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Yes, Putin was provoked, repeatedly, even continually. BUT this in no way lessens the brutal stupidity of this Stalin-wannabe despot et alias' idiotic invasion. The degree of almost military corruption disorganization, and negligence that it has revealed is almost as much of a crime against Russia's hapless soldiers as it is against Ukraine. NATO could hope for no better promotion than Putin's misadventure. It is a huge gift to the neo-cons working to weaken and even dismantle Russia.

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If Russia was gaining support in Mexico and kept trying to have it reject deals with USA and instead to turn to Russia that would be gross meddling, but would it be grounds to first take 1 region, then invade it, then for USA to try and annex 4 more regions? Putin could have neutrality and Crimea instead of invasion, I remember how scared EU was at that day. But he wanted Dobass too and hoped to regime change what would be remaining of Ukraine. Instead of pushing "brothers" from Ukraine to rejoin the family with a forceful shove he pushed them into a bloody war where Russian army may well suffer irreparable losses. And this is their last generation at this population level. They have so few kids that in 2040 they'll be in 3rd league.

BTW I'm Polish, we had some sizable minority of people hating Ukraine for Bandera and borderland atrocities from around WW2. They're pretty much over now and nearly entire country is pro UA. Even if Putin somehow ends up with a big chunk of the country, Ukraine is joining Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia in extreme anti Russian block and Poland's slowly dissipating Russophobia is now extended for 2 more generations.

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The saddest and most maddening part of this is the way Putin still manages, like his hero, Stalin pose as a "patriot" and even "leader" even as he does huge, likely irreparable damage to Russia with his delusional despotic blunders, love for lies and sheer psychopathic brutality.

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Aaron, the OSCE recorded thousands of explosions and artillery attacks on the citizens of Donbass in the days before, which prompted the invasion. It was a set-up to give Russia no choice. Also in 2021 there were NATO exercises during the summer on Ukraine's border with Russia (not a NATO member), prompting Putin to mobilize his forces toward the same border. It's been step-by-step escalations by the West, beginning with the Biden admin's first meetings with the Russian foreign ministers.

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We in the West do not care about the deaths of russians and/or pro-russian Donbass uman animals.

As someone wrote:

"Americans today don’t mind invading and occupying a country on the basis of sheer lies.

But then Americans become exercised with hatred against Russia when it invaded Ukraine after NATO insisted that Ukraine would become a member (and so there was the real prospect of U.S. nuclear missiles becoming positioned just a five-minute flight to annihilating Moscow) after Obama had couped and grabbed Ukraine in 2014 in what some have called “the most blatant coup in history.” Controlling the media is controlling the mass-mind, in a ‘democracy’. But such a country can’t be any democracy, because its public are mere mental slaves to whatever liars appeal to the biggest percentage of the public’s prejudices.

In America, it comes down to Democratic Party lies, versus Republican Party lies. Just like with science itself, democracy can be based only on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

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In modern statecraft they don't have to control the mass mind, they don't have to convince the majority that their fellow citizens believe in the cause, all they have to do is declare that the majority are on their side and have given them a mandate and then move ahead as if it were true.

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They aren't sheer lies they are overt lies from the French ouvert open to scrutiny.. A sheer lie implies a veil or curtain. America hits its citizen over head and tells them its all bull shit and they still dare not open their mouth.

We are having an election about absolutely nothing in Quebec. We have shit loads of money, a booming economy we need a million new Quebecers yesterday and Quebec City wants 1,000,000 New Quebecers and wants them yesterday and wants them to speak our language and share our values.

They're coming here to share our prosperity is why we want them.

Sharing our prosperity makes us richer.

Everybody is promising universal Dentalcare. We have the money the only question is how much and how soon do we start. Do we start early or will they pull what remains of my teeth and give me a Pepsodent smile.

We'll have another election in 4 years and if the government is tooo corrupt we'lll fire them all.

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What is a nation state?

Westphalia happened in 1648.

This is a Civil War it started in 1568

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I am a looney . My analysis is this is a coup inside Russia and I hope the dissidents win.

I suspect Ukraine will win. Ukraine stretches from Stockholm to Istanbul and Austro Hungary to the Netherlands. Finland was once Ukraine. So was Sweden and Norway and Lithuania.

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I'm rolling on the floor laughing somebody call 911 brilliant comedy and 2022 I remember the fifties and reiner and brooks. So subtle.

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Reuters reported a week ago that Putin was the one who spiked the peace deal.

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I hope you didn't believe Reuters.

Putin and Lavrov negotiated the Minsk protocols in 2015 which NATO has simply ignored.

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The name Bill "on your knees" Clinton comes to mind as one source of the West movement to destroy Russia...

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The collective West had repeatedly, for months, publicly spoke about using nuclear weapons...including puppet Zelenski who paraded around Germany in February that he's getting nukes for Ukraine. Russia is responding to this talk.

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I do not know what city you live in it may be Moscow or Beirut or Washington DC.

I have a great conspiracy theory.

This a coup. Ukraine want Russia back into its orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine

Scotland, Ireland, Sweden , Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia Latvia, Lithuania, Finland ,most of central Europe and European Russia is Ukraine.

The USA is simply a USEFUL IDIOT. I live in Quebec . We speak in a secret code and that is what my local daily tells me. This ain't Michigan and we fly the maize and blue.

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Notice one thing they are all Full Democracies and the United States which claims to champion democracy is a flawed democracy according to Hoyle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

except for Russia and the part of Ukraine today which is under occupation.

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Now that we know nukes are fake, you might want to stop boasting about ur work in nuclear arms policies.

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Who says nukes are fake?

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I find this mathematician’s theory contradicted by people who were eye witnesses to nuclear explosions or who have far better credentials.

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Who ever said they saw a nuclear explosion is either lying or stupid. Believe whatever you want. Satan is expert at crowning prideful cowards.

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Riiighgghhhtt.. and the earth is flat and the moon landings were faked by Stanley Kubrik. You really should study more physics and the calculus.

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I studied physics for 50 years, and got paid to do physics. If you think the earth is flat, you need to study nature. I’ve a masters degree in physics from Columbia in NYC. You my friend are sadly misinformed.

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