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Alexei Navalny has died

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Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by matsemann »

cglace wrote: post #144
KingOfCoders wrote: post #93

The (small) upside of all this missery, death and pain is Europe will lose some territory but gain it's own military security after decades of living from the US strategy alignment. Countries like Poland will no longer buy US weapons but increase European defense spending - they fear just like Ukraine that US congress just turns around and will stop delivering parts for F-35s in a conflict [0]. The US lost all it's t…

The US has provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined by a large margin, and the lesson you take away is that the US is somehow at fault. The one bill that was blocked by Congress would be more support than Europe as a whole has provided to Ukraine to date. While I agree that European countries should start to take their defense seriously I don't see how you fault US support of Ukraine.

In terms of % GDP, USA is quite far down the list.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by JohnBooty »

mittermayr wrote: post #48

I often wonder what Russia will be like once Putin is gone. The time he has left can't be very long, so what happens then?

I can only imagine an absolutely massive power vacuum followed by the inevitable power struggle lasting a decade or two.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by miroljub »

merpkz wrote: post #41

So in latest news, last opposition figure in Russia dies together with any hope for regime change while Russia's war effort is starting to get some traction with it's overwhelming man power and Ukraine is forced to cede more territory all while west is busy either with it's in-fighting or comparing each others superior GDP and how Russia will crumble just any day now (TM). Man, are we in for a ride next decade in Eur…

Why does this surprise you? Russia just can't afford another Lenin during the war. Or another Yeltsin.

The last thing they need now is a fight for supremacy, similar to what we have in Ukraine, that would cripple their war effort and benefit only their enemies. The death or one of the opposition leaders may be considered as a small price to pay to avoid the 1917 like catastrophe. Today, with the abundance of nuclear weapons, the stakes for the whole world are much higher than then.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by egisspegis »

cglace wrote: post #144
KingOfCoders wrote: post #93

The (small) upside of all this missery, death and pain is Europe will lose some territory but gain it's own military security after decades of living from the US strategy alignment. Countries like Poland will no longer buy US weapons but increase European defense spending - they fear just like Ukraine that US congress just turns around and will stop delivering parts for F-35s in a conflict [0]. The US lost all it's t…

The US has provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined by a large margin, and the lesson you take away is that the US is somehow at fault. The one bill that was blocked by Congress would be more support than Europe as a whole has provided to Ukraine to date. While I agree that European countries should start to take their defense seriously I don't see how you fault US support of Ukraine.

> The US has provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined by a large margin

This is not true for some time now.

First google result (but there are more charts, numbers and sources): https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

Yet whoever provided more aid is irrelevant, since it's not enough anyway. We, as a world, are observing (and doing nothing, for the most part) fourth reich coming into action.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by belter »

InCityDreams wrote: post #44
profunctor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want to world to do? Russia is already under increasingly crippling sanctions and many countries are funding + arming its opponent in a war.

Leave Ukraine?

You could call it the Munich Agreement 2.0... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by KaiserPro »

richrichie wrote: post #122

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He was the leader of a political movement that was explicitly banned from taking part in elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_of_the_Future

j6 was a singular event, which loosely coalesced around one person to achieve a goal (stop the election being certified, thus "stopping the steal")

at no point did j6 attempt to enter into the democratic system as a party.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by funcDropShadow »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #124
jacquesm wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think anybody thought that it would, but here we are. It is quite amazing how time and again we seem to enable little narcissistic men to gain hold of positions of power. And I can't even really complain because NL has Geert Wilders to deal with right now and his foaming-at-the-mouth band of supporters who believe that everything that is wrong with this country can be traced back to immigration. On top of tha…

Same in Germany, and Germans should know better.

But Germany has a left-wing government. And it is pushing this week to enact a law to prohibit speech that is not extreme enough to be against the constitution or otherwise criminal.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by swarnie »

matthewaveryusa wrote: post #148
KingOfCoders wrote: post #93

The (small) upside of all this missery, death and pain is Europe will lose some territory but gain it's own military security after decades of living from the US strategy alignment. Countries like Poland will no longer buy US weapons but increase European defense spending - they fear just like Ukraine that US congress just turns around and will stop delivering parts for F-35s in a conflict [0]. The US lost all it's t…

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I hate this "Europe" generalisation... Are you talking about the UK, Spain or Romania?

Some have met their spending targets, others didn't suck on the Russki gas pipe.

If you want to say Germany, just say Germany.

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