Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "DW News" channel.

  1. My friend and I wanted to take part in the protests yesterday. We were stopped by a police patrol on Pushkin Square. My friend was detained and put in a paddy wagon simply because he refused to unbutton his jacket - he had a Ukrainian flag in his inner pocket. I was afraid to go to Manezhnaya Square without him. People protested there, and went to the Lubyanka.
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  2.  @pjhgerlach  until the last Ukrainian
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  3. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  4. Russia and Japan had deals about this islands in the 19th century, but in 1906 Japan occupied them. In 1945 Soviets took them back
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  5.  @semprelazio8864  the fronts, that stormed Berlin were named after regions, where they were formed, but conscripts were taken from all parts of USSR
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  6. There wasn't way to excuse just what happened even before. The war couldn't be excused
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  7. No one was moved to this regions after they were captured
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  8. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  9.  @farticlesofconflatulation  the people from Russia came to Crimea a long after Crimea became part of Russia. Even before the annexation 60% of the Crimean population were Russians, who supported the reunification with Russia. Crimea is completely Russian territory, that unjustically became part of Ukraine in 1954 by decision of Soviet leaders.
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  10. There is no default in Russia - there is money, there is simply no payment method, because bank cards are blocked
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  11. No, it was Soviet government who gave this Armenian land to Azerbaijan, like they gave Russian Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, Karabakh was Armenian from ancient times
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  12.  @Standupforyour_rights  we don't have rising in unemployment. We have very flexible labor market as a Soviet legacy
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  13. Taiwan is an unrecognized separatist region. So, if you support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, then you put territorial integrity above the right of peoples to self-determination. The war in Ukraine did not start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 6, 2014, when Ukrainian troops clashed with Russian separatists. And now Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation to protect the pro-Russian separatists. So if you support Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, in order not to be hypocrites, you should support the PRC in the issue of the war with Taiwan.
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  14. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  15. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  16. Probably they were going to Belarusian border, because Russia and Belarus are forming Union State together and there are like in EU no custom zone between Russia and Belarus
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  17.  @Crashed131963  Americans also didn't leaved Western Europe. After all casualities, that USSR suffered during WW2, USSR didn't had right to leave Eastern Europe. Soviet control over this territories was absolute justice
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  18. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  19. In this world everything is decided by money. No Western "Free World" exists. Trade with China is more important for the West, which is why Taiwan is an unrecognized separatist region by anyone. So, if you support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, then you put territorial integrity above the right of peoples to self-determination. The war in Ukraine did not start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 6, 2014, when Ukrainian troops clashed with Russian separatist rebels. And now Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation to protect the pro-Russian separatists. So if you support Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, in order not to be hypocrites, you should support the PRC in the issue of the war with Taiwan.
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  20. Санкции нам на пользу 🤡
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  21. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  22. Russia attacked Ukraine because Ukraine wanted to join NATO, and Russia believes that NATO poses a danger to it. Russia has the right to consider NATO a threat and to be concerned about this threat - the same Americans in 1962, when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba, were also scared, so much so that sanctions are still being imposed against Cuba for no clear reason. And there was also a military operation of American troops in the Bay of Pigs. In 2003, America invaded Iraq because the Americans were afraid that Iraq might develop nuclear weapons. In 2000, the Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Poland and Romania. The German Foreign Minister assured Gorbachev in 1989 that there would be no expansion of NATO. And in 1997 and 2004 it happened. Ukraine and Georgia are certainly independent states. But you cannot ensure your own safety by sacrificing the safety of your neighbor. The USSR collapsed in 1991. And NATO existed in 2007 - 16 years after the collapse of the USSR. In 2007, Russia had not yet attacked Georgia. In 2007, Russia had not yet annexed Crimea or invaded Ukraine. So why did NATO exist in 2007? Why did the Americans place nuclear weapons in Poland? Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if Ukraine had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian society has historically been located in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria, and therefore Ukrainians as a nation have grown freedom-loving. Ukrainian society has always, since the 19th century, been split into Westerners who wanted Ukraine's integration into Europe, and Slavophiles. In 2014, a liberal revolution took place in Ukraine, the pro-Russian government was overthrown, and liberals came to power who wanted Ukraine to join NATO. That's why the war started, because Russia considers NATO a threat to its borders. Russia had very good relations with Ukraine until 2014, and Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if it had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian politicians are no less to blame than Putin
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  23. Russia attacked Ukraine because Ukraine wanted to join NATO, and Russia believes that NATO poses a danger to it. Russia has the right to consider NATO a threat and to be concerned about this threat - the same Americans in 1962, when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba, were also scared, so much so that sanctions are still being imposed against Cuba for no clear reason. And there was also a military operation of American troops in the Bay of Pigs. In 2003, America invaded Iraq because the Americans were afraid that Iraq might develop nuclear weapons. In 2000, the Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Poland and Romania. The German Foreign Minister assured Gorbachev in 1989 that there would be no expansion of NATO. And in 1997 and 2004 it happened. Ukraine and Georgia are certainly independent states. But you cannot ensure your own safety by sacrificing the safety of your neighbor. The USSR collapsed in 1991. And NATO existed in 2007 - 16 years after the collapse of the USSR. In 2007, Russia had not yet attacked Georgia. In 2007, Russia had not yet annexed Crimea or invaded Ukraine. So why did NATO exist in 2007? Why did the Americans place nuclear weapons in Poland? Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if Ukraine had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian society has historically been located in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria, and therefore Ukrainians as a nation have grown freedom-loving. Ukrainian society has always, since the 19th century, been split into Westerners who wanted Ukraine's integration into Europe, and Slavophiles. In 2014, a liberal revolution took place in Ukraine, the pro-Russian government was overthrown, and liberals came to power who wanted Ukraine to join NATO. That's why the war started, because Russia considers NATO a threat to its borders. Russia had very good relations with Ukraine until 2014, and Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if it had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian politicians are no less to blame than Putin
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  24. There is no default in Russia - there is money, there is simply no payment method, because bank cards are blocked
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  25. ​ @Reticulated_Spline  there were ethnic cleanings against Serbs in all Yougoslav republics during the war, including Kosovo
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  26. "Civilised World", that bombed Iraq, Yougoslavia and Libya 👍
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  27.  @picklejuice4638  fortunately, he was released
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  28. Azerbaijan invaded Armenia in 2020, when there was no war in Ukraine
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  29. War in Ukraine didn't started in 2022. It started in 2014, when Ukrainian millitary started to kill Russians in the Donbass region. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 to end the war in Donbass and defend Russian borders from NATO. Russia is afraid of NATO spreading to its borders. Ukrainian army was killing civillians in the Donbass since 2014 - did Europe reacted on this? No. But when Russia invaded they reacted. Hypocricity.
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  30.  @dexaid8368  you are sick. No to war
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  31. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  32. Because Russian energy won market competition
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  33. ​ @xsc1000  Kosovo wanted to join Albania, to be annexed by Albania, Kosovan Albanians themselves consider their independence as temporary measure, but Albania was unable to annex them as Kosovo wanted for different reasons, there is no difference between Kosovo and Crimea
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  34. Ну это вы зря, исходя из вашей логики русские тоже должны вечно помнить то, что делали немцы во Вторую Мировую? Око за око и мира не будет
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  35.  @jermsbestfriend9296  they don't have opportunity. Russian government is a model of ideal dictatorship, that was built for centruries. In Russia adults are politically paralized, because government would simply dismiss worker for parcticipation in protest. Government also would easily deduct the student from university. The weapons are illegal in Russia without special documents. If we talking about Moscow - Russia have Roman system - capital is a very whealth place, much richer than other country. People wouldn't protest in Moscow, while other places in Russia poorly populated to start a huge protest. People also afraid of police and "law". This all makes the huge protests in Russia impossible
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  36. Japanese soldiers had killed a lot of Russian civillians in China during the Russo-Japanese war. Soviet soldiers hadn't killed Japanese civillians in the WW2 - probably some amount of Japanese civillians died as a result of acccidential hits during the shooting. But who killed Japanese civillians - this is Americans, who drooped 2 nukes on Japanese civil dustricts, populated by civillians.
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  37. Belarus was occupied by Litwanya in 14th century
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  38.  @operationzenith6030  NATO didn't invaded Iraq
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  39.  @IncogNidos  Azerbaijanese troops aren't liberating their territories - the majority of popilation in the Karabakh are Armenians. Majority of the population. This Armenian territory became the part of Azerbaijan because stipid Soviet leaders marked the border this way
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  40. Ukraine lost ~20% of its territory untill now, including Crimea, parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporijhe and Kherson regions. This is victory?
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  41. USSR was planting anti-air systems in the Kurils against American nuclear rockets.
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  42. The genocides in Yougoslavia and African countries also were happening in modern times
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  43. Russia is fighting against Ukraine without mobilization, by using only conctract troops. While Ukraine is providing full-scale mobilization. Of course Russian advance slowed down due to the numerical superiority, that Ukrainian side have. Also, Ukraine have intelligence suppourt and arms suppourt from the West. And despite this fact Russia is still advancing and capturing territories, while Ukrainian officials are promising to recapture Kheeson for 2 months.
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  44.  @ozehtdz6777  Germans threatened Slavic countries, such as Poland, by complete genocide. Poland lost 20% of population during WW2, 6 million people. Many Soviet soldiers died, fighting against Germans. If there weren't Soviet soldiers, there is no possibility of victory over Germany, bacuse Soviet Union played main role in defeating German land army. So, Soviet soldiers, with high casualities, saved many people in Eastern Europe from German concentration camps and genocide. Soviets played main role in defeating the Germany on land.
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  45. Double standarts
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  46. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  47.  @thornelderfin  Crimea wasn't part of Kievan Rus - it was controlled by nomads from Asia, so called Pechenegs, later Crimean Tatars. Kievan Rus conquerred and captured only small part of Crimea in the 10th century - the city of Kherch. Kievan Rus is an ancestor of both Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Moscow didn't existed when Kiev was a capital of Rus, but Moscow was built in the 13th century on the land of Vladimir-Suzdal principality, that was part of Kievan Rus. Also, Kiev became the capital of Rus after the unification of Rus in 882. The unification of Rus happened after the Novgorod principality (territory of modern Russia) conqueerred Kiev in 882. Later the prince of Novgorod betrayed his nobles and proclaimed himself the prince of Kiev. And later Kiev principality captured the Novgorod. Only after this Kiev became capital. Russian city of Novgorod is older than Ukrainian city of Kiev. So, Russia have the same right to be a successor of Kievan Rus, as Ukraine. And if we would count Russia as an successor of Kievan Rus, Russia have rights to all Belorussian and Ukrainian territories, according to your logic about Crimea (You said that Crimea must be Ukrainian because it was a part of Kievan Rus, but why do you think that Ukraine is successor of Kievan Rus?)
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  48.  @tonymeola9702  Iraq was an agressive state, that invaded its neighbours - Kuwait for example. Also, Iraq was a nationalistic state, where people were killed for their nationality or religion - Sadam Husein was founder of ISIS ideology. NATO and US never fought an agressive war, and never invaded countries for no reason.
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  49. This will be a good option for Russia as well. After all, if Finland and Sweden sign a defense pact with the United States instead of joining NATO, then American nuclear forces will not be there. And the article 5 will not work
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  50. Russia attacked Ukraine because Ukraine wanted to join NATO, and Russia believes that NATO poses a danger to it. Russia has the right to consider NATO a threat and to be concerned about this threat - the same Americans in 1962, when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba, were also scared, so much so that sanctions are still being imposed against Cuba for no clear reason. And there was also a military operation of American troops in the Bay of Pigs. In 2003, America invaded Iraq because the Americans were afraid that Iraq might develop nuclear weapons. In 2000, the Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Poland and Romania. The German Foreign Minister assured Gorbachev in 1989 that there would be no expansion of NATO. And in 1997 and 2004 it happened. Ukraine and Georgia are certainly independent states. But you cannot ensure your own safety by sacrificing the safety of your neighbor. The USSR collapsed in 1991. And NATO existed in 2007 - 16 years after the collapse of the USSR. In 2007, Russia had not yet attacked Georgia. In 2007, Russia had not yet annexed Crimea or invaded Ukraine. So why did NATO exist in 2007? Why did the Americans place nuclear weapons in Poland? Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if Ukraine had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian society has historically been located in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria, and therefore Ukrainians as a nation have grown freedom-loving. Ukrainian society has always, since the 19th century, been split into Westerners who wanted Ukraine's integration into Europe, and Slavophiles. In 2014, a liberal revolution took place in Ukraine, the pro-Russian government was overthrown, and liberals came to power who wanted Ukraine to join NATO. That's why the war started, because Russia considers NATO a threat to its borders. Russia had very good relations with Ukraine until 2014, and Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if it had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian politicians are no less to blame than Putin
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  51. Why "attack"? This islands are completely Russian territory. Russian people would face a defensive war, if Japan would attack Kuril islands
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  52. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  53. Ahahah... Keep dreaming 🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣
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  54.  @davidschwarzguitar6301  this is true
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  55.  @Ryanowning  but they were Russian by trading deals, if I not wrong
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  56.  @jenniferclark9842  no, we don't have. But everything is going as planned!
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  57. Ukraine received a lot of military aid - according to official data few hundreeds of tanks, more than one thousand AFWs, nearly 200 artillery. Also, Ukrainians received more anti-tank launchers, than Russia have tanks.
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  58. Do not talk nonsense - no drone was launched from the territories of Ukraine. And most likely this is not even a military drone, but an ordinary civilian copter used by ordinary people, and most likely it was launched right in Moscow.
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  59.  @shanelambert6192  no, yesterday Chinese banks rejected Russian payment cards
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  60.  @matthewyabsley  the West had blocked cards. This is the first case in history of economy, when creditor is denying to receive the payment
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  61. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  62. Schizophrenia
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  63. There was a war between Moldova and Transinistria in the 90s, but Ukrainian and Russian armies condicted a joint peacekeeping operation in 1993 in Russo-Ukrainian populated region of Moldova. The war was frosen, but OF COURSE Moldovan government consider this territory as its own despite the democratic will of the people who want to be independent from them. And I think Moldova wants to conduct something simillar to what Ukraine was trying to do - Ukraine knew that Russia is helping the separatists in the Donbass, and Ukraine wanted to join NATO or at least receive some defense guarantees from United States, in order to cut off Russian supplies to rebels in case of Ukrainian offensive on Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia knew this, and in 2021 there were negotiations between Russia and NATO, but negotiations failed, and Russia was forced by the United States to invade Ukraine, because Russia had no other options. Russia was trying to force Ukraine to negotiations, and in march 2022 there were negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istambul, Turkey. Russia wanted just neutral status of Ukraine and non-joining NATO, and Russia was even ready to give Ukraine all territory back, on the line of february 23rd 2022. Russia made a signature on this document, while Ukraine proposed Russia to "give a signal, that you are ready to respect the accords", and Russia withdrew its forces from Kyiv and Northern Ukraine in start of april 2022. But after Russia did this, Western leaders promised military and economical help to Ukraine, and Boris Johnson promised that Ukraine would take Crimea, so after Russian withdrawal from Northern Ukraine, which was a signal that Russia is ready to respect Istambul peace accords, Ukraine forgot about peace accords and negotiations, and later Russia made the annexations of 4 Ukrainian regions in order to mark that there would be no other chance for Ukraine to negotiate again. There we can clearly see, that Ukraine wanted to invade Russian separatists regions in the Donbass, but in order to achieve this Ukraine wanted to cut off Russian supplies to rebels by receiving defense guarantees from NATO or United States. What is interesting is that all countries of NATO consider Crimea as a Ukrainian territory, so even if Ukraine could have started an offensive war against Russian separatists and Crimea, NATO countries still could be forced to join the war by 5th NATO article. So Russia had no other choise but to force Ukraine to negotiations with using its army as a threat near Kyiv in march 2022, after negotiations between NATO and Russia failed in 2021. The same could happen with separatist region of Transinistria, but at now Russia is unable to help them with their defense against Moldovan army.
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  64.  @anacc3257  Russian economy is one of the biggest in the World - 8th place in the nominal GDP statistics, not considering the fact that prices in different countries are different, and prices in Russia are lower than in the West, and i GDP PPP statistics Russian economy is 6th
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  65.  @pjhgerlach  And what's the point of blowing up the gas pipeline when you could just break the contract for the supply of gas? And what was the point of Russia stopping trade with Germany altogether, if for Russia gas exports are very profitable, form a significant share of state budget revenues, and Germany bought gas the most and at high prices? What was the point of Russia shooting itself in the foot and cutting back on its own export earnings? Are you saying this is blackmail? Russia, by the way, from the very beginning of the sanctions, advocated free trade without restrictions for everyone with everyone, and Russia wanted and wants to trade with the West. If Russia ever has the opportunity to trade with the West, Russia will take advantage of this opportunity. And the Americans blew up Nord Stream so as not to leave Europe a choice, so that Europe would simply be forced to buy American gas, which is much more expensive and worse than Russian. This is the US blackmailing Europe instead of the fair competition and free trade that Russia stands for.
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  66. Putin have a fortune with its people - he got the country of historical slaves to rule
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  67. Putin wouldn't have power for more advance after capturing large parts of Donbass
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  68. They weren't threatened - this alliance was made a long time ago by governments that are friendly to Putin's regime
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  69. Belarus is not in the war with Ukraine, and with regards to Russian troops and missile sites that use Belarus as a springboard - Lukashenka has no choice, Russia is much larger and stronger than Belarus, so he was simply forced to agree to the deployment of Russian troops. In addition, back in the nineties, in democratic times, Russia and Belarus entered into one military alliance - the CSTO.
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  70.  @IncogNidos  "internationally recognised territories" - ok, Kosovo also was internationally recognised territory of Serbia. But NATO conducted a military operation against Serbia in 1999
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  71.  @mr.heisenberg5919  no one in Russia is hating Azerbaijan. We don't care about Azerbaijan
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  72. Putin does not need to seize Ukraine in order for there to be a change of political power to one that will suit the Kremlin. Look at Georgia - when the war was going on in August 2008, the Western media called Saakashvili a hero, just like Zelensky is now. And when the war ended with Russia's victory, the European Union Commission recognized Georgia as the culprit of the war because of the conflict with the rebels from South Ossetia. And Saakashvili, who signed the peace and surrendered the territories to Russia, and also tried to use the war to strengthen his personal power, fell in the eyes of the Georgians. Zelensky, by the way, is also now strengthening his power, taking advantage of the war. After Saakashvili, neutral politicians came to power in Georgia. They provided Georgia with stagnation in the economy, freezing of reforms, NOT joining the European Union and NATO. And they also do business with Putin.
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  73. There is no room for complacency of the damage that Free World has done to Iraq
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  74. Terrorist nation? Are you talking about USA (Iraq, Yougoslavia, Lybia)?
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  75.  @xsc1000  it wasn't Albania who started the war, but it wasn't Russia who started the war - Donbass separated from Ukraine and there was a war when Ukraine started military operation to recapture the region. Albania was just poor and weak to invade Serbia, so NATO did this job instead, calling it "peacekeeping operation", and Russia is conducting the same thing
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  76. For Putin people are cannon fodder
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  77.  @reignbird  Kuban have a population of 4 million Ukrainians, this is lesser than 15% of population. Kuban NEVER was a part of Ukraine. Just NEVER
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  78. He have Russian-speaking youtube chanell - Михаил Ходорковский
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  79. Ukraine controlled 9% of world wheat exports. Moreover, wheat is far from the only type of grain. There is also barley, there is also rice. In fact, Ukraine's share in the export of "grain and rice" is about 1/25 of the World market. The loss of 1/25 of the world's trade turnover cannot create hunger. In addition, there are other market players. It is possible to reduce domestic consumption and export grain. There will be fewer products, prices will rise. And not much
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  80.  @nothuman3083  there is no Russian citizens in the DPR, LPR, Kherson or Zaporije
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  81.  @jokerj641  St.Petersburg territory don't belongs to Sweden, because: 1) There is NO Swedish population, while Crimea in 2014 was by 60% populated by Russians 2) St.Petersburg isn't Sweden's historical land - it was conquerred by Sweden in Russo-Swedish war somewhere in 17th century, and Russia liberated its own territory in the start of 18th century, taking this area back from Sweden
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  82.  @BigDaddyCane777  no, they were living on this territories even before the Ukrainians came in the 17-20th centuries. Look at the map of Ukraine in the 17th century, when Ukraine was part of Poland, and after the rebellion against Polish rule Ukraine had no choise, but to join Russia to protect itself from Poland. Ukrainians and Russians were living together on this territories even before the USSR started its history. The southern regions of Ukraine were completely unpopulated empty lands up to the end of 19th century. But Russians came to this land before Ukrainians. The modern territory of the Southern Ukraine was captured by Russia during Russo-Turkish war, and this empty land, where no one was living, later was colonised by Russians, and only later Ukrainians came. Soviet leadership gave this territories to Ukraine
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  83.  @rorychivers8769  Russians never organized ethnic cleanings in the Far East
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  84. You are mistaken - Putin does not need to seize Ukraine in order for there to be a change of political power to one that will suit the Kremlin. Look at Georgia - when the war was going on in August 2008, the Western media called Saakashvili a hero, just like Zelensky is now. And when the war ended with Russia's victory, the European Union Commission recognized Georgia as the culprit of the war because of the conflict with the rebels from South Ossetia. And Saakashvili, who signed the peace and surrendered the territories to Russia, and also tried to use the war to strengthen his personal power, fell in the eyes of the Georgians. Zelensky, by the way, is also now strengthening his power, taking advantage of the war. After Saakashvili, neutral politicians came to power in Georgia. They provided Georgia with stagnation in the economy, freezing of reforms, NOT joining the European Union and NATO. And they also do business with Putin.
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  85. Russia didn't made the request of military help to Taliban
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  86. Russian planes attacked Kiev from the Belarusian sky without even flying into Ukrainian airspace - long-range bombers were used
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  87. No, thousands of Russians were in his funeral
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  88. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  89. Yeah, Chinese army is defending its homeland against unrecognised rebels from Taiwan, just like glorious Ukrainian army is fighting against Russian separatists for last 8 years
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  90. 200 thousand men is total amount of Russian forces in Ukraine, only small part of Russian troops are placed in Mariupol
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  91. Yeah, why Europe isn't exporting food to other countries, blaming Russia?
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  92. Зато отказались от дешёвого российского газа и покупают втридорога в Америке, сами себе в ногу выстрельнули. Как итог - промышленность выгоднее размещать в Китае
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  93. You are talking about Russian casualities, but you aren't talking about how many vehicles Ukraine had lost. And just how do you know about Russian casualities? Is there any evidences that Russia lost 25 000 men, 1 000 tanks and 400 aitlrcraft. You are clown and liar
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  94. Putin never publicaly said that Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova "are not countries"
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  95.  @matthewyabsley  the debt was small - nearly 100 million dollars
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  96. Special greenization operation
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  97. Доброго дня добрым людям!
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  98. This islands were occupied by Japan in 1906. In 1945 Soviets liberated this islands
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  99.  @LasseEklof  Putin needs to recruit as many troops as possible, so they have raised the age of the contract, and are recruiting prisoners. Moreover, political prisoners who were imprisoned for their anti-war position are fighting in Ukraine. This is absurd in general - these are people with a negative motivation to fight against Ukraine.
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  100. Putin direcltly said that "there is no need to use nukes". Why are you seeing threats when there are no any of them?
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  101.  @dylanvogler2165  because the journalist asked the question about the nukes, so Putin answered, that Russia isn't going to use it, there is no need to use them
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  102.  @rambleon2838  most European countries need A FEW YEARS to replace Russian gas. And they will replace it by MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE American gas in FEW YEARS. At now Europe have economic recession and high inflation, in Eastern Europe in 2022 inflation was even higher than in Russia. Kazakhstan itself is a gas and oil producer, and yes, in january 2022 there were a revolt in Kazakhstan, but only because of high gas prices, there were a lot of reasons. Russian Rouble, if we would count the Russian inflation, at now at its pre-war level, in 2022 Rouble even had a growth - in august 2022 dollar price in Russia was 55, 30% lower than pre-war
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  103. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories
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  104.  @gpop444  Russia have a lot of old Soviet equipment
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  105.  @andriyshapovalov8886  yes, this is true. Russia invaded and occupied Ukrainian territories, this is agression and Putin commited crimes
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  106. And it wasn't - Russia before the war had only 4 times more artillery, than Ukraine. Not 15
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  107. Why do you think that "Russia is weak"?
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  108. You ignored Russian warnings, so...
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  109. Ukrainian officials are talking about Kherson counteroffensive for 2 months already with zero success.
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  110. What about the population of Donbass region, that was bombed by Ukrainian army since 2014? What about the people in Odessa, that were burned alive by Ukrainian revolutionaries in 2014? Why you so hypocriticall. This war didn't started in 2022, it started in 2014. Russia invaded Ukraine to stop war in Donbass and not allow Ukraine to join NATO
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  111.  @vvt-4467  Russians aren't liberating Ukraine
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  112. "Defeated on the battlefield" - Russian forces captured Severodonetsk and Lysichansk, Russian forces recaptured land near Kharkiv and they are succesfully holding ground near Kherson, where the Ukrainian MOD is promising a counteroffensive for 2 months
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  113.  @bg1616  but why Russia is terrorist, while USA isn't? Double standarts? Why Azerbaidjan isn't a terrorist nation after the agression against Armenia? Why Saudi Arabia isn't a terrorist because of war in Yemen?
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  114. Russians are using only 1/4 part of their troops in Ukraine
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  115. This notes are empty
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  116.  @jesonchase2233  what's wrong with his name?
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  117. Russian defense industry isn't dependent on imports. Ukraine don't have better economy in terms of effectiveness. Ukrainian life standarts before the war were even worser than Russian. Ukraine economically still much and much weaker than Russia even after the sanctions
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  118. Taiwan is an unrecognized separatist region. So, if you support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, then you put territorial integrity above the right of peoples to self-determination. The war in Ukraine did not start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 6, 2014, when Ukrainian troops clashed with Russian separatists. And now Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation to protect the pro-Russian separatists. So if you support Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, in order not to be hypocrites, you should support the PRC in the issue of the war with Taiwan.
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  119.  @kemarlyjohnson2918  there is no Russian speaking population in Finland
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  120.  @unduloid  every Russian is suppourting Putin?
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  121. I agree with you - this war was started by Putin, but not by Russian citizens. Why people must answer the crimes of a dictator? When America invaded Iraq in 2003, there was no hatred for Americans in other countries of the World
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  122. Lol British Empire in 19th century wasn't better
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  123.  @vinm300  British Empire was practicing genocide and robbery in colonies, while Russian Empire wasn't doing such thing
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  124.  @jokerj641  and what about Kosovo?
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  125.  @dorotazapolnik234  it was Stalin and Soviet leadership, who murdered the native Crimean tatars, not Russia
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  126. And what is the logic here? The attacking side always suffers greater losses than the defending side. Especially in the conditions of urban combat. Russian army broke into Severodonetsk a few days ago, rapidly took most of the city, and then the Ukrainians brought reinforcements and began to storm the city without much success and suffering more losses than the Russians. Brilliant.
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  127. Russia is post-irony superpower
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  128.  @bramgn  NATO isn't a defensive pact. West is able to solve its problems by force - Iraq, Yougoslavia, Libya, Syria. Russia have rights to provide its safety. And Ukraine don't have rights to provide its safety by sacrficing of the safety of neighbours
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  129. As a Russian I can say that we didn't started printing money, we still have reserves left, but printing will start next year probably
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  130. Ukrainian governmen is a very corrupt, and Ukraine have the oligarchs, like Russia
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  131. It is happening for 3 months already without a result
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  132. And Kosovo
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  133. Chinese GDP is 80% of US
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  134. I'll tell you a secret - it's connected with the strengthening of the ruble. Before the war, one dollar in Russia cost 75 rubles, at the end of March - 150, and now - 52 rubles. So it's silly to look at Russian prices in dollars, because salaries have also increased in dollar terms.
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  135.  @00421lukas  and? There is some way to falsificate the statistics of employment? Please, tell me how to make it
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  136.  @MrSean03839  do you have any proofs that Yeltsin was blackmailed? How? You are talking nonsence
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  137. According to the text of the Budapest agreements, Russia has the right to cancel the agreement if it considers Ukraine a threat. In 2014, an illegal coup took place in Ukraine, as a result of which the pro-Russian president was overthrown. There can be no question of any implementation of the Budapest agreements. The Russian-speaking regions of the South and East of Ukraine, which are populated by Russians and which vote for pro-Russian presidents, were unhappy with the coup and protested. The protests in April 2014 escalated into the seizure of administrative buildings in Slovyansk and ultimately the war - the Russian people in the East of Ukraine raised an armed uprising against the authorities in Kyiv. Now, Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation
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  138.  @milesinnz  Ukrainian people is suppourting its government and Leader
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  139. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  140.  @14534  yes. Taiwan must stay independent. At least because they are World leaders at nano technology. PRC is a bloody dictatorship
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  141.  @АлександрАлександр-ы6я  спасибо за совет
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  142.  @sergeyb8  yes, that was a very silly and catastrophic decision to invade Ukraine. Russian command and Putin simply have no brain
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  143. Yeah, this is what West done in Iraq, Kosovo and Lybia, destroyed international law. Russia just came for its share in Ukraine and played by same rules
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  144.  @СырКолбасный  на Донбассе и в Крыму русских менее половины населения. И глупо думать, что хотя бы половина от русских на Донбассе поддерживали в 2014 идеи сепаратизма. Какое право меньшинство имеет выбирать за большинство? К тому же Россия не имеет права поддерживать русских сепаратистов зарубежом, ибо Россия сама на своей земле давила сепаратистов - чеченских, да и Россия это многонациональная страна, где есть такие регионы, где русские это меньшинство. Если Россия имела полное право подавить сепаратистов в Чечне, то почему Украина не имела точно такое же право подавить своих сепаратистов? Лицемерие и двойные стандарты России
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  145.  @ZoragRingael  Luhansk province is fully taken
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  146.  @bangbangzz1  Ukrainian and Russian armies have the same level of training and quality
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  147. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  148.  @bigboss.800  Germany literally invaded Soviet Union. Soviets were fighting against colonizers
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  149.  @Crashed131963  Russians were uncapable to fight in the start of the WW2. It seems like the Russian strategy of war is to teach your untrained soldiers by real combat. Russians are throwing untrained troops to battle to gain some combat experience and teach their army. Soviets were badly losing to Germans in the start of Soviet-German war. But war was going for a long time, and the fighting capabilitiy of Soviet army was becoming better and better. And if in 1941 casuality ratio between Germany and USSR was 5:1 , in 1944 Soviets were fighting against Germans with equal casualities. And in 1945 Soviets defeated the Germans with equal to German casualities. I think that Russian command sent its troops to Ukraine to teach them. Probably Russian command want to see how modern war would look like.
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  150.  @Crashed131963  Russian / Soviet command always had unrealistic military plans. Many Russian dissident historians, such as Mark Solonin, who lives in Kiyv since 2017, made the conclusion, that Soviet Union wanted to invade Germany in 1941. Soviets wanted to reach Berlin after 1.5 months of fighting. Also, Soviet command planned to conquer all Finland in 2 weeks.
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  151.  @mwclipsarchive3132  Russian troops hadn't commited atrocities against Japanese civillians
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  152. Trade with China is more important for the West, which is why Taiwan is an unrecognized separatist region by anyone. So, if you support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, then you put territorial integrity above the right of peoples to self-determination. The war in Ukraine did not start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 6, 2014, when Ukrainian troops clashed with Russian separatist rebels. And now Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation to protect the pro-Russian separatists. So if you support Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, in order not to be hypocrites, you should support the PRC in the issue of the war with Taiwan.
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  153. Europe would be dependent on Russian gaz for at least 4-5 future years, until USA would replace Russians in the market
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  154.  @inconvenientfacts8896  no, there is no mobilization in Russia, while Ukraine is experiencing total mobilization. + Russia is unable to use all its military in Ukraine. Before the war Russia had land army, marines and airborne - ~400 thousand soldiers. Ukraine had 200 thousand before the war. At now Ukraine have nearly 400 thousand soldiers, while Russia deployed in the East of Ukraine ~150 thousand soldiers. Because war wasn't declared, Russian contract troops are able to simply reject service in Ukraine. Ukrainians have serious numerical superiority over Russian side, but Russians still advancing and encercling Ukrainian troops, destroying them in encerclements, where Ukrainians don't have supplies.
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  155. Germany is no more reliant on Russian gas because German industries closed or moved from Germany because of gas shortages, cool
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  156. Huge part of Ukrainian population is ethnically Russians. 8 million from 42. Of course they weren't happy, when Ukrainian nationalistic government banned Russian language in the schools and governmental buildings in 2018
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  157. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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  158. Another blatant lie from the Western media - the main World supplier of grain is Russia, not Ukraine. And the cause of a possible World famine is hypocritical and unfair Western sanctions - when America and other Western countries bombed Iraq, Libya and Serbia, no one imposed sanctions against them. But in 2022, when Russia began conducting a military operation in Ukraine according to the American Kosovo scenario, the West hypocritically imposed sanctions, because of which Russia, being the world's main supplier of grain, was unable to sell it. Through the fault of the West, the world was on the verge of starvation. However, in July 2022, Russia concluded a grain deal, the meaning of which was that Russia would be able to sell grain in exchange for Ukraine getting the same opportunity. Russian troops left Snake Island, and the Russian fleet stopped blocking Ukrainian ports. However, one of the conditions of the deal was that a significant part of the Ukrainian grain was to go to poor African countries, and Ukraine did not fulfill this condition, although Russia extended the deal several times in the hope that the "Kiev partners", as Putin likes to say, would fulfill the terms of the deal they signed. Then Russia withdrew from the deal, and now the lying Western media hypocritically and falsely blame Russia for the famine, although Ukraine did not fulfill its part of the deal to supply grain to poor countries, and Russia is going to give them its grain for free.
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  159. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  160. To be fair, there were no Western values in the 18th century. Europe was ruled by such monarchs, as in Russia. There was a parliament in Russia under Peter the Great. And the Russian Empire, unlike the British and French, did not pursue a colonial policy in the occupied territories at all. So whose values were better in those days is still a moot point. Even if we talk about the economy and the standard of living, we will see that Russia lagged behind the West only at the end of the 19th and in the 20th century. Because Western countries became colonial empires and plundered the whole world for the sake of their enrichment, and in the 20th century communism was being built in Russia. So whose values are better is a huge question.
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  161.  @Alyssa320  Russia isn't using conscripts in the war
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  162.  @Alyssa320  Russia is using men from prisons, because war isn't declared, and Russian contractors have rights to reject offer of military service in Ukraine. And Russia isn't using conscripts. This is why government started to offer military contracts to prisioners
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  163. Russia before the war had 4 thousand modern tanks with crew, and 10 more thousand in the storage
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  164.  @timmommens901  and?
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  165.  @dylanvogler2165  Putin direcltly said that "there is no need to use nukes". Why are you seeing threats when there are no any of them?
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  166.  @BeardofBeesPool  Putin made this order in media, to prevent other countries declaring war on Russia. And his plan is working - Ukraine is fighting against Russia alone, because Putin said in television that "Russian nukes would be on high alert". Putin said this to prevent intervention of other countries, there were no threats to anyone
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  167.  @dylanvogler2165  even if it like this - the situation with nuclear weapons is very important and people in Russia and Europe want to hear and know something about it. So Putin was forces to answer this question to everyone. He is politician after all, and politicians work publically and they are answering the questions that society have
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  168.  @dylanvogler2165  and no one intervened since the start of SMO
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  169. During the times of Iraq war dollar price was higher - for the last years the summ of all dollars in the World grew for more than two times, so
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  170. Another blatant lie from the Western media - the main World supplier of grain is Russia, not Ukraine. And the cause of a possible World famine is hypocritical and unfair Western sanctions - when America and other Western countries bombed Iraq, Libya and Serbia, no one imposed sanctions against them. But in 2022, when Russia began conducting a military operation in Ukraine according to the American Kosovo scenario, the West hypocritically imposed sanctions, because of which Russia, being the world's main supplier of grain, was unable to sell it. Through the fault of the West, the world was on the verge of starvation. However, in July 2022, Russia concluded a grain deal, the meaning of which was that Russia would be able to sell grain in exchange for Ukraine getting the same opportunity. Russian troops left Snake Island, and the Russian fleet stopped blocking Ukrainian ports. However, one of the conditions of the deal was that a significant part of the Ukrainian grain was to go to poor African countries, and Ukraine did not fulfill this condition, although Russia extended the deal several times in the hope that the "Kiev partners", as Putin likes to say, would fulfill the terms of the deal they signed. Then Russia withdrew from the deal, and now the lying Western media hypocritically and falsely blame Russia for the famine, although Ukraine did not fulfill its part of the deal to supply grain to poor countries, and Russia is going to give them its grain for free.
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  171.  @anacc3257  USSR was dissovolved by Soviet elites, who seized the control over Soviet governmental industries as a result of "privatization". The same thing can't take place in Russia, because Russia unlike USSR don't have governmental monopolized economy, and Russian elites don't need to divide the industries between each other. And also Russia don't have administrative division that USSR had
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  172.  @pjhgerlach  North Stream was blewed up by USA intelligence
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  173. Imagine that you have been bombing the Russian population in Donbas for 8 years, and then you wonder why Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation on your territory. Ukraine is ruled by real clowns
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  174.  @hoang1730  there is no mobilization in Russia. Also, Russian government isn't using conscripts, only volunteers from contractors.
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  175.  @Spearca  did I said anywhere that we have right to invade other countries?
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  176.  @rogerjohnson2562  and what would happen, if Putin would use nuke?
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  177. Politicians in all countries are lying lol. This means nothing
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  178. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  179. Russia at now don't have any Polish territories. Germans during the WW2 commited genocide of Slavic population on the territories of USSR. After Germany was defeated by USSR with enormous casualities, USSR had all rights to capture this German territories. Kaliningrad is Russian territory and Germany have no rights on Kaliningrad region.
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  180. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories
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  181.  @JornSilverblade  you telling that Russia have nukes in Kaliningrad, but I tell you that US have nukes in Poland and Romania
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  182.  @calvinblue894  China don't have any business on Japan to help Russians in their problems. China would more likely invade Russia
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  183.  @almac9203  Gorbachev was promised by German minister of foreign deals
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  184.  @Chillerll  if NATO isn't threat, why this alliance was existing in 2007, and why they placed nukes in Poland? NATO probably wouldn't invade Russia, but they would use their strategicall location to supress and command Russia in questions of politics and economic deals. Russia would be in the trap like China in 19th century - British army controlled Chinese sea ports and controlled Chinese trade, resulting the collapse of China as empire and colonization of China by foreign powers in 19-20th centuries. Russia even before the war economically was placed in non-equal position - a lot of Russian productions are the property of foreigners, economically Russia is a cake, full of oil, gaz, food and resources. But this resources Russia is trading aboard for low prices. Russia is a World leader in wheat production, one of the leaders in oil and gaz exports. German production of meds is dependent on Russian resources. Russian export of chemicats are playing big role in the World computer production. Russia, after the collapse of USSR faced herself in the global economic system as a supplying colony of more developed countries. Just like India in 18-20th centuries - India was supplying the British Empire by all resources, while the country was poor. Russia faced herself in a familliar situation - Russian economy is dependent on foreigner imports and tech, productions are controlled by foreigners, Russia is exporting and poor country, that provides the developed World by all resources. And this war with Ukraine would isolate Russia from Western World. Putin wanted this sanctions, this is why he invaded Ukraine. Russia don't wants to repeat the history of Asian countries, that were colonized economically by non-equal deals without a shot
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  185.  @almac9203  because that was shown in the news, German foreign minister said it
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  186. ​ @iam5085  as a Russian I would say that the fact that there is no alternative candidates to Putin is not Putin's fault, Putin came in 2000 when Russia was in political vacuum, and for 24 years situation didn't changed and there no alternative to his rule
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  187. I do not understand why everyone is surprised - Russia is fighting against Ukraine without mobilization. Russia is fighting using only contract volunteers. In fact, Russia uses somewhere around 20% of its military power. Of course, after more than half a year of war, Ukraine, thanks to mobilization, has achieved a serious numerical superiority. Without mobilization, Russia cannot really make up for losses. Using their numerical superiority, the Ukrainians are able to easily manipulate the Russians. The Ukrainians announced an attack on Kherson, Russia was forced to pull the last free forces there from other sectors of the front, as a result of which they were weakened. Then Ukraine hit the weakened area with other forces.
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  188. They are trying
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  189. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  190.  @Ryanowning  Russia didn't had any war with Japan in 19th century. There were trading deals
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  191.  @norbertgeorge  There is no such state as the "Union State". There is the Russian Federation, the territory of which is determined by the constitution of Russia. The Russian constitution specifies the territories that are constituent parts of Russia as a federal state. There is Belarus, also an independent state with its own constitution and national political regime. These countries have different legislation, different management devices, different economic systems. In Russia, an oligopoly is typical for international corporations, but absolutely not normal for the country's economy as a whole. And in Belarus, the unprofitable Soviet state economy, which rests on subsidies from Russia
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  192. Wow, I didn’t know that the foreign agent law that was introduced in the USA in the 1930s was an imitation of Russia and Putin
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  193. Because Ukrainians have a numerical advantage, they have been building fortifications there for 8 years and preparing for war
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  194.  @famil1289  the liberals, liberal media (such as DW) are telling us that NATO alliance is always right, USA are always right and Russia is always wrong
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  195.  @ukrainewarroom  and Ukraine don't have losses?
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  196. У украинцев уже давно есть электрогенераторы в деревенских домах. К тому же Япония буквальнр позавчера закупила для Украины генераторов на сумму в 2.57 миллиона долларов
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  197. The Russians launched a satellite and a man into space before richer Americans did. And the Russians built the first version of the ISS. And all the 80s Russians were in the lead in space
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  198. Kurils weren't taken by Putin
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  199. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories
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  200.  @cyberfunk3793  Putler is NATO empolee of all time
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  201. To be fair, there were no Western values in the 18th century. Europe was ruled by such monarchs, as in Russia. There was a parliament in Russia under Peter the Great. And the Russian Empire, unlike the British and French, did not pursue a colonial policy in the occupied territories at all. So whose values were better in those days is still a moot point. Even if we talk about the economy and the standard of living, we will see that Russia lagged behind the West only at the end of the 19th and in the 20th century. Because Western countries became colonial empires and plundered the whole world for the sake of their enrichment, and in the 20th century communism was being built in Russia. So whose values are better is a huge question.
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  202. Putin - Ukrainian spy
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  203. Russian government put efforts only to decrease economy and live standarts - all their economical policies are awful. You can't have strong army without strong economy and support from the population.
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  204. Commintern (Комминтерн) - "Communist international" , was a Soviet-made organization of puppet-politicians, that were working on Kremlin interests in many countries. And Soviet puppets were succesful in France before and during WW2. In 80 years nothing changed.
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  205. Taiwan is an unrecognized separatist region. So, if you support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, then you put territorial integrity above the right of peoples to self-determination. The war in Ukraine did not start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 6, 2014, when Ukrainian troops clashed with Russian separatists. And now Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation to protect the pro-Russian separatists. So if you support Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, in order not to be hypocrites, you should support the PRC in the issue of the war with Taiwan.
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  206. This is a complete failure. Maybe not military, but a failure. Let's remember why Russia started the war with Ukraine back in 2014 - Russia started the war to prevent NATO from expanding to the East. Putin has said and says that Russia is afraid of NATO expansion. However, let's think, is NATO a threat to Russia, which has nuclear weapons? The question is rhetorical - no. The democratic powers of the West will never go to war without a good reason, especially a war against a country with nuclear weapons that will incinerate them, which Russia is capable of doing. So, there is no military threat to NATO. It means that Russia is not concerned about security in the issue of NATO expansion, but about spheres of influence - in 2013-14, a democratic revolution took place in Ukraine, the corrupt President Yanukovych was overthrown, and since then Ukraine has been striving for democracy, wanted to join NATO and the EU, i.e. Russia risked losing its zone of economic and political influence. That is why in 2014 Russia made the first attempt to invade and seize Ukraine - when Russian special services and the military seized administrative buildings in the Eastern regions of Ukraine inhabited by Russians, after which the Crimean, Donetsk and Lugansk Republics were proclaimed. In Crimea, the Ukrainian military, who did not want to fight with the Slavic brothers, agreed with the Russians and evacuated, after which Crimea entered Russia, but they did not negotiate in the Donbas and the war began, which was waged by Russia and the rebels, although support for the idea of separation from Ukraine in the regions of Eastern Ukraine was and is actually low. I am Russian, and I myself remember how in 2014 they told us on TV that the rebels would now seize Kiev and "liberate Ukraine", they told us on TV about the downed Ukrainian military aircraft, which, as it turned out later, actually turned out to be a Maylazian Boeing that was flying to the Netherlands. I remember 2015, when Boris Nemtsov, an oppositionist who opposed the war, was killed by an automatic burst right in the center of Moscow, the Russian opposition died with him. Putin, who had completely lost his popularity by 2012, raised his rating as a result of the annexation of Crimea, it was such a "small victorious war". If in 2011 Putin's rating was 28%, then in 2015 it was more than 60%. Russia does not want to allow the spread of the zone of influence of the West to its borders, and at the same time Russia is trying to maintain its zone of influence, but the military threat that Putin is talking about does not come from the West. That is, Russia wants to remain an independent country and not allow itself into the zone of influence of the West. However, here the Russian leadership makes a fatal mistake - due to the fact that Russia resists the growth of the zone of influence of the West, Russia receives sanctions and restrictions, Russia is isolated from the World economy, despite the fact that Russia does not really produce anything except resources, the buyer of which still needs to be found, and depends on imports. And Russia, receiving sanctions from the West, is isolated, and Putin is forced to flee to China to bow. I.e. if Russia is not a zone of influence of the West, Russia will simply become a colony of China, and this is even worse. Back in 2014, China took advantage of Russia's position. In 2015, Russia laid an insanely expensive gas pipeline to China, and the Chinese bought gas from us much cheaper than the world average prices. The Chinese buy oil from Russia much cheaper than the world average prices. The Chinese cut down forests cheaply in Russia, produce building materials at home, and sell the lowest quality boards made of sawdust to Russia. Relations between Russia and China are absolutely unequal, China regards Russia not as an equal partner, but as a colony, a resource appendage. China is simply taking advantage of the position of Russia, which quarrels with the whole world. It is foolish to think that China is an ally of Russia. The Chinese have always been duplicitous, cunning and expectant, and they have always stuck a knife in the back of the Russians, as it was in the 1950s, when China broke off all relations with the USSR, and this after Soviet soldiers liberated them from the Japanese, the USSR provided the communist army in their civil war, and Soviet scientists gave they need a nuclear bomb. The problem is that no one will come to the aid of Russia, isolated because of this war, if the Chinese want to cross the border. This is a complete failure of Russia's foreign policy. Russia will lose its economy due to sanctions, our standard of living will soon be lower than in Brazil. And the war itself is taking place between fraternal peoples who have kinship ties. And it will not be possible to occupy Ukraine - they will want independence. We'll just get a territory populated by partisans who hate us. This is a disaster, Russia lost the war before it started. Even in the first second of the war, Russia had already lost it, when no one had died yet.
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  207. War in Afganistan was a partisan war with much lower numbers in troops, than at now in Ukraine. There is no dificulties to figth with low casualities against the Taliban, when you have jets
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  208.  @alainlefebvre9860  Ukraine also taking casualities, but Ukraine is much smaller than Russia, and for them this casualities are higher than for Russians
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  209.  @andretokayuk8100  are you sick?
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  210.  @andretokayuk8100  I didn't used google translator, and this is why I was mistaken in writing of this word
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  211.  @charmingperson5280  yes he is
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  212. ​ @JanisFever  LOL USA is buying Russian uranium and some other resources, instead of giving Ukraine weapons to take this land back USA can just buy this minerals from Russia directly
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  213. I'll tell you a secret - Ukrainians bombed Donbass for 8 years, killing people there
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  214. You are carrying complete nonsense. Because of the war in Ukraine, Europe will refuse Russian gas. So the gas fields in Ukraine by no means can be the cause of the war
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  215. А вы в провинции живете? Просто насколько мне известно, ВВП на душу населения в Казахстане такой же, как в России. А экономика Казахстана еще более зависит от нефти и газа, чем российская. По идее, у вас все также, как у нас в России. А учитывая санкции, уже через год будет лучше
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  216.  pondteal  Kazakhstan is an oil giant
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  217.  @jonsnow7092  I am grateful for the constructive response.
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  218.  @aldeno8055  NATO carried out a peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia. There, radioactive munitions were used for bombing, and the Chinese embassy was also destroyed. Or like the war in Iraq. I don’t understand the hypocrisy of the West at all - America can bomb anyone, and the whole world will believe that this is legal. But when Russia attacks someone, then Russia needs to be isolated. Do not allow Russian athletes to compete. And how the DW audience rejoices at the news that Russia will leave the ISS. After the collapse of the USSR, only one superpower remained in the World, one World giant, which economically, militarily and politically rules the entire World - the United States. In the 2000s, Russia tried to join the EU and NATO, but we were not accepted. In 2007, there were even negotiations on a visa-free regime with the EU, but they failed. Back in 2007, Putin said in his Munich speech that the expansion of NATO to the borders of Russia does not suit us, that this creates threats. Russia is forced to follow the path of confrontation with the West. This means that the pro-Western foreign policy of Ukraine cannot suit us.
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  219.  @ddc9188  no, Einstein didn't played a role in a nuclear project - he wasn't believing in possibility of nuclear bomb work
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  220.  @dm9078  Armenia didn't had anti-air
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  221.  @dm9078  Turkey is still bying Russian anti-air systems
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  222.  @garygraham8373  Taiwan isn't independent county - this is unrecognised by most countries in the World separatist state, just like DPR and LPR - Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine, against which Ukraine is fighting for last 8 years. If you suppourt Ukraine in Ukrainian war, so, to not be hypocrite, you must suppourt China in its conflict with Taiwan
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  223. Imagine that you have been bombing the Russian population in Donbas for 8 years, and then you wonder why Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation on your territory. Ukraine is ruled by real clowns
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  224. Russia didn't played any role in this conflict - Putin wanted to intervene, but he wasn't president at that time, while president Medvedev didn't suppourted the idea of participation in this conflict. This lead to great purge in the Russian military command, when Putin came to power in 2012 - many pro-Medvedev officials and generals were killed. Putin simply destroyed all command system in period of 2011-13
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  225. This is only statistics due to the dollar inflation. Russian economy is also experiencing "GDP growth", because dollar price in Russia fell due to the sanctions.
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  226. Sick liberal
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  227. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  228. I'll tell you a secret - Ukrainians bombed Donbass for 8 years, killing people there
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  229. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  230. If Putin wants expansion, why he didn't conquerred all Georgia?
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  231.  @semprelazio8864  Russia is sending Syrians to Ukraine, because there is no mobilization in Russia
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  232. Ukraine and Donbass are populated by Russians on half, and they were protesting against revolution in 2014. Historically this territories were Russian
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  233. Yeah, in 2023 Armenia held military excercises with NATO, and I wonder why NATO didn't came and didn't saved Armenia. Why Russia should defend Armenia after this, also considering the fact that Armenia itself didn't recognized Karabakh as its own territory. Another pro-Western liberal clown gained power in post-Soviet state and ruined it, Armenia would become a failed state with territorial disputes like Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, in all this countries also were Western clowns. Only Russia as a regional power on post Soviet space can guarantee economic development and stability in the region.
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  234. ​ @abeeceedee1842  Russia never conquered Armenia, Western clown, in 18th century Armenia and Georgia were under threat from Ottoman Empire and Armenia and Georgia proposed Russian protectorate, Russia agreed. Russia saved their nobility, so the Georgian general Bagration was a war hero of Napoleonic wars, who led Russian infantry into bayonet assault during the battle of Borodino
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  235. ​ @paim689  Russia saved Armenia from the Ottoman Empire
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  236. Yeah, in 2023 Armenia held military excercises with NATO, and I wonder why NATO didn't came and didn't saved Armenia. Why Russia should defend Armenia after this, also considering the fact that Armenia itself didn't recognized Karabakh as its own territory. Another pro-Western liberal clown gained power in post-Soviet state and ruined it, Armenia would become a failed state with territorial disputes like Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, in all this countries also were Western clowns. Only Russia as a regional power on post Soviet space can guarantee economic development and stability in the region.
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  237.  @jokerj641  Crimea belongs to Russia. Crimea was ilegally and unjustically transefered to Ukraine from Russia in 1954, while the majority of the population in this region are Russians. You, Westerner, have no right to decide the future of other people and other nations
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  238.  @zperdek  it could be if there were Turks and Greeks in Crimea as majority of the population.
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  239.  @thornelderfin  the decision to transfer Crimea into Ukraine from Russia was made by Soviet leadership in Moscow, not Russian leadership. Russian leadership and Boris Yeltsin played the key role in the collapse of Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin, the leader of Russian Soviet Republic, gave independence and freedom to Russia and all counties of Soviet sphere of influence.
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  240.  @si4632  Yeltsin was drunk after 1996. In 1989-1995 he was a great revolutionary and reformer
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  241.  @KirkFickert  there wasn't a policy of "Russification" during USSR era
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  242.  @thornelderfin  Russia is successor of Soviet Union, but we must understand, that when Soviet Union existed, Russia and Soviet Union were separate things. Russia was just one of the national Soviet Republics with its own national elites, who in the 80s were in opposition to Soviet central government. And this were Russian elites, who wanted to separate from USSR. Russian elites and Boris Yeltsin played key role in the collapse of USSR. Russia liberated the countries of Eastern Europe from Soviet rule. But no one in the World understood, that Russia isn't equal to USSR, and Eastern Europe paid for its liberation by expanding NATO to our borders. And at now we have no choise, but to build an empire, to cancel the Ukrainian independence
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  243.  @thornelderfin  I didn't said that history gives to someone right to the territory. Crimea belongs to Russia, because in 2014 60% of the Crimean population were Russians AND this territory never was Ukrainian until 1954. In 1954 Soviet government gave Russian territory to Ukraine. In 2014 there was a coup in Ukraine, and pro-Russian president lost his power. We had no choise but to take our territory from Ukraine, because there was an anti-Russian revolution in the Ukraine.
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  244.  @thornelderfin  I agree with you - people, who live on a territory for more than 2-3 generations decide what they want to do with their land. In 2014, 60% of the Crimean population were Russians. And they decided to join Russia
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  245.  @dragonade85  I'm not talking about historical lands. I said that the majority of the population in Crimea are Russians, and before 1954 this territory was Russian. So, Ukraine in 1954 got Russian territory that populated by Russians. In 2014 Russia took it back
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  246.  @michaelkrzak5414  I completely agree with you - Kenigsberg is historical German land. But there is no German population in Kaliningrad oblast of Russia. There is no German population. Crimea belongs to Russia, because 60% of the population of Crimea are Russians. But there is no Germans in the Kaliningrad. If Germans were at least 40% of the Kaliningrad population, Germany could have rights on Kaliningrad
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  247.  @sassy6498  there was no work even before Crimea joined Russia in 2014 - Ukraine is much poorer country than Russia. Ukrainian pre-war GDP per cappita was 4 000 $, while Russian pre-war GDP per cappita was 10 000$. Ukrainian economy even before 2014 was much weaker than Russian, and Russians even before the war were living better than Ukrainians. Under Russian rule the standarts of life in Crimea became better, than in Ukraine. Ukraine wouldn't join the EU. Ukraine is poor and corrupt oligarchic state. They wouldn't join
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  248. We must sanction Armenia
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  249.  @hermiemostert5190  it would be disaster for all World, because Russia is a nuclear power with 1.5k rockets in active service
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  250. If Putin dreams of expansion and restoration of the old borders, then why didn't he seize Georgia in 2008? Why did the Russian army in August 2008 limit itself to only two small regions of Georgia, and not capture the whole country? The war lasted five days, the Russian army was not defeated - moreover, the Georgians retreated and lost territory. If Putin needs expansion so badly, then why didn't he attack Ukraine in 2014 or 2015? Why was he limited only to Crimea and support for separatists in the East of the country? Putin gave Ukraine 8 years to prepare for war, although in 2014 Ukraine simply did not have an army. This means that Putin's goal is not expansion, and the expansion of Russia's borders worries him second of all
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  251. Putin wants to break the Uni-Polar World, and build Multi-Polar, where many developing nations would become the centers of power in the future. United States are losing their position of "only one superpower of the World". In the future there would be many different centers of power in the World
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  252. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  253. @Scott Johnston the war in Georgia differs from the war in Ukraine only in scale - the population of Georgia is 3 million people, and the population of Ukraine is 40 million. Therefore, Russia defeated little Georgia in 5 days, the West did not particularly react to this - there were cosmetic ridiculous sanctions against specific individuals in the Kremlin. Russia for 5 days of the war lost about 300 soldiers killed, Georgia about the same. And in Ukraine, a massacre has been going on for the 6th month, and tough sanctions are being introduced. But in fact, everything was the same there - Putin spoke about the expansion of NATO and "a threat to Russia." There were also rebels in Georgia - Abkhazia and South Ossetia, an analogue of the DPR and LPR. Georgia, like Ukraine, was pumped up with NATO weapons - stingers, javelins, American rifles.
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  254.  @vinm300  Russia didn't asked anyone
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  255.  @vinm300  Russia never asked Belarus and Kazakhstan of military intervention in Ukraine
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  256. Lithiania is a part of NATO, Russia couldn't invade
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  257. Yougoslavia
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  258. According to your logic German troops also were happy to kill civillians in WW2, like they were doing to Polish and Soviet civillians in WW2
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  259.  @dingdong0807  The fact, that NATO was existing in 2007 don't denies that NATO was established in 1949
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  260.  @Lepocoloco  Ukraine has received a huge amount of weapons from the West - about 200 cannons, several hundred mortars, about 300 tanks, several hundred armored personnel carriers. Ukrainians have received more grenade launchers than Russia has tanks. Russia is at war with Ukraine by the forces of volunteers from among contract soldiers - there is no mobilization in Russia, conscripts are not fighting in Ukraine. In Ukraine, there is a total mobilization. Since the Ukrainians have a numerical advantage, the Russian offensive is stuck.
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  261.  @sepxviii731  it is going very slow
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  262.  @MetalheadAndNerd  God exists
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  263.  Yu Rt  Chinese GDP - 15 trillion USD. US GDP - 23 trillion. USA are simply printing money in last 2 years, so American statistics are overrated. De facto we must consider, that prices in different countries are different. Nominal GDP statistics aren't showing the difference in prices. If we would look at the statistics of GDP ppp, we would see, that USA have economy of 23 trillion, while China - 27 trillion.
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  264. Shizophrenia
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  265. Wide Lavrov walking
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  266.  @martinhorvath4117  Ukraine have rights for defense
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  267. Why would the Russians shoot at civilian targets without precision? It seems to me that the shelling of residential quarters is an underhand intrigue in the Kremlin. Apparently, one of the Kremlin towers wants to continue the war to the end, and wants to declare mobilization in Russia. There is a group in the Kremlin that does not want peace talks to take place.
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  268. This is only statistics due to the dollar inflation. Russian economy is also experiencing "GDP growth", because dollar price in Russia fell due to the sanctions.
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  269.  @dj7577  NATO expanded to the East since the collapse of USSR. In the 90s Russia was a democratic and free state, that didn't invaded any of its neighbours. Why NATO was expanding? In the 90s and up to 2008 Russia didn't invaded any of its neighbours
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  270.  @HeilAmarth  I think I already wrote that Russia and Boris Yeltsin played a key role in the collapse of the USSR. It was Boris Yeltsin, the head of Soviet Russia, who in 1989 tore off the badge of the CPSU at a meeting of the CPSU in parliament. It was Yeltsin who, in 1990, achieved Russia's autonomy from the USSR. It was Yeltsin who defeated the communists in 1991 during their coup attempt. Russia in the 90s was a democratic and free state. Now the question is - why did NATO expand to the East in the 90s?
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  271. If you think that Russia should not react in any way to NATO expansion and threats to its security, then try saying that to John Kennedy. When the USSR deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, America howled to the whole world. The United States was gathering troops to Cuba, and American officials from the Foreign Ministry were hysterical and threatened Cuba with war. Since then, Cuba has been under absolutely unjustified sanctions. If the American leadership considered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba a threat and was ready to respond militarily, then why is Russia also not entitled to respond militarily when 18 years of negotiations with NATO ended in failure?
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  272. Russia was forced to invade Ukraine, Putin had no choice. Ukraine wanted to join NATO and the EU, which poses an existential threat to Russia. Putin understands perfectly well that an isolated economy is worse than a free one. He speaks about it directly. But he has no choice
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  273. Russians are controlling this power plant. So, why they need to shell this plant?
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  274. It is blackmail of BOTH Russia and Ukraine. America is threatening Russia to make supply of weapons and ammo to Ukraine larger, and threatening Ukraine to make supply smaller or give no supply. As a result of blackmailing America gets Ukrainian rare earth metals and also Putin already states 2 weeks ago that Russia is ready to cooperate with America in rare earth metals on Russian controlled territories
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  275. Да, украинское пушечное мясо высаживается на нашей стороне Днепра, где их как в тире расстреливает русская артиллерия и беспилотники, а России в таком случае просто даже выгодно чтобы украинцы там высаживались и России не выгодно отбивать населённые пункты у берегов Днепра. Украинцы потеряли тысячи соллат убитыми в Крынках, которые они заняли в прошлом году и сидели там несколько месяцев под огнём русской артиллерии, потом ушли, и сейчас решили вернуться. Зеленский проводит специальную экологическую операцию по спасению популяции сомов и крабов в реке Днепр
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  276. Russia could be named a democratic country up to 2008
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  277. I do not understand why everyone is surprised - Russia is fighting against Ukraine without mobilization. Russia is fighting using only contract volunteers. In fact, Russia uses somewhere around 20% of its military power. Of course, after more than half a year of war, Ukraine, thanks to mobilization, has achieved a serious numerical superiority. Without mobilization, Russia cannot really make up for losses. Using their numerical superiority, the Ukrainians are able to easily manipulate the Russians. The Ukrainians announced an attack on Kherson, Russia was forced to pull the last free forces there from other sectors of the front, as a result of which they were weakened. Then Ukraine hit the weakened area with other forces.
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  278. Germany is doing everything right - when America was bombing Iraq, no one sanctioned America, no one isolated America, like at now World is sanctiong Russia. So, why Germany must sanction Russia? German economy would suffer from anti-Russian sanctions
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  279. Just like US did in the 80's - America was supplying Taliban by weapons to fight against the USSR
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  280. There is no mobilization in Russia. Russia isn't using strategic bombers. Russia isn't using nuclear weapons
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  281.  @80-80.  Ukrainian nationalists aren't our brothers
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  282. The conscripts are serving in army for one year. They untrained, if we compare with the contract troops
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  283. Russia inherits Soviet political positions
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  284. Russia didn't occupied any territories of Azerbaisjan
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  285. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  286. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  287. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  288.  @TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar  this is the only logical explaination - some people in Kremlin want to go until the end, while Putin is trying to end the war he is losing
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  289.  @TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar  Putin is losing war, and he unable to declare a mobilization. So, Putin at now is trying to end the war, because he know that he is going to lose. But some people in Kremlin want to declare a mobilization and capture Kiev. And this Tower of Kremlin is making the sabotage of negotiations with Russia by shelling civilian population
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  290. Yeah, in 2023 Armenia held military excercises with NATO, and I wonder why NATO didn't came and didn't saved Armenia. Why Russia should defend Armenia after this, also considering the fact that Armenia itself didn't recognized Karabakh as its own territory. Another pro-Western liberal clown gained power in post-Soviet state and ruined it, Armenia would become a failed state with territorial disputes like Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, in all this countries also were Western clowns. Only Russia as a regional power on post Soviet space can guarantee economic development and stability in the region.
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  291. Like Putin's Munich speech
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  292. У Западных СМИ какая то задержка... В развитии - Пригожин уже закончил свой бунт, договорившись с Лукашенко ещё в 8 вечера по Московскому времени. Пригожин уедет в Беларусь, а его наёмники прямо сейчас возвращаются в Украину
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  293. Another blatant lie from the Western media - the main World supplier of grain is Russia, not Ukraine. And the cause of a possible World famine is hypocritical and unfair Western sanctions - when America and other Western countries bombed Iraq, Libya and Serbia, no one imposed sanctions against them. But in 2022, when Russia began conducting a military operation in Ukraine according to the American Kosovo scenario, the West hypocritically imposed sanctions, because of which Russia, being the world's main supplier of grain, was unable to sell it. Through the fault of the West, the world was on the verge of starvation. However, in July 2022, Russia concluded a grain deal, the meaning of which was that Russia would be able to sell grain in exchange for Ukraine getting the same opportunity. Russian troops left Snake Island, and the Russian fleet stopped blocking Ukrainian ports. However, one of the conditions of the deal was that a significant part of the Ukrainian grain was to go to poor African countries, and Ukraine did not fulfill this condition, although Russia extended the deal several times in the hope that the "Kiev partners", as Putin likes to say, would fulfill the terms of the deal they signed. Then Russia withdrew from the deal, and now the lying Western media hypocritically and falsely blame Russia for the famine, although Ukraine did not fulfill its part of the deal to supply grain to poor countries, and Russia is going to give them its grain for free.
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  294. Mariupol is a CITY with a population of 0.5 million people. There is hige difference between urban warfare and advances in flat area. Ukrainian offensive in flat areas is failure compared to Russian offensives in urbanized areas of Donbass, such as Mariupol and Bakhmut
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  295.  @TrendyStone  according to this logic separatists in the east of Ukraine are independent for 8 years
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  296.  @MrEjidorie  I need proofs about the "cruelty" of Soviet soldiers in the Manchjuria and Kurils
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  297. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  298. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  299. How do you know how many troops Russia lost, clown?
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  300. Russians have numerical equipment and numerical army. The force, that we are seeing in Ukraine is only a small part of Russian army
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  301. But you need time to develop the production
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  302. The Caribean crisis is a myth. USSR had atomic bombs, but didn't had any instruments of delivery of this atomic weapons. The first millitary rockets USSR would have in 1964. In 1962 USSR had only space rockets in Cuba. You can't camouflage and hide space rockets, so Americans finded them. Also, space rocket need more than a day for preparation to launch. In such conditions USSR didn't had opportunity to strike on US - no matter who would made the first punch. If America made the first punch on USSR - USSR couldn't react. If USSR could try to made first punch on US - US intelligence with space sattelites and reaction force would have more than one day for reaction. USSR wasn't able to really threat US by nukes, so this is why Caribean crisis ended by a negotiations.
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  303.  Mr Wonder  Moldova have army
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  304.  @olafsigursons  Russia is still using Baykonur port for ~50% of its space flights
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  305. As a Russian I would say that in 24 years there was no one who could compete with Putin. In late 90s Russian economy was in bad shape, and both communists and liberals didn't had any approval or trust from Russian people. Russian people hated communists after 70 years of socialism, and Russians didn't wanted communism back. But also Russians hated liberals after economic collapse of 90s. So, in late 90s there was a political vacuum in Russia, and people didn't knew for who vote. And after 90s there was a demand in society for strong state. And so this is how Putin was elected in 2000, he was a Russian security services chief, and Russian police and security services came to power in country with him with strong demand of society. In 1993 in Russia there was a conflict between communists and liberals for the Constitution of new Russia. Communists wanted the old Soviet Constitution to stay, while liberals wanted to make a new constitution for new non-communist state. Boris Yeltsin ended this conflict by shooting parlament with communists from tank cannons, so Yeltsin and liberals won. So, historically, even 7 years before Putin came to power, Russia became a state where parlament was afraid of president will and in Russian liberal Constitution president received huge abilities, 7 years before Putin came to power. In Russian Constitution of 1993 president was a person who decides the politics of state and rules the parlament. So, in order to determine and change the politics of whole country, you need 20-30 years. 20-30 years in historical perspective is nothing. So, according to Russian Constitution of 1993 president is leading and determining the way of policy, and he must stay in power for 20-30 years in order to achieve this.
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  306. There was a need to colonize and divide Ukraine, because United States simply robbed Russia. Russia was investing money into Ukrainian economy since the collapse of USSR, and in 2014 USA backed coup in Ukraine, changing power, so United States simply robbed Russia and Russia lost all its economic assets in Ukraine. But Russia quickly came back for its share. West didn't harvested this resources exactly because of Russian actions, Russia played smartly until probably 2019, when Russia was tricked in peace negotiations and diplomacy, so when Putin finally came to reality it was to late and Ukraine became much stronger by 2022, so Russia badly showed itself in the war, but achieved minimal objectives. At now it is time to divide and make peace. I think 50/50 between Russia and USA will be a great deal.
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  307. Why would the Russians shoot at civilian targets without precision? It seems to me that the shelling of residential quarters is an underhand intrigue in the Kremlin. Apparently, one of the Kremlin towers wants to continue the war to the end, and wants to declare mobilization in Russia. There is a group in the Kremlin that does not want peace talks to take place.
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  308.  @alainlefebvre9860  Iraq didn't had 5th army. Only in numbers
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  309. I do not understand why everyone is surprised - Russia is fighting against Ukraine without mobilization. Russia is fighting using only contract volunteers. In fact, Russia uses somewhere around 20% of its military power. Of course, after more than half a year of war, Ukraine, thanks to mobilization, has achieved a serious numerical superiority. Without mobilization, Russia cannot really make up for losses. Using their numerical superiority, the Ukrainians are able to easily manipulate the Russians. The Ukrainians announced an attack on Kherson, Russia was forced to pull the last free forces there from other sectors of the front, as a result of which they were weakened. Then Ukraine hit the weakened area with other forces.
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  310.  @Annae_xs  I'm a military historian. Suffice it to recall the Second World War. Military equipment cannot operate in isolation from the infantry. If you increase the number of military vehicles without increasing the number of infantry, you will simply start losing more vehicles. In addition, an increase in the number of troops leads to the fact that it becomes easier for enemy artillery to inflict losses on you - there are more targets. The higher density of your troops contributes to the work of enemy artillery. The USSR, having the most tanks and equipment, also lost them the most - during the battle for Khalkhin Gol in 1939, the USSR suffered the same losses in infantry as Japan. However, Soviet losses in vehicles turned out to be a few times higher, because USSR deployed few times higher amount of vehicles.
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  311. Gas transit is small part of Russian budget. Oil is much more important
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  312.  @AdmiralBonetoPick  who said this? I never heared something like that
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  313. Because ships under heavy NATO naval escort would get "funny blown away"
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  314. I do not understand why everyone is surprised - Russia is fighting against Ukraine without mobilization. Russia is fighting using only contract volunteers. In fact, Russia uses somewhere around 20% of its military power. Of course, after more than half a year of war, Ukraine, thanks to mobilization, has achieved a serious numerical superiority. Without mobilization, Russia cannot really make up for losses. Using their numerical superiority, the Ukrainians are able to easily manipulate the Russians. The Ukrainians announced an attack on Kherson, Russia was forced to pull the last free forces there from other sectors of the front, as a result of which they were weakened. Then Ukraine hit the weakened area with other forces.
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  315. Keep dreaming, liberal
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  316. In 1993 Russia didn't invaded Georgia - there was an inner conflict with Abkhazian and Osetian separatists in Georgia.
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  317.  @WelshGuitarDude  Georgia was trying to join NATO in 2008, and this led to war
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  318. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  319. Kasyanov really provided many reforms and changes in the Russian law and economy, he was probably the best politician in Russia in last 20 years
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  320. Why did Russia then make a grain deal at all if there was a shelling? What is the point of signing an agreement and breaking it in less than a day? It seems to me that this is not Putin's fault - it is important to understand here that power in Russia is not homogeneous, and Putin's line has opponents in the Kremlin. It is this tower of the Kremlin that sabotages any opportunity for negotiations. Putin cannot take over Ukraine without mobilization. However, he will not go to the mobilization either. That is why Putin wants to take away the eastern regions from Ukraine through negotiations, and end there. And apparently there are people in the Kremlin who want an escalation - to announce mobilization and seize all of Ukraine.
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  321. No, they cannot demand it back - at the beginning of the 18th century, Peter the Great liberated the Russian territories that Sweden had taken from Russia in the 17th century. Putin says that "our share also fell to return and strengthen." Putin, on the contrary, claims that he is a kind of liberator, like Peter
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  322.  @guyvert49  if you would look to the experience of Russian and Soviet Empires - this is impossible. Only if you would commit complete genocide of core nation and replace it by your nation
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  323.  @guyvert49  no, he isn't commiting genocide. This is a common war
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  324. Russians were losing more men at war with Germany. But Ukraine, in terms of economy, life standarts, quality of government and army isn't better than Russia.
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  325. Russia attacked Ukraine because Ukraine wanted to join NATO, and Russia believes that NATO poses a danger to it. Russia has the right to consider NATO a threat and to be concerned about this threat - the same Americans in 1962, when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba, were also scared, so much so that sanctions are still being imposed against Cuba for no clear reason. And there was also a military operation of American troops in the Bay of Pigs. In 2003, America invaded Iraq because the Americans were afraid that Iraq might develop nuclear weapons. In 2000, the Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Poland and Romania. The German Foreign Minister assured Gorbachev in 1989 that there would be no expansion of NATO. And in 1997 and 2004 it happened. Ukraine and Georgia are certainly independent states. But you cannot ensure your own safety by sacrificing the safety of your neighbor. The USSR collapsed in 1991. And NATO existed in 2007 - 16 years after the collapse of the USSR. In 2007, Russia had not yet attacked Georgia. In 2007, Russia had not yet annexed Crimea or invaded Ukraine. So why did NATO exist in 2007? Why did the Americans place nuclear weapons in Poland? Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if Ukraine had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian society has historically been located in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria, and therefore Ukrainians as a nation have grown freedom-loving. Ukrainian society has always, since the 19th century, been split into Westerners who wanted Ukraine's integration into Europe, and Slavophiles. In 2014, a liberal revolution took place in Ukraine, the pro-Russian government was overthrown, and liberals came to power who wanted Ukraine to join NATO. That's why the war started, because Russia considers NATO a threat to its borders. Russia had very good relations with Ukraine until 2014, and Russia would never have attacked Ukraine if it had not tried to join NATO. Ukrainian politicians are no less to blame than Putin
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  326. Ukraine also very corrupt contry, so
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  327.  @heater5979  Ukraine was corrupt even before it became part of Russia. And Ukraine was very corrupt in period of 1991-2022
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  328.  @heater5979  Lithuanian principality in the 15-17th centuries was de facto Ukraine-Belarus-Lithuania. Even Belorussians are identifying themselves as a nation, which routes are going to Lithuania
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  329. Stop lying - Soviet Union declared war on Japan after American proposal of help to end the war
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  330. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories
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  331. Because DW blurred them, idk, original version was without blurring and this is the terrorists
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  332.  @ИнферноСРБ  KIA casuality ratio was 1:1. There were a lot of German POWs, there I would agree with you
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  333. Ukraine isn't lesser corrupt, than Russia
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  334. We must blame Ukrainian politicians no less than Putin in the start of this war
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  335. This islands weren't Japanese - Russia and Japan in 19th century were making the trading deals about this islands. Japanese and Russians didn't lived in this islands. In 1906 Japan conquerred this islands in Russo-Japanese war, and in 1945 Soviet army liberated this islands from Japanese occupation. Kuril islands are Russian territories.
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  336. Yeah, Chinese army is defending its homeland against unrecognised rebels from Taiwan, just like glorious Ukrainian army is fighting against Russian separatists for last 8 years
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  337.  @thomaslacornette1282  wow 🤡
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  338. Russians have sugar. The reason, why Russians had saw sugar shorteges are mad grandmas, that remember the Soviet times, full of shortages. Russia have sugar in its market, but mad grandmas are bought it fully
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  339. Putin isn't blocking the internet
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  340. Ukrainians made not lethal progress of counteroffensive near Kyiv and Mykolaiv
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  341.  @XLoaferY  I'm not denying that Europe would stop to use Russian gas. I've said that this business would need a time. Europe would be dependent on Russian gas for the next 4-6 years
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  342.  @XLoaferY  about the videos with Russian vehicles - not hundreeds, but a lot. Ukrainian army is also suffering casualities
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  343.  @i1bike  Bosnian for example
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  344. If a rocket had really fallen in Kramatorsk, all the windows on houses and cars would have been blown out there. In this video we can see that windows are intact. This is the first. Secondly, how did the rocket fall on Kramatorsk, but there is no funnel, and the rocket lies stupidly on the ground? How did the rocket fall in such a way that it lies horizontally on the ground and there is no funnel?
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  345. In reality Russians are outnumbered by Ukrainian troops
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