Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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RnR_au

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rommelrommel

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Where is the right to self-determination of Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine who want to secede? Why is the integrity of the country and non-interference in internal affairs more important in this case?

Perhaps they should have tried legitimate and peaceful separation instead of a small fifth column joining up with Russian "little green men" to start a war.
 

zinfamous

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Where is the right to self-determination of Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine who want to secede? Why is the integrity of the country and non-interference in internal affairs more important in this case?

there are actually very few of those--most of them were little green russians and everyone knew that.

Of the minority of legit Ukrainians that wanted to secede, you should probably ask them what they think about your cvnty country now. I mean, if they haven't been raped and murdered by your people by now, of course. Most of them probably have.
 
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you2

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Russian supporter tries to shame us about dead Ukrainians lol.

The world desperately wanted modern Russia to not be the bad guy. Lots of efforts were made to help undo decades of communism. Benefit of the doubt extended on all fronts. Massive military drawdown to prove we didn't want to take advantage of a weakened Russia. What did we get? A dictator with imperial ambitions. The west isn't a bunch of angels or anything, but on the topic of Russia we were pretty damn friendly.
To be clear; communism is fine - the Russians can pick any type of govt they wish; what is at issue has nothing to do with their so called 'poltics' beyond the fact that Russia is run by a Dictator with a morality compass lower than a class 5 storm.
 
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rommelrommel

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To be clear; communism is fine - the Russians can pick any type of govt they wish; what is at issue has nothing to do with their so called 'poltics' beyond the fact that Russia is run by a Dictator with a morality compass lower than a class 5 storm.

Yes, I’m not saying they couldn’t have continued with communism or go back to it, but their economy was horrifically bad after decades of communism, and we tried to help.
 
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Zorba

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No need to respond to Russian Trolls (look at whyitso profile); created Aug 2022; and 100% of his comments have been to this thread. Would be interesting to investigate more information around this user but that would take a bit more access than i've been granted on this site. However if someone wants to be a Russian troll one would imagine them wasting their time on a more frequently visited site... but then again Russian trolls aren't the brightest cookies .... after all you have to be er fairly handicapped in the head to be a Russian troll....
He did admit to being Russian on his first post. The language changed at least once though, so the account was likely handed over at some point.
 

tweaker2

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Rest assured these Russian provocateurs embedding themselves in our nation's political forums are having a really good time enlisting anti-Ukrainian supporters in any of those conservative forums and assuredly having significant success toward converting dumbass Trumpies into tankies.
 

pcgeek11

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Someone like Melania can get away with it, but things like that get quite a bit harder once you're being kept under guard in a Swiss mansion or bunker in the Urals.

Plus, and this is the big one, ask yourself - who is going to be dumb or reckless enough to go and fuck Putin's girl behind his back? It's hard to keep that kind of thing quiet when you're not in an autocratic police state.

Putin routinely arranges assassinations, war crimes, torture, rape and execution for people he doesn't even know, they're just in the way. Imagine what he'd do to some poor sap who had the temerity to emasculate him by tasting that hyper flexible cake? Someone's going feet first through a plastic shredder.


Hey. You see the release about Thresher? :persevere:


A girls crotch will make guys (even smart ones) do really stupid shit. Watch the ID Channel...


No I haven't seen anything about the Thresher. I give it a look.
 
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JEDI

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Banksy art images in Ukraine after Russia shelling:
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One mural shows a man resembling Vladimir Putin being defeated at Judo by a child. The Russian president is a judo black belt and a noted admirer of martial art.
 

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