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Old 06-13-2022, 10:32 AM
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Not justified. I believe it is tied to denying Ukraine the tremendous economic potential of the Donbas.
Thanks. I was a little surprised by your previous post, which seemed to be asserting reasons to view Ukraine as having become a 'puppet' of the US. This is a key point in Russia's view that Ukraine had become a dangerous threat to them.

On edit: make that Russia's 'professed' view that Ukraine is a threat to them. I don't think they actually believe it, and the actually reason they invaded Ukraine was to seize it, because Great Russia *should* own the Ukraine. For now, they are only getting to seize part of it, it seems.
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Old 06-25-2022, 08:56 AM
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The return of industrial warfare.

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Old 06-25-2022, 10:38 AM
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Return? Massed artillery has been a mainstay of Russian/Soviet doctrine for a century.
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Old 07-24-2022, 03:23 PM
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NPR deactivates the MUTE button.

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Old 07-25-2022, 06:50 PM
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Sunflowers for sumbitches.

'Sunflowers planted for Ukraine outside Russian Embassy were ripped out of the ground — so activists replanted'

https://www.rawstory.com/russian-emb...ource=Connatix
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Huh? It's an Associated Press piece reposted by NPR. Do you really think that NPR is muting people they disagree with?
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Old 07-26-2022, 11:48 AM
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Let's party like it's 1973!

Ruspig pilots meet the SPAAG Gepard with it's twin 35mm guns.

Bye, bye Ruskie helos and Sukhoi 25s.
You now fly plows

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Who is Alexander Dugin, the high priest of a virulent brand of Russian nationalism?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/21/europ...ntl/index.html
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Old 08-23-2022, 08:59 AM
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It remains to be determined whether the death of Dugin's daughter was intentionally strategic or collateral. Either way it should pucker some formerly securely comfortable Russian patriot assholes waiting for the next blow, which is inevitable.
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/e...ia-ukraine-war
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Daria Dugina's assassination could spell trouble for Putin's allies in Russia https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/11190...8&f=1119039271
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