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POV: You live in Eastern Europe, next door to Russia
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What would be the appropriate meme for "the rest of the world looking at you and think that this is your mess to clean up"?
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You're right but for the wrong reasons. The word should have reacted to the Russian invasion on Georgia in 2008, but it didn't. Obama announced "policy of reset". Russia was rewarded for aggression, not punished. So obviously they invaded Ukraine in 2014.
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Yep. Assad was also in meeting with Putin and got nothing.
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But try telling it to the gangster who is about to beat you in dark alley. It's not that Ukraine (and Georgia, Moldova, Latvia and Lithuania before) "choose" war, they were attacked by Russia. Russia is always trying to rebuid the empire, they never truly let us go.
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They never really "offered" anything, just one resident Kremlin jester posted some nonsense on twitter
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OK, so repeat after me: people in Eastern Europe have their (our) own mind and they know Russia better, because they have decades (centuries, acftually) of direct neighborhood. We have GOOD REASONS to join NATO/EU.
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In Eastern Europe, we have a joke that sounds much better in the original Slavic version. What is it - it does not shine and it does not fit in the ass. The answer: Russian device to shine up in the ass. I don't believe Russian nuclear arsenal is actually in working condition after 35 yrs of neglect
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If by the "deal" you mean "the minerals deal", it is public and of course the people (via their MP's) demanded to see it and voted to accept it. I also read it (everybody can). It is fair to Ukraine.
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It's just a humble suggestion - I noticed you don't know much about Russia and don't event want to learn. That's OK, but maybe you shouldn't be so opinionated about it?
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It was a drunken tweet of a person not taken seriously by anyone. For years, Medvedev promises the West a nuclear apocalypse. If you weren't worried by his alcotweets a month ago or 2 yrs ago, don't be now.
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Thank you for comforting news, I'm still mentally prepared for the "Hormuz closed, $200 a barrel scenario".
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Our tourists bring money to Italy too (in fact, I bring quite a lot personally, this year I already brought some). We are nicer than Russians. You'd rather have me than some oligarch with criminal connections.
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Until 2014 Russia invaded or created breakaway countries of Transnistria, Abkhazia and Ossetia. They also waged a genocidal war against Chechnya. They also violently tried to stop Lithuanian and Latvian independence in 1990.
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Well, I do know. No matter what are your problems, it's still paradise compared to contemporary Russia (or Russian colonies, like Abkhazia). Why do you wish us Russian hell?
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But it's still nearly 80, it used to be 60 before the Israeli attacks
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A Russian neighbor who is not in NATO is either invaded like Ukraine, or enslaved by Russian-installed puppet, like Belarus. THE ONLY WAY to survive if Russia is next door, is NATO.
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Your understanding of Ukrainian politics is extremely naive. It's not about Zelensky. If not for him, someone else on hist post would to the same as he does (eg Poroshenko). It's the Ukrainian people who don't want to be enslaved by Russians.
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And yet, with all this devastation, it's still way better than Russia-proper or Russian colonies. Remember, Solovyev is still crying about his villa over lake Como. Russians want to live in Italy, not the other way round.
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Again, what we did to hurt you? You want us back in the Russian misery? Why do you think we deserve it?
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It was the "damage" of letting Eastern European nations into EU and NATO. So your idea of perfect diplomacy is not to allow us to drink good coffee and having washing machines.
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Well, I you have nothing against us - then don't stand in our way of joining EU and NATO.
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Whad did we ever do to hurt you so much that you would want us to rot behing the Iron Courtain forever? We joined NATO and EU because live under Warsaw Pact and COMECON was shitty.
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Actually, EU and UK tried diplomany many times, including the infamous phone calls and personal visits from Macron, Schroeder, Merkel and who else. It achieved nothing not because EU and UK did not try, quite contrary.
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I'm not talking about excuses, just the fact that Russia wants to rebuild the empire lost in 1990 and in 1914. In their point of view, everywhere a Russian soldier ever set foot, "it's theirs". US imperialism is of course also evil, but works differently.
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It's different. USA is not a fallen empire trying to rebuilt its pre-1914 borders pre-1914. Russia is. With Russia it's not like "don't cross the lines, they won't invade". They will invade anyway. You provoke them by existing.
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Of course, but that's pure whattaboutism. Just because USA invaded many countries does not mean Russia has the right to invade Ukraine.
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Ukraine is not attacking, it's defending itself.
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With all due respect, it not you. They are invaded, they have a war.
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Don't you think Ukraine should have something to say? Or you are so anti-imperialist as to deny them basic rights?
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Sorry! To conclude, this could (and probably will) evolve in a nasty way, but I don't believe in the use of nukes by either side. Skyrocketing oil prices and the return of covid-era supply routes disruption and the resulting inflation seem to be real things to worry.
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We can't help you with your "paycheck to paycheck", you can't help you with our, all I'm asking is that you should consider our right to have agency. You talk of us as mindless pawns being "gamed", that's insulting.
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Well, this particular shit is far from done. The Hormuz blockade, that's the real worry. Unlike "countries supplying nukes", this can really happen. And that's oil for $200 per barrel.
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She does not. She would start making sense if she admits Ukraine has the right to defend itself, she never will, so you can be relaxed at least about the "MTG making sense" part.
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I'm the last person to defend Trump, but no matter how awful presidents you people are electing (your shame, not ours) we still don't want to be enslaved by Russia.
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I've read that nonsense many times, I know it all too well. Read THIS, please. At least you would learn something about why nobody wants to join Russian sphere: eastsplaining.substack.com/p/this-war-i...
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We just want our right not to be enslaved by Russia. But of course you deny us this right, because - what else? - you think of yourself as "anti-imperialist".
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Iran is alone on this, I don't even know if it's good or bad for you. Russia is a shitty ally, they come to rob you - yes, they can do that - but never to help you.
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If by "DC" you mean Washington DC, Trump did have hus "at the table" attempt and it failed. Putin demands Ukraine to surrender, Ukraine does not want to surrender. No "good deal" is possible (we all wish it was, but it's not).
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A "press release" that one single person wrote it on Twitter,
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I do doubt anyone would arm Iran with nuclear weapons. In fact, I'm sure it's not gonna happen.
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The real enemy is, of course, Russia. This is insanely strange for me you don't even get the contradiction, that you think of us, Slavic people as of mindless pawns who have no right/ability to make our own mind, we need the Enlightened Westerners and their videos to know who's our enemy.
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It's not "they", it's "him". Dmitry Medvedev. Literally nothing he wrote about ever came true.
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Russia is not offering them a zilch. Medvedev just had another alto-tweet, he had a plenty. Nothing he predicted ever happened.
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The Paradox games (and boy, did I play them!) do have a rock bottom for Diplomatic Reputation. Russia hit it long time ago. They can't go any lower (even if they can have an "alliance", like buying Shaheds for a lump sum).
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Maybe it's possible, but Richter 5 is between "small" and "moderate". Most likely, it's just nothing. You will also probably hear that "radiation is increasing", but that will also be nothing (radiation fluctuates, earthquakes happen, media love clicks).
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Trust us. We just don't want Russia because WE HAPPEN TO KNOW RUSSIA BETTER THAN YOU.
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Obviously if we really cared about ourselves, we wouldn't dare to have our own mind. Are we we even entitled to have one? Of course not. We are merely Eastern European Untermenschen. What do we know about our own countries? Obviously, nothing. You know better, as the Supreme Race.
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I expected that, because if someone is brainwashed by that Kool-aid Chomky cult, there's no help for them. What is really sad is that you THINK of yourself anti-imperialist, and yet you want the Russian rule over all of us, disregarding what WE want. You don't even want to hear us. Shame on you.
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In 3 days, or even 24hrs
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The countries you mention will never come together. Japan and China together? Never happen, just like Russia and China.