintegrated, Czechoslovakia ended up dividing into two countries because there were two national identities each stronger than the united identity.
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  386.  @lilidezman624  it's annoying that links can't be posted, I'm not sure what the different story is, that the US controlled the Ukraine population? Turned Ukrainians against their leader, rather than the fear created by Yanukovych with his effort to move Ukraine back towards Russia and away from the EU doing the job? You don't have to look very far to see how strongly Russian rule across Eastern Europe alienated East Europeans towards Moscow, most of Eastern Europe fled to the EU and nato as fast as their little legs could carry them, once they got the chance.
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  387.  @lilidezman624  most countries have hate crimes, I could write up sizable lists for numerous of them, many would be far worse than Ukraine. That's putting such crimes into context, not excusing them. So unless you've similar condemnation for all those other countries you're just looking for justifications to demonize one country you have a bias against.
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  388.  @lilidezman624  re hate crimes. There's a site nationmaster that tries to compare countries, Ukraine ranks better than most, far better than the US, Russia, UK and most other countries, the data I found is from 2014, and should not be taken as totally reliable, but as an indication. Ukraine has a national identity, it's origins are irrelevant. Ukraine parliament has elected representatives elected using a proportional voting system, the policies of those representatives gives a good indication of how nazi the population is. There isn't any evidence that nazism is a problem. When Russia invaded 60,000 foreign students, most of them from the Indian subcontinent and Africa fled the country - fled from the Russian invasion, not from Ukrainians.
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  389.  @lukebandolino882  I agree completely. Though I think Ukraine had poor control over some units (notably Azov) the Ukraine government was proactive in dealing with the problem, most of the leadership of azov was forced out and the unit was brought under direct government control after 2014. In the recent Russian invasion it has been Russian and allied forces that have been responsible for the vast majority of the war crimes that have occurred.
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  390.  @tokyo.peking  Bucha, execution of civilians on road, execution of prisoner, beheading of prisoners, abduction of children, bombing of multiple civilian facilities, torture of prisoners. Video evidence of killing of prisoners, injuries and evidence of torture, evidence of murder of civilians in Bucha, Putin charged with child abduction. I'm not a court so, no, I'm giving an opinion, not a conviction. Amnesty also claims Russia is responsible for many of these alleged war crimes.
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  391. Obviously fools to invade Ukraine.
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  392.  @КонстантинСаченко-о3й  the Minsk agreements failed because fighting continued after the ceasefire dates, the fighting was mutual and due to the exact position of the line of control not being included in the agreements. The separatist believing that some areas occupied by Ukrainian troops were rightfully theirs. Russian propaganda claims it was all Ukraine and the Wests fault the agreements didn't successfully lead to an immediate ceasefire, but the fault was arguably due to faults in the agreements from them being put together under time pressure. But after Minsk 2 there was a steady decline in the level of conflict with the civilian death toll in 2015 (900) being less than half of what it was in 2014, (2000) after 2015 the number of civilian deaths declined more rapidly, in recent years active military operations taking less than 10 civilian lives a year on both sides. There were major cities within easy artillery range on both sides of the line of control, inhabitants of those cities were not living in daily fear of being bombed or shelled. Claims to the contrary were Russian propaganda to justify their invasion.
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  393. Zelensky was elected in 2019, from 2019 to 2021 the number of civilian deaths in the Donbas from active military operations was 10 a year on both sides. So your claim is nonsense.
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  394. It's Russia doing the invading this time, it's Russia getting scorched.
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  395. Bot
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  396.  @klsar1  just your FSB programmers
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  397.  @alterdrache  you should go check up on how little conflict there has actually been in the Donbas since Zelinsky was elected in 2019. Answer: Very little.
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  398.  @alterdrache  There had been no change in the line of control for years and the level of conflict had dropped to a level where there were less than 10 civilian deaths from artillery and gunfire or other military actions on both sides each year for over 3 years. Compare that to the tens of thousands of civilians killed in the Donbas by Russia since February 2022. So no, they were under no threat from Ukraine. The reality is that Russian was running a propaganda campaign claiming that there was enough violence going on in the Donbas to justify their invasion when there was not.
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  399. @Nikola Jokic  tell that the the residents of mariupol whose city was destroyed by Russian shelling that killed tens of thousands of civilians.
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  400. If he does Putin will just try again with a higher dose.
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  401.  @marietheresa7866  here I am warning that putin wants Lukashenko dead and for that you're encouraging I be a target of Putin's murder attempts. It's obvious where your localities lie and that's with Putin and his attempts at murdering Lukashenko.
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  402. The Russian attacks on Kyiv are now causing little damage and few casualties.
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  403. Putin will continue to hide.
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  404. "Warmongers" surely you can only be talking about the leaders of the country that invaded its neighbor, in 2014 and again in 2022. To accuse the victims of those invasions, and the countries that have come to the aid of the victims of those invasions of being "warmongers" would be madness. If your home was invaded and your other neighbors came to help you defend your property and your family, what would you think of people that accused you of being the aggressors or warmongers?
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  405. Putin's "peace plan" doesn't just demand the land under occupation, it demands additional territory and political control over the rest of Ukraine - that Putin can veto whom can be among the leadership in Ukraine.
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  406. We now know that Russia is not a serious military, it has a corrupt mess for a military.
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  407. Kh-101 verified by bellingcat. "Russian missile identified in Kyiv children's hospital attack "
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  408. Yep, all the murderous imperialists are rooting for Putin, they recognize a kindred spirit.
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  409.  @SamsungS-or1qf  McGregor never provides evidence to support his claims and his predictions of an imminent Russian victory and Ukraine military collapse that he's made since February last year have been proven wrong every time. It's bizarre that some people continue to have any faith in his claims. But that's how desperate ideologues think, they're unable to question the narrative they're desperate to believe, a complete inability to apply critical thought. If Ukraine launch a successful counter offensive in the next few days, taking many thousands of square kilometers of their territory back from Russia, McGregor will again have been proven wrong. If that happens will the ideologues enamored by his claims abandon him? Nope, they'll continue to believe what they're desperate to believe.
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  410.  @pooooornopigeon  "channle", I think you mean "channel"
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  411.  @pooooornopigeon  your use of speech marks needs work, don't have that gap, it's: "around the words quoted" not " around the words quoted ".
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  412. @Samsung S10 You've been watching too much TV. "Follow the money" is a cliche for simpletons. Is money all that motivates you?
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  413. @Jeff Soltis  power and hierarchy is what motivates Putin, he has all the power in Russia, now he seeks power outside of Russia, or to expand Russian territory.
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  414. Duh! Putin has demonstrated he's a warmonger by starting a major war.
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  415.  @MariaPage-h9z  Musk has pointed out that Putin is the richest man in the world.
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  416.  @VK-zt6sw  you've been listening to Russian propaganda again.
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  417. @VK-zt6sw  if Russia wants the war to end all Russia needs to do is go home. Russia was the aggressor and continues to be the aggressor.
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  418. @VK-zt6sw  the war ends when the aggressor leaves its neighbors place and goes home.
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  419.  @VK-zt6sw  are you 12 years old?
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  420. @VK-zt6sw  15 year old jailed for 5 years in Russia: "The FSB said Arseny ‘formed the opinion that there is no freedom of speech and independent media in the Russian Federation’ ".
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  421. Russia's allies are supplying all that they are willing and able to.
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  422. A country that started a war that's taken hundreds of thousands of lives whines about sabotage that took no lives.
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  423.  @tepurangaheremaia  yep, videos all over YouTube.
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  424. Putin bombs kyiv month after month killing and injuring hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, thinks that's OK, drones strike Moscow, thinks that's terrorism. Putin's a deranged little hypocrite.
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  425. ​@Noneshere both Ukraine and Russia have multiple parties in their parliaments, difference is that Putin selects the candidates in Russia.
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  426. @Foo cheong Wong  the more power and the longer in power the more corrupt, Putin's been in power over 20 years, and anyone who tries to challenge his power ends up dead, imprisoned or in exile.
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  427.  @foocheongwong7208  the US has the attribute of regular changes in President, any leader in power for decades is corrupt, any leader that declares himself President for life is corrupt.
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  428.  @ntombimasikane8988  Russia's been doing it continually for a year.
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  429. @I am a Monkey bro  try Google "Ukraine schools bombed" there are hundreds of them. You should know, but in case you missed it, comments with links don't appear.
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  430.  @Rudra-rf5cn  that's always the Russian claim, I've no doubt you accept claims by the Russian MOD without question.
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  431. @Rudra  most people in Donbas were in Ukraine controlled territory between 2014 and 2022. Since Russia invaded in 2022 their lives and livelihoods are in ruin. They're no fans of the Russian aggression.
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  432. @Alo Bre  many Russian soldiers and their commanders have visited the Donbas, what's your point?
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  433. @Rudra  "the referendum was done as it should have been" From your perspective I've no doubt that is true. For people who believe in democracy though the way to do referenda isn't the Russian way, where the result is determined by those who count the votes.
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  434. @Alo Bre  if Rudra had any role in the referenda it was not as an independent observer as there were none.
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  435. @Alo Bre  think about what you just wrote, apply it to yourself, ask yourself who should you put more trust in: multiple sources including the UN all saying that the referenda were rigged, or someone anonymous posting a comment on YouTube.
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  436. @Alo Bre  we all get our information about the world through the global media the internet and the institutions that supply data. You either trust that there's integrity in that system, at least enough so that critical thinking can allow you to make meaningful conclusions, or you dismiss everything that doesn't suit your chosen set of beliefs. There's always bias and misinformation, so there's always room for doubt and skepticism is essential. But if you choose to reject the weight of evidence available, without sound reasoning behind that decision, you're just doing what the flat earthers do: reject what you don't like, and assume all evidence that contradicts what you want to believe is just a giant conspiracy.
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  437. ​ @Lovebro-h6j Russia has killed about 20,000 Ukraine civilians.
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  438. Didums to Russia, if they don't want to face western aircraft and western military equipment they should get their thieving imperialist hands off of Ukraine.
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  439. Killing Lukashenko is Putin's way of getting control of Belarus.
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  440. Bellingcat has an analysis of the missile from the video: Russian missile identified in Kyiv children's hospital attack. The visual evidence is that it was certainly a Kh-101, and certainly not an aim-120.
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  441.  @artkutyuska9842  to determine the size of the warhead you'd need to do an on-site analysis, these factors will have a significant effect on the amount of damage that's apparent from your phone: What materials is the building built from. How heavy is the construction, how much reinforcing is in the structure. How was the blast directed, some warheads focus the explosive energy forward to penetrate into structures, others are more disbursed in the direction of the blast. Where in or near the structure was the detonation, at ground level, inside but near the roof, outside? A 50kg warhead could do more damage to a lightly constructed building than a 500kg warhead to a heavily constructed and reenforced building. Also rule of thumb, a 10x larger warhead only causes 3x the damage, much of the energy released is wasted.
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  442.  @artkutyuska9842  you can't judge the size of the warhead by looking at your phone, there are unknowns, like exactly where in the building it detonated, and how heavily was the building constructed. In the Oklahoma bombing there would have been little damage if a poorly secured beam not been lifted off its supports, when it moved, all the structures above it was left unsupported.
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  443.  @deruntergangvannederland1868  I don't follow what you're saying, there were many missiles fired at many targets. In some cases obviously multiple missiles on the same target.
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  444.  @kipschwanenberg4934  In Pravda Ru, their journalist Lyuba Lulko, has a story date and time stamped 08.07.2024 18:14 Title: "Russia strikes Kyiv bunkers annihilating Ukraine and NATO top security officials Ukrainian security officials annihilated near Ohmatdyt children's hospital" In the story: "Russian forces hit an inconspicuous building near the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv. The decision-making center of the Ukrainian security forces was located there." That makes it one of the earliest reports from Russia on the strike. After that, as we know, the story changed. So now I think misidentified target rather than stray missile.
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  445.  @kipschwanenberg4934  in Pravda Ru Luba Lulko has a story, date and time 08.07.2024 18:14 That makes it among the first reports out of Russia, before the story started to change. Entitled: Ukrainian security officials annihilated near Ohmatdyt children's hospital. In the story: "Russian forces hit an inconspicuous building near the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv. The decision-making center of the Ukrainian security forces was located there." So as I see it, more misidentified target than stray missile.
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  446.  @kipschwanenberg4934  there's an article in Russian Pravda that makes it clear that the missile was intended to hit "near" the children's hospital. I've twice tried quoting the story, those comments haven't appeared. Lyuba Lulko is the stories author.
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  447. @wakandanlivesmatter3501  the US has not "destabilised" the South American continent. South American countries carry on in the (often corrupt) way they have always done.
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  448.  @ExternalInputs  if only you had something more than hot air to offer in support of your claims.
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  449. @lancerevo9747 you just have to scroll down to user mm9fk...'s comment and look under it. Yes, I checked, it is there, as are other missing comments.
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  450.  @lancerevo9747  it's there, as are my missing comments. I do check claims before making them. Unlike Putin supporters.
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  451. @lancerevo9747  you're on to me, I secretly control youtube and can delete whomevers comments I want. Suck on it.
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  452. @TeeSpells  Yanukovych was kicked out because he reneged on an electoral promise to sign an association agreement with the EU. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians joined protests against Yanukovych, the Ukraine Rada (parliament) withdrew support from Yanukovych, so Yanukovych ran away. His decision to betray the Ukrainian people was made after discussions with Putin, in which Putin persuaded him to instead form closer economic and political ties to Russia. Ukrainians could see how they were being sold out to Russia.
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  453. @lancerevo9747  you're the propagandist, I'm confident everything you have to say can be traced back to the Kremlin.
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  454. @TeeSpells  Yanukovych attempted to betray the Ukrainian people by reneging on a promise to sign an association agreement with the EU. Instead, after discussions with Putin, he decided to join an economic union with Russia. He lost both the little public support he still had, and the support of the Ukraine parliament.
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  455.  @TeeSpells  English appears not to be your first language.
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  456. About 42 comments in this thread in "top" comments, with about 77 showing in "newest" comments. It's infuriating.
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  457.  @TeeSpells  the UN reports do not attribute 4000 deaths to Ukraine. That claim is a lie.
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  458.  @renekton1237  Zelensky was wealthy from investments in the entertainment industry before he became president. There's no evidence that he's any wealthier now. Musk claims he's the second wealthiest man in the world - after Putin.
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  459.  @TeeSpells  your imagination counts for nothing. Anti-US countries in the Americas: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua remain uninvaded.
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  460.  @TeeSpells  anti-American countries near the US: Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, remain independent and uninvaded.
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  461.  @TeeSpells  "he will invade" Another piece of fiction.
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  462.  @TeeSpells  you mean strong authoritarian leaders backed by their armies.
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  463.  @TeeSpells  thanks, a lot of my comments are missing.
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  464. @MavaprGosu  deciples of Putin have been deceived into the belief that the failure of the Minsk agreements was the fault of the West, but they were more a product of the agreements being poorly implemented with many issues never resolved.
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  465. If he recovers Putin will just try again with a higher dose. Killing Lukashenko is Putin's way of getting control of Belarus.
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  466. The attacks on Kyiv are a failure, the city has suffered little damage in the several months since western AA systems like Gephard were supplied.
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  467. @Alex Chaudhri  it's hard to answer that question seriously. The Cessna was intercepted, there was no one at the controls, it was certainly on autopilot, no other people were seen through the windows, the aircraft flew until it ran out of fuel and crashed. One other theory is that aliens beamed everyone on board to their spaceship. I guess we'll have to see if there are bodies at the crash site to determine if the alien abduction theory is correct.
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  468. @ranjitmaiti217  Putin's "peace plan" is equivalent to Pakistan proposing a peace plan in which India withdraw from all disputed territory and disband the Indian armed forces.
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  469.  @savee1  sure thing guru.
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  470. @Chasseur Tueur  there was no agreement to remove any US missiles from Europe in exchange for the removal (or noninstallation) of Soviet missiles in Cuba, the agreement was not to have missiles based in Turkey.
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  471. Putin lies everyday.
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  472. They "released" you mean realized(?) that Spain doesn't even have F16's.
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  473. @Horst Brey  I try to use independent sources that don't show a bias with silly insults and ridiculous claims. But since you question what sources I use, perhaps you can tell me your preferred sources.
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  474.  @horstbrey7897  why is it the Putin fan boys always run away when you ask them about the sources they use?
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  475. @Horst Brey  so no sources on the conflict in Ukraine, all you offer is evidence that you're a fan of Marxism and are anti Western establishment, that nothing you offer can be considered as based on sound evidence rather than an extremist ideology. Your position is 'nato bad, Russia good' and as Ukraine is opposed to Russia (as a result Russian aggression) and is supported by nato, you've chosen your side not based on the evidence concerning the conflict, but your strong ideological biases.
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  476. Russia isn't trying to defend itself it's trying to take territory from a neighboring country through an invasion.
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  477. Yep, any country insane enough to spend so many lives and so much effort to aquire an expanse of rubble is not going to win this war. Oh, you forgot, Putin has said it's not a war.
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  478.  @Rusbomb21  the former Warsaw Pact countries joined Nato to escape from Russian subjugation. The Nato countries giving the most support to Ukraine, in terms of percentage of GDP, are those countries that escaped from Russian subjugation.
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  479.  @Rusbomb21  if they had fair elections in Belarus, if Lukashenko was gone, Belarus would flee to Nato for protection from Russia, as so many countries have done.
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  480. Easy to stop the war: have the Russian army in Russia and not in Ukraine.
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  481. The Euromaidan started in November 2013, it was a popular protest to President Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden decision not to sign the EU association agreement that had been worked out between the Ukraine Government and the EU. Yanukovych announced instead that he would seek closer ties with Russia. Ukraine’s parliament had overwhelmingly approved of implementing the agreement with the EU, Yanukovych changed his mind about the agreement after having a little chat with Putin. Russia pushed a narrative that it was a US plot to orchestrate a coup against Yanukovych. This narrative does not stand up to critical thought. Why would hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian’s revolt against their government because the US wanted them to? Isn’t it just a tad more likely that they were not zombies under the mind control powers of Victoria Nuland, but rather normal human beings acting in their own interests? If Victoria Nuland has the power to influence hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to revolt against their president in this way, why on earth hasn’t she been sent to Moscow?? Since the Euromaiden Revolution there have been two elections in Ukraine, in 2014, shortly after Yanukovych fled the country Petro Poroshenko was elected, in 2019 Zelinsky was successful when he stood against Poroshenko, comfortably defeating him. Poroshenko is currently actively working against the Russian aggression, both in encouraging Ukrainian’s and calling for more international support. The figure of 14,000 dead is from the UN observers, that figure includes military and paramilitary on both sides and civilian deaths. By year the civilian deaths are: 2014 2084 2015 955 2016 112 2017 117 2018 58 2019 27 2020 26 2021 25 So total civilian deaths on both sides is just over 3,400 up until the February 2022 Russian invasion. It should be noted that the level of conflict reduced substantially after 2015 and again after Zelensky was elected in 2019. The civilian deaths from active military operations in 2019 -2021 was less than half those total civilian deaths, most of the deaths being caused by explosive remnants of war and land mines expended and planted in the earlier years of the conflict. Since the February Russian invasion Russia has killed over 10,000 civilians in the Donbas through their indiscriminate shelling, which utterly destroyed Mariupol. Boyd W, your claim the Nato has pushed Ukraine towards Nato membership is nonsense, in fact Nato has done the exact opposite. It has not invited Ukraine to join and has made it clear to Ukraine that under the situation that existed between 2014 and 2022 Ukraine COULD NOT JOIN NATO. Your claim that Nato has pushed for Ukraine to host Nukes is beyond ridiculous. There are no nukes in any of the countries that joined Nato after 1990 and the only Nato nukes based in Europe are in 6 bases that hosted them prior to 1990, all of those bases are over 2000km from Moscow and the only nukes that are there are B61 free fall bombs to be carried by the aircraft of the host nations. The Crimea "referendum" happened after Russia gained control of Crimea and has been ruled illegal by the UN and is not considered to have been honest, there were no international observers permitted and there were irregularities. "Russian intel discovered Ukraine was about to launch a major offensive to attempt to steamroll the Ukrainian breakaway regions & Crimea." That claim is complete nonsense the only party that claims there was such an offensive planned is Russia, while Russia lied about it's own planned offensive right up until it was launch.
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  482. @joyholtzhausen8976  plenty of Russian's agree their country fits that description.
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  483.  @harrymills2770  America still has elections, and any American can stand for president, even if they're in prison.
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  484.  @anameireles2118  simple challenge for you: Name a nato missile based in continental Europe.
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  485. @Ruetz Sven  name them, if they're B61's they're not missiles and Germany has control on their use.
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  486. @Raps  the aircraft designated to carry the B61 free fall nuclear bombs in Europe are Belgian, Dutch and Turkish F16's and Italian and German Tornados, so yes, it's the host countries that ultimately decide on their use.
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  487. @Raps  I'll also point our that all of the bases housing B61's are over 2,000km from Moscow and that the F16's and Tornados could not make such a journey in less than 2 hrs as that distance would require traveling at subsonic speed. The F16's would be all but out of fuel by the time they got to Moscow. This means that the B61 is little more than symbolic as a deterrent to a Russian nuclear attack, they wouldn't get off the ground before those aircraft and bases were destroyed by Russian IRBM's
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  488.  @giggleparadise  as I said, the host nations aircraft would carry those bombs if they were to be used, so while they are under US control in peace time (as is required with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty) in the event of war that treaty is scrapped and those bombs are attached to the aircraft of the host nation's.
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  489. Putin's Russia is an imperialist autocracy, bent on repeating the subjugation of neighboring countries.
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  490. Putin will cry many crocodile tears as he annexes Belarus and buries Lukashenko in a lead coffin.
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  491. Is that why Putin has launched thousands of missiles and drones at Ukraine cities, because he sees Ukrainians as brothers? You're seriously deluded.
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  492.  @flog.8649  I certainly have vastly more background information than you.
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  493. @Brian  I have, you have not. In fact you sound a lot like a flat earther who's consumed vast amounts of propaganda from sources that preach flat earth and then goes around telling people who live in the real world that they need to educate themselves.
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  494. @Brian  for instance, are you aware (joking, I know you are not aware) Brian that the leader of the largest pro-Russian party (which was banned) Yuriy Anatoliyovych Boyko is still sitting in the Ukraine parliament under a new party banner along with his (formerly) pro-Russian colleagues, who are VERY anti the Russian invasion and now advocate for Ukraine membership of the EU. Those are easily verifiable facts. What you get from your favorite partisan propaganda sites is lies and misinformation.
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  495. @Brian  the truth is, Brian, that the reality in Ukraine, where 85% of the population supports the efforts to eject the Russian invaders from the country, is not what you get from your favorite partisan sites that promote Putin's Russian propaganda.
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  496.  @brianswedenburg3659  no, the bloody facts make it so.
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  497.  @flog.8649  have you noticed it's become a popular strategy for those with Dunning-Kruger to resort to the ad hominem of labeling others as having Dunning-Kruger?
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  498.  @flog.8649  your initial reply contained the initial ad hominem. If you want to make a case for why you take the position on this conflict that you do go ahead. I will use independent facts to refute your beliefs.
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  499.  @flog.8649  if your initial comment didn't mention me your initial comment doesn't appear in the public feed. Your first comment that is visible to me and other members of the public is addressed to me. FYI only 19 of the 26 replys in this thread appear publicly (assuming all of my own are visible publicly).
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  500. @Flo G.  your initial comment, which you now appear to acknowledge was indeed addressed to me, despite your earlier denial of that being the case, was loaded to suggest the "initial answer" was simplistic and wrong. You can pretend otherwise, but that would just be the confirmation that you are as I suggested, a Dunning-Kruger clown who thinks they're clever but who is actually simple and transparent.
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  501. Putin started the war, and Putin is going to lose.
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  502. ​@Babuka54 it's not about who you are, true democracies don't often have differences between them turn into warfare. Since independence, when has India had military conflict with another democracy? In autocracies, the Rulers are less answerable to the people, so are less concerned about lots of them dieing in warfare.
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  503. @Shva927  "expansionist" the US hasn't annexed the territory of another country for over 150 years, it does sometimes feel the need to be the world's policeman, but typically it's military adventures are interventions after someone else started a war, the US trying to end the conflict in favor of the side it more closely identifies with. Russia and the Soviet Union before it, have annexed several countries entirely, and territory from several others in the last 100 years.
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  504.  @Shva927  there was no threat to Russia. The wars that I support are wars against aggressors and wars against those committing genocide.
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  505. There are no US controlled nukes in Europe and no nato nuclear missiles in continental Europe.
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  506. Clayton Morris works at Redacted, a pro-Russian YouTube channel, and the "10,000 Ukrainians" story is from Russian Today and Tass, two Russian government propaganda outlets.
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  507. Indeed, Putin's evil reign will soon be over.
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  508. ​ @henryseidel5469  and the separatist were using Russian supplied artillery to kill ethnic Ukrainians. But that was in 2014 and 2015. For the 3 years prior to the Russian invasion each year less than 10 civilians were killed on both from shelling. Putin's war increased the civilian death toll a thousand fold over those recent years.
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  509.  @niburu1508  everything I say is supported by UN reports.
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  510.  @ashton1952  what sources do you recommend?
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  511. @Marthy Williams Williams  Ukraine is home to the people who live there, Ukrainians.
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  512.  @henryseidel5469  contrary to Russian propaganda there's been very little conflict in the Donbas for years. And the soldiers in the Russian army aren't from the Donbas, they're from Russia.
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  513. ​ @PEACEnowanforever  there are no US ICBM's in Europe, you've been misled by Russian propaganda. There are no US nuclear cruise missiles or any other US nuclear missiles in Europe.
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  514.  @CartoonMashupManiacs  if you disagree with what I say make your case, try to do better than "you're wrong, so there!"
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  515.  @CartoonMashupManiacs  are those weak replies all you can manage? If you're going to refute my points do so, if not, I will ignore you as brainless noise.
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  516.  @CartoonMashupManiacs  so you're one of those that buy the narrative that Victoria Nuland used her mind control powers to persuade hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to revolt against their president forcing him to flee the country. Here's a narrative that actually makes sense: Victor Yanukovych was elected on a promise of building closer ties with the European Union to eventually get Ukraine into the EU. His government was achieving that goal with an association agreement having been drawn up with the EU, this association agreement had been endorsed by the Ukrainian parliament, all that was required was Yanukovych's signature, but Yanukovych spoke to Putin who persuaded him to ditch the agreement with the EU and instead enter into an equivalent agreement with Russian. Ukrainian's had witnessed other East European countries enter the EU and benefit from considerable economic growth as a result. The prospect of again being a Russia puppet state, like Belarus currently is, held no appeal to them so they revolted against the corrupt president that had betrayed them. The Ukrainian parliament endorsed the revolution against Yanukovych, and ensured new elections were held within 3 months. In those elections Petro Poreshenko was elected president, four years later, in the sceduled 2019 elections, Zelensky defeated incumbent Poreshenko in the first round. Now there's a narrative that fits reality and doesn't require Victoria Nuland to somehow mind control hundreds of thousands of people to revolt against a presumably popular president.
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  517.  @CartoonMashupManiacs  if Russia withdraws its army from Ukraine the war ends. Perhaps that's what you should advocate for if you think nuclear war is close. To me it's you with your support for Russian aggression that's leading us closer to Armageddon.
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  518.  @CartoonMashupManiacs  sometimes I agree with US foreign policy sometimes not, what I don't do is take up positions based on what US foreign policy happens to be. Russia has launch a war for no good reasons, it's a conflict that's killed over a hundred thousand people. You don't give a damn how hollow Putin's justifications are, for you it's just "America bad" a mindless knee-jerk reaction. I've hunted through all of Russia's justifications, they're all as nonsensical as claims of Victoria Nuland mind controlling the Ukrainian people.
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  519.  @CartoonMashupManiacs  the truth is that Yanukovych ran away in the face of a popular revolution, it wasn't a coup, with a few armed men, it was hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians. If what you imagine had been the case the supporters of Yanukovych across the country would have supported their democratically elected leader, in fact Yanukovych only had popular support in part of the Donbas and Crimea and even in those regions it was really a military coup against the popular revolution with Russian military support. If the overthrow of Yanukovych wasn't popular why was there no support for him outside of such limited areas - then and now. Fact is that Ukrainians have resented foreign rule for hundreds of years and that was reflected in the 1991 independence referendum in which a clear majority in all oblasts voted for independence except in the Donbas and Crimea and even there a majority of those that voted voted for independence.
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  520. Why would God bless a murdering war criminal?
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  521. Medvedev isn't Putin's biggest ally, he's Putin's lap dog.
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  522. Putin's a gutless coward too scared to face up to his responsibility, instead threatening anyone willing to cooperate with the authorities.
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  523.  @xJDMWaRRi0Rx  Russia does not give warnings of it's missile attacks, the incoming attacks are detected by Ukraine and its allies.
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  524. If you want such a multipolar world you need stronger economies around the world. Copy the stronger economies that now exist, join them, don't fall into the trap of following a loser country like Russia.
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  525. What lies?
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  526. Many, Many videos have been put out by Russian soldiers wishing to walk away from Putin's war of aggression. Does that help?
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  527.  @andreheise1170  nice way of saying "Yes, it's true" and then offering no evidence to support your claim.
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  528.  @andreheise1170  there have been numerous tough battles in Bakhmut over the last 9 months, none of those battles are evidence of what Prigozhin claims so neither is the recent fighting.
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  529. More fictitious claims direct from the Kremlin.
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  530. @NHG Emperor  Ukraine was invaded by Russia, so was Chechnya and Georgia. The US has invaded many countries. Do you think big countries invading smaller countries is a good thing, that since the US has done it that Russia should also do it?
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  531. Utsa Patnaik used ridiculous figures to create a nonsense result for a political cause.
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  532. Putin has no soul, he's responsible for the deaths of over 200,000 Russians in the last 3 years and the wounding of over 500,000 more and cares not at all for those lives.
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  533. Dream on, Russian ground forces are down in strength by over 50%, the airforce is wisely staying well back and most of their navy can't get to the theater of operation.
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  534.  @V12F1Demon  nato has not threatened Russian borders.
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  535.  @inquizative44  Putin's Russia is the country invading and annexing the territory of other countries.
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  536.  @V12F1Demon  I mean the way Russia has invaded and annexed the territory of several of its neighbors, none of the countries you mention have had territory annexed.
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  537.  @newworldPeace02  only idiots think that the US would attack Russia, Zelensky knows that it was never going to happen.
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  538.  @V12F1Demon  the Russian attempt to annex territory it doesn't even control in 4 Ukraine oblasts. The population of Crimea voted in 1991 to join an independent Ukraine. The subsequent 2014 "referendum" under Russian control is not recognized by the United Nations because it was rigged.
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  539.  @V12F1Demon  your comment, focusing on what you see as the evils of western countries (with numerous lies in your claims) betray your bias, for you the invasion of Ukraine by Russia is just sticking it to the west, you don't give a damn about the 100,000 people killed and millions of lives wrecked by Putin's imperialist aggression.
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  540. @Linkme Forfun  Russia colonized several East European countries after WW2, it retaines territories annexed from Japan, Germany and China and has possession of 21 semiautonomous republics within Russia's borders that have indigenous non-Russian people these were colonized by the pre-Soviet Russian Empire, and obviously Russia lost several of its colonies when the Soviet Union dissolved: the Baltic states and the 'stan countries in Central Asia.
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  541. ​@fuukrnassi it was a Kh-101, the turbojet is visible to anyone not enamored with Putin.
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  542.  fuukrnassi  in the video I've watched there's no doubt it's a Kh-101, the turbojet is running.
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  543.  @marvin902x  the hospital was devastated, it was a large warhead. The angle is side-on, making the wings look more like fins. But only two are visible mid-body, not 4 fins as with aim-120. The turbojet is there to see.
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  544.  @marvin902x  the warhead on an aim-120 isn't designed to cause that devastation, it's a fragmentation warhead, it spreads shrapnel over a large volume, that damage was from a large HE warhead.
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  545.  @niburu1508  "refuted on several sites" all Russian propaganda sites.
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  546.  @niburu1508  "black body bags" that was an old video from years ago, it was of an environmental protest, the video was taken by Russian propagandists and claimed as what you describe. You were suckered.
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  547. @niburu1508  "body bags" These were common protests in the US a few years ago, some footage was used by Russian propaganda to trick people.
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  548. @niburu1508  "true sites" Yeah, riight. The black bags videos were from protests years ago, edited, and reused by Russian propaganda sites.
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  549. @niburu1508  "true sites" rolls eyed. Black bags: video from protests years ago, reused by sites you follow.
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  550.  @niburu1508  "black bags" video from protests years ago repurposed.
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  551. @fuukrnassi  found a reference to it in a BBC article titled: Ukraine invasion: False claims the war is a hoax go viral
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  552.  fuukrnassi  found a reference to it, a BBC article: "Ukraine invasion: False claims the war is a hoax go viral" 8 march 2022
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  553.  fuukrnassi  The video is taken from a report by Austrian newspaper Osterreich of a climate protest in Vienna in early February last year, before the Russian invasion had even begun, in which activists aimed to highlight the danger of carbon emissions to human life.
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  554. @marvin902x  you're making things up there were 2 wings on the missile, and the Kh-101 doesn't have a 800kg warhead, it's 450kg.
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  555.  @martinvidenovic5767  name the Ukrainian general that said 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed.
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  556. The peace process is quite simple: Russia removes its army from Ukraine and stops attacks on Ukraine.
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  557. @Gold Tipu  Ukraine is home to the people that live there, not the people that invaded in 2014 and 2022.
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  558. Of course.
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  559. Ukraine belongs to the people who live there. If there had been no imperialist Russian invasion, Ukraine would export those minerals to buyers around the world, those buyers would produce products that would also then be exported around the world. There is no profit for anyone in this conflict.
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  560.  @shomadea  unlike the Russian army in Ukraine the US armed forces were invited by the sovereign government of those countries and its presence is popular with the local citizens. I guess the difference is lost on some people despite the obvious difference that Ukrainians are fighting to expel Russian troops while South Koreans, the Japanese and Germans are not fighting to kick out the Americans.
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  561. ​​ @pong9000  tactical is not the opposite of ballistic. You can have tactical ballistic missiles, strategic ballistic missiles, tactical cruise missiles, strategic cruise missiles. I just find it funny that you pontificate while actually knowing nothing about what you're talking.
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  562. As usual it is Russia and Belarus making the threats and being aggressive, there are no nato nuclear missiles based in continental Europe or Asia.
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  563. ​@felix842002 it's obvious loaded with water. In a modern warship the electronics and electrical systems are a big part of the cost of the ship.
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  564. ​ @dannyb4753  you shouldn't watch so much Russian propaganda. US weapons are two levels above Russian junk, it's why T72 tanks kept tossing their turrets when hit by javelin, it's why the Russian airforce stays inside Russia, it's why Russian soldiers wish they'd stayed inside Russia (also because of the brave Ukrainians fighting to defeat the invaders).
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  565. @23WarinWest-El  nato hasn't invaded anyone, where have you been for the last decade?
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  566.  @23WarinWest-El  The Law Of Nations is a 260 year old book. Modern international law has nothing to say about international partners supplying weapons to a country that has been invaded. International law does have plenty to say about respecting sovereign territory and invading other countries.
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  567. @23WarinWest-El  the US constitution is irrelevant to international law (you might as well site the Iranian or Ghanaian constitutions), which is the purvey of the UN. In the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent conflict, only modern imperialist Russia is in breech of international law.
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  568. ​ @23WarinWest-El national constitutions are irrelevant to international law, which is the purvey of the UN. In regard to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent conflict, only Russia is in breech of international law.
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  569. @23WarinWest-El  your repeated references to the US constitution are nonsense. I've not claimed that international law is universally enforceable. As you acknowledge, the international law that exists in codified in the UN charter. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russia is in breach of its obligations under that charter. In this conflict, no other country has breached their charter obligations.
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  570. @23WarinWest-El  de facto law is a law or regulation that is followed but "is not specifically enumerated by a law." The UN charter is enumerated, it's written in black and white. It is not enforceable as law within a sovereign territory is enforceable because the UN is not collectively sovereign. We do not have a world government. Russia has failed to meet its obligations under the UN charter. As a member of the UN, Russia has made a written commitment, it's signed up to those obligations in writing.
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  571. @23WarinWest-El  an ad hominem is a personal attack, I was not criticizing you personally, I was describing your claim that articles within the US constitution had the status of international law. They do not, ditto for articles in the constitution of Vanuatu.
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  572. @23WarinWest-El  I thought I was clear. Your claim is false, and I've said why. International law has the "status" the International community gives, in the GA votes the Russian aggression was condemned several times, with the votes being around 140 voting against Russia to about 5 in support of Russia. Russia hides behind the threat of its nuclear arsenal. Without that threat against the International community, Russia would have been defeated, and Putin would be dead or on trial.
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  573.  @23WarinWest-El  your threats are pathetic. Grow up.
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  574.  @23WarinWest-El  "I'd file a suit" Wow, you fell off your trolley.
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  575. @23WarinWest-El  oh, and you've got the meaning of "de facto" back to front, it's means the opposite of what you think, it means with standing but absent formalization. If international law was de facto law, it would mean it's enforced even though it's not formally codified.
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  576. @district5198  nice return. But choosing immolation over drowning isn't the sensible middle choice.
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  577. You don't recover from ingesting polonium. Putin's way of getting control of Belarus.
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  578. Killing Putin is a bad idea, he's too useful to Ukraine where he is.
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  579. If Putin was focused on a military victory rather than just acting like a terrorist these weapons would be fired at military assets including logistics rather than major cities. Putin is making the same mistake that Goering and Hitler made - trying to terrorize the people instead of destroying Britain's/Ukraine's ability to fight.
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  580. Equivalent to Pakistan suggesting a settlement with India over disputed territory consisting of India relinquishing all claims to the disputed territory.
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  581. @lelanalela7932  I'm always willing to look at opposing views, it's why I comment here.
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  582. @lelanalela7932  in Pravda Ru, journalist Lyuba Lulko has an article that boasts about the successful missile strike on the building. The reason for the attack was: "The decision-making center of the Ukrainian security forces was located there" It was an early article, written and published before the story needed revising.
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  583. @lelanalela7932  ah yes, Nato controls Russian Pravda. And I thought the Kremlin did.
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  584.  @lelanalela7932  and I thought Pravda Russia was controlled by Russia rather than nato.
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  585. ​ @user-yu8rg9rc4f  yes, Putin is in a fight for his life, if he loses in Ukraine he'll likely lose control of Russia.
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  586. Modi was obviously telling Putin he was annoyed at the low value Putin has been placing on human life.
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  587. ​@Abdul imraan the "kill list" you're referring to is not a Ukraine government list and it's not a kill list, it's nothing but a list of people who express hostility towards Ukraine. There are indeed thousands of people on it, none of whom have been assassination targets for the authors of the list. Mirotvorets does not advocate violence against those on its database, and there is no evidence that it's ever been used as a "kill list,"
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  588. Putin thinks he is Russia.
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  589. @JourneyToEternalDeath  yeah, it is pointing out the obvious, a psychosis common with people in power so long that they are unable to differentiate between themselves and the organization they control. They actually believe that the organization could not continue to exist without them. It's a form of sociopathy.
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  590. Russian bots dominate these comments, sad that an Indian publication has been taken over by Russian propagandists.
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  591. ​@savage5975 the "nazis in Ukraine" is a fiction bought by fuuls
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  592. ​ @viacheslav1  Napoleon and Hitler invaded Russia, this time it was Russia doing the invading. Putin is the Hitler this time.
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  593. ​ @bael6472  your Russian friend would be safe if he didn't invade another country.
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  594. ​ @henryseidel5469  yep, Russia is successful when it fights against invaders, not when it is the invader.
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  595. ​ @viacheslav1  actually Russia was made by Scandinavians.
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  596. ​ @aaronmncube414  there're obviously a lot of Russians who think Putin is God, it'll be due to all of Putin's propaganda.
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  597. ​​ @viacheslav1  many years of life.
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  598. ​ @henryseidel5469  you should go look at the policies of the political parties Ukrainians vote for. And do you know that Zelensky was elected in 2019, after beating petro Poroshenko. That there was very little conflict in the Donbas between him becoming Ukraine president and the Russian invasion? That in those 3 years less than 30 civilians were killed on both sides from shelling? Compare that to the tens of thousands of civilians killed by the Russian invasion.
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  599.  @henryseidel5469  you are aware of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
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  600.  @henryseidel5469  and Russia became a large country through conquering other countries, and Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Putin has written about the disintegration of the Soviet Union being the biggest disaster of the twentieth century (it freed other people from Russian oppression) and how he yearns for a new Russian empire.
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  601.  @henryseidel5469  Texas was American in 1860, an indication that you don't worry too much about getting your facts right.
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  602. ​ @henryseidel5469  my numbers are good, check your own.
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  603.  @henryseidel5469  Britain tried hard to negotiate a peace deal with Hitler, to stop his aggression. Britain learnt from that that you can't negotiate with terrorists and dictators who want to conquer their neighbors. And so we know that negotiations with Putin are a waste of time and effort.
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  604.  @henryseidel5469  Stalin invaded Poland along with Hitler, as Putin invaded Ukraine, strange way to "keep the peace" but the dictators way - through oppression.
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  605.  @henryseidel5469  interesting that you hold Stalin in such high regard, he's actually making a comeback in the eyes of many Russians as well, probably because Putin finds it useful.
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  606.  @henryseidel5469  political leaders usually start of with good intentions but time and power almost alway corrupt them.
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  607.  @henryseidel5469  are you joking? I don't think it's funny to suggest the Government have the power to disqualify opposition candidates that might pose a serious challenge to the governing party.
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  608.  @henryseidel5469  what "proper qualifications" requirements does the US government impose on the selection of candidates. I confess I'm not sure what the US having a two party system has to do with candidate selection, though I could discuss the merits of the US primaries system vs other selection systems where party committees do the selection.
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  609.  @SamsungS-or1qf  every reason, it's called free speech, perhaps you prefer opinions other than your own were suppressed. Ain't happening.
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  610.  @henryseidel5469  "proper qualification" Sorry, I was too flippant in my reply, one of the reasons I dislike the US primary system is that those doing the selecting (the mass of mental mediocrity commonly known as the electorate) aren't very professional in how they approach the task, like employing a plumber not on his professionalism but on his sales pitch. So I think electorate committees select better candidates than the US primaries system, I think committee members are more expert in sorting out the big mouth BSers.
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  611. @Gofigureitout  Mach 10 is the maximum speed on kinzhal, it boosts to Mach 10, then glides, during the glide, which is most of its traveling distance, it's losing speed.
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  612.  @leonne07  it's basic physics.
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  613. Wise? Kim? You are joking.
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  614.  @roterStern1917  would you like to live in North Korea?
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  615. @Applehaze  conditions in North Korea will not improve until there's a market economy. Absolute socialism doesn't work, even Cuba and China have turned to competitive markets to lift living standards. And of course North Korea isn't even communist, it's feudalism under an Emperor with absolute power.
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  616.  @happybike3823  bellingcat has been critical of American actions as well. Labeling them as MI6, just because the evidence they offer doesn't fit with what you want to believe is just hot air. Look at the evidence, address the evidence, if you can't do so, you offer nothing.
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  617.  @happybike3823  address the evidence they offer, if you can't, you offer nothing. Bellingcat has also criticised US actions in the past.
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  618.  @johnhealy9231  putin has never come clean about his militaries involvement in shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight 17.
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  619. @junominame2490 the claim is an aim-120 amraam fired from a Nasams launcher. The missile is American, the launch system Norwegian/American. It wasn't an aim-120, wrong shape, and too much damage.
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  620. Disgusting that people endorse Russian imperialism and the killing of around 300,000 people in Putin's invasion and war against his Ukrainian "brothers".
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  621. If the putin was serious about the welfare of his country he wouldn't have started his war. Russian's are just Putin's puppets.
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  622. @Tellzel107  what Putin, as exKGB knows, is how to deceive.
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  623. ​@Adam Tonkin the report was slightly damaged and quickly repaired.
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  624. @thatwasyesterday  well, I'm not British, so not my money. The corrupt regime is the one in the Kremlin.
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  625. @thatwasyesterday  the corrupt regime is in the Kremlin.
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  626. @philipfry9065  Putin invaded, Ukraine has every right to defend itself, Russia has entered its neighbors' home attacking and killing the people living there.
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  627. The UK deferred the scheduled 1940 elections until 1945, and they weren't even invaded.
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  628. They need to get some practice in at some stage, but they should start with targets that don't shoot back.
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  629. @Allen Vestal  wars of attrition are for armies without either the equipment or sense to conduct mobile warfare. Attritional warfare is what the Soviet Union did against Germany when it didn't have mobile armor. When that deficiency was remedied later in the war the Soviet Union was able to kick the Germans out with their huge tank armies. In this conflict it's the Ukraine that has gained the new armor. A dozen T14's are not going to save Russia from defeat.
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  630. Russia has few friends, using nukes = no friends.
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  631.  @nlorand9033  "killed civilians since 2014" The civilian death toll in the Donbas since 2014 is around 3,500 on both sides. The intensity of that conflict has dropped substantially since the first year; In 2014 it was about 2000, in 2015 about 900, in the last three years it's been around 20/year, with half of those deaths being caused by from mines and explosive residue of war planted or expended in the earlier years. "Ukrainian democracy is silencing jailing and killing critics" In the 2014 Ukraine elections Petro Porashenko was the winner, in the 2019 election Zelinsky defeated Poroshenko. Poroshenko is very much alive and working to support the Ukrainian efforts to evict the Russians from Ukraine. If killing critics is a concern of yours - and it should be - you should check out the situation in Russia where critics are routinely imprisoned and killed. "Ukraine government Kill list" You're referring to the Myrotvorets web site run privately by former Ukraine politician George Tuka. It is not a "kill list", though it's described as such by Russian propagandists, on the site it's described as a list of people: "whose actions have signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, human security, and the international law". If it were a "kill list" one would expect at least one person on the list to have been murdered as it's been up for 8 years. "Negotiations . . . for peace" The time for negotiations is when Russia ends it's imperialist invasion of its neighbor and takes its army home. At this stage negotiating with Putin would be as pointless as negotiating with Hitler in August 1944. You go on to mention US military actions/invasions of other countries in the past while defending the Russian invasion. This is a logical inconsistency I've pointed out numerous times on this site: If you condemn US military invasions because of the many thousands of deaths they cause, morally you should also be condemning the Russian invasion which has also caused many tens of thousands of deaths. Compare the tens of thousands killed in Ukraine in the last year to the approximately 10 deaths a year (UN observers mission reports) on both sides in the Donbas in recent years from shelling. How can anyone justify the Russian aggression when it's taken so many lives?
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  632.  @jimmyc974  as you say, you only tell the parts of the story that suit your own narrative. Ukrainians were not the only party to massacre and like others they also suffered massacres.
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  633.  @andrewgoetzsche-fj8gq  people keep telling me to go read the Minsk agreement . . . people who obviously have not read it themselves, who's understanding of it is based entirely on Russian propaganda.
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  634. Putin started the war, Putin is the warmonger. To end the war all Putin needs to do is to put his army in Russia and not in Ukraine.
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  635. @niburu  if you read anything other than propaganda you'd know that a Russian attack on nato is a Russian defeat.
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  636. Putin's army invaded Ukraine, appeasement doesn't work to achieve peace with murderous dictators, It's weird that you think otherwise after chamberlain's experience with Hitler.
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  637.  @maymunahsydow6276  no, it was definitely Russia that invaded Ukraine.
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  638.  @maymunahsydow6276  what sources do you recommend?
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  639.  @modisemakokwe4256  MacGregor has been wrong most of the time in this conflict, he expected Ukraine to be defeated in a couple of weeks again and again and again. He never offers verifiable sources to support his claims. If you rely on him as your most trusted source you're not interested in anything other than the fiction that you most want to hear.
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  640. @Maymunah Sydow you're too embarrassed to reveal the sources you use.
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  641. What justification? Nato has no nuclear missiles in continental Europe.
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  642. @niburu  indeed, and the truth is that if the Russian army was in Russia and not in Ukraine the war would end.
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  643. @Eternal Cycles  Ukraine didn't keep attacking the separatist regions other than returning fire on separatist artillery that was firing into Ukraine controlled territory.
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  644. @SewTubular  nah, wouldn't work, as with Afghanistan there would just be a never-ending insurgency against the Russian occupiers.
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  645. Nato would crush Russia if it was all in, so far Russia is fighting a far smaller country supported by the Nato surplus store.
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  646.  @ishitabhalla4462  mustn't send the madman over the edge.
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  647. Russia wasn't going to invade - honest! Russian fighter didn't collide with drone - honest! Russia didn't blow up the dam - honest! Lying is standard Russian diplomacy.
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  648. ​@Kuiper Bond the joke is Russia saying over and over again "we have yet to begin to fight" - after retreating from Kyiv, Kherson and Kharkiv and only taking the small city of bakhmut after months of fighting and with their only capable unit - and pretty much wiping Wagner out with that one mission.
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  649. Keep in mind that HT just reproduces Russian propaganda with all its lies.
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  650. Why would you swallow Kremlin propaganda without question?
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  651. @donHooligan  that's what the Kremlin does, multiply by 10 to make the Russian's look good, they also divide their own loses by 10, then things look amazing. Don't be fooled by propagandists. Or do you think either side is always honest?
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  652.  @lelanalela7932  do you know who Gennady Rakitin is?
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  653.  @Aramiji994  right wing politicians are gaining power because people were unhappy with the previous lot. Democracy isn't perfect, but when you have old governments voted out it's because the people want a change and have the power to make a change.
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  654.  @Aramiji994  the people in the central European countries that escaped Russian subjugation are very happy to have done so and now have standards of living higher than Russians. Things have improved under Putin's rule, but from the economic mess that existed under Soviet communism, that's no great feat.
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  655. @Aramiji994  in Russia the leadership eliminates genuine electoral competition, it's barred from standing, it's forced to flee or is prisoned, with the government controlled media also used to vilify the competition and promote the current leader.
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  656. @Aramiji994  in Russia genuine political competitors are removed from contention before their names get on the ballot.
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  657. @Aramiji994  democracy in Russia works like speech in YouTube comments, if it goes against the accepted narrative, it's eliminated before the public even gets to see it.
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  658. @Aramiji994  4 times I've tried to point out how electoral competition is vanished in Russia, but my comments vanish 😞
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  659. @Aramiji994  Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Maxim Katz, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Nadezhdin, Yekaterina Duntsova, Yevgeny Roizman and Yulia Galyamina are all people who could be genuine political competitors but are legally barred from competing against Putin. They're even barred from getting fair publicity. That's how Putin works politics, smother opposition both legally and in terms of adverse publicity. He puts his KGB training to use, as should be expected.
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  660.  @Aramiji994  another comment listing 8 political opponents of Putin's barred from standing disappeared. What does "excessive spelling" mean?
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  661.  @Aramiji994  sometimes disappeared comments can be read by clicking on a commenter's thumbnail.
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  662. @Aramiji994  In 1841, Thomas Carlyle wrote, “Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all” Without free speech in media, the government is no longer accountable to the people. The press is therefore of the utmost importance in a representative democracy. In Russia, the government owns the media. Only approved opposition survives, "approved" being no political threat to the current ruler.
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  663. @Aramiji994  I was having a pleasant chat with ElenaEPA, Russian I believe, yesterday, her defending Russia as you are. Both of us were having the problem, though I could see her disappeared comments through her thumbnail. It was a very frustrating situation for us both.
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  664. @Aramiji994  I was watching a YouTube channel doing street interviews in Moscow recently. A couple of people expressed their opinions that those supporting Putin were those dependent on television for their information. I know a lot of those sympathetic to Putin are very anti-woke, as am I, the woke try to suppress free speech to advance their narrative, but I'm just as anti those suppressing free speech to advance other narratives. Politically, I define myself as classical liberal/libertarian. Libertarian with a recognition of its pragmatic shortfalls.
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  665. @Aramiji994  Vlad Vexler takes the position that there's a social contract in R that most people intuatively understand, that the government will stay out of their everyday lives and business and that they should stay out of the governments business. (That's his gist as I understand it). The result is the Russian public are far more accepting of government authority and far less politically engaged than in western democracies. In the street interviews on another channel, 1420, it was noticable that many of those approached expressed the view that it wasn't their place to question the governments decisions.
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  666. @A-Proud-Brazilian-dude  sorry, your wrong about no Russian civilians being killed in this war, several have been by Russian bombs going astray.
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  667. @davidlum2001  there was never a threat to nuke Cuba, and in fact, Cuba was not a significant party in the negotiations, which were between the US and the Soviet Union. The result of the negotiations was no land based missiles in Cuba, and no land based missiles within 2000 km of Moscow.
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  668.  @davidlum2001  if your case is that the US shouldn't invade other countries but that it's OK for Russia to invade Ukraine, it's you who's the hypocrite.
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  669. @davidlum2001  your logic is: If person A assaults person B (a bad thing), that makes it's perfectly fine for person C to assault person D. No, that's not how morality works. If A assaulting B is a bad thing, other things being equal, C assaulting D is a bad thing. Your reasoning is morally bankrupt.
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  670. @davidlum2001  I haven't invaded anyone. I'm not endorsing any country invading another country. The Monroe doctrine doesn't endorse the US using force against its neighbors in the Americas. It warns the European powers not to meddle in the affairs of countries in the Americas. You're probably under the impression that the 2014 Ukraine revolution was a US orchestrated coup. It was not, Yanukovych was confronted by a revolution of Ukrainians for reneging on election promises on signing an association agreement with the EU, instead he was threatening Ukrainians with closer ties to Russia, a relationship most had already experienced and something they preferred not to repeat.
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  671. @davidlum2001  the Monroe doctrine is not the US giving itself the right to meddle in the affairs of other countries in the Americas. The 2014 Ukrainian revolution was a popular revolt against a leader, Yanukovych, who had betrayed his country by refusing to sign the association agreement with the EU, instead attempting to tie Ukraine to an agreement with Russia.
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  672.  @davidlum2001  Russia had agreed to respect Ukraine sovereignty several times. The Warsaw Pact countries that joined Nato did so as a defense against the possibility of future subjugation by Russia. They'd already experienced that from 1945 to 1990 and weren't interested in repeating the experience.
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  673. @davidlum2001  "sovereign state" Your endorsement of imperialism is something you and I are not ever going to agree on. I'm extremely strong in my belief that sovereign nations should only face the threat of attack if they've decended into extreme barbarity, "ethnic cleansing", genocide, military aggression against other countries.
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  674. @davidlum2001  for me, there are no "great powers", sovereign countries' power stops at their borders. It's the belief that larger countries have the right to use the threat of force to bully and manipulate their smaller neighbors that is a recipe for eternal warfare, dependent on the thuggishness of the stronger nations leadership. Despite what you imagine, the stronger nations will always see their rivals as threats, so long as some are governed by authoritarian regimes.
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  675.  @davidlum2001  the stronger nations will always see each other as threats as long as some are run by authoritarian regimes.
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  676. @davidlum2001  the US would only be encroaching on Russia if it crossed the Russian border, Russia has every right to sail its submarines, ships and aircraft, nuclear armed, right up to US territory, including the limits of US territorial waters, which extend only 22km from shore.
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  677. @davidlum2001  authoritarian because it's easier for authoritarian regimes to start wars of conquest, the US hasn't annexed territory in over 150 years, Russia has annexed territory several times in the last 30. The US and other democratic countries have to sell going to war to their voters. To stop an invader, to stop a civil war, to stop authoritarianism, to stop ethnic cleansing, to punish a nation for supporting terrorism. We can agree the excuses used can be overblown, but there has to be a level of justification that can be sold in the face of domestic media, some of whom will be skeptical. The bar to initiate hostilities is lower for authoritarian regimes.
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  678. @davidlum2001  authoritarian regimes have a lower bar to clear when it comes to initiating war, a democracy has to sell war as the better option to the voters: to stop a genocide, to end a civil war, to deal with terrorists, and sell the excuse to a public, many of whom will be skeptical.
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  679. @davidlum2001  if you think Russia (or the Soviet Union) and China never see each other as threats you don't know history. (Sino - Soviet war). There's an amusing story that when Nixon went to China, the Chinese expressed concern that the US was downgrading it's military capacity from being able to simultaneously fight 2.5 major wars at once to being able to fight 1.5 major wars. Their concerns were muted when it was pointed out to them that the second major war was envisioned to be against China.
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  680. ​​​​ @ashash272 the incident at the Canadian parliament was a result of a mistake by the house speaker, for which he has apologized. Neither the speaker, nor one else there, knew that veteran was in the SS. But you know that.
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  681.  @D100-z1g  you're an ignorant fool who replaces his lack of knowledge with lies.
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  682. Europe opposes modern Russian nazism.
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  683.  @nightdipper5178  you know my points are correct, that you choose to ignore reality in favor of your fantasies.
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  684.  @miguelzeballos4269  "despise the US" is the primary reason Putin fan boys support Putin's aggression. None of the excuses offered by Russian propaganda hold up to critical thought.
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  685. ​ @ExternalInputs no Russian missiles have gone to NK and you've no information to support your claim.
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  686. Most Russian fan boys act like teenagers.
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  687. Best not to buy Russian stuff, it's all rubbish.
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  688.  @NukeTelAviv  the people on the beach were caught by falling debris from a missile intercept.
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  689. ​@General Killbutt Putin is a murdering thug whose only domestic opposition is dead, imprisoned or in exile.
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  690.  @alexandernaydenov7539  in each year of the conflict a few thousand prisoners are taken by each side, so 46 in a week is about average. On this conflict HT isn't a news source, it's a Russian propaganda outlet.
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  691. Russia isn't capable of winning a war through dismantling an enemy as the US can.
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  692.  @martinvidenovic5767  evidence your 2100 dead claim?
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  693.  @martinvidenovic5767  name the general
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  694.  @martinvidenovic5767  name the general
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  695.  @martinvidenovic5767  name the general
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  696.  @martinvidenovic5767  name the Ukrainian general.
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  697.  @martinvidenovic5767  name the Ukrainian general.
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  698. The embarrassment is for Putin to discover that Iran is about the only country willing to supply him weapons and to have only the 4 worst dictatorships in the world support his war of aggression in the United Nations.
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  699. @General Eric  meanwhile Putin is too scared to get within 150km of the front line, is too scared to travel overseas for fear he'll be arrested and thinks that some fireworks over the Kremlin was an assassination attempt against him even though he was hundreds of km away and everyone knew it.
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  700.  @Blobby192  you should learn the difference between evidence and propaganda.
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  701.  @Blobby192  satire?
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  702.  @tshidisomosiiwa4432  so? But they won't.
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  703. @Barin-hn1bf  all of those US nukes have been there since the 1960's, they're bombs, not missiles, they're all over 2000km from Moscow and the aircraft designated to carry them aren't capable of delivering them to Moscow without refueling. So those weapons are well back and not easily deliverable. The Russian weapons on the other hand, are missiles that are being positioned forward as a threat.
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  704.  @Baron-hn1bf  you play with your marbles then
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  705.  @alexandernaydenov7539  Putin thinks all Russian speaking people should be his property, be under his rule, not just those in Russia now. The West has spent the last 80 years divesting itself of colonies. Putin wants to see a return to the Russian imperialism of two centuries ago.
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  706. Respecting other countries' borders and sovereignty.
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  707. The Ukrainian people insist on kicking the murdering Putin army out of their country, the West will not betray them.
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  708.  @Persev444  please engage the thing between your ears. The Ukrainians are fighting to defend their country from an invader, like the Afghans did against the Soviet Union and the US. The aggressor, in this case Russia, will tire of their imperialist war before the defenders stop defending their homes.
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  709.  @Persev444  despite what you imagine, Western military resources are several times larger than Russia's.
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  710. He's made Ukraine a country of proud people willing to stand up and fight for their country against a thug and dictator who tried to subjugate them . . . but don't forget, Putin helped him a lot.
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  711.  @yo-gz8rv  Zelensky was elected by Ukrainian's and remains popular because he's pursuing policies that are popular with Ukrainians.
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  712. What attacks on the Donbas? The Russian attacks, which have been most of them?
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  713. Russian desperation.
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  714. @Daniel Puran  oryx has Russian tank losses at 2001 Ukraine tank losses at 507, with those Russian losses including 544 Russian tanks captured by Ukraine intact. Ukraine has received over 200 T72's from Poland and the Czech Republic, 100 Leopard 1's from Germany and about 100 of the more modern western tanks (leopard 2, challenger 2). So Ukraine now has more than they started with, Russia considerably less.
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  715.  @KnightWing408  Russia fights only for Putin's meglomaniacal need for ever more power.
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  716. Ukraine exists and should exist because the people who live there see themselves as Ukrainians. It's imperialists that decide that national identities aren't important.
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  717. ​@Trentson the ammunition is supplied to destroy the Russian invaders, that is obvious, it requires serious delusions to think anything else.
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  718.  @savanthsunnyt  Russia has invaded Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Chechnya. If you think it's bad for big countries to invade smaller countries I agree with you. Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  719.  @JBFD64  right, Putin seeks peace by invading another country.
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  720.  @Memovox  you're clueless, the revolution was a result of Yanukovych refusing to sign an association agreement with the EU that was supported by most Ukrainians and the Ukrainian parliament. Ukrainians had seen other East European countries become wealthy join the EU, after conversations with Putin, Yanukovych decided to rip up that agreement and enter a similar agreement with Russia. Ukrainians could see where that leads - becoming a Russian puppet state again, so they kicked Yanukovych out, with the Ukraine parliaments endorsement. The narrative that Victoria Nuland used mind control powers to manipulate hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into overthrowing a popular president doesn't stand up to serious scrutiny.
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  721.  @Memovox  you discuss what you want, I'm discussing the murderous Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you want to refute my points do so, so far all you reveal is your ignorance.
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  722.  @savanthsunnyt  sometimes I agree with US foreign policy sometimes I don't, I judge on the contents of an argument not on who makes the argument.
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  723.  @savanthsunnyt  the mindset "America bad so anyone opposed to the American position good" is a decision to not think for yourself. It's putting ideology ahead of people - like the Ukrainian people who are fighting for the territory and sovereignty of their country, sovereignty that Russia promised to respect and defend.
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  724.  @Ali-hu8jr  have to look at the merits case by case. With Korea and the first Gulf War (kicking Iraq out of Kuwait) I think justifiable, the rest more questionable. Vietnam especially so as Ho Chi Min wanted the US the support Vietnamese independence from France. The US made an appalling mistake and drove the Vietnamese towards the Soviets. The Russians have repeatedly made the same mistake trying to bully and scheme to control Ukraine.
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  725. @I am a Monkey bro  your comment is incomprehensible.
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  726.  @JBFD64  Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine in August 1991 and pledged to respect Ukraine sovereignty and territory - that includes the territory of Ukraine that Russia invaded and pretends to have annexed. In 1991 Ukraine had a referendum, the majority of voters in every oblast voted in favor of Ukraine independence. The February 2022 Russian invasion was condemned by the then pro-Russian parties in the Ukraine parliament, the successor to those parties, with the same leadership as then, under a new political banner, still in the Ukraine parliament, now support Ukraine joining the EU. The only supporters of the Russian invasion, with rare exceptions, are people that didn't live in the territory under Ukraine government control at the start of February 2022. For almost everyone in the invaded territory the invasion was unwelcome.
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  727.  @dannyb4753  it's been confirmed that one launcher was damaged by falling debris and was quickly repaired has now been fixed. You really shouldn't trust Russian MOD propaganda.
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  728.  @alifkazeryu8228  Wagner captured Bakhmut, they used little in the way of armor, it was mostly artillery and infantry. But I was obviously overstating for effect, Russia has only lost 3/4 of the tanks it started with.
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  729. Russian military production is failing, that's why Russian T54/55's are going to fight in Ukraine.
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  730. Except no video or pictures of Russia destroying Ukrainian boats, just more Russian lies.
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  731.  @cogitoergosum1474  yep, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is proof that nato membership means a country is protected against Russian aggression.
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  732. They shoot down most, not all.
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  733.  @Animboyexe  they shot those missiles down, that's why Russia hasn't been able to show any damage from them.
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  734. @AnimBoy  basically all patriot has to do is step in front of kinzhal to destroy it, it doesn't run it down from behind.
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  735.  @Animboyexe  they were firing multiple patriot missiles at each kinzhal.
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  736. @AnimBoy  I don't know what you mean if they're too close, the kinzhal comes down, the patriot goes up, the patriot is more maneuverable than the kinzhal and gets in front of it before detonation.
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  737. @AnimBoy  you're desperately trying to come up with justifications for why the patriot can't intercept a kinzhal, but the version of the patriot being used, the PAC-3, is designed to intercept hypersonic missiles. There is no theoretical reason for it not being able to do so.
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  738.  @mironRu79  I assume you're in Ukraine fighting for Russia.
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  739. ​ obvioustroll.yetyoustillgo1634 there we have it, most of those supporting Russia in social media are Russian bots.
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  740.  @MrSkeptik-z5r  nothing brilliant, and Putin has made him look a fool with his demands of a Ukrainian capitulation prior to negotiations.
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