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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 27, 2022 at 12:45 pm
Is this what Anti-Fascism and Anti-Imperialism look like?
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 27, 2022 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2022 at 1:19 pm by Anomalocaris.)
This is what war looks like. We just chose to not show the receiving end when we have been gleefully and trumphalistically on the giving end. Now we are shocked, absolutely shocked, that there is an receiving end when we are not even on the giving end.
How dare anyone blow innocent civilians up when it is not us and our cronies doing the blowing up!
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 14, 2022 at 8:52 am
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(June 27, 2022 at 12:45 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Is this what Anti-Fascism and Anti-Imperialism look like?
Russia has said so...yeah....but they just might be full of shit. IIRC, The Great Miscalculator himself corrected any such misapprehension of the motives behind his invasion. I guess it was too hard to keep saying with a straight face. Wouldn't want to start giggling at a presser.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 27, 2022 at 6:13 pm
There are unconfirmed reports that Russia is placing tactical nukes in Crimea.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 27, 2022 at 8:36 pm
(August 27, 2022 at 6:34 pm)Helios Wrote: For people who continue to whin about the AZOV Regiment
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-societ...-the-world
But are totally willing to overlook Russia's use of Neo-Nazi Groups
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-neo-nazi...71760.html
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 28, 2022 at 3:36 am
(August 27, 2022 at 6:19 pm)Helios Wrote:
Yeah desperately recruiting troops and giving them outlandish sums of money then dumping them on the front line with no training.Because that's what you do when you're winning a war .... 
Promising to give them money. There's multiple reports, as in hundreds if not thousands, that Russia is reneging on all payments to its soldiers.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 28, 2022 at 6:27 am
(August 27, 2022 at 8:36 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (August 27, 2022 at 6:34 pm)Helios Wrote: For people who continue to whin about the AZOV Regiment
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-societ...-the-world
But are totally willing to overlook Russia's use of Neo-Nazi Groups
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-neo-nazi...71760.html
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