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@Phoenix3Actual Willy Wonka??
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I question whether that would actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. What indication that NATO membership would ever stop expanding even if Russia did nothing? There was a refusal to ever "close the door" (close applications for new members) so what, realistically, did Russia lose (with respect to nato) by doing this? Seems like it would have kept going no matter what
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@amarillorose7810 in terms of quality of life, probably just above ukraine and belarus but below everyone else
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@bcluett1697 guess so, bbq is also slow cooking and thats been turned into fast food. I want to see it happen, but lots of people (given the situation) are rooting for russia to straight-up collapse... no restaurants in that kind of country
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@DailyMusic I admire you dancing around the issue— saying that those who genuinely believe that Crimea should be under Russian administration must be fooled by surface-level improvements— but let's be honest here. Crimeans have been pushing for leaving Ukraine— not even being part of Russia, just depriving Ukraine of access to their land— since 1996. An election was held then and a majority (60%+) of people voted to restore the old Constitution which would have separated them from Ukraine. This election was quickly shut down by the SBU, and in case people think it was a Russian plot— Russia was occupied near Chechnya at the time, and was closely allied with Ukraine's government. They had no reason to antagonize the entire rest of the country for the sake of a naval base or some imperial ambitions when it could be argued that alluring with Ukraine did that much more effectively. All that is to say— the election was grassroots and Crimeans did actually vote to leave. That it wasn't done with the consent of Ukraine is a cheap cop-out; by that logic no independence movements should ever exist because they're "illegal". Anyways, that's something I wanted to add.
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Chinese: start with middle finger
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@prplt You sound like someone who had never actually lived in the USSR. I can tell you, from my family in 3 different Soviet republics, that none of what you said is true. Organized crime was largely underground, certainly not like in the 1990s where they openly roamed the streets and extorted people. Think of it like a Soviet Yakuza, tolerated but contained. Healthcare was not cutting-edge everywhere, but especially in transplants and transfusions it was rather advanced. It was also guaranteed for everyone, nobody was turned away or billed. Shopping? Are you serious? You could go shopping in the RSFSR. The selection was less than today, but by the 1970s most cities were indistinguishable from Western ones. I think you're just making things up, asking "what would make my argument sound the best" and then creating it out of thin air. I think you just don't want to admit that the West failed in remaking Russia in its image. It didn't work. The benefits are minuscule or illusory.
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@GreekHouseEffect depends. In Greece's case, it was poor government management (no taxes, corruption, etc). The country that wants to be in EU needs to become good at governance first, then apply
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@never_give_up90 I understand the sentiment, but the genetic distinction is not as strong as you are making it out to be. The north of Russia (that is, north of Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc) is still majority East Slavic. Yes there's intermixing near the border but it quickly turns back into Slavic the deeper you get.
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@КИБАРКУБИЦА-с4д No she's right, there are African (Pacific) populations with naturally blonde hair. Also plenty of blondes with blue eyes in the Middle East, especially around Afghanistan and Palestine.
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Have to disagree, the idea that the Soviets started the war is bullshit. Hitler, if given the chance (which, I mean... he tried about 4 years later) would have taken over all of Europe. Partitioning was the only logical choice in the face of Germany's ambitions. It's not like the Soviets approached them and asked to do that. Hitler himself said, "When Germany's life is at stake, even a temporary alliance with Moscow must be contemplated". So if you're going by that metric, no, the Soviets did not start it. Ribbentrop pursued negotiations with Moscow, not the other way around. And, in case it wasn't obvious enough, Hitler invaded first!! What you said reminds me of neo-Conederates who think the Union started the American CIvil War because they responded to the Confederates... shooting first. As for liberation... yes. Putin had 15 years to diversify the Russian economy and yet he didn't. With the enormous natural wealth he could have created a wealth fund that would dwarf Norway's (their plan is similar, but more beneficial to the common people). Instead, it went to geopolitical strategy and military. I don't think he'll be leaving anytime soon, but hopefully he'll pick someone who understands that soft power (economy) = power. Before it's too late, and we're all in China's pocket.
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@AlexKall I agree. But if you want to also agree, then you'll have to oppose the Ukrainian Parliament on several laws they've passed. When both the Polish and Romanians are pissed at Ukraine over this (even though I hate the idea that veracity is retroactively determined by who's saying the information, rather than whether the evidence holds up)— then you can be sure it isn't "propaganda". To sum: I'm glad we agree. But Ukraine is acting like a miniature Russia. Being a victim doesn't give you the right to pursue an ethnostate as "revenge" against the country who settled the minorities in your country.
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That works fine, until you consider that NFKRZ could have just been shot and killed, instead of punched. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Trying to protect yourself with a weapon your enemy already has is a short-sighted and primitive way to deal with things, and while it keeps the rate of violence steady, it also escalates the severity of the crime. Fist or bullet?
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@enriqueperezarce5485 I just want to point out that nobody has given me a straight reply to any of my points. They just spew whatever emotion-driven speech they have planned and leave. And they say Russians are the ones with bots...
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@enriqueperezarce5485 Of course there were some failures- but that is an impossible standard that nobody else is held to. Is American island hopping useless because they lost a few battles? No! They won the Pacific War. the same way the Soviets won the European War. The strategy, if morale is high enough and with enough people, works.
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@scottwillie6389 Is Jacob really that Polish? Most of them lose their national identity (rather, get it replaced by an American one) within a few generations. If that were the case, we'd hear the accent.
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@Persona-Is-Trash Thanks now I have cancer
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Seems like that's the only war he can win these days...
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@kiczater7283 I guess it makes sense because it's easier to rap in English (lots of rhymes and no odmiany przez przypadki)
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@jm-je4tl I'd say it's cleaner and much more organized, but more beautiful? The roads cutting though the city center (I mean, literally you can drive up to McCormick) rob it of its potential beauty. It's just too hollow and cold (not in the weather sense, although that's also true). The fact that there are no vista terminations (ie the street grid stretches beyond the horizon in every direction) makes it feel wide open and unwelcoming... IMO of course
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Your English is very good!!
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@Andre39814 Lol I always thought it sounded kind of Slavic.. but personally I like it more than Spanish, it sounds friendlier/more casual
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@John_19k_doe BRILLIANT
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@f67739 It's not a letter in their alphabet, there technically is "у" combined with another letter (think French "Oui") but it simply doesn't have a dedicated symbol. This is also why many Europeans can't say 'mirror' or 'squirrel' lmao
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@mikicerise6250 1) I was thinking of Afghanistan. 2) You said "crusades, until Iraq came back to bite them". Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq are all fair game, you should have specified. Germany was one of the main European contributors in terms of troops in Afghanistan, France also. Both were part of the ISAF. It took Germany until 2021 to completely withdraw. As far as Iraq goes, Spain, Italy, UK, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, Latvia, Romania (are you sensing a pattern with the last few?), Denmark, Bulgaria, to name just a few, is no small contingent.
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@easterbulldog Ah, I'm sure your anecdotal experience is completely reflecting the truth. On a side note, how much farther up before your head reaches your colon?
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@unarmedduck Polish is only surface-level difficult. Once you get past pronounciations and letters, it is the same as the other Slavic languages. I think Hungarian, Georgian, and Basque are hardest
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@noop9k Adopting their cultural legacy? What a ridiculous idea. By the standard you just set, none of Italy can claim to have any connection to the Roman Empire, only Rome itself can. You're forgetting that Novogorod, Vladimir (which later became Moscow) and Kiev were united for hundreds of years, so it's not like Moscow conquering other states to re-create Rus was unheard of. This happened even before the Mongols- knyazy fighting each other, only to be under the Veliky Knyaz, or Tsar. Lastly, they're both dialects of the same language. It's like saying America is stealing Boston's cultural legacy)) Boston is American, and Novgorod is Russian. Sorry!
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@brookgun Yeah, but it's healthier (kind of), less sugar and I think a different recipe for Europe in general. The drinks in Poland are less sweet, too. But I like them better than the American ones anyways
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"Old Russia" wasn't sustainable. Basically Russia post-1991 was never meant to be. Sell out all your assets to Western firms or Russian oligarchs (who end up laundering the money to Basel or London anyway), and you get this mess. The facade of growth while relying on Western institutions and tech companies to run the rest of your economy has finally been lifted. If the US actually had good intentions instead of sending the "shock therapists" to "help" Russia onto its feet in a capitalist world, none of this would have even happened. Sure they might not have an ally in the form of Ukraine, but the region would be more politically stable.
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By number or by percentage? I think Russia lost 12% of its male populace while Poland lost 16... not a huge different I think
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@Rib_bs No, it's real. Best example: Mikhail Fridman (born in Western Ukraine, hated the Kremlin so much that he was exiled) has had his assets seized in London and kicked out of the company he co-founded, all because he is a "Russian" oligarch. Same with Stoli's CEO- hates Putin, moved factories to Latvia, but r*tarded Americans throw out Stolichnaya just because it sounds Russian. Or the Milan university that asked a professor to stop teaching about Dostoyevsky, or also teach about Ukraine's great writers in the same course. Or Russian Blue cats being banned from European pet shows! Did they support Putin too?! Sorry, but Russophobia is real. And as much as I hate this war, and the Russian state media propaganda, it is actually correct this one time. If you don't want them to keep brainwashing Russians, then don't give them such good material.
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@fjbz3737 First of all: use indentations. No one wants to read your text block. Second: "Leftism" is too broad a term to even try and classify or put strong boundaries around. the fact that you are trying to sell me a universally shared characteristic shows me how little of it you understand. A "belief in improving the well-being of people around the world" is meaningless, since it could apply to numerous right-wing ideologies as well--- (whether or not you think they work doesn't change the fact that you and a right-wing populist and/or a libertarian, under your "leftism" definition, share the same goal). "which is most practically conducive to that end"--- that, again, is your idea of well-being. I don't support the continuation of this war, at all, but I simply don't agree with the proposed solutions or actions. "Finlandization", for example, worked great for Finland and Russia, for decades. A neutral, non-NATO Ukraine would be a feasible solution for both sides. Zelensky himself is moving towards this conclusion as well. "And in this case, I would much rather America to occupy the status of global hegemonic superpower than Russia in its current state, in some hypothetical universe where it is" Why, exactly? Russia, for all its faults, doesn't have nearly the same penchant for destabilizing faraway governments as the US does. It is not ideologically driven to lecture other nations on how to live, which values to have. If the last 20 years are anything to go by, following Russia's advice for Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan would have yielded a more stable Middle East region than what we currently have. If "Russia in its current state" is problematic to you, you should oppose the US' position as hegemon just as much, if not more- Yemen is far more severe than Ukraine, yet nobody cares. Afghan civilians are currently starving, Holodomor-style, due to American sanctions... yet Americans will never see Biden like they do Stalin, because he's on "your team." This is my original point. You fail to see that your values, applied to this war and into the future, are not creating a better world. They are just propping up one, equally brutal, imperial power, over another.
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@justingibson7807 Nope, Russia only invaded after NATO announced that "Georgia will be a part of NATO". No consultation with Russia or Iran, just "yep let's do it". If you wanna counter with the neoliberal talking point "Russia doesn't have the right to tell any other country what to do!" -- then why did the US threaten nuclear war over Cuba, a sovereign nation, receiving weapons from another sovereign nation? The US clearly understands why nearby countries have legitimate concerns, but they don't respect them because they think they can get away with it.
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@justingibson7807 Yes, it did. Stop lying. Secretary General de Hoop Sheffer, 2008: "We agreed today that both these countries will become members of NATO."
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@vandarkholme8548 Well, if we are specifically looking at the consequences of imperialism, rather than the countries that do it, then yes Russian imperialism is far better. Their treatment of native people whom they encountered (possibly taken from the Mongols, or the fact that they have always lived with other tribes) is not rooted in a drive to 'spare the Indian, save the man'. Their philosophy is much more simple: we need this land as a buffer to protect ourselves from the East, and you're on it. Ally with us, and we will leave you alone. Don't, and we fight. Of course, many didn't ally, and many cultures were lost, but there was not a blind belief in the superiority of Russian culture and a need to 'civilize' the tribes. But even those that lost against the Kremlin got to keep their native language and culture for the most part. Case in point: there is no russian version of 'reservations,' and there are native republics that have mandatory schooling for all students (white included) in the native language). What can the us point to for its colonial legacy?
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@justingibson7807 Yes... after the US sent nukes to Turkey, on the USSR's border. We simply did exactly what they had done.
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@justingibson7807 Yes, it was. From NATO's website: "We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO. Both nations have made valuable contributions to Alliance operations. We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia.." LOL, "Putin????" You guys love doing that, reduce an entire country to a single man, No, Rt didn't tell me and Putin is a very busy head of state, it makes just as much sense as asking if Obama told you that bombing Libya was a good thing. To answer your original question-- NATO told me. Will you admit to me in the next comment that you lied?
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@justingibson7807 The official title of the document is Bucharest Summit Declaration Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Bucharest on 3 April 2008 Paragraph 23. When you find it, I want to see your first reply- "I'm sorry, I knowingly lied when I didn't even know if it was true". Or something similar. Well, even if you don't, we'll both know you did :)
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@justingibson7807 Technically, no-- the Jupiter missiles were put in Italy and Turkey in 1961. Not even a full year, let alone "years".
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@justingibson7807 It isn't a member because Russia acted swiftly. Do you see the issue here? You are using Georgia not being in NATO as a reason Russia should not be so aggressive-- but the example you gave only has that outcome because Russia postured aggressively. And Ukraine was not 'rejected', the open-door policy has remained the same, a "rejection" is never permanent, they just did not meet the criteria at the time. The US will take them whenever they meet the criteria.
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@justingibson7807 What does this have to do with what we are talking about? You started by replying to me about NATO and how Russia was 'overreacting', that Ukraine and Georgia were never going to join anyway. I proved you wrong. Why are you shifting the topic instead of admitting you were wrong?
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@justingibson7807 This contradicts what you said earlier, that they got "rejected." Why even tell me that? It changes nothing-- like you said, they could both join. So Russia wasn't over-reacting then?
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@justingibson7807 Probably because of Russia's demographic issues, and because Ukraine was getting closer and closer to the goal. I don't think Russia cares about the EU that much, just doesn't want American wargames or weapons in the south of Russia.
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@justingibson7807 Yes... that's exactly the problem. It cannot be kept open if there is to be peace in Europe. This is what I have been arguing- why did you try to tell me "well Georgia and Ukraine aren't in Europe"? Were you trying to convince me that should just stop? Because from what you just told me, it seems the US will never stop trying to get Ukraine or Georgia into its military bloc. Just as the US would not accept missiles in Cuba, Russia will not accept missiles in Ukraine. Or any other US presence there.
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@justingibson7807 Also, why won't you admit that you were wrong? You just told me that "No one said Ukraine and Georgia will be in NATO"... now you're saying "the door was still open". So which is it???
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@justingibson7807 Which comment are you replying to with this? Nothing I said has anything to do with events of the war. What are you trying to do, drag me into an argument so you don't have to admit that you lied?
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@justingibson7807 Hypocrite? Russia is not the one claiming to care about human rights and democracy, or 'upholding international law'. If the US gets to do these things unpunished, so do we. Deal with it. If you want Russia to face criminal justice, you will have to force the US to do it first.
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@justingibson7807 You haven't answered MY question, and I asked it long before you. Will you admit that you lied-- and then deleted your comment to hide it? "I can't find it" my ass. I gave you the title of the document, proof that NATO wanted Georgia and Ukraine in NATO (like you said) all the way back in 2008.
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@justingibson7807 I DID answer your question. "Probably because of Russia's demographic issues, and because Ukraine was getting closer and closer to the goal." Maybe next time don't leave 50 different replies, and put them into a single one. You're getting scatter brained, my friend:))
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