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29.03.2022, 11:33
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | St Moritz definitely | | | | | OMG, Cyprus.....this is truly WW3 /s
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29.03.2022, 12:06
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | OMG, Cyprus.....this is truly WW3 /s | | | | | Apparently Dubai is the go to destination at the moment. Apparently rules have been simplified for real estate ‘purchases’.
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29.03.2022, 13:38
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | the russian federation is a very multicultural country already so they probably see no need to replace their own people. | | | | | I don't think you got my point. Or are you not having term "regret" in your vocabulary?
I know that Russia is multicultural.
Multi-Kulti is just one of the ways for a nation (Germany in that case) to cleanse itself of sick attitudes (Übermensch, Chosen Nation, all that shit).
My point was - Russia is never saying "we regret, we're sorry, we were wrong" and following that attitude is never introducing any system that will make sure, that the future will look better than the past.
For Russia in the current case - change the system, so there are no more extremely corrupted people at the top that are stealing from regular citizens on extreme scale. Poor people are easier to manipulate, because they can focus only on basic existential needs.
P.S.: I know that corruption is everywhere. But it is about the scale of corruption.
A riddle: why are you not afraid of receiving post packages into the milkbox in Switzerland, even though it is not lockable with a key?
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29.03.2022, 14:53
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? Russia has decided to "drastically reduce combat operations" around the capital Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, its deputy defence minister says https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60890199 | 
29.03.2022, 15:09
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | maybe this is true if you consider the west to be the "whole world". china and india alone make up ~35% of the worlds population. | | | | | Yes, and a very large part of the other world would very much like to live in the western part of the world...the level of hypocrisy is astonishing.
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29.03.2022, 16:01
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Yes, and a very large part of the other world would very much like to live in the western part of the world...the level of hypocrisy is astonishing. | | | | | I think we are slowly coming to the point in discussion, where we will hear we're wrong, because "not every person wants to be free and to be not extremely robbed by its government. That's just wish or way of thinking of these westernised, brain-washed people".
Freedom to speak and choose and earning fair salary. Are these objectively positive factors of life or not?
If your answer is yes, then: https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-li...by_country.jsp
If not, please let me know. I am really interested to discuss that.
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29.03.2022, 16:02
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | The only thing we know with any certainty is that the Russians lie, repeatedly, without remorse.
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29.03.2022, 16:02
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Some good news in recent days: Russia reducing their military activity and also seeming to drop some key demands during negotiations. Hopefully this is real progress and not just stalling tactics to re-group/re-deploy.
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29.03.2022, 16:04
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | The only thing we know with any certainty is that the Russians lie, repeatedly, without remorse. | | | | | exactly. it's hard to take anything they say at face value when they had the bold-faced cheek to say we're not going to invade while massing a huge force on the border of ukraine (and denying any war when there was clear evidence of invasion/fighting in multiple parts of ukraine).
even if they are just lying, it might still be good news in that they might have determined that seizing the capital is impossible and have scaled down their objectives.
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29.03.2022, 16:09
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | exactly. it's hard to take anything they say at face value when they had the bold-faced cheek to say we're not going to invade while massing a huge force on the border of ukraine (and denying any war when there was clear evidence of invasion/fighting in multiple parts of ukraine).
even if they are just lying, it might still be good news in that they might have determined that seizing the capital is impossible and have scaled down their objectives. | | | | | as soon as UA military liberated Irpin', russians "decided" change tactics. | 
29.03.2022, 16:12
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | as soon as UA military liberated Irpin', russians "decided" change tactics.  | | | | | "Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction."
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29.03.2022, 16:15
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | exactly. it's hard to take anything they say at face value when they had the bold-faced cheek to say we're not going to invade while massing a huge force on the border of ukraine (and denying any war when there was clear evidence of invasion/fighting in multiple parts of ukraine).
even if they are just lying, it might still be good news in that they might have determined that seizing the capital is impossible and have scaled down their objectives. | | | | | They have destroyed the capital, and many other cities. When it comes to reparations and rebuilding does anyone expect them to participate? No doubt the sanctions will prevent them from doing so.
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29.03.2022, 16:19
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | They have destroyed the capital | | | | | Well, not really (yet).
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29.03.2022, 16:31
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | They have destroyed the capital | | | | | what capital? | 
29.03.2022, 16:41
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | They have destroyed the capital, and many other cities. When it comes to reparations and rebuilding does anyone expect them to participate? No doubt the sanctions will prevent them from doing so. | | | | | No, they probably won't participate, because it would mean that Russia made a fault and they regret that fault. And, as it is obviously know, Russia is never wrong *epic anthem kicks in*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2iO-tNtwWo | 
29.03.2022, 16:50
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | "Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction." | | | | | Its called: “strategic withdrawal”
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29.03.2022, 17:08
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Its called: “strategic withdrawal” | | | | | To previously prepared positions. Hopefully that'll be their barracks in Russia.
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30.03.2022, 06:40
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Russia has killed civilians in Ukraine. Kyiv’s defense tactics add to the danger. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...sia-civilians/ Increasingly, Ukrainians are confronting an uncomfortable truth: The military’s understandable impulse to defend against Russian attacks could be putting civilians in the crosshairs. Virtually every neighborhood in most cities has become militarized, some more than others, making them potential targets for Russian forces trying to take out Ukrainian defenses.
Over the past month, Washington Post journalists have witnessed Ukrainian antitank rockets, antiaircraft guns and armored personnel carriers placed near apartment buildings.
“If there is military equipment there and [the Russians] are saying we are launching at this military equipment, it undermines an assertion that they are attacking intentionally civilian objects and civilians,” said Richard Weir, a researcher in Human Rights Watch’s crisis and conflict division, who is working in Ukraine. | The following 2 users would like to thank vushka for this useful post: | | 
30.03.2022, 06:52
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine? | Quote: | |  | | | Russia has killed civilians in Ukraine. Kyiv’s defense tactics add to the danger. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...sia-civilians/
[I]Increasingly, Ukrainians are confronting an uncomfortable truth: The military’s understandable impulse to defend against Russian attacks could be putting civilians in the crosshairs. Virtually every neighborhood in most cities has become militarized, some more than others, making them potential targets for Russian forces trying to take out Ukrainian defenses.
Over the past month, Washington Post journalists have witnessed Ukrainian antitank rockets, antiaircraft guns and armored personnel carriers placed near apartment buildings. | | | | | "I am very reluctant to suggest that Ukraine is responsible for civilian casualties, because Ukraine is fighting to defend its country from an aggressor,” said William Schabas, an international law professor at Middlesex University in London. “But to the extent that Ukraine brings the battlefield to the civilian neighborhoods, it increases the danger to civilians.”"
Yeah, that's generally what happens when you are defending your homeland from an unprovoked aggressive invader and fighting heavily from within cities. There is almost no choice to fight like this and of course the risk to civilians is increased... but then Russia were already shelling sensitive civilian areas, including hospitals etc where no military equipment is based, so it's a bit of a moot point.
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30.03.2022, 07:10
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| | Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?
Putin's Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He's Holding Back. Here's Why https://www.newsweek.com/putins-bomb...es-why-1690494 Asdestructive as the Ukraine war is, Russia is causing less damage and killing fewer civilians than it could, U.S. intelligence experts say.
"I know that the news keeps repeating that Putin is targeting civilians, but there is no evidence that Russia is intentionally doing so," says the DIA analyst. "In fact, I'd say that Russian could be killing thousands more civilians if it wanted to."
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