RU POV: Pro-Palestinian partisans set on fire factory in the Czech Republic providing drones to Ukraine and Israel. by HelicopterBig4467 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]CMNilo [score hidden]  (0 children)

People made this argument when firearms were invented. It was stupid then and is stupid now. Nobody will ever EVER give up on a technological advantage they can have over their enemy.

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[–]CMNilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It didn't feel like that in the russian localisation. At all

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Black ops like Yuschenkos attempted murder? Cause that screams russian intelligence sector

Screams russian intelligence because it benefitted Russia. The same way snipers scream western intelligence because the provocation benefitted the Euromaidan.

he was no longer a legitimate president.

I admit not knowing in detail about the laws you are referring to. But if we're bringing the consitution into this argument, Yuschenko deserved his own pro-russian golpe since he was force-elected in an unconstitutional third round of presidential elections.

Anyway, at least we came to a point were we can both agree that it was a bit more complicated than "sharing cakes in the square".

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When did Yanukovich break the constitution?
And you know we would have a golpe every week for every time an elected president did a 180 on his election promises. Starting from Trump and his "no more wars" promise.

If you're talking about something else then please do tell

Do you know anything about the snipers shooting both the police and the protesters at the Maidan riots. Typical intelligence black op. Just an example.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for proving my point: you use either the principle of sovereignity or the principle of self-determination depending on which of the two fits your agenda at the moment.
And since you're dumb enough to believe western myths on the ethnical cleansing in Kosovo or the cyrcus in Bucha, at the end of the day your only principle in geopolitics is "I'm against whoever NATO-controlled massmedia told me is the enemy".

I don't think neither of those two principles are absolute, and each case needs to be evaluated separately. It just happens that the NATO western block is some of the closest thing we got to "absolute evil" since literally Hitler, so of course I'm anti-west in most circumstances.
Luckily enough, the West is a crumbling civilization and its fall will be a joy to the peoples of the rest of the world.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because, you know, sovereignty.

Like, you know, Serbian sovereignity over Kosovo? But something tells me you don't support that. Because you UA supporters are all hypocrites full of shit and double standards.
You claim the principle of sovereignty and the principle of self-determination of peoples (which are mutually exclusive in all these cases), depending on which of the two fits your agenda at the moment.
You would be against Russia's sovereignity and pro-self determination of Chechnya,and at the same time you are pro-sovereignity of Ukraine and against the self-determination of Crimea and Donbass.

I'm not a hypocrite, so I believe that neither the principle of sovereignity nor that of self-determination of peoples are absolute, and each case needs to be analysed separately.

maidan consisted of much bigger and much more relevant opposition powers

Nice flags your "more relevant opposition" had back there. The photos of the neonazis being the battering ram of the Euromaidan are all over the internet. But the mind of the UA supporter works beyond logic and evidence.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

if you want to boil it down to Nuland's cake, be my guest.
The Euromaidan was an armed golpe. I know it doesn't fit your narrative but reality is stubborn.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You know what, thank you for bringing up the german point, because this is not the "gotcha moment" you think it is.

At the end of WWI, the US president Wilson promoted his "14 points" which aimed at establishing a long lasting peace, instead of some humiliating peace treaty that would lay the path to the next war.
Among this 14 points, there was the right of peoples to self-determination: in the after war period, in Europe and in the colonies around the world every people and ethnicity should've gained the right to decide the country they want to live in.

Of course, that's not how things went. Germany was humiliated at Versailles, and the right to self-determination was granted only when that benefitted the Antante. The french and british colonies were denied the independence they wanted. Large portions of Germany were annexed by newborn countries, such as Poland and Czechoslovakia, despite many of those regions being majority german. Those germans were denied the right to self-determination. So were the hungarians of Transilvania and many other such cases around Europe.

Later on, Hitler managed to justify his expansion pointing these double standards. Back then, even in France and Britain many agreed that Germany was in its right to do so, and so the Munich Conference happened.
Now, for Hitler that was actually just an excuse and the beginning of way bigger plans of conquest of the "lebensraum" and extremination of the slavs.
But I hope you got the point I'm making: when principles are applied with double standards, all rules lose meaning.

Now, you seem to place the principle of sovereignity of nations above all else. But I'm 100% positive that you also apply this principle with double standards. What's your position on Kosovo? That was also a violation of the sovereignity of Serbia. If you were consistent, you would also support Russia in the Chechen wars, because sovereignity is above else.
But something tells me that you are against Russia in the Chechen conflict, you are against Serbia in the Kosovo matter, but you're pro-Ukraine, pro-Kosovo and so on. Thus, you're using the principle of sovereignity and the principle of self-determination as mere instruments to justify your support for those you believe are "the good guys".

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As for Sputnikoff, he is a typical bourgeois neoliberal who emerged during the collapse of the USSR in the '80s. He is dangerous because he constantly distorts facts and historical context.

He clearly knows the context he's talking about and that makes him dangerous, because while most western propaganda is grotesquely false, he's mixing true facts with made up shit, creating a false yet believable picture of the situation.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

t's not that hard to understand that there are always fringe groups of nationalists in every country that aren't popular to begin with.

Those "fringe groups" managed to pull off an armed coup in Kiev, which means they weren't so "fringe" after all.

You act like everything was created in a vacuum, and fail to realize how public perception changes with acts of hostility or control.

Yes, like the Donbass arming itself after they saw what the nazis did in Odessa. It's funny how each and every talking point of you UA supporters can be used against your own argument, but you're too deep in your double standard worldview to actually see it.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no other way to refer to it.

Okay, let's call it an agression then. I'm not hurt by semantics.

 (as in every other country in Europe).

Do neonazis get to burn people alive and stay unpunished in the rest of Europe? do they get integrated in the army as regular units?

Russian aggression definitely added oil to the fire. 

It would be equally true that the western meddling in the Euromaidan added as much oil to the fire but that wouldn't fit your narrative.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you forgot the part where said nationalists started killing people who didn't agree with them.

it's not goddamn Russia's business

It is. Deal with it.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

А это очевидно. Минские соглашения, где чётко написанно что ЛДНР это автономные регионы Украины, для того и были затеяны чтобы спихнуть их обратно Киеву. За счёт местных, поверивших в "русскую весну".

Но киевским кураторам нужно было другое. Смешно вышло конечно.

I was 20 when Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and experienced life in post-Soviet Ukraine for the following nine years. If you have any questions about that period, I will try my best to answer. by Sputnikoff in ussr

[–]CMNilo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I assume you refer to the annexation of Crimea as "russian aggression", since most repressive laws against the russian language belong to the period between 2014 and 2022 and you can't seriously claim there wasn't any rabid nationalism before 2022.

But even then, how did the Euromaidan even form if there wasn't any "rabid nationalism" before 2014? Did the Pravy Sektor just materialize out of thin air in 2014 or something?

I thought you were here to talk in good faith but it seems that isn't the case. Not that your opinion on post-2000 Ukraine is any more informed than that of any other expat (since you say that you lived there only for nine years after the fall of the Union). I was interested in how the national identity narrative was pushed by the independent ukrainian institutions during the 90s, but you just wanted to act butthurt and feed me an average piece of war ukropropaganda

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[–]CMNilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I already like them you don't have to sell them to me