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Looming natural gas shortages has the EU scrambling for solutions

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Re: Looming natural gas shortages has the EU scrambling for solutions

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No idea why you're bringing up Godwin's law here, to be honest...

Not? There is no doubt, that even Hitler every now and then did something right. But of course that doesn't excuse him from being the Monster he was and all the crimes he was responsible for.

Look, I don't approve Trump, but comparing Hitler to him might be a disrespect to victims of Hitler. From my perspective, it's lessening what Hitler has done.

Re: Looming natural gas shortages has the EU scrambling for solutions

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Isn't understandingwar.org run by the same people who drove the Ukraine into this mess? Who were proponents of multiple wars that the U.S. has lost (Afghanistan being the most recent one)? How would we know what appeasing Russia will do when it has never been tried? Not all wars are like WWII. What if this is the same as the Finnish winter war, where Stalin was eventually content with Karelia and some other small par…

The people who drove Ukraine into this mess are Putin and his cronies. I'm quite sure that they aren't running understandingwar.org. That said, the organization does have a pro-US military bias, but works to create neutral and factual reporting. If you don't like their bias, you can double check with a variety of other sources with different biases. For example https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/ does not take a…

you're just repeating Western propaganda copy&paste

US definitely provoked Russia in Ukraine, including the 2014 coup

many people choose to believe Russiagate simply because they can't admit to themselves that Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate

Re: Looming natural gas shortages has the EU scrambling for solutions

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When Ukrainians shell civilian targets in the Donbas, is that not internal strife?

I'm not inclined to see Russian-backed separatist movements as entirely "internal".

I'm not inclined to see American-backed separatist movements as entirely "internal" either, but Ukraine is not as homogeneous as some would have you believe.
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