Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "DW News" channel.

  1. When we don't like the results of elections we thrown them out.
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  2. Wow, this is a blast from the past.
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  3. "Wiretapping" here means hanging out in the hotel lobby connected to the wireless network.
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  4. Notice the relatively happy, smiley picture used for Schmertz but the frowning, pointing, seemingly threatening one for Weidl (AfD).
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  5. Ukraine won't let military aged men out of the country. There are numerous videos of young Ukrainian men crossing into Moldovia illegally. Multiple videos of groups of 3-6-9. Not two guys interviewed at two different airports.
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  6. Wagner was unopposed because Putin and the Russian security services wanted to give him time to come to his senses. He did
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  7. "Democratic institutions" which freeze out 20-25 percent of the voters from the normal process of politics is not 'democratic'. Trying to ban parties isn't 'democratic'.
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  8. @TalibanAtrocities What does one thing have to do with the other? The 'EU' didn't hire him, individual football clubs...capitalist organizations...hired him because they thought his services were worth the money. There are tons of African and South American footballers playing in 'the West' too, does the EU get to dictate the politics of their countries? Or vice versa, because European football fans enjoy seeing South Americans and Africans play football, is the EU required to admit those countries?
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  9. @junelew3744 We aren't the ones banning parties, annulling elections, arresting people for online comments.
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  10. Terrible human being.
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  11. Source: Trust me, bro.
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  12. What did they actually do?
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  13. 'Romania' would be speaking Turkish without Russia.
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  14. @StefanTaf Nothing I have seen shows that Russia directly financed any candidate.
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  15. ​ @Brendissimo1 The US under Bush II withdrew first from the anti ballistic missile and likewise under Trump we withdrew first from the intermediate range ballistic missile treaty. So it is we, not the Russians, who have a habit of ripping up treaties.
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  16.  @WhichDoctor1  The Russian army never occupied those cities...Russian volunteers only helped local forced stop Kievs attacks
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  17. ​ @kiranreilly4916 When did Russia invade Libya? Serbia? Iraq?
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  18. Tblisi has over a million residents. Being very generous maybe 100,000 are participating in 'protests'. A distinct minority. This is a classic 'color revolution' play.
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  19.  @Minerva-fp1zx  Yes, we in the US still consider ourselves a democracy despite doing all of that stuff.
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  20. LOL colonial mindset. Of course Russia is beating a country that pretty much has everything from NATO.except front line troops.
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  21.  @phillipbenchinho4943  There are 23 languages which have official status in Russia in the regions were they are spoken. Russian philologists and linguists during imperial and Soviet times were instrumental in documenting the lesser known and smaller languages of the territory. And, fun fact, a Russian, Yuri Knorozov, was the primary guy behind the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphics.
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  22. Finland has always had a heavily defended border, bunkers, conscription.
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  23. Again, a shining example of the 'EU' and it's respect for democracy!
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  24. @lexsportoverflows586 Except the normal thing in German politics is to recognize parties that get substantial votes and at least enter into coalition talks with them. The whole 'firewall' thing is anti-Democratic. JD Vance was and is right.
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  25. Ironically they are using Russian designed, likely Russian produced AKs.
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  26.  @CZRkg  Russian is the official state language for all the Russian Federation, and is also considered the language of the 'state-forming people'. But there are 23 languages that have official status somewhere in the Federation. Example Tatar is an official language of Tatarstan, with about 4 million speakers IIRC. Likewise Sakha is an official language of the Sakha republic, otherwise called Yakutia. Russia actually traditionally has spent quite a lot of money and effort preserving its minority languages like Udmurt, Nenets etc.
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  27. Yes, billions of dollars, tanks, artillery cruise missiles, aircraft, virtually all of NATOs Intel assets in Europe ...NATO hasn't been trying at all.
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  28.  @ballenboy  The Russians have been in Narva since before there was an 'Estonia'.
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  29. After the fact.
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  30. ​ @danieIlondon Studied in snd was subsidized by the United States.
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  31. This probably violates the European convention on minority rights...but because these are Russians, Slavs who have been in Narva for generations, it won't be enforced. If Estonia really wanted to help these kids as it claims, it would require instruction in English, basically the lingua franca of the EU, rather than Estonian which has fewer than one million speakers.
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  32. Russians have plenty of experience with being invaded...
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  33. Well no, it's in the EU and NATO so it's sovereignty is purely symbolic.
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  34. Besides the anti Democratic nature of this march, this coverage is wierd. Political parties hold "secret" i.e. not public, meetings all the time. You think the SDP notifies the media when its top leaders meet with industrialists? Due you think that CDU politicians don't meet on the quiet with religious leaders?
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  35. Cope
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  36. Did you even listen to this report?
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  37. ​ @Sgarigan No. The people of Transdniestr rose up organically even before the Soviet Union fell.
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  38. Plus at least one with what appears to be an Azov patch.
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  39. A similar law exists, and has existed, in the US since the 1950s. And indeed associates of the last administration have been tried and convicted of violating that law.
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  40. "We are not really seeing a large number of people reurning".😅😅😅😅
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  41. Let's hope. Kharkov and Odessa are, of course, historically Russian cities. There is no such thing as a historically Ukrainian city. Any peoples that could realistically be called 'Ukrainian' (literally Borderlander) were either peasants or semi-nomadic border raiders (Cossacks) , and even the latter became in time mostly Russian-identifying.
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  42.  @LarryAlexander-hf3lc  Did Biden 'serve'? Obama? Bill Clinton?
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  43. Russia hit a bunch of supply depots in Odessa and elsewhere.
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  44. They always forget to mention that Navalny was a 'Yale World Fellow'... i.e trained at a top US university long associated with the CIA (Bush senior's alma mater for example). Imagine a US, UK or German politician who spent six months on a.fully paid fellowship at Moscow State.
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  45. BS. These are all excuses to eradicate a population group. I would kinda understand, if 'Estonians' (a country made up in the early 20th century) didn't whine about 'Russification' under the Soviets all the time. In fact in the Soviet Union the Estonian language was promoted.
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  46.  @netiturtle  That 'Russification' was simply industrialization. The Russian speakers are concentrated in the East where there have for centuries been large numbers of Slavs, that trend just intensified. There have never been more than a million 'Estonians' .
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  47. @rokas_stulga The Russian speakers pay taxes just like the 'Estonians'.
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  48. @tamasmarcuis4455 Who immigrates to Latvia? I guess now the people they call 'Ukrainians' who are overwhelmingly Russian speaking.
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  49.  @paulvarn4712  No, we were told that 'Russia was running out of missiles'. Full stop.
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  50. The Ukrainiam government forcibly seized churches including the one highlighted here, contrary to the wishes of real parishioners...not the ulra-nationalists who haven't been in a church for a decade shown here. And contrary to the wishes of the real Ukrainian orthodox church
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  51. I remember when Russian civilian aircraft would stop flying in two weeks...that was predicted three months ago. I remember when the Ruble would be worth .001 USD, that too was three months ago. I remember when Russia would run out of cruise missiles...again three months ago. This whole war has been covered in the most propagandistic way.
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  52.  @brandenburgquentinthe3rd532  Mass immigration doesn't help the economy for the people of the receiving country. Just makes housing more expensive and negatively impacts infrastructure. Sure, some rich people benefit from low wages in services and manufacturing, but not the mass of the people.
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  53.  @marsultor6131  No, the EU has trade barriers...that's what it is all about, a protected trading bloc. The EU could have agreed to an amiable divorce and continued trading with the UK without barriers, but it valued its political power more. Think about it, the dude's cheese is no different now than before...why does it need a special certificate?
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  54. I think peaceful resolution of the situation showed strength and wisdom on the part of Putin. Esp. since he knows that the West wants bloodshed between Russians. And btw we don't have to imagine...there was a general amnesty for Confederate soldiers after the Civil War.
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  55. 'Interpreting the developing news' didn't pose a challenge at all for Western MSM ...including state media like this German channel. They had a script and went with it, even after events (a peaceful resolution in 36 hours) showed that script to be malarkey.
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  56. Brigadi Rossi
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  57.  @anonymous-hz2un  These aren't Russians that want to move to Finland. Russians mostly went to Finland for cheaper shopping and returned. Finns went to Russia for cheap alcohol and returned.
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  58. ​ @serebii666 Everything I've seen even from apolitical or tacitly anti Putin vloggers is that after some initial difficulties Vkusno I Tochka matches McDs to a very near degree.
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  59. Similar, but I'd say the more exact analogy is to the calling up of National Guard units during the Iraq war, at least that's my understanding of what is going on. You won't get the truth from the Western media that's for sure.
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  60.  @Gopferteckel  Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan my disagree (yeah I know the last two weren't 'official' NATO actions, but c'mon man!)
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  61. LOL, I saw a video from Vladimir (the city) with interviews about the guy. Most people didn't care, those that had an opinion were 2 for, 4 against. One guy didn't even know who Navalny was.
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  62. Omg two dudes share a moment of levity in a two hour interview...how unprofessional!
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  63.  @sergeyb8  Then link one. And BTW she is not a Russian official but rather an employee of state media, just like the presenter here.
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  64. You cannot send tanks across a border, but NATO can.
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  65. The vast amount of the Russian gains took place before the Intel shut-off
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  66. Okay that was pretty funny even for me...a guy who supports Russia.
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  67. @19Szabolcs91 Latvia is the country losing population the fastest in the EU. There were more 'Latvians' in the USSR than there are now.
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  68.  @davidjones6389  Yeah, and so did those 'exercises' with US forces.
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  69. @jimjam6510 My fellow American, you obviously didn't read deeply enough. In the scope of history it is the Europeans who have invaded Russian lands repeatedly. The Poles and Lithuanians, the Swedes with Charles XII (they are still made about his defeat at Poltava), much of Europe under Napoleon (Poles again, troops from what is now Germany and Italy), the British and French in the Crimean war, the British and US after the Bolshevik revolution, and of course you know who from 1941-1945 helped by the Romanians, Bulgarians etc.
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  70. Quite some coincidences there.
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  71.  @Darthdog4957  Slavic speakers are quite native to the area that is now 'Estonia', and especially to Narva where they are concentrated.
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  72. This isn't 1991, boomer.
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  73. Cope.
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  74. @matrixberzins465 Latvian demography is horrid in general, I very much doubt that currently that of Russian speakers in Latvia is worse than of native so-called Latvians (a national identity language cobbled together from 3-4 groups and dialects in the 19th century). It may be the case that it appears worse because yes, there are a lot of younger (then) Russian speakers who returned to Russia/the Ukraine/Belarus after 1991 so there are a lot of Russian speaking pensioners now, but I'll bet that of the younger Russian speaking families that remain, their fertility is at or above the general level for 'Latvia' as a whole.
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  75. @veex48 Why? We in the US have to care for immigrants from Central America and South America, Mexico doesn't. At least that is the liberal line.
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  76. What's a ukraine?
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  77. What's courageous about it?
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  78. @Frivolvin Pashinyan himself 'recognized' Artsakh as Azeri territory...what is Russia supposed to do?
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  79.  @reddix435  LOL, the language of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski and Checkov will be usuless...sure we will just replace that literature with the great works of Latvian literary giants like...uh...
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  80.  @karliskokorevics6902  But you were part of the Russian empire for a hundred years...why didn't you learn Russian? And btw 'Latvian' is recently constructed, as is 'Latvia'. Look on old maps and the area...not a state but just a region...is called Livonia. But Livonian is now extinct and wasn't even related to what is now called 'Latvian.
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  81. @wzrd9s The will ignore them or change the rules and 'norms'...like they did in France.
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  82. Take a look at what happened to Russia in the 1990s and then how the country has turned around. Yes, Putin cares about his country and people, far more than typical Western leaders.
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  83. ​ @chickendinner5572 It was 3am local time. This was basically an old troop carrier used as a cargo ship. Why would there be more than a guard or two on board?
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  84.  @tapio_m6861  The Russian speaking population pays taxes...probably more taxes than Estonian speakers as the east is more developed.
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  85.  @aleksandraslisauskas2871  There was no 'Latvia' when the Russian Empire took over the area from the Swedish Empire.
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  86. Yuri looks nervous. The Russian gains in the front must be worrying him.
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  87. Wait, one woman travelled to two other countries, the other tries to squash speculation? LOL
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  88.  @jerrymcgeorge4117  And yet the missiles still keep coming.
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  89. ​ thegarfield2414  Your biggest export is women
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  90. Why would Russian speaking people from regions where most are native Russian speakers fight for a Ukrainian state that won't recognize their fundamental right to use their native language in official settings and to be educated in that language?
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  91. I will give Western state run media some credit. They are propagandistic but eventually reality will get so 180 degrees out from The Narrative they will have to correct course somewhat.
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  92.  @Hans-gb4mv  Blah blah blah. If the EU wanted the benefits of free trade it could have them with the UK or any country. Instead it acted like a raging spouse after the other spouse said he/she wants a divorce, spitefully, fighting over the children and the vacation home. This despite the fact that the EU charter has article 51 which is supposed to let nations who change their mind out, amicably.
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  93.  @miko007  I think they will be okay.
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  94.  @MyPrideFlag  Since it was a secret meeting how do you know what the proposals are?
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  95. @CashMacGregor Worse than a bully is the little kid that thinks he can smart off to everyone because he has a bigger bully for a brother.
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  96.  @estsimulator2181  It was far higher, like ten percent. And the growth came from industrialization primarily in the East. There just weren't enough 'Estonians' to industrialize the area.
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  97. Frankly this sounds like a Reichstag fire moment for the current German government. It will be interesting to see what actual 'evidence' is produced.
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  98.  @jbbeiser983  Nah, just has a Ukranian flag there up on his shelf.
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  99. We cam only dream of this kind of articulate and wise commentary in the US of A.
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  100. The 'trade barriers' are the EUs.
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  101.  @billpugh58  No, but there are trade barriers to countries outside the EU.
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  102. The idea that the Russian government would do this in Russia, during the BRICs summit, when he could have been killed in Africa is just ridiculous. And Shulman is a foreign agent from the Russia perspective...it said right in the introduction she is a fellow (i.e. a paid intellectual mercenary) for the Carnegie institution. DW is German government media.
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  103. Business people buying newspapers to gain influence? LOL. Ever heard of Jeff Bezos?
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  104. @jabberwockytdi8901 You are for throwing out the results of elections?
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  105. Erecting a 'cordon sanitaire' around parties that get 20-30 percent of the vote is anti-democratic.
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  106. Crimea has literally never been Ukrainian in anything but a Soviet admin sense.
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  107. Exactly right. The city hall and the port have been long under DNR/Russian control.
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  108. Geogian dream is the democratically elected government of Georgia. These 'color revolutions' are western funded and supported coups supported by a small urban minoriry. This was true of the so called 'orange' snd Majdan cou 7:03 ps in the Ukraine and it is true here. And btw we have a similar law in the US called the foreign agents registration act.
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  109.  @paulgibbon5991  I didnt
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  110. German state affiliated media.
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  111. That's more of a conspiracy theory on the part of non-state media, bloggers, Telegram channels etc.
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  112. People call Russia a bully...maybe. But worse than a bully is the little kid who taunts other kids because he has a 'big brother'. That's what this tiny Baltic 'nations' are like. Little yapping Pomeranians who know they can get away with it becuase of the US taxpayer and military. That guy interviewed, Kols...obviously descended from the urban German 'elite' in Latvia, is one of the worst yappers.
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  113. This dude's not biased at all.
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  114. Or maybe he wants peace and is not willing to fight until the last Ukrainian.
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  115. He's a propagandist for German state media.
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  116. Too many people are voting for populist parties...this is a danger to democracy!
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  117. They will cause chaos. Just like the Majdan coup. This is the modus operandi of these western front groups.
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  118.  @Robert-cu9bm  The Scottish independence referendum lost, Brexit won.
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  119. What's a Ukraine?
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  120. Girl boss of a yipping Pomeranian of a country. Ironically her father was a Soviet military officer, editor of the Estonian Communist newspaper, and member of the all Union Soviet house of delegates. He too was prime minister of the independent Estonia. 'Elites' reproduce themselves no matter the ideology.
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  121. LOL, yeah, we send armaments to Ukraine via the US postal service.
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  122. No proof that Putin went anywhere. Zero.
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  123.  @timonsolus  Then a lot of Ukrainians will die for areas where a good portion of the population would rather be in Russia because, you know, they are Russians and Kyiv is hostile to them (and has been since long before 2014, indeed going back to the late USSR).
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  124.  @timonsolus  why should Russians who happen to live in a brand new state have to leave the land where their grandparents lived and fought and died?
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  125.  @timonsolus  z, And Americans refused to obey British law. But Kyiv wasn't just asking for taxes, it was strangling their culture. Not to mention the coup against the legitimately elected President
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  126. I am ashamed to share a first name with this man. Have been for a long time but this just makes it worse. Almost glad the Dems won the Senate.
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  127. ​ @tayler2396 As an American, that country is long gone.
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  128. ​ @olasek7972 Dillweed is a bitter herb.😊
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  129.  @peabase  It's Finland that is turning them back.
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  130.  @toweri_li  Literally everything that Russia now occupies is Russian speaking, former Russian territory that had zero to do with any historical 'Ukraine'. Russia is defending Russia and Russians.
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  131.  @sonneh86  Donbas, since 1994.
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  132. There are fewer than 1 million 'Estonians' in this world. They can only talk tough because of the US. They were very good allies to the Germans from 1941 to 1945.
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  133. It's weird how Western state and 'private' media are so far behind the curve. The Ukrainians and their small contingent of Russian rebels have already been routed with several killed and the rest back across the border. Several US made and paid for MRAPs were captured and several US made Humvees destroyed.
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  134. This Polish government will sell out the Polish people to where, like the English, they will be a minority in their own cities.
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  135. LOL...did it with 45 hours to spare.
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  136. Trade between nations isn't a clubhouse. If consumers in Germany want to buy UK goods they should be able to with a minimum of EU interference, it only hurts those consumers. Obviously the dude's cheese is the same now as it was before; why the extra red tape? Welll, because the EU is a protectionist bloc and a democracy deficient political entity.
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  137. LOL, no. In fighting for Kyiv for six years, he was actively trying to take the freedom of the people of Donetsk and Lugansk.
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  138. If the guy has been part of the Ukrainian military for 6 years, he has been engaged in offensive action against people who just want to be free of Kyivan rule, speech their own language, maintain ties to a country where they have relatives and family and business relationships and economic ties. It's tragic he lost his leg, but he should have stayed home.
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  139. Okay that was pretty funny even for me...a guy who supports Russia.
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  140. The "sanctuary" from which Russia launches missiles is...Russia.
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  141.  @gege1103  Why should the EU be allowed to interfere in individual countries' elections?
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  142. Sounds like you don't like the free market...was the newspaper forced to sell?
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  143.  @nc01sadh  So all Europeans get to decide what happens in Transdniestria?
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  144. @Fred Freddy Trump did win in 2016 and no one moved to Canada like they promised.
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  145. The guest is literally a paid agent of the west, specifically the US
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  146.  @LashaRides  Kiev literally possesses two Polish provinces and a major city. The Red Army/Soviet government gave them to 'Ukraine' after WWII.
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  147.  @dyawr  Since 2018 Armenia has had an anti-Russian government. It found out what that meant in 2020 and now, sadly, even more so in 2023.
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  148.  erikbengt1074  You better get ready to be destabilized.
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  149. These must be dishwasher strikes, Russia ran out of missiles in April.
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  150. What meeting with a head of state is not 'staged'?
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  151. Supposedly?
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  152.  @NinjaXryho  Armenia the state is not what was attacked. If the Armenian state itself refuses to protect its ethnic brothers and sisters in a 'breakaway region', how can Russia be expected to.
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  153. Guys, Trudeau is on the way out. Plus, the EU isn't exactly brimming with people, particular people belonging to the indigenous European nations.
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  154. Oh you did, did you?
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  155. LOL. Defying Russia isn't working out too well for Armenia, or Pashinyan, right now.
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  156. Spain finds a mini Stonehenge, we find mafia hits.
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  157. Yes that's true, but Western Media...state controlled like DW or 'private' requires two spoonfuls.
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  158.  @StefanTaf  Yes, intelligence agencies never falsify anything.
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  159. ​ @GolDRoger-fx2fp They elected the anti Russian Pashinyan in 2018, he alienated Russia, and now the Armenian people, but not Pashinyan, paying the price.
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  160. What Russia controls now is Russian speaking, with a large amount of support for Russia.
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  161. What Russia controls now is Russian speaking, with a large amount of support for Russia.
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  162. What Russia controls now is Russian speaking, with a large amount of support for Russia.
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  163. What Russia controls now is Russian speaking, with a large amount of support for Russia.
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  164. Eastern and Southern Ukraine were never Ukrainian.
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  165. Serbia (Yugoslavia), Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan...'defensive alliance'.
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  166. Yes, as they were packing up and going home. Thanking them for their previous service and making the right decision two days ago.
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  167. Look at the west, trying another color revolution.
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  168. @fantomas5614 "Civilized world"
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  169. German state media.
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  170. Copy pasta bot
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  171. What is 'Ukraine'?
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  172. Why are neo-liberals so obsessed with erasing their indigenous populations via immigration and mixing?
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  173. @willettsworld And 70% didn't vote for the CDU. And 80% didn't vote for the "radical environmentalist Greens" last time but they were in government, including in positions where they have no competence like foreign minister.
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  174. He said 'the Ukraine's....the Ukies get really mad at that.
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  175. Cope!
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  176. Didn't Obama have some 'advisors' from former Weather Underground terrorists?
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  177.  @eddosimonetti2314  Got his name from the book not the other way round
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  178. Meanwhile the Azov battalions pray for rescue.
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  179.  @johanness.9925  Well, if the Wikipedia editors wrote it, it must be so.
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  180.  @wilhelm4321  So, anti democracy and anti free speech. Got it.
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  181. What did they actually do?
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  182. Donetsk the city not been under Kyivan control for 8 years.
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  183. NATO wants peace. Yeah, ask Libya, Yugoslavia/Serbia. Ask all those countries that major NATO members, helped by NATO interoperability, have attacked. A few examples -- Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan.
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  184. How ya doing, Evgenii Victorovich?
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  185.  @nick-cg4ew  She probably doesn't have any relatives left in Russia.
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  186. There's gonna find all a lot of skeletons with cement overshoes.
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  187. I wish they'd acknowledge that the Ukrainian government controls what and when they can film.
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  188. Juri has a nice 'stache.
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  189. Gonna get me a sixpack of Carlsberg tonight.
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  190. You joined NATO and the EU and now you are famous mostly for exporting women and girls for the brothels of Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.
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  191. The Georgia Dream party represents the Georgia people, not these few thousands of Western funded protestors. BTW we have a similar law in the US and the EU has proposed such a law.
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  192. McCain was a war monger, and I say this as an American. The Russians have quite a ways to go to kill as many civilians as we killed in Iraq 2 and/or Afghanistan.
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  193. Coming from a state that gained about 1/4 of its area from doing just that, I don't see a problem (I'm from the US of A).
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  194. I don't know how it is now but in the US when I was young you had to register for the draft and couldn't get a student loan or go to community college without having done so.
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  195. Must be nice to be able to make stuff up in your head. Do you speak Russian? Can you follow the news or the Telegram channels in Russian. Or are you just a smug git?
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  196. This is the guy whose company supposedly found that the 'Russians' hacked the DNC in 2016. Not our '17 intelligence agencies', just this guy's company.
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  197. As a USA based, former US servicemember who served in a couple NATO operations, this ruzzbot was 'back' (having never left) two days ago. And clearly Putin handled this event as well as possible, with a couple of actual positive outcomes for him. Wagner is now more firmly under official MOD control and Prigozhin has been sidelined .
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  198. How come the Greens are never called the "radical environmentalist Greens". How come the CDU is never called "the corporatist CDU"? How come the Free Liberals are never called 'extreme libertarians'?
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  199.  @ovidiukroi_mapping  I suspect they are trying to phase out Russian language schooling for Russian speaking children. That is against UN and EU laws on the treatment of linguistic minorities I believe.
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  200. German state run media.
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  201. All of us can see Russias economy for ourselves via Russian youtubers, some of whom are anti Putin, that Russian economy is doing pretty well.
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  202.  @andrewcroft7995  There is literally no evidence they planned to take Kiev in three days.
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  203. In Kharkov the 'Ukrainians' faced militia guys from Lugansk mostly. It was a mistake to not put regular Russian army there. Russia still controls the majority of Kherson oblast but did make a wise move not to fight with their back to the major river in 'Ukraine'...yet.
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  204.  @nobodyisbest  You don't think all those Americans are 'volunteers' as in not paid, do you?
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  205. "Estonia" is still getting electricity from Russia.
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  206. ​ @Phelec59 Ukraine actually lost territory on net during it's counteroffensive. Tiny gains in the south were more than offset by losses in the north
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  207. What facts? The guy may know which companies left and that's about it. We've had LNG for 20 plus years.
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  208.  @jessefisher1809  Most of the Russian population lives in European Russia yes. But most of its oil and gas lies in the East and North. People like this propagand... uh, professor thought that cutting Russia off from SWIFT, sanctions, siezing Russian assets in the West etc would cause economic collapse in Russia, with the hope of that leading to Putin's ouster. That simply hasn't happened.
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  209.  @jessefisher1809  So the Chinese aren't good at technology? So the people built and operate atomic powered ice breakers can't figure out how to drill for oil or build a pipeline? Sure Western expertise sped things along, and cooperation was beneficial for both the Russians and Western companies, but I think the Russians, Chinese and Indians can manage.
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  210.  @adam-7147  Even the US doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independent polity.
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  211.  @Justmekpc  Dude, stop freebasing Streihan.
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  212.  @jessefisher1809  Okay, but pipelines aren't 'really high end stuff'. The Chinese have built a world class high speed rail network in about 20 years...you think they can't manage to construct a couple of pipelines? The bigger obstacle to gas uptake in China, from what I've read, is that they have a lot of coal infrastructure in place at both the large scale and even home level.
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  213. German state-affiliated media.
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  214.  @foilhat1138  How many English people speak Welsh
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  215. I don't get it...Chechnya was 'internationally recognized' Russian territory. So in the Chechnya war Putin was basically doing what the Ukrainians are now doing, and have been doing since the 2014 coup.
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  216.  @tHYRR3N  They would.
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  217. Putin pretty much did away with the true 'oligarchy' that ran Russia into the ground in the 1990s. Yes there are very rich businessmen in Russia now, but they don't have the political power they had in the 90s.
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  218. LOL this is typical UK BS. The Russians have been willing to set up parallel accounts in rubles and euros or dollars, and in fact that's how they are accepting payments for the gas they are still delivering.
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  219. Yeah and Putin was going to die of cancer in sixth months, twelve months ago.
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  220. @harmoniacaotica There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of Georgians working in the Russian Federation. There are numerous business, cultural, and family ties between the countries. And of course historical ties (where was Stalin from?). This is why Georgian Dream is the leading party in parliament.
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  221. German government affiliated media.
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  222. @RazorMouth If the EU keeps going the way it is, you won't have a 'veto' for much longer.
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  223. But Germany is always complaining about a labor shortage. So you will allow millions of more non Germans in, Germans will become a minority in more places in Germany, all to defend a badly divided country that didn't exist as an independent polity until 33 years ago. Makes sense
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  224. Were did it say the Russians care about this fence.
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  225.  @Alexander-dt2eq  They aren't 'Estonian', they are Russian.
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  226.  @tn2cw  Wrong.
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  227. Gamechanger(tm)!
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  228. Minsk.
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  229. What's an "Estonian"?
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  230. LOL, in other words state media...and just as propagandistic as any Russian state media, although maybe more subtle.
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  231. @Major Tom That many Urkainian men did and still do 'need a ride'. Many have no desire to 'liberate' territories that are Russian speaking.
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  232.  @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl  Actually yeah. Prigozhin's been an increasingly bad headache for months now. Wagner has been becoming somewhat of a rogue unit (obviously). Both those problems now solved or greatly mitigated.
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  233. During Yeltsin's regime Russian males lost ten years of life expectancy. The man was a drunk and awful leader for Russia.
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  234.  @80-80.  He is in prison because he worked with the US government to target sanctions to hurt Russia, his own country, and also Russian journalists he disagreed with.
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  235. @WorldCitizen0000 It's not Russia's responsibility to stop non-Russians from transiting to Finland.
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  236. Goodbye any grain deal.
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  237. Obama must be so jealous.
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  238. January 6th was a protest that turned into a riot, nothing more. Moreover it came after six months of Leftist political violence
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  239.  @jturtle5318  Exactly, they obeyed Washington DC gun laws. There were no guns found in the Capitol. One pistol, to the best of my knowledge, was found on the Capitol grounds. 'Regrets' after an event isn't a crime.
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  240.  @jturtle5318  You watch some videos. And not ones the MSM keep showing. Watch all the videos that we have.
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  241.  @glenncordova4027  some did in most didn't. And all that is just a typical riot. The white house was attack the same way May 31 2020
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  242.  @glenncordova4027  No police officers died due to the riot. Sicknik had a stroke, maybe the stress helped lead to that but being a cop is inherently stressful. The others killed themselves, and as far as I know, none left behind messages blaming the riot. No government officials were killed. Some dudes chanted 'hang Mike Pence' for like 30 seconds. The 'gallows' the media loves to show was nowhere near the Capitol. The MSM and Dems and anti Trump Republicans like Cheney deliberately blew the riot far out of proportion. And of course deliberately downplayed the George Floyd riots, which actually did result directly in deaths.
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  243. In Ukraine if you post video of (failing) missile defense you get arrested. Males between 18 and 54 can't leave the country, and press gangs are grabbing males off the streets.
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  244. Well, one is that they get destroyed and Germany has none left.
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  245. @seanmurphy2365 Russia has troops protecting two areas that were autonomous in the USSR, which won their autonomy back in the early 90s when the USSR collapsed, and who were attacked by the Georgia central government who decided to unilaterally revoke that autonomy.
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  246. Notice the guy has an Anglo-Saxon name, speaks with a perfect American accent, and works for some vaguely named outfit (the 'Regional Studies Center'). This is more NGO astroturfing. My prediction, Pashinyan and his party will be out at the next election.
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  247. Hungary rejected immigrants, they were called racist, xenophobic and subject to sanctions. Finns reject immigrants and they are suddenly heroes.
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  248. Sky news has a good female reporter near the front (Ukr. side).
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  249. LOL, except for Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or going back some decades, Vietnam.
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  250.  @starmnsixty1209  You think our 'shock and awe' campaign in Iraq 2003 killed just Iraqi military? You think no civilians were killed in our siege of Faluja?
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  251. @brichards989 Somehow the United States managed to exist and indeed spread across the whole continent, while the Ukraine was either non-existent as a polity or in a union with Russia. We will be okay, brother.
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  252. ​ @scarab0b He is exactly right
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  253.  @ashcarrier6606  Got a link?
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  254. Russia is moving a lot of troops from the South because they have won there.
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  255. Man I knew there would be a lot of schadenfreude and I sure was right.
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  256. Does this guy think Elon Musk personally yeets people from X?
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  257. ​ @annamalinene2789  There was no "Latvia" before the Russian Empire took control of the region.
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  258. @Porusize Armenia elected the anti-Russian Pashinyan government back in 2018, way before this phase of the war in the Ukraine. Azerbaijan took 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh back in 2020, again before this current phase of the war. Russia would have been in a better position to intervene, for sure, without the war in the Ukraine, but it would have needed Armenia's participation and backing, and Pashinyan was not willing to give it.
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  259. He fought in a military which has been repressing people who want to be free to live their own lives, speak their own language, education their children in that language, and maintain centuries old ties to friends, family, relatives. He chose poorly. I hope he returns to his own country and rethinks some things.
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  260.  @ghostrider13bg  Latvian would have been coofficial...Russification is largely a myth.
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  261.  @anrmlumlwundlistr7620  There's a whole county on the border where everyone speaks Russian. These little Pomeranian countries sure hate the Soviets, but they love the borders the Soviets drew.
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  262.  @jonathanstein5049  Orban's party just won a landslide and now has an outright majority.
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  263. Bela means white, not beautiful like in Romance languages...although I think if you trace it back they have the same root in Indo-European. White is beautiful!
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  264. This is the opposite...Moldova was threatening to try to retake Transdniestria.
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  265. Actually Ukraine has shot at random 'targets' in Russia many times in the last year, and civilian targets in Donetsk and Lugansk for the last eight years.
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  266. The central government in Georgia took away the autonomy of South Ossetia and moved in troops. Russia responded.
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  267.  @alainlefebvre9860  LOL, now they can start bombing again like Serbia 1999.
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  268.  @roballen2378  Georgia's central government brought it's troups into a region that had long enjoyed autonomy.
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  269. Slightly more mature people...there's a reason all the young girl Tik Tok bloggers shoot themselves from an above quarter angle, rather than below. PIease stop with the chin cam.
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  270. German state affiliated media.
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  271. @philbirch3452 So called 'Latvia' was part of the Russian empire...why didn't they learn Russian?
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  272. @beridzebeka. You would be like the Kurds now, party of Turkey or Iran, if not for the Russians. If support for the EU and NATO is so strong then you can vote out Georgia Dream at the next elections. Abhazia and South Ossetia will still be free, however, as they were in Soviet times and before
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  273.  @santaclaus0815  Russia faced the brunt of the Wehrmacht and won. Lend lease was relatively unimportant. It was the T-32s coming out of Urals factories that made a difference. No the UK...they surely would have lost had not my country pull their behind out of the fire.
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  274.  @santaclaus0815  The 'appeal to Stalin''' ; that's a logical fallacy I'd never thought I'd see. Hint, tovarishch, Stalin was wrong about quite a bit.
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  275.  @santaclaus0815  Wikipedia LOL
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  276. Zelensky arrested the main opposition leader Medvedchuk in June of 2021, even before Putin's build up of military force. Now, who's the tyrant?
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  277. Not really central but man! does Garland (US Genprokutor) look Bolshie or what?!?
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  278. Wait. At Xmas the Ukrainians made a big deal about changing to the Gregorian calender. What gives?
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  279. Literally hundreds of drones...NATO directed drones... shot down every month.
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  280.  @johnwalsh4857  Up against the full intelligence and survellience and technical services of NATO and still the Ukraine can only manage pin pricks.
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  281.  @Erine120  Coming at you from St. Petersburg...or maybe a few miles south of San Francisco.
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  282. Try Patrick Lancaster on youtube. Definitely pro-Russian and pro-Donestk People's Republic, but he's on the ground near the front lines, not holed up in Kiev.
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  283. You wouldn't exist without Russia.
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  284. @daheikkinen Finland and Russia connect in the Russian equivalent of New Mexico...rural and relatively poor. I'd match Moscow, St. Petersburg or even Ekaterinburg against Helsinki any day. Further irony...Russia literally created the very first Finish polity.
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  285. Germans fighting in the Ukraine again, lol. Gonna be the same result.
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  286. Make Galicia Poland Again!
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  287.  @samrizzardi2213  If the Soviets, or the Russians before them, had really wanted to replace the Latvians, they could easily have done it. There are twice as many people in St. Petersburg alone as in the entire country of Latvia.
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  288. My understanding is that in Kherson oblast (occupier or liberated, take your pick) both languages have been declared official. It was the Kyiv government that has been gradually reducing the linguistic rights of Russian speakers.
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  289. I hope that's sarcasm.
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  290. If he doesn't know that the real Russian growth or loss figures are how does he know that the IMF is wrong? Fact is if you look at the IMF estimates they varied throughout last year, first predicting a big loss then gradually revising that loss downward (in absolute terms). That seems to coincide with what we can all see happening in Russia via various bloggers, even anti-Putin ones. There are no longer panicked lines at the ATMs. Food is on the shelves in big and middle sized cities and even in the country side. Apple may have closed but the newest iPhone is apparently available in Russia, etc etc.
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  291. No they aren't .
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  292. What's a 'Latvia'?
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  293. LOL...I thought the second mobilization was supposed to start in January.
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