khokhol

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by khokhol 3y ago
You've got a lot of very confused, misinformed people on this site, Dan -- and that's assuming the very best of intent. If patiently correcting them is considered "battle" then I guess we live in different universes.
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by khokhol 3y ago
I don't think it's necessarily better or worse than email It's greatly worse than an email because it (1) primes the candidate with a false set of a (highly positive) expectations, only to simply (2) gouge very significantl
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by khokhol 3y ago
That's the spin of those two observers. But there was a lot to more to the actual chain of events at the time. And lo and behold, the fact of two guys stating a certain narrative about those events (then embellished up a bit by the pu
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by khokhol 3y ago
That "peace deal" would have required that Ukraine permanently recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea and the Donbas (on top of other concessions). This is why Russia is called "expansionist". Because it likes to exp
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by khokhol 3y ago
2027 is the target that both China and the US have projected for the invasion of Taiwan The US has not released a definitive assessment. Jinping apparently did make some announcement that the PLA should be "ready to" invade Tai
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by khokhol 3y ago
No, it's just that the dead Russians seem to start piling up with greater frequency after the 2022 invasion.
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by khokhol 3y ago
2027 is the current aim That's what some say. But how do you know? Outer Manchuria - including Vladivostok - will be the next target. Very unlikely, even if Taiwan collapses quickly.
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by khokhol 3y ago
First of all, many people in Ukraine speak Russian. So those people very clear 'speak essentially the same language'. Yikes - you definitely lost me there, man. I'm going to have to let you hash this stuff out on your own.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Seems you're drifting away from the scope of the issue I was referring to. And are basically talking about something else.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Since you're still dodging the 2009 issue - you'll need to put forward actual evidence re: 2014. I acknowledge my quote was imprecise.
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by khokhol 3y ago
This is a dodge, and you are (rather verbosely) wiggling away from acknowledging a plainly counterfactual statement you just made: In 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU in 2009 and again in 2014 You can dissect the 2009 a
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by khokhol 3y ago
This isn't worthy of a flame war, but we'll just note what you're telegraphing to us here: Namely your view that the basic situation with the current blockade of food and humanitarian supplies into Gaza is a matter of people
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by khokhol 3y ago
The basic point is that, while you seem to think that if people oppose Operation Iron Swords, it's because they take issue with "Israel taking necessary action to defend itself" -- when very obviously that's not what the
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by khokhol 3y ago
Attitudes towards the Iraq war changed massively during the presidency of George W Bush [1]. Sure it changed once they saw the (wholly predictable) actual reality of the war. But the fact that a solid majority supported the debacle at th
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by khokhol 3y ago
I have been studying Russian history as a hobby for decades If you've been studying the topic for "decades", and then you say things like "they speak essentially the same language" (in reference to Russians and Uk
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by khokhol 3y ago
We assigned a task to one guy in Ukraine and two months latter he didn't complete it. One of our colleagues did it in three days. Given the vast discrepancy in turnaround times -- I would seriously start to wonder about the person on
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by khokhol 3y ago
It looks a lot like they've set up a puppet government in Ukraine It "looks like", but only if we glance casually at a couple of articles (or sometimes even just headlines of articles) here and there, without taking the tim
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by khokhol 3y ago
A mild annoyance within Ukrainian politics. But in reality, bearing no connection to the problem that Putin makes it out to be. A bogeyman basically. Per the Wikipedia definition: The bogeyman (/ˈboʊɡimæn/; also spelled or know
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by khokhol 3y ago
A UN resolution by itself, perhaps not. But you're getting off track here. We were discussing the total package of US support for Israel as a driving factor in the current, grotesque horror we are all witnessing. And it is the main dr
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by khokhol 3y ago
[US financial, military and diplomatic support] is far from the only reason for the war [and genocide] is Gaza But it's clearly the most important. To an extent that it dominates all other factors.
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by khokhol 3y ago
The Soviet Union, witch was a country An empire, not a country. Which dissolved itself peacefully enough and with no outside prodding of any kind on 26 December 1991. In the process, fully and unequivocally recognizing the complete sover
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by khokhol 3y ago
^ Was meant to be attached to the sibling comment (rather than to its current parent), obviously.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Humans aren’t special But it seems so much more fun to believe otherwise. So why not?
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by khokhol 3y ago
If you were to remove the Russian forces from these two oblasts (as well as Crimea and Zaporizhzhia) these proxy forces would collapse immediately. As would all of the so-called rebellions in the East from the very start (2014). While the
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Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales were male(theguardian.com)
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by khokhol 3y ago
Actually it was what you might call a "joke". I have no idea what you think I'm defending, but whatever.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Yep, and they're literally worse than Stalin in this regard. At least he had an appreciation for statistics, and accurate body counts.
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by khokhol 3y ago
You're confused. The 600k figure doesn't mean what you think it does. Or even relate to the conversation in the way you think it does.
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by khokhol 3y ago
That is the Nakba in a nutshell. The standard (and perversely broken) right-wing narrative of said events, anyway. A lesson that is apparently difficult for Palestinians to understand. At least you're making clear for us where you&
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by khokhol 3y ago
For the last 400 [barely 300 actually] years the were part of the same country The same Empire , you mean. Are you saying that all empires that ever existed need to be maintained into perpetuity? They speak essentially the same languag

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