Jacob
What goes around comes around.
Not everybody. Telegraph and Daily Mail readers usually are - that's where the rot sets in.
Putin is a loser
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RobinBHM
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WRONG
The 2014 Maidan was a result of the then Putin puppet president Yanukovych reneging on the democratically agreed deal with EU and instrad went to his pal Putin for a deal
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-ukraines-euromaidan-protests
Ah yes the “Ukrainian Nazis”
You are repeating Pure Putin propaganda
sure Ukraine has an issue with the neo Nazi movement, but its just Russian propaganda to claim it has anything to do with Donbas troubles
In fact Azov were engaged in fighting against Wagern and defending Ukraianians in the regino
More Russian propaganda
Please go and read what really happened in Odessa instead of posting lies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27275383
More Russian propaganda
The troubles in Donbas started because Putin sent in Wagner to annexe Donbas. And he funded and armed Russian backer separatists
WRONG
the 2014 referendum only gave 2 false choice, there was no option for the status quo
good grief you have linked to an article referring to a guy name "Gary Brecher" a pseudonym used by John Dolan when he wrote in the Exile a Moscow based satirical newspaper
the reality is Crimeans did not want to be Russian:
"My research shows that it is likely that Crimea was not passportised by Russia prior to annexation because Crimea’s residents viewed Russian citizenship as inaccessible, undesirable, illegitimate, and illegal.
Only the minority in pro-Russian parties wanted Russian citizenship. They wanted it to provide leverage against Ukraine. But Russian citizenship was not accessible to them. It was illegal by Ukrainian law. And Russia did not seem to facilitate access to Russian citizenship in Crimea – even for those in pro-Russian parties."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/rese...crimeans-really-pro-russian-before-annexation
Your post is a stream of Russian propaganda, it’s all the same predictable falsehoods and misinformation spread by the well known Putin apologists that are in the media.
So please stop posting Russian propaganda and go away and do some factual research, not conspiracy theorist misinformation
RobinBHM
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RobinBHM
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I dont know whether he actually believes the garbage or just wants to stir trouble
either way its spreading dishonest misinformation
Not the next best thing. That is just reporting the history as interpreted years later. No comparison there.
ey_tony
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...and you aren't guilty of that I suppose? LOLTony, every post you write is literally that.
Cozzer
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What a pointless discussion all this has become.
It matters not a jot what your opinions are.
If the situation truly bothers you that much, go and pick up arms and fight for one side or the other...
This whole post is not far removed from a "he said she said" or "my dad's a policeman, and bigger than yours.."
It matters not a jot what your opinions are.
If the situation truly bothers you that much, go and pick up arms and fight for one side or the other...
This whole post is not far removed from a "he said she said" or "my dad's a policeman, and bigger than yours.."
I disagree, I find some of the arguments interesting, even challenging, but once it becomes 'you're this', 'you're like that' it does get utterly pointless.
ey_tony
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Irrespective of whether or not all of what Tn is entirely true or not it does pour water onto your Western fed propaganda bigotry and it may even come as a surprise to you that there are people out there who see what is happening without the issue of myopia that propaganda produces.
I don't support any wars including this one as it has its roots in ideology on both sides and unfortunately it's always the foot soldier and civilians who pay the terrible price and for what? No doubt it will inevitably be settled around the negotiating tables but thousands of lives will have been lost in cause of ideology.
I don't support any wars including this one as it has its roots in ideology on both sides and unfortunately it's always the foot soldier and civilians who pay the terrible price and for what? No doubt it will inevitably be settled around the negotiating tables but thousands of lives will have been lost in cause of ideology.
Sigh.
No, that's not what he said.
What he said goes like this:
"You know that article you quoted from, choosing parts to support your view - why did you cherry pick from it? Why didn't you also include the part where the author of the article you used to support your view, actually wrote that he disagrees with your view."
I understood exactly what he meant. It wasn't because of a disagreement of opinion - it was pointing out that the article that was quoted from indicates a view that was in contradiction against what it was used to support.
Your post illustrates, yet again, that you view "opinions" with which you agree as somehow unchallengeable. Even when there appears to be stronger evidence contradicting them than supporting them.
It is like holding an opinion of "two plus two equals five" and that being somehow sacrosanct because it is an opinion with which you agree. And then crying out when somebody points out that two plus two is actually four, and here is the irrefutable evidence. But still saying "my opinion differs, why are you attacking because my opinion differs from yours". It's just silly.
Not at all.
And I have to say coming from you that really is quite funny.
Have you really so little self awareness that you cannot see the hypocrisy of that observation?
Happy to confine "delusional" it to people who quote stuff that is demonstrably incorrect, or engage in whataboutery based on either ignorance of the subject, or wilful blindness to things that don't suit their argument.
TN's observations about the West recruiting former Nazis after the war springs to mind.
The clear inference being that the Soviets would never stoop to such things.
Except of course that they did, arguably on an even larger scale than the Americans, so either he was ignorant of that, or simply chose to ignore it.
Don't know which, but in the absence of any acknowledgement, perhaps along the lines of "I wasn't aware of that". I have to assume he is either a hypocrite, or unwilling to admit that the Soviets were not exactly a shining example of taking the moral high ground.
Both you and TN have a habit of responding to any kind of fact checking by just changing the subject, or doubling down by quoting more nonsense in support of the nonsense you started with.
Quite happy to have a debate with anyone, and entirely content that people may interpret the same facts in different ways, and so come to differing conclusions. Their conclusions and how they arrive at them can be very informative, and can be entirely respected even if you disagree with them.
All I ask is that if people want their views to be taken seriously and respected, then they ought to base their argument on sound evidence, rather than merely opinion, ignorance or discredited conspiracy theories.
But never mind, you will continue to peddle your View of the world according to Trump, as TN will no doubt continue to champion the cause of the lovely Mr Putin, each of you happy in your own little bubbles.
bushwhaker
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Without even flinching
https://x.com/i/status/1859751893817491490
https://x.com/i/status/1859751893817491490
You said Macedonia. I remember that because I thought at the time it was notably adjacent to Bulgaria (home of many sub-contract trolls).
Oh I agree that the peoples werent interested in rejoining Russia as citizens, but I feel that question is far deeper and isnt going to be reached by hitting google and using the top of the list as the reasons. Thats a bit lazy tbh
Its the type of question you could ask the people of Northern Ireland, or Wales, or even Hawaii. You're goign to get some answers that they want to be reunified with Ireland, or happy as a separate country within great Britain, or a separate people as in the case of Hawaii, or that for the most part they are content to run with the status quo.
I think the truth of the matter is most just want to be left alone to get on with things and do not want to become political pawns of any country, be that on the border or a country 5000miles away.
Lets face some facts. The US is at the heart of this and their desire to rule the world as they see it. They are just another empire in a long history of empires, and doing the things empires do for the same reasons empires always give.
Perhaps the UK was the last true empire, but the world had moved on and modernity and technical innovation has made empires a thing of the past, and we really need to move along from it and all work together.
John Brown
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Interesting... I didn't read all the comments, but one person was doubting that Putin's voice could be AI generated without massive amounts of training material. I might have agreed, if I hadn't happened to have caught part of a programme on Radio 4(I know, I know...) this morning. Seems it's all moved on a bit quickly!
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
For what it's worth, I always thought TN was in Greece. He stuck in my memory, as a lot of what he writes makes perfect sense to me, and then he goes off in some crazy(IMO) rant. Also, I envy his rugged, rural lifestyle. I wouldn't last five minutes, to be realistic, but we can dream.
RobinBHM
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But that is not a fact.
The US is not at the heart of the Ukraine war, it’s Putin, he invaded because he is a brutal imperialist dictator
You are correct, which is why my answer is not based on that.
Yes, the research I’ve done very much supports this.
The people of Donbas + Crimea by and large just wanted their lives to improve, they want what we all want.
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Nope, originally he was not.
Did you say that was Macedonia ?
