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19.03.2022, 13:28
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | It never was, that's what you keep ignoring. A memorandum is not a treaty. | | | | | This debate is a total red herring. Russia has acknowledged Ukraine and the principles of sovereignty and borders many times. See the link below for a good overview. Also, the text of the Budapest memorandum (linked in the link) seems pretty clear to me. https://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/eur...ernational-law | This user would like to thank komsomolez for this useful post: | | 
19.03.2022, 13:49
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Some of the images may be disturbing, but appropriate in context, imo. | 
19.03.2022, 13:51
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Well. That didn't work and I can't seem to edit it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjpiJUw-ic | 
19.03.2022, 14:04
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19.03.2022, 14:06
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Well this isn't subtle! | Quote: |  | | | Russian cosmonauts arrive at ISS in colours of Ukraine flag | | | | | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...x=1647664078-1 | The following 4 users would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
19.03.2022, 15:21
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Yeah, good on them. May pay the price when they return home of course, but they've made their feelings clear.
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19.03.2022, 15:31
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Let's discuss what happened yesterday at that "spontaneous" festival that Putin attended and where the now largely known ideas were reiterated. | | | | | Seems there was a break in transmission in the middle of Putin's televised speech; claimed to be a "technical glitch". | The following 2 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
19.03.2022, 15:54
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, good on them. May pay the price when they return home of course, but they've made their feelings clear. | | | | | They're back in six months. Maybe the horse will sing.
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19.03.2022, 16:32
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, good on them. May pay the price when they return home of course, but they've made their feelings clear. | | | | | I'd like to know how they pulled that off! Someone in the Space Agency had to make those suits.
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19.03.2022, 16:35
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | I'd like to know how they pulled that off! Someone in the Space Agency had to make those suits. | | | | | That's what I was thinking. They don't look home-made and I bet they have a team of technicians who help them get into their pressurised suits they use for launch who must have seen them.
I suspect it's quite a few people who may be in trouble.
Maybe the astronauts thinking is by the time they get home, Putin will be out or there won't be a home to come back to.
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19.03.2022, 17:44
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | It never was, that's what you keep ignoring. A memorandum is not a treaty. | | | | | I see that apart from me someone else has been addressed this issue , please give it a rest. | Quote: | |  | | | Seems there was a break in transmission in the middle of Putin's televised speech; claimed to be a "technical glitch".  | | | | | Or is it just another.....uhm, technical embarrassment? I wish it was a form of sabotage but.... | Quote: | |  | | | she was 8 years editor of total lies and propaganda channel, and, suddenly when her chief went under sanctions, she is unblinded
i wouldnt trust any single word of the person | | | | | OK, probably you know a lot more than I do. I cannot deny it crossed my mind too that she's an actress hired to make us believe that there is some sort of opposition there and look, nothing has happened to her in the sense that she didn't disappear or got suicided....
But..having met quite a few open-minded and really nice people from Russia along the years, I don't know, I still have hopes that there are still people willing to sacrifice their freedom over there and there are still people who would risk many many things in order to protest against this absurd war.
She said she will lose a relatively nice life as a middle-class Muscovite. On top of that have her family blame her for everything. I usually give the benefit of the doubt to anyone and I am willing to believe in the good in people. Hope dies last.
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19.03.2022, 19:48
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Ukraine Punk band, Beton release Kiev Calling version of Clash hit to raise money for Free Ukraine Resistance Movement and to raise global awareness.
If you think they could do something more worthwhile, two of the band members are in the Ukrainian Territorial Defence and the third is an orthapedic doctor currently treating civilians and soldiers.
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19.03.2022, 19:51
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Good read, some relevant points. The Obama war game one about retaliating against Belarus instead of Russia is interesting. The World’s Most Dangerous Man
Putin’s Unconstrained Power Over Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal
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19.03.2022, 20:42
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
So yesterday at the Make Russia Great Again rally, a song that seems to redefine Russian borders to include Ukraine, Crimea, Belarus and Moldava. So they mean "make great" quite literally. Remarkable also that the name of the "song" seems to be "Made in USSR". https://twitter.com/SimonOstrovsky/s...Nw2nA-fWw&s=19 | 
19.03.2022, 21:57
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? Here it is - the sum of all fears on Channel 4 tonight !! What if Putin goes Nuclear ! !
Now available on Channel 4 catchup on the link below:
Warning in some places it's like watching Threads, so not for the faint hearted. UK's Channel 4 - What if Putin goes Nuclear ?? | This user would like to thank John William for this useful post: | | 
19.03.2022, 22:09
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | she was 8 years editor of total lies and propaganda channel, and, suddenly when her chief went under sanctions, she is unblinded
i wouldnt trust any single word of the person | | | | | It's either that or a false flag operation. I'm going for the unblinded.
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19.03.2022, 23:13
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| | Re: Who has registered to take Ukrainian refugees.
Ukraine refugees, why the US has allowed so few: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/19/p...ers/index.html
probably more interested in business, selling wapons to Europe?
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20.03.2022, 18:19
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
One day when this is all over I am asking myself what will the Ukrainian Paramilitaries do..?
These nazi (for want of a better word) brigades have been active since 2014 fighting the Russians. They seem to be really ultranationalist to the core and judging by their atrocities a reason (also if you ask me) for Russia to want to stop their farting in church. They are the Gangrape and head on a Pike kind of guys.
What are they going to do when the fighting is over and Selensky asks them to hand over their weapons?
Any bets that Ukraine will erupt in civil war?
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20.03.2022, 19:23
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Slammer, meantime the real nazis are the Russian army who used hypersonic missiles for two days in a row, attacking schools, residential buildings, the population.
There are taking place real atrocities as we speak.
Worry for that. Please. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-...0802572/page/2 | This user would like to thank greenmount for this useful post: | | 
20.03.2022, 19:33
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Slammer, meantime the real nazis are the Russian army who used hypersonic missiles for two days in a row, attacking schools, residential buildings, the population.
There are taking place real atrocities as we speak.
Worry for that. Please. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-...0802572/page/2 | | | | | Calling all and sundry nazis is a But overused. But yes for that too, there is a reason why this has escalated to thermobarics and hypersonic missiles.
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