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Nothing to do with the article. This desync plan was set 20 years ago. Baltic states have never been in good relations with our occupiers.
Oddly the Hungarians, Bulgarians and Slovaks seem to. Stockholm Syndrome?
I believe Bulgaria should generally not be lumped together with Slovakia and Hungary though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria%E2%80%93Russia_relati...
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> Trump term 1 was significantly harder on Russia than Biden before the invasion of Ukraine. To suggest that he is pro-Russia is absurd, has always been, will always be. How? Trump rather infamously stood up at a press conference and said, in effect, he trusted Putin more than his own intelligence agencies. The only real anti-Russia thing done during his administration that I can recall is the Magnitsky Act, but the…
> Trump rather infamously stood up at a press conference and said, in effect, he trusted Putin more than his own intelligence agencies. Words are not policy. Biden stopped selling weapons to Ukraine and removed sanctions on Nord stream 2.
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Out of curiosity, why are you using the old name of Kaliningrad? I thought it was different only in Polish language.
What is old may one day be new again. The two are sometimes just a referendum apart.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius#Etymology_and_other_na...
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Indeed, it came out of the Merkel government, which was notoriously Russia-appeasing, and while popular at the time, it's reputation is rapidly rotting under the gaze of recent history where Russia assaults Ukraine attempting to eliminate the very concept of Ukraine as an entity and independent people, and threatens all of Europe.
Serious question: What brings people to write these comments? It's so tiresome. Always the same twaddle. Merkel was not notoriously Russia-appeasing, she was notoriously German industry appeasing. She didn't stop a business consortium of several large European energy companies from building a new pipeline to Russia, but neither did any leader of the other European countries involved, nor would have any other German c…
This move advanced zero climate change mitigation goals, and strongly advanced Russia's agenda of making Germany dependent on RU energy supply. In fact, switching from nuclear to NatGas significantly undermines climate goals.
Keeping the nuclear baseline load and letting it wane by attrition while allowing a pipeline is one thing. Maximizing Germany's dependence on RU is another.
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> Trump rather infamously stood up at a press conference and said, in effect, he trusted Putin more than his own intelligence agencies. Words are not policy. Biden stopped selling weapons to Ukraine and removed sanctions on Nord stream 2.
I'm going to have to ask for citations for that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine...
(before invasion) Despite appeals from Ukraine, Biden admin holds back additional military aid to Kyiv amid diplomatic push
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/appeals-u...
Biden administration slowed Ukraine arms shipments until his term was nearly done
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/biden-administration-...
Nord Stream 2: Biden waives US sanctions on Russian pipeline
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Serious question: What brings people to write these comments? It's so tiresome. Always the same twaddle. Merkel was not notoriously Russia-appeasing, she was notoriously German industry appeasing. She didn't stop a business consortium of several large European energy companies from building a new pipeline to Russia, but neither did any leader of the other European countries involved, nor would have any other German c…
Yes, it is tiresome. There was this famous Trump video where he opposed NATO members on the question of Nordstream 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JpwkeTBwgs On social media it is spun as "the Germans laughed at him", when the person sitting in the middle opposite Trump is the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary and usually a willing US tool. It was all of Europe together.
https://youtu.be/eKEycjREgPE?si=fIYENA_4E6SQBxpA&t=52\
UN != NATO.
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Out of curiosity, why are you using the old name of Kaliningrad? I thought it was different only in Polish language.
Not the biggest fan of naming things after communists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin He may be most know for being the one signing the order for Katyn massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
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It's Královec in Czech.
Good to know, thanks. It’s reasonable to expect language-specific names, just strange to see it in English (even in German that is a bit weird).
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Good to know, thanks. It’s reasonable to expect language-specific names, just strange to see it in English (even in German that is a bit weird).
Koenigsberg is a somewhat known name due to Euler's bridges problem. Kant also lived there.
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Out of curiosity, why are you using the old name of Kaliningrad? I thought it was different only in Polish language.
Not the biggest fan of naming things after communists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin He may be most know for being the one signing the order for Katyn massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre