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darebak

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    Comment #32294438

    100 present day South Koreans will have 6 great-grandchildren total. That's an extinction level event. Ofcourse if the current trends continue.

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    Comment #31258757

    The largest country in Europe is not European? The EU doesn't have the monopoly on being European or European values.

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    Comment #31258747

    And those countries were very much economically interdependent.

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    Comment #30818592

    From what I remember from school, both Slovak and Serbo-Croatian (maybe all Slavic languages?) have this thing where "R" is behaving kinda like a vowel but it's not a vowel. Can't …

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    Comment #30637507

    So those that spread hate against Russians can now just say they are calling for violence against the Russian government. It's a cop out.

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    Comment #30599547

    Not true.

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    Comment #30511972

    Who started burning books in Cyrillic, firing Serb people from government jobs, fighting in the streets and killing those Croats that were for peace at the start? Whose president r…

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    Comment #30511919

    Donetsk and Lughansk also declared independence years ago, only now is Russia doing something other than financial/military support.

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    Comment #30511878

    This is so false that I don't know where to begin. Maybe it's best at the end, when in 2004 after all the wars, when UN and NATO troops were actually stationed there, a pogrom of a…

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    Comment #30511748

    I can't open it.

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    Comment #30511733

    There most certainly is a country of Belarus, just like there's the country of North Korea. And 60% is not that much to be honest.

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    Comment #30511721

    It's not cynical, it's exactly what was happening. It was the police that was cracking down on terrorists, not army. Army only became involved with NATO involment. And before you s…

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    Comment #30511673

    It's not arguing about nameing, it's about command line of control. Serb Republic ním Bosnia was a completely different entity than the Republic of Serbia. I mean, Serbia even put …

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    Comment #30511631

    And oh, I forgot about this part. >And were immediately annexed by Russia? How independent is that? Who's the new cultural head of these independent republics? They were not immedi…

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    Comment #30511622

    >You mentioned that this cannot be said for a lot of EU countries. Turks born in EU do not have to learn German. Immigration within EU is free from language requirement too. So Tur…

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    Comment #30511549

    It very clearly is an insult against people because of their nationality but I discovered these days that online communities are a lot more accepting of such statements. >I mean, e…

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    Comment #30511519

    Exactly, imperial powers don't care about Albanians, Russians, Ukrainians or whomever, it's naive to think that.

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    Comment #30511502

    >How can you believe this? Which part of Ukraine declared independence? Didn't those two breakaway republics declare independence? >Well, if your country is in EU, the citizens of …

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    Comment #30511442

    >I think you’re still oversimplifying. NATO countries may have been involved in bloody wars, wars which were varying degrees of bad idea, but at least those wars were fought agains…

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    Comment #30511404

    I was using a personal anecdote what happens when some foreigners sanction "our" nation, so I used UEFA as an example. It's a similar mentality when it comes to other kinds of sanc…

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    Comment #30511373

    It's not temporary, or it depends on what time scale do you define "temporary". >“no matter what your government says, nobody supports you” Exactly my point, people at this point f…

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    Comment #30511346

    Maybe not the leader, but around the country itself. Even people that were vehemently against the leader were deeply against "the West". >Start an actual war to depose the leader (…

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    Comment #30511254

    >NATO bombing was not really out of the blue. The head of Yugoslavia was a similar mad man, just warring out of desperation. Nobody said it was out of the blue, but it was illegal,…

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    Comment #30511190

    Mostly yes. That's certainly why the Russian narrative won in Russia and Belarus. Propaganda/media is one of the most useful ways to steer a population, it even doesn't have to be …

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