Newsweek: More than 1,700 people were arrested across Russia on Thursday as protesters took to the streets in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
As Scott says it's not 2014.
As Scott says it's not 2014.
Well, even Russians are not going along with the invasion.
Newsweek: More than 1,700 people were arrested across Russia on Thursday as protesters took to the streets in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As Scott says it's not 2014. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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It's worse than 2014
Internet dependency combined with facial recognition? They can track down everybody in the population they don't like and take them away. This is not a democracy. Who gives a s*** what the people on the streets are doing. Great, let's figure out everybody in that crowd via facial recognition and track them down individually and take them away. As far as Putin is concerned he runs the place and those people don't mean s***. |
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Remember the Russian apartment bombings?
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-1999-russian-apartment-bombings-led-to-putins-rise-to-power-2018-3 He knows exactly what he's doing and he does not care how many people he kills in the process. And he does not give a s*** about Russia's financial issues with the world as compared to his rock solid certainty that Ukraine is his. |
The arsehole went and did it: Russia invading Ukraine.
- (CRConrad)
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- Feb. 24, 2022, 03:36:49 AM EST
Ukraine to challenge Russia’s seat and veto on the UN Security Council?
- (CRConrad)
- (27)
- Feb. 24, 2022, 03:50:47 AM EST
Putin doesn't care
- (crazy)
- (26)
- Feb. 24, 2022, 04:44:45 AM EST
It's not 2014.
- (Another Scott)
- (20)
- Feb. 24, 2022, 07:49:02 AM EST
he will install a pro russian government and slowly withdraw after pacification
- (boxley)
- (3)
- Feb. 24, 2022, 11:55:41 AM EST
Well, even Russians are not going along with the invasion.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (2)
- Feb. 24, 2022, 10:44:01 PM EST
It's worse than 2014
- (crazy)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 11:15:49 AM EST
Remember the Russian apartment bombings?
- (crazy)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 11:25:54 AM EST
No, exactly.
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 02:36:08 AM EST
No, maybe 100,000 spread across that population will.
- (crazy)
- (14)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 11:19:00 AM EST
Ukraine has a very long history of fighting outsiders.
- (Another Scott)
- (13)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 01:21:56 PM EST
"with many cases of collaboration with the German forces" don't hold yer breath on tht group
-NT
- (boxley)
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- Feb. 25, 2022, 01:37:47 PM EST
I was reluctant to cite that, but didn't have time to find something better.
- (Another Scott)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 01:49:26 PM EST
You couldn't have found a better way of sounding exactly like...
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 09:26:13 PM EST
nope, putin is entirely wrong and I hope the russian people pull him off his throne
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 09:37:54 PM EST
Then why the fuck do you sound exactly like his trolls all the time?
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 26, 2022, 07:25:21 AM EST
Only ~9 years before Operation Barbarossa
- (scoenye)
- (5)
- Feb. 28, 2022, 07:47:55 AM EST
You got it! And a lot of people sufferred from communism in other ways too.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (4)
- Feb. 28, 2022, 10:31:07 PM EST
Here's some related information in Smithsonian magazine.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (3)
- March 8, 2022, 11:07:15 PM EST
A kinda related thread, on Russia's economy.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- March 9, 2022, 12:05:19 PM EST
Interesting! Makes sanctions more powerful to bring Russia down.
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- March 9, 2022, 10:36:59 PM EST
Good read. Thank you.
- (scoenye)
- March 9, 2022, 10:31:56 PM EST
You are citing a group of people from 70 years ago
- (crazy)
- (1)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 04:04:11 PM EST
They threw off an attempted dictator in 2014. A million in the streets.
- (Another Scott)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 05:36:21 PM EST
Alex, I'm sorry, but ^ he's right.
- (mmoffitt)
- (4)
- March 4, 2022, 09:30:19 AM EST
MM is totally right. How often do I agree with MM?
-NT
- (crazy)
- (1)
- March 5, 2022, 12:16:38 AM EST
Are you trying to weaken my conviction? </jk>
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- March 7, 2022, 11:21:04 AM EST
I'm glad to see your post and see that you're getting real news.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- March 6, 2022, 10:42:51 PM EST
You are quite right to be proud of Ukrainians.
- (mmoffitt)
- March 7, 2022, 11:20:03 AM EST
Hmm.... Could this actually be a true story? (Spoiler alert: No.)
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 05:12:30 AM EST
DW livestream from Kyiv
- (Another Scott)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 10:41:54 PM EST
Ukraine strikes Russian air base.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Feb. 25, 2022, 11:55:03 PM EST
Need to do that in White Russia (Belarus) as well!
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- Feb. 26, 2022, 09:39:23 PM EST
Molotov cocktails...
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Feb. 26, 2022, 12:40:43 AM EST
Link didn't work.
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- Feb. 26, 2022, 09:37:03 PM EST
It's a clip from a 2015 Maidan movie that's going around.
- (Another Scott)
- Feb. 26, 2022, 11:24:55 PM EST
Deutsche Sprachübung:
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 26, 2022, 08:35:30 PM EST