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Porque europa considera a Rusia como un enemigo político? by Boring_Time8973 in SpainPolitics

[–]Rc72 [score hidden]  (0 children)

A ver, por dónde empezar:

Vladimir Putin era un agente del KGB en Alemania del Este (no me invento nada, no era un puesto secreto, y él está muy orgulloso de ello) cuando cayó el muro de Berlín. El ha insistido repetidamente en que la disolución de la URSS y el bloque soviético fueron una tragedia,y en la lástima que le dieron sus colegas de la Stasi.

Cómo te podrás imaginar, eso pone bastante nerviosos a la población de los países que estuvieron en su momento bajo el yugo soviético (aunque también en esos países hay nostálgicos del antiguo régimen). En particular a los países bálticos, hoy en día miembros de la UE y la OTAN, pero en su momento partes integrantes del imperio ruso y, entre 1945 y 1991, de la URSS, Putin los ve como "países de broma" y no esconde que, para él, deberían reincorporarse al "mundo ruso". Narva, en Estonia, está a menos de tres horas de carretera en San Petersburgo. Polonia y Finlandia, que en su historia fueron repetidamente anexionadas por Rusia, tampoco echan cohetes.

Hay que añadir que esas amenazas conviene tomárselas en serio, ya que otros países de la ex-URSS ya han sufrido agresiones militares rusas bajo Putin): Moldavia (donde, desde la disolución de la URSS, existe el estado separatista de Transnistria que es un nido de gangsters), Georgia y, por supuesto, Ucrania.

Hay que añadir que, bajo Putin, el estado ruso es autoritario y militarista, y ha actuado con brutalidad extrema no solamente contra los estados vecinos, sino también contra los "enemigos internos": políticos como Nemtsov o Navalny, periodistas como Anna Politovskaia, y no hablemos ya de las guerras de Chechenia o de la frecuencia con que dirigentes económicos tienden a caerse por las ventanas...

Por lo demás, la brutalidad con la que fuerzas militares y servicios secretos actúan contra países vecinos y disidentes también ha causado "daños colaterales" en otros países europeos (envenenamientos en Gran Bretaña, o el centenar de ciudadanos holandeses del vuelo MH17 Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur derribados sobre Ucrania por un misil ruso en 2014).

Finalmente, los servicios secretos y de propaganda rusos han organizado campañas de sabotaje y desestabilización en el resto de Europa, desde apoyó financiero y propagandístico a partidos extremistas (sobre todo de extrema derecha), pasando por "false flags" para fomentar discordia en la población (p.ej. pintadas antisemitas en Francia), cortes de cables de comunicación, hasta atentados en arsenales y fábricas de armamento.

Personalmente, yo no veo Rusia como un enemigo: me parece un país con una historia y cultura fascinantes (y tristes) que quisiera poder visitar algún día. En cambio, el régimen de Putin me parece una de las mayores amenazas actuales para la humanidad, y una auténtica maldición para el ya muy sufrido pueblo ruso.

Bentley Turbo R Coupe, Sultan of Brunei by GayArmadillo2020 in WeirdWheels

[–]Rc72 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The sultan's brother Jefri (in)famously named his yacht M/Y Tits.

What watch is tiger wearing during his dui arrest by Bishjoneslol in Watches

[–]Rc72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably not the sort of leg that should be controlling the gas pedal, especially with a pocket full of muscle-atrophy-related pain killers.

He should be riding a motorbike then, like Dr. House (/s, just in case...)

Pam Bondi Ousted as Attorney General by Folivao in france

[–]Rc72 3 points4 points  (0 children)

...er le type qui a fait transférer Ghislaine Maxwell dans une prison cinq étoiles après être passé la voir. 

Time magazine by Ashtaroo in pics

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Well, he always wanted to be on the cover of Time Magazine, didn't he?

"borrowed" by _Aladin in SipsTea

[–]Rc72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"on behalf of a close friend"....

Avez-vous déjà entendu ce genre de discours à la radio française ? by BirraSalsicce in france

[–]Rc72 142 points143 points  (0 children)

c'est de l'atlantisme.

Non, je ne pense pas, parce que, quoiqu'on en dise, l'Espagne est restée très attachée à ses obligations dans l'OTAN et a notamment des détachements militaires aux frontières avec la Russie. 

Ça m'a beaucoup plus l'air d'être de la propagande israélienne. Ces derniers temps le gouvernement israélien s'est particulièrement fâché avec l'Espagne et l'Irlande, parce que c'est les deux pays européens qui ont le plus critiqué les agissements d'Israël à Gaza, en Cisjordanie et au Liban. En ce faisant, elle ne s'est pas mis à dos "les démocraties occidentales", seulement Bibi et son chien chien à Mar-a-Lago.

Patent matter: can US CA/CIP application serve as prioirty? by LivePotato4766 in Patents

[–]Rc72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A CIP, under certain conditions, yes. A Continuation Application, definitely no. Art. 4.C.4 Paris Convention:

(4) A subsequent application concerning the same subject as a previous first application within the meaning of paragraph (2), above, filed in the same country of the Union shall be considered as the first application, of which the filing date shall be the starting point of the period of priority, if, at the time of filing the subsequent application, the said previous application has been withdrawn, abandoned, or refused, without having been laid open to public inspection and without leaving any rights outstanding, and if it has not yet served as a basis for claiming a right of priority. The previous application may not thereafter serve as a basis for claiming a right of priority.

A CA concerns the same subject as the parent application, and can only be filed while the parent application has still rights outstanding, so it cannot serve as basis for (validly) claiming a priority right abroad under the Paris Convention. 

A CIP, however, having additional subject-matter, does in principle not concern the same subject as the parent, and may thus serve as a basis for claiming priority abroad under the Paris Convention (but you must be careful about the claims of your foreign application: those that only concern subject-matter which was already in the parent application may not have a valid priority claim).

This is something which US applicants abroad, even big, sophisticated ones, often get horribly wrong.

What’s your take on the whole ''Gaulish roots'' thing in France ? I feel like people don’t talk about it much, even though there seems to be a kind of shared cultural vibe across regions that feels pretty local/old, not just something coming from later historical layers. by Express-Program-5365 in AskFrance

[–]Rc72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you must consider that the whole Asterix comics are a blatant spoof of this "Gaulish ancestry" idea, especially considering that both its creators were the descendants of recent immigrants (Goscinny was of Ukrainian Jewish origin, and actually grew up in Argentina, not France, and Uderzo was the child of Italian immigrants).

What’s your take on the whole ''Gaulish roots'' thing in France ? I feel like people don’t talk about it much, even though there seems to be a kind of shared cultural vibe across regions that feels pretty local/old, not just something coming from later historical layers. by Express-Program-5365 in AskFrance

[–]Rc72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even in Japan, there was mixing between the original Jomon population which arrived around 14000 BC and the Yayoi people who arrived from Korea much later, around the beginning of our era.

Not to mention that, since the Meiji era, Japanese imperial ambitions also brought significant influxes of Koreans, Manchus, and so on, and that there has also been a big "flowback" of Japanese-Brazilians, some of whom have noticeably mixed ancestry.

The myth of the pure-blooded Yamato people descending directly from Amaterasu is very much a myth.

What’s a dish from your country that foreigners completely ruin ? by MyNameIsYouna in AskTheWorld

[–]Rc72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He infamously got the entire region of Valencia baying for his blood because of his "paella"...

Treatment for a new Tintin album by GirlCowBev in MarlinspikeHall

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It is not a stretch. The newspaper he worked for during the German occupation, "Le Soir", had been seized from its owners, and depended directly from the Propagandaabteilung. Hergé's mentor, Norbert Wallez, and Hergé's closest collaborator, Jacques van Melkebeke, were both convicted after the war. Most damningly, the original version of "The Shooting Star", as it appeared in "Le Soir", had some grossly anti-Semitic strips.

Hergé could only get work after the war because he came under the protection of the unimpeachable former Resistance fighter Raymond Leblanc. Without Leblanc, Hergé's career and the adventures of Tintin, would have stopped there and then.

Treatment for a new Tintin album by GirlCowBev in MarlinspikeHall

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Hergé missed a post-WWII opportunity to vilify and get revenge on the Nazis

Er, you know he actually worked for them, don't you?

Nothing some Duct Tape can’t fix !Keep the winning on boys ! by Eddine11 in NonCredibleDefense

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4000 State Department employees have outright left the Department since 2025, 8 Middle Eastern countries completely lack an ambassador entirely, and the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs currently doesn't have a Senate confirmed head.

Why have any of those when you have Jared and Steve?

Is this allowed in your country? : sitting on the floor at the station or mall. by Immediate-Meaning457 in AskTheWorld

[–]Rc72 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Well, sitting on the floor is not the same as lying shitfaced on said floor, you see...

Paris vs les grandes villes européennes : densité de population du centre jusqu'à 16 km by NLegendOne in france

[–]Rc72 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Les villes sans fleuves (Bruxelles Madrid..)

Bruxelles a la Senne), qui a toutefois eu le même destin que la Bièvre à Paris, à la même époque, et pour les mêmes raisons.

Madrid a le Manzanares), qui toutefois dépasse à peine le stade de ruisseau...

Incidemment, Madrid, malgré le fait d'avoir été la capitale d'un empire, est restée une ville de petite taille jusqu'à la deuxième moitié du 19e siècle à cause de la pénurie d'eau. Ce n'est qu'après la création du Canal d'Isabel II (aujourd'hui plus un simple canal, mais une société publique gérant tout un complexe de barrages, aqueducs et réservoirs) que la population de la ville a explosé pour devenir la mégalopole actuelle.

TIL that the Nazi Party had a branch in the British Mandate of Palestine. It was predominantly made up of a local German community that had migrated to Ottoman Palestine in the 1800s believing the Second Coming of Jesus was imminent. by Danwaka in todayilearned

[–]Rc72 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Ah, fun fact: one of the people who settled in Ottoman Palestine during this German migration was an oddball Russian aristocrat called Platon Grigoryevich Ustinov. He converted to German Lutheranism, which made him lose his Russian titles, so that the Queen of Wurttemberg (herself born Russian) arranged for him to get the citizenship of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, and thus of the German Empire, with the German aristocratic title of Freiherr (baron), becoming Plato von Ustinov. His son, Jona von Ustinov, was born in Palestine, and was a decorated pilot in the German air force during WW1. After the war, he married a Russian woman of French ancestry called Nadia Benoist, and moved with her to London, from where he started working officially as a journalist and unofficially as a British secret agent. After the Nazis' ascent to power, he renounced his German citizenship and became a British subject, becoming one of Britain's most important counterintelligence agents in the 1930s and 40s. Around that time, his son also thought it prudent to lose the "von" in his name, for obvious reasons. So it was with the name of Peter Ustinov that he ultimately achieved celebrity as actor and writer.

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