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Somaen posted:What do you mean? He's a Yale educated liberal with a program that was "let's adopt policies of EU countries, like Estonia which is not very rich but it's well taken care of" - that's a quote from memory In 2014 Navalnyi was pro-Crimea annexation: https://ukraineworld.org/articles/opinions/what-does-aleksey-navalny-really-think-about-ukraine-crimea-and-donbas He isn't pro-west/EU, he is anti-Putin. How much he would actually do to work with EU, not undermine it like the current regime, remains to be seen.
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Well, he could try starting with one where randomly attacking neighboring countries every 5-10 years and annexing parts of them is strictly "a bad thing that needs to stop", not something you might do if internal politics show that it isn't too large dip in the percentages. That sandwich quote is damning enough because he clearly does not rule out wars of aggression as a popularity boost, if he/someone in Russia cooks up a good enough excuse and there is an opportunity to do so. Exactly the same imperial poo poo Russia is already doing, and has been doing since 18th century.
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Dec 6, 2022 17:58
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Somaen posted:
The problem with your argument is that North and Eastern Europe* countries bordering to Russia aren't ever going to rally behind someone who has historically been OK with the wars of conquest and belittling the sovereignty of the bordering countries. Yes, we have seen those people and it always ends up the same way. Unless Russia provides a leader that actually has an agenda to stop those land-grabs, reforms the country, and ends the constant openly aggressive policies, including social media influence and hostile investments* towards its neighbors, it does not matter what that person's internal policies are. EDIT:* Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Dec 6, 2022 21:21
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Arzachel posted:
Do like us Finns do, and throw some boiled macaroni in it and call it "Italian salad", to massively annoy the Italians.
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Mr. Apollo posted:I can see why the death toll is so high. It happened around 4:15 AM and I've seen 2 videos on the BBC so far of 8 - 10 storey newish looking buildings in Turkey completely collapsing. Yeah, the city of Kahramanmaras looks like it was recently liberated by the Russians. I am actually really proud of both Finnish and Swedish governments that it took them less than 12 hours to declare that they would help, no decency from Erdogan, or paybacks expected or required.
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Feb 6, 2023 21:53
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So Finland finally does the welfare trick where we declare a war to Norway on a Norwegian bank holiday morning, and surrender the same afternoon demanding to be fully annexed. EDIT: Shame that the Danish went with Yugoslavia, we could have had a sweet "No Sweden" Union going on. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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No surprise that the current residents of Nevanlinna are throwing a hissy fit over naming conventions used by their neighbors.
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May 10, 2023 19:39
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steinrokkan posted:Rename Russia to Temporarily Occupied Greater Mongolia ... and the Republic of Novgorod. 
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May 10, 2023 20:43
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Latvia deserved it. As did Canada with the gold. Germany was good but underdog story goes only so far. Unlike the Finnish team, the only reason they got to die in the playoffs was because there were enough "also participants". Absolutely an egg of a team from out national hero.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:01
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Mokotow posted:What was this now? Only sport I know is pierogi all you can eat championship Ice Hockey is a thing in Eastern Europe, be all that "I do not follow plebeian stuff" if that floats your boat.
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Jun 2, 2023 22:24
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Dwesa posted:Polish bus route drops ‘devil’s number’ after Christian protests We used to have flight 666 straight to HEL (from Copenhagen) but some sourpuss at Finnair cancelled that route.
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Jun 15, 2023 13:18
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Everything about Batka's recent successes baffle me. Since 2022 February he has been very effective and politically successful dictator by contrast because he does nothing, and gets almost nothing done by others. At least if you look at it from a foreigner's viewpoint.
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Jun 26, 2023 18:02
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Shouldn't these type of changes in Poland make Orban at least somewhat worried that his little benefits scheme against EU is in danger of crapping out, or at least make him ease on the "openly on the Russian's side on the war"-politics?
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Jun 27, 2023 16:23
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Anne Frank Funk posted:What’s funny is that they are also the strictly no bugs eating party Isn't bug protein the "wonder ingredient" that makes animal food actually nutritious, instead of being 50% bone meal and other fillers?
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Oct 16, 2023 19:17
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mmkay posted:A prime example of why giving women the right to vote was a wrong idea Maybe he really needed that Makita Trimmer but at the end was "no, still too expensive and I don't have battery for it anyways".
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Oct 16, 2023 20:04
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Oracle posted:You will take Minnesota over our dead, lutefisk-ridden bodies! I think the offer was to move all Finns who could escape to Alaska should USSR manage to fully occupy and annex the country. Offering Minnesota instead is just unnecessary cruelty.
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Oct 25, 2023 18:14
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OddObserver posted:EU is in fact a defense pact, among other things, but it's unclear if it would be able to defend itself w/o American help.. . EU defense clause has not been tested and its such a great protection that both Finland and Sweden decided that it isn't going to cut it when Russia lost its mind. The central problem is that there is no clear definition of "aid and assist it by all the means in their power", so "yeah we cannot afford to send anything and since we weren't attacked we cannot legally mobilize our troops so here is a sea container full of expired rations" is technically aiding by all means available.
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Nov 14, 2023 20:05
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Isn't he the crackpot who openly supports Putin even against the wishes of his own party?
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Mar 16, 2024 18:18
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Russia has been an rear end towards Islamic population also in other places, including their own soil, so it wouldn't be a surprise that ISIS or some other group under the umbrella is actually responsible.
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Mar 22, 2024 22:45
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Mokotow posted:
...All of it? With maybe excluding the of parts that until world wars were directly parts of Austria or Italy. And that is a big maybe.
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Apr 4, 2024 18:04
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Torrannor posted:By the way, what's with the invasion of sci-fi Clinton avatars? Someone bought them en masse to more than 30 regulars at the GBS Ukraine war thread as a punishment for being mean to the glorious Russia, and kept rebuying them if someone tried to switch back.
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Apr 5, 2024 11:08
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Cuisine wars are the stupidest arguments. Putting a pineapple in a pizza might be a war crime in Italy but who cares, the entire Nordics are enjoying the pepperoni/chicken, pineapple and blue cheese pizza because it works. What are the Italians going to do about it, write an angry letter to EU and try to ban it? EDIT: And pineapple is ananas, its not from pines, its not an apple, and it should not be named universally as pineapple because some drunken hicks from Southport UK though that it kinda looks like something that came out from a pine tree.
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes, if you want to collect money rather than decrease the traffic speed in dangerous areas One could also improve the highway infrastructure to reduce the accidents but oops, if you don't live within the daily commute distance of the capital your concerns are invalid. At least that's how it goes here in Finland. 150+ km from Helsinki the highway infrastructure turns aggressively 1980's unless its a single-digit highway.
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