Russia Declares War on Ukraine<<MOD WARNING>>

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  1. Death

    Death Well-Known Member

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    Yes this coming from you trying to pose Rutube as Youtube. . Yah yah, VKontakte, is Facebook. Move along now, Bill is here to advise you misguided Westerners on the truth of life in Russia. Thanks Bill.
     
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    Ukraine is not naming its streets after Nazis. ;)
     
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    Lol someone using Confederate flag lecturing others on there being neo Nazis in Russia. Lol.



    https://theconversation.com/putins-...ory-of-cultivating-homegrown-neo-nazis-178535

    https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blo...mbraced-fascism-while-preaching-anti-fascism/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...ukraine-belied-white-supremacy-ties-rcna23043

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-22/putins-fascists-russias-home-grown-neo-nazis/100927582

    https://www.cidob.org/en/publicatio...1_128_russia_for_russians/russia_for_russians

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/russia-is-co-opting-angry-young-men/568741/

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eader-defaced-Manhattan-deaths-head-logo.html
     
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    There are those that want Putin dead.
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    Humans have been killing and assassinating other humans since they were put on the planet. Old news indeed.
     
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    What makes you think that fascism can not be raised in a small country? Italy where fascism appeared is comparable to the size of Russia on the map you showed.
     
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    As I have said before:
    Putin made a catastrophic and immoral mistake when he succumbed to threats
    .............................................................................. and began this War in the Ukraine.

    "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
    ....................................................................................................... Ernest Hemingway, 1946

    That in no way admits that he was not seriously and purposely provoked. He will
    .......................................... not easily be able to extricate Russia from this Tar Baby.

    And to adhere to the bald Lie that Russia was not provoked into this disastrous
    Faux-Pas and was rather misadventured into an insane and evil Putin inspired
    revanchist enterprise, is to Stupidly and Ignorantly discount the FACTs.


    The Fact that the US armed, trained and encouraged a Fascist controlled and
    rabidly Russophobic Ukrainian Military, - thus making the Ukraine, in effect,
    ............................................................................................. a De-Facto NATO member.

    T
    he Fact - that at the same time, they allowed their PUPPET CLOWN imbecile
    who leads the Ukrainian Government to overtly threaten Russia with the very real
    prospect of this nationalist, jingoistic, NAZI inspired Government of developing
    ........................................................................................ Nuclear Weapons of its own
    ..............................................................................................................................

    And the Willfully Ignorant STAND WITH UKRAINE crowd could not see
    ....................................................... that Russia might react to such provocations ! ?
    ....................................................... What in Hell ! is the matter with YOU People???

    These provocations were all carefully planned and cared nothing for the people of
    the Ukraine and what horrible Catastrophes would befall them. - This makes all
    those who refuse to perceive & admit to the FACTs of these "Evil Machinations"
    COMPLIANT & COMPLICITE as Putin, in this unspeakable ATROCITY !
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    SEE:
    Rand Report Prescribed US Provocations Against Russia
    and Predicted Russia Might Retaliate In Ukraine

    https://original.antiwar.com/rick_s...-predicted-russia-might-retaliate-in-ukraine/

    ACADEMIC TERRORISM:
    HOW
    US THINK TANKS STOKED UKRAINE CRISIS?

    https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82241/academic-terrorism-how-think-tanks-stoked-ukraine.html
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    Numerous Academics and Pundits including Kissinger, Mearsheimer & Cohen
    all
    WARNED of what the eventual and ultimate consequences of needlessly
    provoking Russia would be

    & SO - I ask all YOU rabid Russophobes - WAS IT WORTH IT ???

    Was it Worth IT ?, for the chance to arrogantly refuse to give Russia
    .... a reasonable security guarantee that would have cost you nothing.

    Was it Worth IT ?, - for the bloody minded eight years of continual
    shelling and murder of the citizens of the Lugansk and Donbas.

    Was it Worth IT ?, for the flat minded refusal to adhere to the Minsk
    agreement to which - 'The Ukraine' is signatory, - while at the same
    ..... time arming the Ukraine with sophisticated NATO weapons and
    ........... allowing it to threaten Russia with the very real prospect of it
    .......... eventually becoming a rabidly Anti Russian, Nuclear armed
    ............................................................................................................... Nation.

    Was it Worth IT ?,
    As we now have a situation where the Ukraine has now been bombed
    back into the Stone Age with innumerable numbers of its citizens and
    soldiers now dead.

    Was it Worth IT ?,
    As it will probably take the Ukraine better part of a century to recover,
    .................................................................................................... IF it ever does.

    Was it Worth IT ?,
    As the Ukraine now faces the loss of vast swaths of its territory and
    its eventual take over by fascist extremists of whatever Rump State
    ............................................................................................. that might remain.

    All the while we have NATO, EU and The United States doing all
    ....... they can to keep this conflict hot, hoping to weaken Russia with
    ............... the profligate spending of Ukrainian and Russian Blood.

    SO I ask again, all the , "GOD BLESS GLORIOUS HEORIC UKRAINE"
    supporters, and all the perverse Sick Ghouls who love to celebrate and revel
    in their Wet Dreams of mountains of dead Russian bodies, while lauding
    ..... and praising the just as dead bodies of their Glorious Martyrs
    ....................................................................... WAS IT WORTH IT ???
     
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    Fascism rising in a part of fragmented Russia would be easier to contain with sanctions, making large military conquest prohibitively expensive. Sanctions would affect only the fascist state, letting the rest of Russia to continue to operate normally.
    Imperialism is very outdated and has no future. Look at Germany - they achieved peacefully more in terms of expansion of their economy and influence, then they did militarily during WW2. Germans did not have to kill anyone to achieve this - they just had to build up their economy and then everyone wanted to do business with them because everyone knows they are peaceful and their laws work. Nobody forced anyone to join the EU or NATO. This is the same reason so many countries long to be on American good side - everyone can see that any legitimate democracy can do business with America and benefit from it. Russians want to be like Americans, but Americans rarely force loyalty, unlike Russia, where loyalty must always be enforced with military force or bought with cheap resources.
     
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    Yep, the age of empires is long past and military conquest doesn't work the way it used to. Russia's despot just hasn't caught on yet, but I imagine he will by the end of this cluster.
     
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    Yeah I know. I don't believe we've reached a point in society whereby people have become so ignorant they can't acknowledge indisputable facts....so you're right.
     
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    Google maps....you should try it...maybe someone hacked Google and put Bandera's name on the streets?? :lol:

    Or you could just go there and look at the nazi statues and street signs yourself.

    Maybe get a nice swastika tattoo while you're there?
     
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    If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, that your friend's cat is a duck & that all 3 'ducks' are Russophobic ducks paid to be crisis actors, it’s a Kremlin duck.
     
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    I understand your point. We probably know why Putin wants Ukraine.
     
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    We should hardly be surprised. Amerikkka is birthplace of institutional racism after all.
     
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    Very reasonable post but you would not be allowed to state these things on the BBC.
     
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    I watch CNN a couple times a week and almost all their news is someones point of view and not actual unbiased actual news stories. They are closer to TMZ than a legit news source anymore. CNN used to be good many years ago.
     
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    Even if a fraction of what you say is true, nothing you can say can justify a bloodthirsty Putin attacking a nation that has no intentions of harming Russia. Not a single reason in the universe can justify Putins war. Here you are defending an absolute psychopath who has his troops killing and enslaving innocent civilians regardless of the leader of the nation Putin invades has done some corrupt things. Nothing compares to the corruption Putin has done himself.
     
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    I actually agree. Ukraine was unnecessarily provocative in the doorstep of a highly aggressive military nation. Imagine how quickly Taiwan would be invaded if they behaved in the same way towards China?

    Don't confuse that with Ukraine deserving this, though. Hope Putin burns.
     
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    Hm, you do have a point there. Their news is always slanted.
     
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    False premise. Bandera was not a Nazi.
     
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    It depends on the anchor.

    But you have to figure they look at Fox and recognize that lies and BS and crackpot conspiracy nonsense makes big money.

    But they are in the thick of it and reporting directly from war zones, which is what made them in the first place. They must have a dozen or more reporters in Ukraine right now.
     
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    All media disseminate partial truth. Sometimes they just lie. What kind of fool would spend his money to bring people the full truth, and not information that is beneficial for the media business?
     
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    Correctly. Bandera was a Nazi whore. And then the Americans. You have to be a moron to make a national hero out of this dirt.
     
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    Just like Foxnews is slanted right.
     
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    I do commend them for that part in paying those contract reporters. Even so, they have bought into the one sided view on the Ukraine crisis when there is much more into how we got to this point.
     
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