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i dare that psycho motherfuck** to touch a NATO country or even Finland or Sweden. Bullies and dictators must be stopped at all costs.

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oh yes, that will be fun. But do you lie if you survive the explosion of an atomic bomb

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Putin's scum, it is very sad americans didn't bomb you when they had nukes exclusively

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i was suspended some time ago for saying that truth
and it was just discussing historical facts

countless lives, even in russia, would be saved

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Everyone gangsta until the snow starts speaking Finnish.

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Hahaha :D
made me laugh :)
By the way, I got a copy of Elex, saw it on your wishlist, do you want it?

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I want to say yes, but my backlog is already overwhelming and growing. I'm afraid I might not be able to even touch it :.

Thanks for the offer though!

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If you change your mind let me know.
You will be doing my a favor in the end.
Soon I will unload my extra games anyway to people.
Might as well give it to someone who made me laugh.

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Also:

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has threatened with charges of treason against Russians who provide assistance to Ukraine. The Criminal Code provides for sentences of up to 20 years for state treason.

So, be careful, folks

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They were talking mostly about financial support, but it's vague. Depends on the form of the protest. There are other charges for peaceful protest usually.

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You are great

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удобно - мы не воюем, но поддерживать врага нельзя))

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это освободительная путинская "операция" от бендеровцев
https://telegraf.by/politika/v-minoborony-rossii-rasskazali-pro-bander-mobili-vo-lvove-v-otvet-pridumali-eshhe-i-bander-smuzi-chto-eto-vse-takoe/

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да, с бендер-мобилей я кекнул знатно, бендеровцы из приднестровских бендер))

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not sure we can say if scammers are from a country or another, scam can come from everywhere, unless they have been identified

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Anonymous started war vs Russia. Good move :) they should blackout whole Russia, so they cant do a sh*t

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on the other hand this would also mean that russians won't be able to get truth about the conflict. i guess official government sites + propaganda media is enough. also russians themselves already started to slow down facebook and twitter. remember about network neutrality the next time your politicians will talk about it.

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better no media than propaganda media

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Anonymous is hackers from Russia, so Biden said. Or was he lying? They interfered in the election and wanted Trump to win again.

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Anonymo are hackers from whole world. Biden said cause hes pus*y and he wanted to win using every move possible, so he called Trump russki agent.

They interfered probably because Trump was president who hold putin and rest of big players on throat, so nobody was trying to make shady moves. Biden is such a pu**y, hes only talking. Look at his age...His last conferency, he mostly not answering questions as 'hes nto ready to answer'...If it was Trump Russia will be already nuked

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Anonymous in the form of a group announced that they would go to war. Not single, but a group. And if they are still from the Russian Federation (after all, in this regard, the Biden administration imposed sanctions, and when Trump came to power, there were also accusations of hacking, which prevented Clinton from coming to power and already imposed sanctions), then it makes sense for them to go against their power, they can take it here, due to the fact that no one dissolved by К9.
K9 is a cyber security service.
Anonymous people can still do this, but if they are those who are on duty, then there is no point in it for them.
Here, apparently, it was necessary to come up with a reason for entering, so they came up with it. But now it turned out a little bad with her, because they did not think that this group would declare war.

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Except wasn't Trump praising Putin's "decisiveness"?

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Anonymous is a collective. There are many different anonymous hacker groups.
Sure there are pro Russian groups too. There is even a cyberwar between diffirent anonymous groups.
But they wont attack the west. Poeting threatened with nukes. That crosses a line for almost all anonymous, western or pro russian,

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You know, as soon as the 72nd headquarters of the Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was disabled, the hacker impact immediately decreased, as well as there were fewer calls from scammers about the fact that money is being withdrawn right now and they need to be transferred to a special account. I'm not drawing parallels, but it's a little weird.
And if we assume that this headquarters could have been behind the influence on the elections, then then it is possible to blame those who are similar in writing the text in the application used for this case.

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Not to mention all the people who deleted me from their Steam "friend" list and social networks.

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there is a new saying in Ukraine i presume
idi na chuj
with them

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Don't worry about those blacklists.
Unknown people who you will never meet.

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Being blacklisted by bigots/fascists is a positive tbh, keeps the trash out of your giveaways without lifting a finger ;D

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Hahaha this is very true indeed.
I am always one for convenience.

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You are being definitely great. Your posts could have ended with full hate to all the russians, (I am not russian, just don't like ethnic hate, anywhere) but you edited this post to write

"If you are from Russia and want to help the people of Ukraine, donating is not advisable. It is better to protest. Donations could be charged with treason."

"No to ethnic hatred"

Just want to say congratulations

PD: Seeing some uptick in blacklists myself too

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Scary how many people get angry about being against a war. Everybody should be against war.
Fu Poeitin and the Russian government.
Please blacklist me too pro Poetin ppl. You don't deserve my presents. Pretty sure my gifts are better than yours. Because well... you were a third world country, and now its worse. Have fun dicks. :)

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i am sorry to see that. since we live in a world where hate is on a constant high and everyone has a voice, due to beeing mobile almost 24/7 it moves the world into a direction of selfishness and an ideology of the next dimension.
i am glad that the world somehow moves togehter in a war against a dictator that we havent seen since the 30´s, but there is also a group of people raised due to false informations in social media, just to hate, beeing controlled easily due to fear, beeing used to raise a false voice of truth....
keep your heads up, all power to the resistance Ukraine!

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While the Russian Ministry of Defense keeps silence about casualties, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has created a telegram channel, where information about dead and captured Russians is published. It is better not to open it if you are a sensitive person.

Was it really worth it?

https://t.me/rf200_now/79

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Was it really worth it?

When was war ever worth it? The common folk forced to die and suffer for the interest of some bunker bitch.

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russia is still hiding the number of dead soldiers. so at the moment this is a useful information for someone

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It's not just "still", it's probably forever (because apparently there's no war happening now, it's peaceful times, and making military casualties public during peaceful times is forbidden). If the world won't end tomorrow, Russia will probably never share its losses while Putin is ruling the country.

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I'm glad that not all Russians share his view or let themselves get blinded by his propaganda.

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its so sad to see all the death... i´m sure most russian solders are the same victims like ukraine... lets hope that the war will end soon

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Sad but necessary.
This needs to be a hard lesson for the Russians to learn, one they will remember for a long long time.
Glory to Ukraine!

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"Sad but necessary." are words used by Putin to justify invasion. I thought it's a good reason to never repeat it.

Love and Peace!

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arent they welcomed with flowers ?
oh my, why ?
friendly neighbors russians

i was arguing some time ago with rusian trols here, how peaceful russia is, that they werent occupying my and other countries, they didnt colaborated with hitler, they didnt attack Poland with hitler on 17.09.1939 etc
i would like to see their faces now, with the whole world getting united against this stupid WAR
shame to live in russia and do nothing

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It's happening, Putin has his fingers at the trigger of his nukes. WW3 is just around the corner. The world as we knew it no more.

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Yep, he's crazy enough to use them.

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mofo needs to be stopped before he does something reckless,

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I highly doubt it will come that far. I hope he isnt stupid enough to touch a nato country cause then its game over.
But the fucker is crazy, lets hope not....

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Это случилось! Сумасшедший безумный бункерный фюрер приказал привести в особый режим стратегические силы сдерживания, т..е. российское ядерное оружие! Похоже, это конец! Он же действительно абсолютно сумасшедший и то что он начнёт ядерную войну уже не вызывает никаких сомнений!

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Таки да, похоже, скоро все будем там, где сейчас Борис.

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интересно по кому жахнут... ставлю на польшу

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То есть вы не спорите с тем, что фюрер глубоко безумен? Неожиданно.

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просто я бы сделал так же

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i guess you would be agree with it?

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maybe, but I don't have data like him

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than you are even worse then everyone you criticize, even if your thoughts would be true.

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Поддерживаю. Можно и Прибалтику, хотя они рядом и надо будет высокоточные малой мощности пустить.

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говорят что украинская делегация решила поехать на переговоры

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ладно ребята , пойду к своим близким, чего и вам желаю <3

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Если бы вы хоть на секунду на самом деле задумались о своих близких, вы бы не рассуждали так легкомысленно о возможности ядерной войны.

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As Sting sings in his song Russians: There's no such thing as a winnable war. It's a lie we don't believe anymore

Hope the Russians (i still believe the majority is against Putin) and the International Community do something about this mofo. He is out of control and needs to be stopped.

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Теперь в роли Гитлера - плешивое бункерное чмo решило поиграть

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Вы путинские фашисты, не провоцировать вас это значит делать что вы требуете, чего никогда не будет

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Безмозглое ватное существо, желаю тебе ехать на Украину, чтобы вернуться в мешке для трупов

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Здравствуйте

Гарадзецкi Аляксандр. Беларус. 32 года. Нахожусь в Беларуси.

Вы меня можете знать, как модератора локализаций Steam (Это волонтёрская должность. Я не представитель компании Valve).
Основным языком моей деятельности является украинский. Также много вложил денег и сил в свой родной, русский и некоторые европейские языки. Давно этим занимаюсь, слишком часто слышал мысль из других стран, что Беларусь является частью России... и получал отказ в сотрудничестве.

Давно развёлся, но в Киеве у меня живёт дочь.
Сначала войны снабжаю мирных жителей из разных городов информацией о безопасных местах, помогаю с методами укрепления их жилья. Также курирую передвижения к магазинам, разыскиваю людей и роюсь в фотографиях погибших. Пока что не потерял никого и надеюсь, что смогу и дальше сохранять жизни.

Успел переслать немного денег. Потом Нацбанк Украины эту возможность отключил. Мне отключили мои украинскую симкарту, банковскую карту. Мировые сервисы отключают от своих услуг. Моих соотечественников ловят и избивают. Родственники обвиняют в происходящем. Случайные люди срывают на мне злость.

За все эти дни поспал, возможно, 9 часов. Очень устал. Устал со слезами на глазах слушать, как мои люди прощаются, потому что боятся.

Здесь есть те, кто обещают «Чёрный список» за то, что я беларус. Хочу дать вам эту возможность. Можете оскорблять меня любым способом. Не собираюсь отвечать на плохие или хорошие комментарии. Мне надо возвращаться к отслеживанию происходящей ситуации.

Я беларус. Много кого добавил в ЧС за агрессию, за поддержание войны, встречается ложная информация.

Тоже много кого не люблю, но войну ненавижу больше.

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Hello

Aliaksandr Haradzetski. I am in Belarus. Belarusian. 32 years old.

You may know me as a localization moderator on Steam (This is a volunteer position. I am not a Valve employee).
The main language of my activity is Ukrainian. I have also invested a lot of money and effort into my native language, Russian and some European languages. I have been doing this for a long time, too often I heard the idea from other countries that Belarus is part of Russia... and they did not want to cooperate with me.

I divorced a long time ago, but my daughter lives in Kyiv.
From the first hours of the war, I have been helping civilians in different cities with information about safe places, helping them with methods of strengthening their homes. Also looking for open shops, looking for missing people, checking photos with dead people. So far I haven't lost anyone and I hope I can keep saving lives.

Managed to send some money. Then the National Bank of Ukraine turned off this possibility. I was turned off my Ukrainian sim card, bank card. World services disconnect from their services. My compatriots are caught and beaten. Relatives blame me for everything that happened. Random people take out their anger on me.

In all these days, I slept maybe 9 hours. Very tired. Tired, with tears in my eyes, to listen to my people say goodbye, because they are afraid.

There are those who promise a blacklist for being Belarusian. I want to give you this opportunity. You can insult me in any way. Not going to respond to bad or good comments. I need to get back to monitoring what's going on.

I am Belarusian. I added many people to the blacklist for aggression, for approving the war, for false information.

I don’t like many people either, but I hate war more.

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This is all too hearbreaking. Have a virtual hug.

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From relatives,
I`ve heard that Ukrainian civilians received weapons for self-defense and bad elements went on rampage to rob and steal from people and shops.

Another part of civil war drama and exemplary "personas".

thanks for sharing, stay safe

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25000 guns...
Yes, it is, more than one car was shot with a family who wanted to leave. The people who took the machine guns thought that they were saboteurs .... in general, the troops have not yet entered Kyiv, but they are shooting at each other
https://pikabu.ru/story/razdayut_oruzhie_grazhdanskim_8868805
handed out without any documents (but maybe not everywhere)

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Забавно, что ты жалуешься на блэклисты, в то время как сам добавляешь туда всех подряд. Про избиения беларусов, и отказ в сотрудничестве из-за национальности — сомнительная информация, не слышал такого ни от кого из моих коллег/знакомых.

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Вы уверены, что добавляете в ЧС за поддержку войны, а не за обратное?

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There are reports of a starting mass exodus from Russia towards other countries, meaning people fleeing from Russia. When you see them: remember the human, people! While not victims of war directly (as in being invaded and fleeing from their lives), it's safe to say that these people also are against the war!

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They are semi responsible for doing nothing.
Germans at least tried to remove hitler.
But i know, they have hot water, a home, sth to eat. No worry, maybe it will pass someday. It didnt, it got worse.
Go into the streets, like in Belarus, they wont kill everyone.

I wonder when steam will block access from Russia.

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If anyone is interested: remember how Bloomberg did an oopsie and posted about invasion beforehand? RIA News, one of the major pro-kremlin media, just did the same thing and accidently posted (and quickly removed, but the Internet remembers everything) a headline which was supposedly meant to celebrate the accomplishment of Putin's plan. The amount of propaganda is so off the charts that even Goebbels would've been surprised.
The article is in Russian, but I highly recommend reading it, so use DeepL (I've heard it's better than other translators) if you don't know Russian.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html

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https://twitter.com/ArubaRandy/status/1497683955746701313/photo/1

One rabid dog hiding 10 meters away from even his closest friends who will at any point put him down and one proud leader of a country who knows most of the rest of the world stands with them.

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I did not want to post here anymore than once, but I feel the need to get something off my chest.

Today Putin has set his nuclear forces on high alert. For those special troops, that is the equivalent to Defcon 2. All the while his PR persons are still spewing things like: "Don't forget that Russia is a nuclear power." and "Russia today is the mightiest of the nuclear powers."

It is happening. The unthinkable no sane human being thought possible for 77 years might be imminent: Putin might drop a nuke. He might drop it on Kiew, he might even drop it on another state other than Ukraine. Hell, who knows what this deranged man is capable of. Noone does.

If he drops a nuke on Ukraine, there is the minimal possibility that the West will not answer with a nuke on Russia. But if he drops a nuke on a NATO state, well, Russia will be nuked to hell. But before Russia will cease to exist, Putin will fire all his other nukes and will wipe out most of the NATO states. There will be countless casualties due to the nukes, but way worse is the Nuclear Winter that will follow if thousands upon thousands of nukes will set off on this planet. Most of humanity will starve to death or die by radioactive poisoning. There will be no sunlight on our soil for at least 12 months.

Now, this sounds like a pretty cliché script for a 1980s cold war movie, but the sad truth is: It might be a very real possibility. And it might happen in a few days or weeks. The planet never was so close to nuclear war than it is now. All because of one single mentally ill man.

I wholeheartedly urge every sane russian who reads this to help organize enourmous mass protests in your country. I know protesting is forbidden. I know that already 5250 russian anti-war protesters were arrested.
But the sad truth is: The future of the world is in your hands now. The West will not send the first nuke (to the Kremlin), the West will not send a small unit with a kill command to Moscow. The West will do everything in his power to not start the third world war.
I fear that the responsibility to oust Putin from office is in the hands of the russian people, who neither wanted nor started this utterly insane war. Because they are the only ones capable of doing so, without starting WW3. And I am truly sorry for that. I wish there was another way.

May you all stay safe.

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I also didn't want to post in this thread, but... Putin is desperate. His lies can't hold up anymore, so there's only one option: Go all the way. We can only hope of which Sting sang about in the 80s... here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs&ab_channel=StingVEVO

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He doesn't even need to launch a nuke, just shoot missiles at nuclear reactors until something pops, which is exactly what they are doing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chernobyl-isnt-biggest-nuclear-risk-ukraines-active-nuclear-power-plan-rcna17697

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Hi,

fyi,
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/cCxdU/the-amount-of-hatred#Kmoy1Kb

you have all the right for own opinion and supporting your government external politics.

However you`re not entitled to advise kids to take inappropriate actions, this is gaming community :) share information without HH BS

German Bundestag delivered 5000 helmet to Ukrainians, meaning to protect empty heads. But actual had to assist in stopping the civil war.

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You are an actual idiot with no understanding of international law and politics. There is one place to lay your blame.

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Hi, didn`t your parents educated you to be polite with others?

go educate yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

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let's remember what the American education system teaches about Hiroshima and Nagasaki .... they teach that thanks to nuclear strikes, they managed to reduce the number of victims ...

I am not calling for anything. war is bad
but worse hypocrisy

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I'm afraid that your view of "the West's" role in all this is naïve. My country in particular (I will not speak for others) has used Ukraine as a chess piece in its reckless international policy and is largely responsible for placing its people in harms way. It's shameful, and if any people need to be called upon to protest their government's policy of continuously interfering with and endangering other countries, it is the USA.P Please watch this, you will learn a lot, I promise, on how the "the West" could have handled this situation so much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&list=WL&index=89&ab_channel=TheUniversityofChicago

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Hi, you must check this out to understand events and then speak out

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Sorry I didn't reply earlier. Those are all good and interesting points, but I'd also say that I believe the professor didn't claim that the US influenced or convinced western Ukrainians or Poland etc to lean towards the EU and away from Russia. His maps and charts at the outset make it clear that he is aware of the grassroots feelings of Ukrainians both west and east regardless of western input. What he is saying is that by holding out assurances of future NATO membership and yet never following through on that (and they never will), the US put Ukraine in a dangerous position. Because Ukraine believed it and espoused it willingness to join, further provoking Putin to act, as he had threatened to since 2008 when he made it clear that Georgia and Ukraine in NATO was a redline for him.

Even in the west we know who Yanukovych is and about his corruption. (I did follow your advice and did some more reading on the Ukrainian political scene - there are so many actors - it's mind boggling.) No doubt the Ukrainian people would have gotten rid of him regardless, as I think you are maintaining. But, the participation of the US in that coup, needless or not, signaled Putin and further incensed and provided him another justification to act in Crimea.

I'm not sure how the shift of post USSR countries to the west is relevant to the present conversation. Many of these countries were European before Stalin marched in and grabbed them. It's natural that they would want to return to European alliances once the USSR collapsed. No persuasion was necessary in these cases or is being put forth. It's worth pointing out that Russia was also in collapse and much to weak to do anything about it at the time. Nor did these countries touch it borders, with the exception of the Baltics, which are not considered as important or as strategic to Russia's security as Georgia and Ukraine.

I don't think that Mearsheimer thinks highly of Putin. (Though I'm not sure what you meant by that.) It's his job to think as dispassionately and realistically as possible about his motivations, strengths and weaknesses in order to find ways to effectively counter him. The fact that he is a dictator and a thug is not relevant - finding ways of stopping him from doing harm is. While my country resorts to saber rattling and moral posturing, meanwhile, Putin has planned his moves very carefully - especially vis-a-vis his partnering with China and Europe's dependence on his energy.

I fear that Ukraine may be split in two before this over. I hope not. Unfortunately, it's now too late for Ukraine to solve this on their own as I think you would've liked. I hope that my country will see the light and do something constructive for a change, like helping to promote a cease fire and bring Ukraine and Russia back to the negotiating table.

I thought I'd share this, because not all news media in my country are shills for political interests, and this lady has some very good points to make.

https://youtu.be/MY3JsqVR_04

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My heart goes out to all those who are living through the nightmare that is and continues to be the result of oppressors.

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Создано Telegram-канал: «Груз 200»
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Центр противодействия дезинформации при СНБО Украины сообщает контакты для россиян, разыскивающих родственников среди российских военных

Сотни россиян разыскивают своих родственников среди ворвавшихся в Украину военных. Ведь их семьи должны знать, где их муж или сын, которого Путин отправил в Украину.

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Сотні росіян розшукують своїх родичів серед військових, які вдерлися в Україну. Адже їх сім'ї мають знати, де зараз їхній чоловік або син, якого Путін відправив до України.

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I am sad, this thread is so full of hate, intentional misunderstanding, uninformed accusations and insults (and was also followed up by a thread of a banned user). I can understand, that this is a situation, which creates a lot of emotions, but I really would like y'all to focus on the fact that civilians are suffering. No matter what position you might take (there are arguments on both sites, even though war can't ever be "good" to my mind), you should always think about the people, who have nothing to do with it and still being heavily involved.

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Российские оккупационные войска, ведущие захватническую войну против украинского народа, обстреляли из «Градов» Харьков! Погибли десятки мирных людей!
«Харьков только что массировано обстрелян из «Градов». Десятки погибших и сотни раненых. Этот ужас должен увидеть весь мир.
Кроме того, поезд Полтава-Харьков стоит сейчас на платформе и не может отъехать из-за обстрелов. Машинист скомандовал всем лечь на пол. В поезде женщины и дети.»!
https://ua.news/ru/vydeo-harkov-obstrelyaly-yz-gradov-pogybly-desyatky-lyudej/
https://www.svoboda.org/a/chto-proiskhodit-v-donbasse/31715636.html

"Используются неуправляемые ракеты и бомбы, будет больше жертв". Руслан Левиев из CIT об обстреле Харькова фугасными авиабомбами и "Смерчем"
https://d3olbu2cl74039.cloudfront.net/a/ispolzuyutsya-neupravlyaemye-rakety-i-bomby-budet-bolshe-zhertv-ruslan-leviev-iz-cit-ob-obstrele-harkova-fugasnymi-aviabombami-i-smerchem/31728363.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEhMaHfYu2U

Это с такими фашистскими оккупантами, международными террористами и военными преступниками надо вести переговоры?!

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Пропагандисты Кремля случайно опубликовали статью о "победе в войне". Российское издание "РИА Новости" случайно опубликовало заранее подготовленную статью. В ней пропагандисты наивно утверждали о победе в войне против Украины. Враги были так уверены в собственной победе, что не убрали материал о ней. На сайте вышла статья об "окончании операции" российских войск в Украине. В материале приводили абсурдные кремлевские тезисы о возвращении Киева в "лоно русского мира", внутриукраинском кризисе и т.д. Мол, агрессор Владимир Путин решил не передавать своим преемникам "решение украинского вопроса".
Также журналисты, подпевая своему президенту, привели искаженные факты по истории, с которыми не согласился бы никто, кроме самих россиян. Они ведь сами себе придумывают историю. Такая статья пробыла на сайте около 30 минут, а впоследствии ее удалили. Однако текст успел сохраниться в архиве, поэтому его до сих пор можно прочесть.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html

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Путинская история такая "история"...для слабоумных свиней, которых сделали с помощью скотовизора - Геббельс бы позавидовал.
Сегодня у них в ООН появилась новая версия нападения на Украину:
Путинские войска напали из-за "самобороны", потому что опасались ядерной атаки из Украины

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Они просто больные и сумасшедшие! Причём не только Путлер, но и вся его шайка международных террористов и военных преступников! Скринь, я уверен на 100%, что Путлер нанесёт ядерный удар по Украине, возможно даже по Киеву, т.к. по сути он уже проиграл войну и этим последним шагом он пойдёт ва-банк, чтобы запугать оставшихся украинцев и весь Запад.
Кстати, Howl at the Moon удар ядерным оружием по Украине и геноцид и уничтожение украинской нации полностью поддерживает, т.к. является ярким представителем сепаратистов ДНР.

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ты забыл добавить отрезок из статьи "Россия восстанавливает свою историческую полноту, собирая русский мир, русский народ вместе — во всей его совокупности великороссов, белорусов и малороссов" , мож хоть белорусы задумаются

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one of my favorite ukrainian youtubers Slidan posted a video with his view of this terrible war. I hope it will be interesting to see both russians and foreigners (of course, there is no point in watching if you support Putin, you cannot be fixed)
https://youtu.be/si1ZdU3wYr8

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final text from a putin tool
translated
"Mama, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I'm afraid. We are bombing all of the cities together, even targeting civilians. We were told that they would welcome us and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves onto the wheels and not allowing us to pass," "They call us fascists, Mama. This is so hard."

nbc news united nations update.

that one hits hard and shines a light

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NWO support thread.

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Closed 6 months ago by cg.