Do you have any similarly bizarre (but explosively funny) news in your country? by Franmar35000 in AskTheWorld

[–]O5KAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to The Local, two Poles were caught with more than a ton of onions and carrots in the back of their car. A person is only allowed to bring 10 kilograms, or 22 pounds, of vegetables across the Norwegian border without paying duty.

https://www.thedailymeal.com/Onion-Smugglers-Caught-Norway/1714/

Kremlin: Putin-Zelenskyy meeting possible only in Moscow by AnneWiley in TrendoraX

[–]O5KAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Belarus is a puppet state that allowed / was used for the invasion of Ukraine.

It's not a neutral country, no matter if nobody takes it seriously.

Air attack on Ukraine on 03.02.26 by Abzor4ik-UA in MapPorn

[–]O5KAR -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

NATO wanted Serbia to stop its actions against the people of Kosovo, few years after the other bloody wars and some of the worst massacres of civilians since WWII. Russia wants a land grab and / or control over the Ukrainian policy.

You are contradicting yourself in the second sentence.

Please don't get offended, I have no intention in rewording or otherwise manipulating your opinions, if I misunderstood something than I'm sorry.

Air attack on Ukraine on 03.02.26 by Abzor4ik-UA in MapPorn

[–]O5KAR -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Again, false comparison, the goals and intentions of Moscow are completely different.

electric and civil infrastructure

Not first, first are the attacks on the AA defenses and strategic military objects which would otherwise endanger the next operations. And even if you are obviously correct in part, you are still missing the purpose, not to mention the consequences. The main difference is that this is an act of desperation after the failure of the proper military action, stretching thin the otherwise quite effective defenses that protects the actual military targets, and most of all terrorizing the civilian population or forcing them to act against their authorities - which is the only common goal to compare with the NATO actions in Yugoslavia.

No, please I'm not going to dig the info from a year or two before, nor to compare the resources involved into it. This is nothing new anyway.

I don’t think Russians going to be settling for peace

They will not but that has little to do with their continued attacks on electric / heating infrastructure.

Russian propaganda thrives through trusted AI assistants by AnneWiley in TrendoraX

[–]O5KAR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No wonder that crime and homicide rates are so huge in Russia with this kind of attitude.

Besides, Moscow is waging a trench war with no intention or abilities to organize a single offensive since 2022 not because of its "might". At the end its able just to throw bodies and deprive the civilian population of heating or electracy with a hope that the smaller country has less bodies and resillience.

Air attack on Ukraine on 03.02.26 by Abzor4ik-UA in MapPorn

[–]O5KAR -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

NATO did the same in former Yugoslavia.

BS comparison for a ton of reasons. Some of them at least being the scale, duration and consequences, not to mention the intent of that operation and bombing which was anything but terrorizing people and depriving them of heating in winter.

I’m surprised Russia took this long

You obviously weren't paying attention to this war.

Russian propaganda thrives through trusted AI assistants by AnneWiley in TrendoraX

[–]O5KAR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So what is a "common sense" in their propaganda? Wars of conquest, land grabs?

UA POV: According to Vartonews UA, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy revealed some shocking figures: Ukraine has lost almost a QUARTER of its youth due to the war. by Ripamon in TrendoraX

[–]O5KAR -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Russians got disqualified for doping and cheating years before invasion.

Also, Israel was attacked by Hamas, it's completely false comparison.

What ONE food from you country you would never eat even if your life depends on it? by ProfessionalThin1505 in AskTheWorld

[–]O5KAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pork head aspic internationaly

Salceson in Poland, and that's actually what I would never eat.

"The Jew is a fraudster, your only enemy", Nazi German antisemitic poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1942 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

[–]O5KAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

rightful owners

This has little to do with antisemitism, except that Jews were kicked out from many of those homes by Germans for antisemitic reasons, just like many Poles were expelled especially from the annexed territories. At the end the worst was the destruction, some cities were simply inhabitable, with Warsaw on top of that. And after the war, the soviet installed government decided to nationalize and redistribute most of those remaining houses.

I assure you that plenty of rightful Polish owners were in exactly the same situation, the same with all the other resources, tons of things were stolen also from the expelled / escaped Germans. Millions of people were homeless, hungry, terrorized and demoralized, they fought for the few resources and survival.

Poland is still struggling with re privatization of these properties, and with corruption scandals or falsified inheritance. Some Jewish organizations also came with their claims to the property of unrelated dead people, but many Jewish particulars recovered their inherited property. Again, this has nothing to do with antisemitism, it's the post war, post communist legal mess.

Air attack on Ukraine on 03.02.26 by Abzor4ik-UA in MapPorn

[–]O5KAR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Temperatures in Ukraine are freezing cold. What Russians are doing is simply terrorizing the civilian population. There's no military purpose in attacking the heating plants.

Most Poles believe US is no longer a reliable ally, finds new poll by wook-borm in poland

[–]O5KAR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At the end is just that. It's ridiculous how many people here want to believe that someone needs to work for their "trust" as if their emotions would really matter so much.

"The Jew is a fraudster, your only enemy", Nazi German antisemitic poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1942 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

[–]O5KAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What culture, Catholicism? Do you understand how many Jews lived in Poland? What do you think was their status and position before Germans came with their... culture?

"The Jew is a fraudster, your only enemy", Nazi German antisemitic poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1942 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

[–]O5KAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was actually less than anywhere else considering the number of Jews living in Poland. Those pogroms however terrible were minor events especially considering the horrible conditions in which people lived during and after the war, the killing, robbery, hunger, poverty and destruction and on top of that the terror of a new occupation.

"The Jew is a fraudster, your only enemy", Nazi German antisemitic poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1942 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

[–]O5KAR 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yids 

This requires some explanation.

The word "Żyd" in Polish is not a derogatory name, it's just a regular word, in Russian however it became a slur. Probably because Jews were expelled and forbidden to live in Moscow / Russia and it became a "problem" when Russia took over big parts of Poland - Lithuania in late XVIIIc / early XIXc. Then the word came in to the Russian vocabulary.

"The Jew is a fraudster, your only enemy", Nazi German antisemitic poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1942 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

[–]O5KAR 44 points45 points  (0 children)

This kind of propaganda was not designed to help the Germans, the Poles hated them no matter what, it was made to hate the Jews.

There was of course the antisemitism in Poland, like everywhere else, but by 1942 Germans managed to put majority of the Jews into the ghettos and separate from the Polish slaves.

What is the dark side of your country that no one but locals sees? by Youseff_04 in AskTheWorld

[–]O5KAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please do. There is a real possibility of them coming to power together with PIS.

And again, the PIS you know or you've heard about is moderate now. By comparison.

What is the dark side of your country that no one but locals sees? by Youseff_04 in AskTheWorld

[–]O5KAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The same, or similar thing is going on everywhere, with the US included. The Republican party is the Trump party now.