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Russia would never nuke Ukraine to begin with
Mostly because that's useless. Ukrainian weapon production and economy is located in Europe. Ukraine is basicaly western PMC now.
If nuclear war starts, nukes would be falling on European cities and facilities, not Ukrainian.
Time always was a propaganda leaflet.
Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"
two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health
And their names are never called.
That number would inevitably lead to tons of videos with piles of corpses and cities covered with dead.
Like ones that appear when west-backed Julani killed Alawites. But there is almost no such content - only rumors, unnamed sources and documents no one bother to check.
Which also refer to unnamed sources and "U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency"(read CIA)
No one sane is expecting a war between them any time soon.
Ukraine and Russia were same country like almost forever. No one sane was expecting a war between them.
Don't underestimate ability of polititians to screw things up.
It actually sucks. The worst video platform in Russia. VK Video and Dzen are way better.
Ah. Here in Russia there are many things that are not considered risky:
swimming in the ice hole in frozen river
eating like everything from nearby forest
driving without seatbelts
not going to doctor when it hurts
While one most likely will go away with it, these things still can be deadly.
Is it a sarcasm? We have tens of people dying from mushroom poisoning each year. Usually with stories like "grandma fried some mushrooms, whole family died, dad in coma".
I am just Russian who live in Russia and have some local context here. You are free to call me a troll, but I think you are just devaluing opinions that you don't like.
At least I can speak about local mushroom eating traditions and dangers from first hands - I do it from childhood.
There is one basic rule to survive: not sure(like 100% absolutely sure) - don't gather.
As an active mushroom hunter (living in Russia), can confirm that it is likely. Mushroom gathering is extremely popular here, so experienced mushroom hunters are looking for second and third tier mushrooms, which are not that edible and have nasty mimics. So there is a moment when you confuse a champignon to a death cap, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis(summer stump mushroom) to Galerína margináta(deadly as the death mushroom), or parasol mushroom to fly agaric. Especially if you have bad eyes.
Source: mushrooms in my stomach that I gathered and ate today.
Frameworks bad Yeah cool!
We use html and css sooo hip!
We use jinja wait.. what?
and self-made file-watching static generator that uses python and css-generator
Are you kidding me? That's the real good case of NIH syndrome.
Ask the people living in Georgia, Ukraine, and occupied Chechnya about how much "restraint" Russia has shown them.
Actually people from Chechnya are fighting for Putin now. And the government of Georgia resist attempts to draw it in war with Russia like crazy, so they also appreciate the peace with Russia.
Russia losing its political objectives in Ukraine is not an existential threat to Russia so there is no reason they will escalate to nukes.
Actually if Putin thinks that it's an existential threat, he WILL use nukes, no matter what other people think on this matter
Would you deem tweets that encourage donations toward Ukraine's military defence to be "promoting war"?
Actually this is promoting war. Because if you are donating to someone who is at war, you are participating in this war.
Some people just think that Russians will never come and ask them why did these people give money to kill their brothers.
Also it works like a promo. First you are supporting someone with tweets. Then you are sending money. Then you are sending weapons. Then they send you to the battlefield, because You know, it's very important to support Ukraine.
Still less than 150m/day
This version is very convenient.
If Russia loses the war then it was false flag attack by Russia. Russia will pay.
If Ukraine loses the war, then it is terrorist nazi state, who fooled Western governments and blew up German Infrastructure. Ukraine will pay.
Either way it's not US elites blowing up they allies' infrastructure to capture EU gas market and to increase dependence of EU from US.
how much is the life worth of six conscripted Russian soldiers in an APV killed by an NLAW?
Mobilized Russian soldier's family gets about 65k usd after soldier's death. The price of MTLB is about 50k usd.
So the whole pack costs about 500k USD(including ammo, personal equipment, etc).
In 2021 Russia's profit of selling gas to EU was about 150 millions of dollars per day.
You do the math.
The action prevented gas shipments to the EU so it could have been used as an excuse by Russia to weaponise gas supply
Russia is increasing LNG gas supply after this pipeline break. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-boosts-ln...
The profit from EU gas market actually covers any possible costs of any EU involvement in Ukrainian crysis, except maybe nuclear strike by France.
There are Ukrainians and Ukrainians. There’s no other people that want “other country”.
This is very untrue. East Ukraine is mostly Russian ethnically. Even languages are different in Western and Eastern Ukraine.
Before 2014 some guys who are now in Azov Batallion identified themselves an Russian nationalists.
While many things changed since, there are still many people on the East who identify themselves as Russians.
Think about it - Mariupol was taken by DPR troops and Crimean marines. Basically by people who live on territories Ukraine claims its own. Donetsk is shelled
Maybe they just remember their country being bombed by EU and NATO and can see the same patterns in the current situation.
West will be bombed by NATO?
Or what result?
Never in public speech that was intended to be be published.
with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Is a key sentence here. Your points are invalid because none of these actions(even if they really took place, because you know about them from biased source) were caused by intent to destroy Ukrainians as group.
I see you avoided the whole indiscriminate killing of civilians, of which Russians are already in jail for.
Because the indiscriminate killing of civilians is a common thing in wars. It's nearly impossible to prove that killing of civilian was indiscriminate. About jailing - of course you can jail prisoners of war, but it does not prove anything. Ukrainian SBU, like Russian FSB is descendant of KGB. They can get any testimony they need, especially from helpless prisoner of war.
Why does Ukraine have to abide by the Minks agreement but Russia is free to wilfully for years violate the Budapest agreement where Russia promised to not invade Ukraine of threaten its territorial borders in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes?
First, memorandum is not an agreement. These things actually don't oblige you to anything. It's like "we talked, and there are the thing we said".
Second, Putin thinks that US broke the first point of that memorandum by inciting the 2014 coup. Because Ukraine is not sovereign now - it is fully controlled by the West. So old rules are not working anymore.
And third, Minsk agreements were signed after the annexation of Crymea, so Budapest Memorandum was already broken. If you do not intend to follow agreements, you don't sign them or you are liar. You don't say "hey you broke our last agreements so i can broke these".
About this article https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/877224. It's funny that you brought article from 2008(14 years ago), which clearly states that Putin told Bush that he will attack if Ukraine or Georgia joins NATO. 14 years later he attacked and everyone: "look! Putin is liar!". He told you about consequences 14 years ago!
committing genocide in Ukraine.
False. The current actions are not genocide by any means. Even raping of civilians is unproved. Ukraine even fired their human rights chief because of lie spreading https://www.newsweek.com/lyudmila-denisova-ukraine-commissio...
There is no reason for Russias war of aggression other then because they want to capture a country that they claim doesn't even exist.
False. The expansion of NATO to the east, 2014 anti-russian coup in Ukraine, the refusal to follow to Minsk agreements(guaranteed by western leaders, who failed them too) and militarization of Ukraine were the major reasons of the events.
Another false: Putin never claimed Ukraine doesn't exist.
Are the free countries in war with Russia?
Is US in war with Russia? Is EU in war in Russia?
If so, should we already send nukes?
This works perfectly in two ways. Donetsk is shelled for 8 years bu Ukrainian Army, nobody was interested enough to stop it. "naah those separs are shooting themselves"
West shouldn't allow Russia or China to broadcast directly into people's homes willy nilly. My god man.
What will happen if West would allow it? Will it collapse? If not, why censor it? If it will, what's the difference between West and Putin? Both will collapse without censorship.
Telegram channels are big deal in Russia. They are the best source of information about war, from first hands, Russian and Ukrainian.
Don't forget that Ukraine and Russia are very tihtly related, with tons of friends and relatives on each side of a border. You don't need some Western media to get news about rumble on your backyard.