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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3180 on: March 20, 2014, 05:03:06 am »

Yeah, the Soviet Nazis only killed a few ten millions. Nothing bad or anything.
I thought we tried to have a rational and logical conversation in this thread, but it seems like certain individuals attempt to sabotage that by posting provocative information without any citation. Did Soviet Union killed your cat or what?  ;)

HA! So it isn't just me who thinks in that way.

By the way, fun fact: РФ (Российская Федерация - Russian Federation) is turns to HA when the keyboard layout switches to english on my laptop.
HAHAHAHAHA - now laughing is patriotic scanding :).
Curiously, "US" the other way turns to "ГЫ". Гыгыгыгыгыгы. :P
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3181 on: March 20, 2014, 05:05:22 am »

Yeah, the Soviet Nazis only killed a few ten millions. Nothing bad or anything.
I thought we tried to have a rational and logical conversation in this thread, but it seems like certain individuals attempt to sabotage that by posting provocative information without any citation. Did Soviet Union killed your cat or what?  ;)

HA! So it isn't just me who thinks in that way.

By the way, fun fact: РФ (Российская Федерация - Russian Federation) is turns to HA when the keyboard layout switches to english on my laptop.
HAHAHAHAHA - now laughing is patriotic scanding :).
Similarly, switching the keyboard layout from English into Russian turns the abbreviation EU into УГ, an abbreviation from the Russian equivalent of Encyclopedia Dramatica, Lurkmore.ru meaning "Унылое говно" (boring shit).
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3182 on: March 20, 2014, 05:08:02 am »

Just a coincidence? I don't think so :).
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3183 on: March 20, 2014, 05:12:02 am »

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By the way, fun fact: РФ (Российская Федерация - Russian Federation) is turns to HA when the keyboard layout switches to english on my laptop.
By the way, fun fact: "HA" abbrevature means 'high-availability'.
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3184 on: March 20, 2014, 05:27:36 am »

Curiously, "US" the other way turns to "ГЫ". Гыгыгыгыгыгы. :P

Isn't that literally "huehuehuehue"?
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3185 on: March 20, 2014, 05:44:47 am »

Current Ukrainian Government looks like imported from EU. Declarations, declarations and more declarations....

 I hope they are doing something to counter Russians and that is secret... But with every day I am more and more confident that they are doing nothing.
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3186 on: March 20, 2014, 06:04:57 am »

GEnts i think we should start and keep Nazies and Soviets out of here, i think most of the Russians agree when i say that they are not the Evil Soviet Opressors they are made out to be and most of the Ukrainians and (propably enough angered Germans, like me) agree that they certainly aren't Nazies and the Rest of the West will propably agree that they aren't imperialists.

Now, if we could please turn the "Your Great-Grandfathers butchered my Great-Aunt of Third Degree in a [Insert Ethnical,Political, Religious Other Cleansing here] YOUR COUNTRY IS EVIL-INCARNATE!" off, that would be really nice.

Now fact is that yes the West has it's imperialists and people who go "MURRRRRICAAA" and Germany and Ukraine has its share of Neo-Nazies and Russia it's share of Soviet-Dudes who would like to see nothing more than UDSSR Flags hanging all over europe, but i think we can all agree that those people are in each country in a minority - Ukraine isn't ruled by Neo-Fascists but by Liberals,Old Guard and Some Nationalists which helped bring down Yanukovich and seem to get the Short End of the Stick now. And please get it straight here Nationalist equals NOT Fascist, Neo-Fascist and Nazi or Neo-Nazi. Those two ideologies while both being seen in the right corner are vastly different and like each other about as much as Communists or Socialists like Anarchists which are apparently considered to be in the left corner.

Next on the plate. Russia. IS also apparently governed by Nationalists with Imperialist Ambitions(that doesn't fit, imperialist seems to be an insult here for many so i strike that out...lets call it a healthy interest that your Neighbours don't join an alliance that was specifically made to defend aganst you). That is not an insult but my observation, otherwise you wouldn't hang around in Crimea. Now while i understand the argument of most russians here that Crimea wanted to go to Russia anyway, you have to agree that there is a sizable minority who doesn't want to and that those minorities couldn't express their true feelings in the referendum or their true opinion due to the soldiers of Russia that suddenly sat next to those Places where you can vote. I am not implying that you rigged the votes but if a guy with a gun stands next to you, while you vote and you know he has a different opinion...well you think twice where to make your cross. And not letting in those OSCE guys to make sure it wasn't rigged didn't help your case at all. tldr; you should have let the Crimeans vote all by themselves without any pressure through those soldiers and letting in the OSCE guys would have been nice too.

Next: the US. While i understand arguments from the Eastern corner that the Americans did the same in Iraq and (arguably) in Afghanistan, that doesn't make what you did in Crimea right. Nor for that matter does it make the Iraq right. The difference which you and i have to see here is that America (in contrary to Russia) is a close ally to Europe. You don't start sanctioning your allies now would you? If China marches right into Siam or Burma Russia would shrug. But if China annexes let's say ( im not so firm with central asian geography so if what i say next doesn't sound threatening enough replace it with something fitting) Khazakstan you Russians would not be very happy either i presume and since it's so close you would threaten sanctions too, no matter how many chinese lived in Khzakastan and wheter or not a part of it would like to declare independence and join China. The same it is with Ukraine. It's awfully close to Europe and if we are honest our shared History doesn't make Europe and Russia the best of Neighbours.

@UR: of course they are doing nothing, they are just the transitional government they fear the anger of somebody coming down on them the moment they do something and it turns out wrong. At that moment everybody will point at them " WHAT YOU DID WAS WRONG AND YOU ARE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO DO THAT" ...so yeah apart from holding tight till the elections those guys won't do anything due to fearing for their own hides.

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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3187 on: March 20, 2014, 06:17:48 am »

As a disinterested observer, I feel the need to point out that as far as Russians - at least those few that I share a family and TV(s) with - know, the reason Russian soldiers had to intervene in Crimea was because the situation leading up to the "honest referendum" was starting to look more and more like outright war. And not even civil. The most prevalent thought I can read from this is that "if our soldiers weren't there, someone else's would have been, or there wouldn't have been a local government left to carry out the referendum". It was a lose-lose situation, in other words, and I can mostly understand from this that Russia/Putin decided they'd rather lose political standing than the lives and livelihoods of the people they could reasonably have protected, to say nothing of the bit of land and the small matter of the military bases in the region that seemed to be rapidly going down the drain.

Thus, my personal opinion, as a politically ignorant but principally curious observer, is that the situation in Crimea was leading up to someone's intervention, and the EU and US are mostly angry at Russia for beating them to the punch. :P
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3188 on: March 20, 2014, 06:30:47 am »

Current Ukrainian Government looks like imported from EU. Declarations, declarations and more declarations....

 I hope they are doing something to counter Russians and that is secret... But with every day I am more and more confident that they are doing nothing.
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3189 on: March 20, 2014, 06:35:32 am »

I did not get that impression from my media. The impression I got was some discontent at the government in Kiev, then Russians. I didn't get the need to invade.
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3190 on: March 20, 2014, 06:38:53 am »

I did not get that impression from my media. The impression I got was some discontent at the government in Kiev, then Russians. I didn't get the need to invade.
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3191 on: March 20, 2014, 06:45:33 am »

I finally made contact with my friend in moscow. Apparently the russian media said that ukrainian Anonymous said that the US government said to the ukrainian government (in a leaked conversation) that they would send US commandos in crimea to pretend being russian and sow dissent.

That's not a viper at that point, it's a fucking anaconda.
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3192 on: March 20, 2014, 06:53:27 am »

I did not get that impression from my media. The impression I got was some discontent at the government in Kiev, then Russians. I didn't get the need to invade.
That's mostly correct, except apparently in Crimea, and the discontent apparently included police forces that are not allowed to use their weapons while hiding behind a row of shields from a crowd that hurls Molotovs at them and turns the streets into a warzone. I am fairly hesitant to believe that any police force would be so hell-bent on following orders as to not start firing back while being partially set on fire, therefore something was definitely up between the actual events and their representation on the newsreel, but what exactly and to what extent is impossible to gauge from my point of view.

If the general sentiment of the people of Russia were anything at all like what got thrown around at our dinner table while the news was on at that point, I wouldn't have been surprised to see volunteer peacekeeping squads marching over the border to quell the chaos in the Ukraine with boot and fire, consequences be damned. :P
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Re: Russian intervention in Ukraine
« Reply #3193 on: March 20, 2014, 06:55:13 am »

also apparently (according to him) svoboda has three ministers including the interior. Is it true?
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« Reply #3194 on: March 20, 2014, 07:24:10 am »

If wikipedia is to be trusted, they have a vice prime minister (by the description seems to be more or less a cushy job), minister of defense (his bio says he's a member of Svoboda, he's also an admiral and former chief of the navy), minister of agriculture and minister of natural resources. That makes four, though only three with portfolio and not the interior. They also have the acting chief prosecutor who now gets to prove his loyalties by handling the matter of the state TV chief who got beat up and forced to resign.

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