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by Dot
Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

https://snyder.substack.com/p/nuclear-war "Our nuclear talk is a way to claim victimhood, and then to blame the actual victims. Once we turn our attention to a hypothetical exchange of missiles, we get to imagine that we are the victims. Suddenly the actual war no longer seems to matter, since our l...
by Dot
Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

(a long thread)
by Dot
Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:10 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/an-especially-dangerous-criminal The article begins with the story of an activist imprisoned for promoting the Ukrainian language and then it broadens into an interesting discussion of historical revisionism in Russian museums: "After the destruction of the fe...
by Dot
Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

@Dot still pointedly ignoring the fact that the Ukrainian parliament recently tweeted in support of Bandera. Do you expect a prize from me every time you say something that isn't completely fabricated? I also didn't quote lots of the other facts you've tossed out in the midst of your sea of misinfo...
by Dot
Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:24 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

This, of course, is why war and conflict can deepen corruption. Ukraine is fighting for its existence as a state, so, naturally, that’s the priority above all else. Government resources, attention, and funding all go to mobilizing for that, which means anti-corruption efforts and rule of law reform...
by Dot
Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:06 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

by Dot
Wed Jan 25, 2023 7:40 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

https://www.vox.com/world/2023/1/24/23569257/ukraine-corruption-officials-resignation-purge "Within Ukraine, too, some of the government’s biggest critics redirected their energies to the larger war effort, according to a survey of 169 anti-corruption experts who responded in April 2022. Around 47 p...
by Dot
Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

Two interesting articles, first one about the rise and fall of a key Ukrainian politician and the second about Putin's "death cult" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/20/trickster-actor-spokesman-spy https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/19/a-military-defeat-is-the-only-cure “radical nationalists a...
by Dot
Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:16 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

One of the two Czech presidential candidates just said that he would break the Czech commitment to NATO if Russia were to make good on its (empty) threats and invade Poland, and not send any soldiers. But that's ok because if Ukraine is a Nazi regime, then Poland is...idk, what's worse than Nazis? W...
by Dot
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:23 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 417
Views: 245566

Re: Run-up to WW3

If you could've come up with actual evidence that Zelenskyy himself and not just some percentage of Ukrainians like Bandera, by this point, you would have. Zelensky: "so for me, look at the fact that Stepan Bandera is a hero for some percentage of Ukrainians and this is normal cool this is one of t...