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    > The only reason why EU stopped buying it [...] > I should have said natural gas, not gasoline. You need to sleep a bit more: "Spain Boosts Russia LNG Imports 84% While EU Urges L…

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    Comment #36134105

    > It's not intended. In current situation more money go to middleman compared to ru Let's pretend those middlemen are Martians. https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/trafigura-s…

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    Comment #36134086

    > This means that Russia can't sell at full price because even those not enforcing the cap aren't willing to pay full price for it (why should they, when Russia's choices of custom…

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    > Nope it’s ad hominem Demonstrate exactly how it's ad hominem. I couldn't care less about you in the first place. You haven't refuted anything I said neither regarding the whatabo…

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    > You realize that 2006 is both before the 2008 denial of the MAP and before the 2014 Maidan Revolution, right? Do you realize that in other thread you complain that certain events…

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    Comment #36042418

    > Yup - they're literally saying that the fact of a tiny fringe group that managed to get involved with the Muj in Chechnya -- is equivalent to saying that Ukraine as a whole (or i…

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    > So all you’ve got left is some whataboutery? The thing that you call "whataboutery" is the basis of the Socratic method that every student who attended Philosophy 101 understands…

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    Comment #36037790

    > That's not a fact. [..] and even the post-Maidan government expressly declared it a non-goal. You're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_anti-NATO_protests_in_Feo... > 2003…

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    Comment #36037707

    > So if a country disagrees with the political situation of a neighbour I see how nicely you downplay the armed coup and the ethnic discrimination against former citizens of one of…

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    Comment #36037548

    Yeah, I've already heard that you don't believe in succesion of power in Ukraine and that it enables everyone in the government to act at a whim of the moment as long as it serves …

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    Comment #36037485

    In other words you sound like an offended Ukrainian who got registered "77 days ago" and who had constantly been denying everything that didn't fit your agenda, including the polit…

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    Comment #36037459

    > Once it was at war with Russia, Ukraine changed its mind again and decided it needed to pursue NATO membership as a goal, for some reason. Your timeline is missing a few importan…

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    Comment #36037397

    > Ah it’s Ukrainian leaders fault that they were invaded and had their territory annexed? Let me remind you what happened in 2014. The Ukrainian leaders of the successful armed cou…

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    Comment #36036782

    The question is lacking historical context of the declaration of state sovereignty of Ukraine from 1990 to be worthy of specificity you’re willing to hear. Welcome to the real worl…

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    Comment #36036682

    Where did I say that annexation was predicated on the fact of joining rather than an intent to join? Next, what was sovereignty of Ukraine predicated on in 1990?

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    > Curious, do you think Russia is to blame at all for violating the terms of the Budapest Memorandum? The Budapest Memorandum was predicated on adherence to all prior agreements Uk…

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    > and the 2008 statement it references was made several governments before the Ukrainian one in power at the time the war began Are you suggesting there's no succession of power in…

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    Let's see, in 1994 Ukraine supports military uprisal in Chechnya and aids separatists and their terrorist field commanders arriving from Saudi Arabia and Middle East [1] in a war a…

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    > https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185000.htm >> We reiterate the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance with the Membe…

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    The US did preemptively invade Panama in the past, at the first sign of General Noriega's shift toward the Soviet bloc, after his soliciting and receiving military aid from Cuba, N…

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    There are no government subsidies and bailouts in a free market, what you see in the US today is exactly the opposite of it: crony mixed economy with overreaching government contro…