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brnt ◴[30 Aug 22 20:51 UTC] No.32654886[source]▶
Note that in Russian doctrine as tought in universities, the Cold War never ended.
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9999px[dead post] ◴[30 Aug 22 20:54 UTC] No.32654923[source]▶
1. chitowneats ◴[30 Aug 22 21:00 UTC] No.32654986[source]▶
I laughed so loud at this my wife yelled at me from across the house, "What's so funny?!"
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2. romwell ◴[30 Aug 22 21:02 UTC] No.32655027[source]▶
There's no way that comment wasn't sarcasm, right?
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3. mminer237 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:07 UTC] No.32655070[source]▶
Looking at his comment history, no, he looks to 100% believe poor, innocent Russia is fighting a defensive war in which it has been easily rolling over Ukraine.
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4. d0mine ◴[31 Aug 22 04:09 UTC] No.32658279[source]▶
It is not a sarcasm: thanks to a well intentioned but too trusting politician, NATO moved to East and Russia has to fight for survival against vastly superior opponent.

If you are interested, we could look at the map, compare some numbers (weapons, population, media control, the number of countries bombs, etc)

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5. romwell ◴[08 Sep 22 02:22 UTC] No.32760299{3}[source]▶
If you are interested, as a Russian native speaker who lived in Ukraine until 2003 (and has been there as recently as July of this year), I can tell you how the "fight for survival" you speak of is a load of propaganda bollocks, going from primary sources in Russian.
6. 9999px ◴[08 Sep 22 15:22 UTC] No.32766913{3}[source]▶
Why has Ukraine rarely lost power, water or internet? Why isn't Russia destroying civilian infrastructure en masse? Because it's not a war in the same way the US went to war with Iraq, for example (one of the first things the US did was target civilian infrastructure).

You're just a clueless American without the basic background knowledge to see this situation for what it is: a preemptive defensive strike against an ever-expanding, finance-capital-backed NATO.

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7. _kbh_ ◴[09 Sep 22 09:54 UTC] No.32777333{4}[source]▶
> Why has Ukraine rarely lost power, water or internet? Why isn't Russia destroying civilian infrastructure en masse? Because it's not a war in the same way the US went to war with Iraq, for example (one of the first things the US did was target civilian infrastructure).

They have lost all off these things throughout the war at different times.

> You're just a clueless American without the basic background knowledge to see this situation for what it is: a preemptive defensive strike against an ever-expanding, finance-capital-backed NATO.

Yes Russia has to commit genocide again Ukraine, Russia absolutely must rape, torture and murder civilians because of NATO. Russias action lie solely on Russia, Russia is the entity that decided to invade.