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Re: Moscow retaliates against Western sanctions with export bans

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Post by ComradePhil » Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 11:06 AM UTC

vasergen wrote: post #92

ComradePhil wrote: post #40

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Why do you think this war is about NATO expansion? Even though Ukraine drifted to NATO, NATO would never take Ukraine as a member having conflict wit Russia in east of Ukraine and with Crimea being anexated.

Would you be more open if I told you that Bernie Sanders believes the same thing I said: https://youtu.be/o8BJ4FajZzg

There's a reason you only hear from him in the media when the party is trying to get people who could vote for someone else to be kept in the party.

Re: Moscow retaliates against Western sanctions with export bans

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Post by CRConrad » Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 12:17 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #103

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> Curtain 2.0 looks to be forming only around Russia And Belarus.

Different countries today, but the etymology of the name remains telling. Belarus = Byelorussia = Belaya Rus = White Russia.

Well, if you're going to go by what the Russians themselves call stuff in Russian, then Ukraine (or at least a big chunk of it) is called "Little Russia", so... Maybe better not go by that, eh?

I mean, if we were to go by what people call places as a valid indicator for which people the places belong to, then everything from the Atlantic as far east as all of Poland and much of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia used to be called Grossdeutschland ("Greater Germany") as late as in my grandparents' youth... So better not.

Re: Moscow retaliates against Western sanctions with export bans

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Post by CRConrad » Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 1:11 PM UTC

ComradePhil wrote: post #141

vasergen wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think this war is about NATO expansion? Even though Ukraine drifted to NATO, NATO would never take Ukraine as a member having conflict wit Russia in east of Ukraine and with Crimea being anexated.

Would you be more open if I told you that Bernie Sanders believes the same thing I said: https://youtu.be/o8BJ4FajZzg There's a reason you only hear from him in the media when the party is trying to get people who could vote for someone else to be kept in the party.

Well, Tovaritj Phil, even Tovaritj Bernie can be wrong some times.