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by chrysler 3y ago
That's where you go wrong - you see the nuclear bombing of Japan as an isolated event. Place it into the context of several hundred thousand people dying every month as it was at the time, and it will look different.
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by chrysler 3y ago
- Option 1: Drop nuclear bombs on Japan, kill 200 000 people, end the war right there. - Option 2: Continue as is and let 400 000 people die every month. Which option do you prefer? There's an argument that Japan was ready to
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> I don't think you have to listen to Russian government propaganda to understand the NATO threat if you have any cognitive empathy whatsoever. NATO is not a threat to Russia by any objective measure. Prior to the Russian invasi
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by chrysler 3y ago
Funny that you accuse him of "not studying Duma policies". Unlike in the west, Russian parliament has as much power as Reichstag had in Nazi Germany. It yields no actual power. They are button-pushers who do as they are told, or g
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join Russia. ~98% Nearly a decade ago now. This is ancient history. Crimea is not in the Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine. Nobody recognizes the sham referendum held under foreign military occupation. With
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Regarding the Stinger Missile Defense System the US provided Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger , it is capable of carrying nuclear warheads that could hit Moscow in single digit minutes from
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Yes, it does. You are confusing 'Russian' and 'Soviet'. There is no practical difference between the two. All Soviet "republics" were run by Politburo in Moscow, the same way all orders in Nazi Germany
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by chrysler 3y ago
Doesn't make any practical difference. Soviet "republics" were as independent as Reichskommissariat Niederlande. Internal borders were freely redrawn and native populations resettled to satisfy Soviet colonial policies. If yo
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by chrysler 3y ago
In a totalitarian one-party state without a separation of powers, that's a distinction without a difference.
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Without Western help this would have happened within weeks or months and would have spared so many. Genocide won't spare anyone.
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by chrysler 3y ago
How old were you in 1989?
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by chrysler 3y ago
That's undoable if the population supports the government, as it is currently in Russia - and doable without much violence when government and its institutions lose legitimacy in the eyes of its population. The USSR was vastly more pow
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Really, people polled around the world outside the NATO bubble blame NATO and USA. For years, since 2003 at least. Every year. It’s just not reported here. Gallup: "Counter to some impressions, the U.S. and its allies aren’t t
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> You spend some time whitewashing the US aggression and trying to explain how it’s better or different I have said no such thing, quite the opposite - I found it worse for native hawaiians, since the occupation has lasted much longe
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> 1) The Right Sector, Azov Battallion, Dnipro and others, which were armed and trained by the CIA, as well as NATO members and allies (e.g. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-07-09/ty-article/ri
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> About proxy war: yes it does, because the strawman is that Ukraine as a whole has to be a proxy for another country, for that to be a proxy war, but that’s not how proxy wars work. The war in Ukraine does not fit the definition of
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> As far as "proxy war" see the sibling thread That does not address anything I've said. >> Well, if you are the native population, what do you have to say about USA's actions since its founding until now,
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Proxy war is not a hollow Russian talking point, it is a literal description of what happens. This article on Proxy War fits what is going on and it happened all throughout the cold war the same way, leaving many countries ravaged
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> “Russian colonists” is an extremely biased way of labeling people who moved to a region while living in a federation, and wound up living there after the federation allowed the regions to secede. Latvia wasn't "allowed to
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> It's what happens when the only airlines are flag carriers that don't have to worry about competition because their respective governments will keep them in business. Governments cannot provide aid beyond what a reasonabl
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by chrysler 3y ago
Air Canada was privatized in 1989.
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> I mean I was literally in Latvia this past week - Riga and Liepaja - and spoke to cab drivers and others. I was struck by how many people speak Russian there and also how many people tell me (unprompted) the same things I’m saying
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by chrysler 3y ago
Nothing you wrote refutes what I said. A poll conducted last month asked if respondents agreed with "under no circumstances should Ukraine give up any of its territories, even if the war lasts longer and will threaten independence&quot
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by chrysler 3y ago
You said that Naftali Bennett was prevented from brokering a peace deal. He said that it was not the US, France, or Germany that put an end to any peace talks. Rather, it was Russia slaughtering hundreds of civilians. "The Bucha massac
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> Sure, they would have if Naftali Bennett was allowed to conclude a peace agreeemnt JUST LIKE NIKOLAS SARKOZY DID in the Russo-Georgia war. The question to you is WHY DID THE US BLOCK IT? Answer that directly, don’t dodge! This is a
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> I understand that each side reacts to the other and it’s SHEER FANTASY to expect either Russia or China or Brazil etc. to roll over and allow a roadmap where its enemies to place nukes on their doorstep. Nobody has placed, or inten
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> I don’t know what the hell he meant by “not came up for negotation”. Thankfully he clarifies that by saying "the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact was beyond our realm of comprehension". The USSR was hosting elite divisions
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by chrysler 3y ago
The only one lacking reading comprehension here are you, if you want to go down the path of personal insults. "Verbal statements" and "in the general direction" is an unconvincing attempt to turn history on its head. Man
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by chrysler 3y ago
Shevardnadze says multiple times that NATO expansion was never discussed, no matter what angle the journalists used to ask about it. >> SPIEGEL ONLINE: Was the eastward expansion of NATO ever discussed in the inner circles of the Comm
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by chrysler 3y ago
>> I'll go with his version of the events and their significance. It's not even his version. You've just cherry-picked a single sentence, attributed significance over all else, and ignore everything else he says, and wh

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