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https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-follows-decades-of-warnings-that-nato-expansion-into-eastern-europe-could-provoke-russia-177999 rule 4 violation snipped and quote tags added

Thread continued from here.. As always, feel free to quote from the previous thread. No, it isn't true of most US conflicts. Taking recent examples, nobody relied on Afghanistan for anything, because Afghanistan doesn't produce anything, and isn't even a transit point for anything. Iraq was...

Manufacturing rage with micro-targeting and social media astroturf-roots This discussion is split from the Russia Ukraine war thread where a discussion came up as to what was the harm of RT. The person with that POV didn't think there was any harm in RT as said forumite thought everyone knew it...

In 2014, the US overthrew the democratically elected Ukraine government and installed a neo-Nazi dictator in a CIA led coup. The following Presidents were no better. The current guy Zelenskyy used to be a clown - literally. He's supported by the West because he's completely sold the Ukraine out...

Putin has amassed a very large army on Ukraine's border. They have demanded some very big things. -no more NATO expansion eastward. -no Ukraine membership in NATO. -NATO brings its forces back to 1998 locations. This is some serious stuff. And NATO's response? "**** YOU". Now, if Putin...

"White House press secretary Jen Psaki said intelligence shows Russia is laying the groundwork for invasion by planning a false flag incident, and through a social media disinformation campaign framing Ukraine as an aggressor." US intelligence warns Russia 'laying the groundwork' to invade...

The people who let Putin get away with persecuting Navalny Like Trump, Putin is all about the money. But unlike Trump, Putin isn't an incompetent boob. He gets away with this because the West is more than willing to do business with him.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent, German government says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54002880 Makes it quite difficult to claim it was not the Russian government.

Nothing to see here, only thousands of tons of Diesel spilling into the arctic while those trying to report on it are constantly harrassed. I wonder what Donald and Boris will be told to say about it...

In a surprise move, the Duma has proposed a mechanism to re-set Vlad's presidency to zero, allowing him another 16 years at the top, if he wants it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/vladimir-putin-amendment-power-russia-2024 Putin has reluctantly decided he will have a go, if the...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51719764 And a lot of other things, including making Belief in God official government doctrine....with the Orthodox Churn being a official state religion in everything but name. Also love the outlawing of anything negative about Russia In World War 2, ie...

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/europe/russian-government-resigns-vladimir-putin-reforms-intl/index.html Well that's... a thing.

Should the monarchy be reinstated in Russia now that the USSR has fallen? Other questions: Was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and subsequent annihilation of his family by the Bolsheviks justified? Or did the Romanovs only have themselves to blame? If the monarchy comes back, who...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/russia-bans-jehovahs-witnesses https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/europe/russia-moves-to-ban-jehovahs-witnesses-as-extremist.html How dare these unpatriotic pacifist undermine Putin's desire to sacrifice them for his own glory and greatness?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39004987 Looks like Russia has realised a tad late that it has overplayed its hand in regards to Trump. Must have started to think being so pally with him was in fact going to stop them achieving their goals. I think Putin and his cronies have done their...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/putin-approves-change-to-law-decriminalising-domestic-violence Russia is a terrible country to live in but a great country to die in. Unfortunately all the terrible things that happen there have a tendency to seep out and pollute neighboring...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/intent-on-unsettling-eu-russia-taps-foot-soldiers-from-the-fringe/ar-BBxwbyA#image=5 A complex game of deception apparently designed to poke at the foundations of European unity and to foment chaos in Eastern European nations that can later be exploited.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-ban-ki-moon-gay-rights_us_585187c1e4b0ee009eb4e9b7 Russia Blocks U.N. Council Bid To Thank Ban Ki-Moon For Gay Rights Work I don't get why Russia would expend political capital like that. Don't they want to be seen as more pro-gressive and not...

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/rysslands-sverigeambassador-vi-har-inte-ockuperat-krim It's bizarre that people somehow get the impression that Russians can be trusted. Even when they are trying to reassure people they can't keep themselves from making the most obvious and outrageous lies...

Monday: John Kerry announces a plan to send additional arms to be to the Baltic States. Tuesday: Putin puts in order for 40 new nuclear ICBMs. Wednesday: NATO hold exercises only 100 miles from Kalingrad Naval Base. Given Russia's recent continued incursions into - or close to - NATO member...

Ostensibly as part of it's attempt to reduce road deaths (hint: less booze and speeding, better roads and honest cops) Putin's Russia has banned those suffering from "medical deviations" from obtaining driving licenses. Such "deviations" include transgender people, asexuals, transvestites as...

...being in league with liberal feminists I suppose Putin is factually correct here: Russian Central Bank is not in fact run by liberal feminists in thrall to the IMF. But it is rather amusing to see him being attacked by people even more xenophobic than he is. Russian far-right cranks seem to...

... in Russia. Christian activists gather enough support to launch bill banning abortion Russia Today Synopsis: Just what the headline says + several popular methods of contraception, too.

Vladimir Putin signed a new law—referred to as the "blogger's law"—that will require online writers with more than 3,000 daily readers to register with the Roskomnadzor, Russia's media oversight agency. I am looking forward to how local Putin-lovers will spin this. Probably "necessary in view...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/27/science/chernobyl-capping-a-catastrophe.html?from=promo&_r= “The costs are enormous — the Chernobyl arch alone will end up costing about $1.5 billion, financed largely by the United States and about 30 other nations.” Great move from Russia, they...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/world/europe/in-scripted-surprise-putin-answers-snowden-on-spying.html?_r=0

I'm wondering why the media isn't talking about how Russia's actions have pretty much KILLED nuclear non-proliferation around the world. After what Russia has done and is doing, no nation will ever again give up their nukes or nuclear ambitions. In 1994, Russia committed to respect Ukrainian...

Some people seem pretty worked up about how bad Russia's recent actions in Ukraine have been. But they haven't pointed to anything Russia's done that actually sounds bad to me. Every report I've seen/heard so far just says the Russian army has moved into Crimea, the Russian-populated part of...

Kasparov, who is the greatest chess player of all time (although a certain young upstart may change that in the foreseeable future) has applied for and attained Croatian citizenship, prompted he says by the increased difficulty of living and operating in Russia as an anti-Putin activist...