Russian Military Buildup Outside Ukraine

You fucking said there was more propaganda here than in North Korea and Nazi Germany. Go read a fucking history book dumb fuck.

My understanding of things is grounded in actual reality. Not latching onto understanding of the world as I wish to see it so I can have an excuse for mediocrity like yourself.

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Evidence?

Oh right, there isn’t any. The government does shady shit (as does every government). I am surprised you don’t float away with how inflated the ideas you believe to be correct have made your little head. I guess something had to take up the space your missing brain cells weren’t occupying.

Oh yeah… I am done being nice

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Yanukovich was elected on a pro-Western platform (as advised by Paul Manafort), did a 180 and pivoted towards Russia after the election, people were pissed and went out to protest, Yanukovich tried to quash the protests by brute force and killings but the wannabe tinpot dictator lost his nerve and fled the country.

After fleeing, he was impeached by more than 70% of the parliament deputies, as the law dictated.

But you have to understand than in Russia, who still operates on an imperial mindset dating from hundreds of years ago, democracy equals mob rule equals ā€œcoupā€.

The idea that an aristocrat (and for Putin Yanukovich was a lesser one from the Western frontiers of the Russian world) could be removed from power by votes of the peasantry and their representatives is deeply disconcerting to the Russian worldview.

The unwashed masses are slaves and subjects, not decision makers.

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Just dispensing the truth.

And once again trying to bring it all back to the subject at hand.

Here is an interview done by BjG with Stephanie Kelton on the debt ceiling issue. From an MMT lens. It is over an hour, so I don’t know how many of you can handle not hearing propaganda that long. But in case they’re any out there, here ya go.

You equated narcotics and alcohol to poptarts….

Wrong thread

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Please stop responding to he who shall not be named in this thread.

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Fair.

Ummm… no I agreed with SkyzkS. He said that pastries lighted the same area on the brain but that some things hit a little harder. A point that I made about food ingredients are manipulated to the point where sheer black and white choices are blurred. People on here believe that because THEY haven’t been affected, then it’s nothing but a choice. I may not be involved with drugs but many are. This doesn’t mean because some have escaped that addiction isn’t real and that the choice is a black and white issue. Some who never took drugs recreationally got addicted to opiates prescribed by doctors. They got addicted because of the make up of the drug. It was brought on by a prescription of the drug by a doctor(someone they have trust in).

You must deny any truth in this matter because it is more complicated than your black and white view of things. It goes beyond your guard rails and does not compute with you.

Russia withdrew from the arms treaty with USA, wont be surprised if Biden takes us into war with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran

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What part or parts of that are incorrect?

It’s crazy because when you think about it, they really don’t need Ukraine. Like, they have so many resources and land and all that and it’s helped make them the strongest, wealthiest nation on earth for the past several centuries. While other countries had rural peasants living in their own filth, Russia was modernizing and growing strong.

Russia normally does intelligent things that do not lead to the deaths of their own citizens and that all end up in furthering their wealth and power.

AND, Eastern Europeans don’t understand this stuff. @loppar (not actually sure where he’s from) can’t comprehend this stuff because of the lack of knowledge he has regarding the politics of the region.

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They believe that they need a more defensible border. This is about the geography of Eastern Europe. They ended WWII with those borders and have lost influence across much of it as NATO has moved East. Now they have thousands of miles of border that tanks can roll across instead of parking a few divisions at the Fulda gap.

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:rofl:

Well, I guess you win then!

:rofl:

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My post was entirely sarcastic due to the guy saying there’s so much wrong with loppar’s post and then being unable to name specifics.

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No. You wont.

Imho

Putin is old KGB, he wants to restore the USSR as one of the superpowers before the the fall of the USSR by Gorbachev, therefore, why he went into Crimea, Ukraine, next will be Belarus, Estonia and Latvia…not sure if he wants East Germany

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You had better tell that to the generals on both sides presently using every tank they can get their hands on.

They clearly don’t have access to any experts of mechanized warfare like you.

Of course it wants to do this. That doesn’t mean it can or will try in the near future, but it is obvious that Russia was more secure in 1946 than today.

Yeah right. That’s why the entire elite Russian elite in the run up to the invasion was busy making plans on how to divide the spoils, from people (children for reeducation/forced adoption, men into cannon fodder), works of art to agricultural land and manufacturing plants.

You should look up historical GDPs of tsarist Russia and the USSR as not to overload this posts with pictures. Let’s just say ā€œstrongest and weathiestā€ was BS.

Are you serious? Do you know anything about the absolute hell that was/is the life of Russian peasantry? From unimaginable poverty, constant hunger to occasional (twice in the 20th century) cannibalism and (at best) an early death.

And do not get me started on the Five Year Plans.

No, total disregard for the lives of their subjects is a constant for the last 400 years, and it was formalized in political decisions and even literature. It worked when illiterate peasants had five-six male children who could be abducted to do military service for life in the Tsarist army, doesn’t work now when there’s not enough young men (but they’ll still find a way to kill 500k to a million)

Bwa-ha-ha. I’m sorry you can level all sorts of accusations against me, but not knowing the politics of the region is not one of them. Do you speak Russian? Unfortunately I do, because I had to learn it in school.

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