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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1590033625453858816?t=ym9GNgD9UyC6hW17XsCIKw&s=19 otoh i doubt russia would have invaded ukraine if ukraine was actually in nato
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Nov 8, 2022 20:20
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OctaMurk posted:otoh i doubt russia would have invaded ukraine if ukraine was actually in nato Perhaps, but that was probably never on the table anyway. It only takes one member-state to vote "no" to Ukraine's accession because they don't want to risk going to war with Russia. France and Germany were quietly against it in 2008, when the GWB administration first pushed for it, to say nothing of countries like Turkey.
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Nov 8, 2022 20:26
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redneck nazgul posted:aren't you from the upper midwest where 90% of your diet is something called hotdish drat right i am
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Nov 8, 2022 20:28
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biggest mistake Ukraine made was giving up its nukes
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Nov 8, 2022 20:32
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speng31b posted:biggest mistake Ukraine made was giving up its nukes
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Nov 8, 2022 20:41
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speng31b posted:biggest mistake Ukraine made was giving up its nukes They never really "had" their nukes. It would have taken at least a year to be able to launch them, and by that point they'd be a pariah state and possibly at war with Russia.
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Nov 8, 2022 20:45
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More than one country leaned on Ukraine to get rid of them.
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Nov 8, 2022 20:55
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Majorian posted:They never really "had" their nukes. It would have taken at least a year to be able to launch them, and by that point they'd be a pariah state and possibly at war with Russia. i think even just keeping them around in a largely feigned state of repair would have been enough. doesn't really matter if they're usable
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Nov 8, 2022 21:00
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Majorian posted:Perhaps, but that was probably never on the table anyway. It only takes one member-state to vote "no" to Ukraine's accession because they don't want to risk going to war with Russia. France and Germany were quietly against it in 2008, when the GWB administration first pushed for it, to say nothing of countries like Turkey. Yeah, but that's libbrain thinking. The only thing of value here is the US going to war with Russia. Which they can do if they wanted and conversely no piece of paper, signed with all due ritual, is going to force them to do it. And the whole point of this affair is to have someone else die fighting the Russians.
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Nov 8, 2022 21:01
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genericnick posted:Yeah, but that's libbrain thinking. The only thing of value here is the US going to war with Russia. Which they can do if they wanted and conversely no piece of paper, signed with all due ritual, is going to force them to do it. And the whole point of this affair is to have someone else die fighting the Russians. Right but I'm saying if Ukraine had kept its nukes past the Lisbon Treaty's deadline, Russia would have invaded and taken its own nukes back (since, according to the treaty, they were legally Russia's). And no government would have stuck its neck out for Ukraine in that case; it would literally be a rogue nuclear state.
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Nov 8, 2022 21:06
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/man-killed-defending-ukrainian-city-from-russian-forces-1.6644569quote:Farmer Joseph Hildebrand, 33, served two tours in Afghanistan before volunteering on front lines in Ukraine I think this is the first news story we're gotten of a Canadian dying in Ukraine, it seems like there's been a flood of these lately (re: western volunteers / mercenaries dying in battle). I don't know if the Ukrainians are changing up the way they are deploying the mercenaries or if Russia is intensifying their attacks with the newly mobilized troops, but it does seem like conditions on the front are changing in the last couple weeks.
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Nov 8, 2022 21:23
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Majorian posted:Right but I'm saying if Ukraine had kept its nukes past the Lisbon Treaty's deadline, Russia would have invaded and taken its own nukes back (since, according to the treaty, they were legally Russia's). And no government would have stuck its neck out for Ukraine in that case; it would literally be a rogue nuclear state. Yeah, Russia was basically a US colony under Yeltsin. Not difficult how that would have turned out. Unless the world ends of course.
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Nov 8, 2022 21:27
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Seatbelts posted:Images of rations leaked from the Ukraine national guard fixed
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Nov 8, 2022 21:53
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Here is a selection from famed Ukrainian author Mykola Hohol. 
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Nov 8, 2022 22:01
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Starsfan posted:I don't know if the Ukrainians are changing up the way they are deploying the mercenaries or if Russia is intensifying their attacks with the newly mobilized troops, but it does seem like conditions on the front are changing in the last couple weeks. maybe they’ve gone back to the tried and true tactic from early march of sending waves of unarmed redditors towards enemy lines in order to reveal russian firing positions
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Nov 8, 2022 22:06
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Majorian posted:They never really "had" their nukes. It would have taken at least a year to be able to launch them, and by that point they'd be a pariah state and possibly at war with Russia. Its also important to remember that getting rid of those nukes was followed up with a pledge that the US and Russia would keep it safe, sort of a tacit admission of being neutral, so yeah the US couping a Nazi government into power dead set on joining NATO still seems to be the root of this conflict
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Nov 8, 2022 22:09
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Armadillo Tank posted:fixed lol
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Nov 8, 2022 22:10
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There were Russian speakers in Ukraine before there was a real public education system in it, it really depended on the region you were talking about.
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Nov 8, 2022 22:19
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Armadillo Tank posted:fixed lmao
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Nov 8, 2022 22:21
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KomradeX posted:Its also important to remember that getting rid of those nukes was followed up with a pledge that the US and Russia would keep it safe, sort of a tacit admission of being neutral, so yeah the US couping a Nazi government into power dead set on joining NATO still seems to be the root of this conflict Yeah, which is one of those points that NAFO types don't really seem to have an answer for. It's difficult to pinpoint which country violated the Budapest memo first and when, but the U.S. pretty clearly interfered in Ukraine's internal politics in the 2004 election. (and did so again in 2014) Majorian has issued a correction as of 22:39 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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Nov 8, 2022 22:34
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Armadillo Tank posted:fixed Jesus Christ
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Nov 8, 2022 22:58
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Part of Ukraine getting rid of its nukes was that the US said they'd not help with Chernobyl otherwise.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:07
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https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1590050995853496321 absolutely not endorsing RWA but learning now Russia has literal battle priests? that photo with the priest clothes on top of the soldier gear lol
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Nov 8, 2022 23:10
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Military chaplains are a thing.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:19
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Majorian posted:Yeah, which is one of those points that NAFO types don't really seem to have an answer for. It's difficult to pinpoint which country violated the Budapest memo first and when, but the U.S. pretty clearly interfered in Ukraine's internal politics in the 2004 election. (and did so again in 2014) Well thats the whole issue in the end, history started moments before the Russian invasion and NATO has nothing to do with it so it becomes impossible to have any sort of actual conversation about this or talk about reasonings beyond insisiting that the Mongol Russians thrist for the pure white blood of Ukrainians
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Nov 8, 2022 23:19
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Lostconfused posted:Military chaplains are a thing. yeah, the photo with the robes over the gear just gave a very hardcore battle priest look I'm not used to seeing
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Nov 8, 2022 23:21
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Father Mikhail forget to cast Protection From Good and got his party wiped. A bad cleric
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Nov 8, 2022 23:21
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Seatbelts posted:Images of rations leaked from the Ukraine national guard Thats an incredible lack of protein. They'll never be able to outlast the russians through the cold winter when this is the standard russian ration: 
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Nov 8, 2022 23:21
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Starsfan posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/man-killed-defending-ukrainian-city-from-russian-forces-1.6644569 Here I was hoping the bazinga brigades weren't a thing anymore. RIP bozo I guess, hope the upvotes were worth it.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:36
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Guess those epic Ukrainian victories weren't so epic for that dude.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:49
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Weka posted:Here is a selection from famed Ukrainian author Mykola Hohol. Wait! Gogol is the “Ukrainian”, author they’re “reclaiming”? That’s like Eritrea claiming Pushkin.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:50
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My favourite contradiction along these kind of bullshit lines is the 1960's adaptation of War and Peace, one of the most highly regarded pieces of art cinema ever made, the adaptation of a novel that is now referenced as a key piece of the rascist imperialist culture that has secretly been training the orcs to conquer and murder for centuries, is directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who was born in loving Kherson, lol
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Nov 8, 2022 23:59
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https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1590101286770577410
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Nov 9, 2022 00:04
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~42 km/26 mi to Kherson city, for references, according to the replies.
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Nov 9, 2022 00:37
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Lostconfused posted:Guess those epic Ukrainian victories weren't so epic for that dude. That guy is literally the first Canadian to ever die honorably. Be happy for him
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Nov 9, 2022 00:54
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Calibanibal posted:That guy is literally the first Canadian to ever die honorably. Be happy for him At first I thought it was John McCrae, who wrote "In Flanders Fields," but then I did some digging on his bio. Turns out, his cause of death? Anally vored.
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Nov 9, 2022 01:05
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https://twitter.com/latstetter/status/1590117100630441984?s=46&t=t3JSHIauPxevbZryqdhK1g
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Nov 9, 2022 01:14
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Majorian posted:At first I thought it was John McCrae, who wrote "In Flanders Fields," but then I did some digging on his bio. Turns out, his cause of death? That was the most disturbing Stuff They Didn't Teach You In History Class episode ever.
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Nov 9, 2022 01:23
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Stupid sexy Flanders
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