>What i dont understand is why does everything have to be so brief.
Look at the words in the Swadesh list[0]. They are all short.
-2 karma · joined January 7, 2025
Look at the words in the Swadesh list[0]. They are all short.
So Russia is too weak to conquer Ukraine but wants to risk other countries joining hot war? What for? Get bogged down even more?
Now follow the link under the words "rebel forces"[0]:
>Since militants linked to al Qaeda and the northern separatist Tuareg rebels launched simultaneous attacks on April 25 — the most audacious in over a decade — Mali has plunged deeper into chaos.
A country that deliberately targets passenger buses[1] is helping "militants linked to al Qaeda" - no surprise at all.
CNN is posting that on September 12th, I guess a day later it's okay to praise Ukraine for helping al Qaeda and its affiliates.
[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/10/africa/putin-africa-corps...
That's another thing that puzzles me. How people claim with straight face that anyone is threatening the US homeland.
Parliament did not vote to impeach the president, which would have involved formally charging Yanukovych with a crime, a review of the charge by the Constitutional Court, and a three-fourths majority vote in parliament—at least 338 votes in favor.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Removal_...
Russia did, many times, last time in 2010.[0]
But the US and the EU didn't like it, so the coup in 2014 happened with American help[1] which overthrew democratically elected president of Ukraine who introduced the law protecting Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens.[2]
The law was repelled right after the coup and Crimeans supported the reunion with Russia.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine#201...
Americans didn't trust either. But then Sputnik happened and Americans only had oopsnik[0], so they turned to neglected Redstone made by von Braun[1][2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_TV-3#Reaction
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#U.S._Army_ca...
Every day of the last 5 years
How is Russia a wildcard? What unexpected thing do you think Russia has done?
I can't believe people are saying that with straight face. How on Earth can you see all the wars that the US has started or had a hand in igniting and still think that?
Not really in case of the USSR. German group in Russia was isolated and Korolev didn't like competition. Soviet space program started by replicating German rocket, but once all production chains were created, it was off on its own course.
I highly recommend English translation of memoirs of Boris Chertok[0] to anyone interested in the history of Soviet space program.
[0] https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resour...
So why bring up Russia?
>"The effort has returned around 200 vehicles to Canada, including some from Russia.
Last month, Mr. Cresswell said, six stolen cars arrived from Russia.
“It’s groundbreaking to get cars repatriated from Russia,” he said. “The idea was once that if a car reaches that soil, the car is gone.”
Why would the Russian authorities return stolen cars to Western countries? One explanation is that Russian law prohibits the registration of vehicles listed in Interpol’s database. Returning them is one way to prevent unusable stolen cars from piling up. Western officials say that Moscow is broadly cooperative when it comes to crimes like auto theft."
So why again it's a story about Russia?
>Just as a network of smugglers and dilapidated tankers expanded to evade oil embargoes, criminal groups moved to fill the void when Western automakers left the Russian market and many countries banned auto exports there.
So now anyone who doesn't obey western illegal extraterritorial sanctions is a "smuggler"?
And "Lenin et all" included these Polish gentlemen which casts some doubt regarding you claim about "salivating at subjugation of Poland".
>in secret part about cooperation
There is nothing about cooperation in the secret part[0]. Just that Hitler stops at approximately the Curzon Line and doesn't take the territory that Poland grabbed from the corpse of Russian Empire. In fact, Soviet troops didn't move into Poland until German troops stopped advancing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
Enlighten me? Meanwhile I'll remind you that Felix Dzerzhinsky[0], who created the predecessor of KGB for Lenin, was a Pole born in Russian Poland. Vyacheslav Menzhinsky[1], his successor, was a Pole too.
>How that disproves my point that Russian invasions were bad for Poland?
You just don't call what happened around 1920 a Russian invasion, it was yet another Polish attempt at building its own empire that backfired. Especially, if you cite it as a reason for thinking Russia is likely to invade Poland
>geee, I wonder why (see say Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that proved such suspicion 100% correct)
That's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you don't cooperate with USSR against Hitler, having signed non-aggression pact with Hitler just 4 years earlier[2], don't be upset that USSR finally signed its own non-aggression pact with Hitler after years of trying to form an anti-Hitler pact with France and the GB (who cited Poland objections as one of the ways to drag its feet).[3]
I can't recommend enough the article "Fiasco: The Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance That Never Was and the Unpublished British White Paper, 1939–1940" [3] with "trilingual, multi-archival evidence" to anyone who wants to understand the reasons for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
>If Russia invade in XXI century and they will manage to find some pretext (returning the territory that Poland grabbed in the 1920 or something), how that will make things less bad for Poles?
Sure, it'll be bad for Poles, just like if Poland burns Moscow once again it will be bad for Russians. But we are not discussing fantasy scenarios?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Menzhinsky
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_declarat...
[3] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2018.14...
Are you sure that's the reason? NATO bombed the wrong people if you ask me.
Look at the Hashim Thaçi, the commander of the most powerful faction of so called "Kosovo Liberation Army" and then the first prime minister and later the president of Kosovo, who is now under trial:
"On 24 April 2020, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office located in The Hague filed a ten-count Indictment for the Court’s consideration, charging Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli and others for crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution, and torture. The indictment charges the suspects with approximately 100 murders of Kosovo Albanians, Serbs, Roma, and political opponents." [0]
Too bad he seem to get away with trafficing organs of Serbs:
A report to the Council of Europe, written by Dick Marty, issued on 15 December 2010 states that Hacim Thaçi was the leader of the "Drenica Group" in charge of trafficking organs taken from Serbian prisoners. [1]
An EU Report released in 2014 concluded that organ theft and trafficking took place but "on a very limited scale with a few individuals involved".[2]
Many witnesses of KLA crimes were murdered or intimidated.[3]
Here is Thaci posting happy photo of him and "old friend" Joe Biden long after the accusations became public[4]. I find it hard to believe that CIA and other Western agencies were unaware of the nature of gangs NATO was helping.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_Tha%C3%A7i#Resignation_...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_Tha%C3%A7i#Controversie...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt:_Me_and_the_War_Crimi...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War_crimes_witness_inti...
That's a very interesting turn of conversation. I think you are missing a bit from that story when presenting Poland as a victim[0]:
According to Aviel Roshwald, (Piłsudski) "hoped to incorporate most of the territories of the defunct Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into the future Polish state by structuring it as the Polish-led, multinational federation." Piłsudski had wanted to break up the Russian Empire and set up the Intermarium federation of various different states: Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and other Central and East European countries that emerged from the crumbling empires after World War I. In Piłsudski's vision, Poland would replace a truncated and vastly reduced Russia as the great power of Eastern Europe. His plan excluded negotiations prior to military victory. <...>
He used military force to expand the Polish borders in Galicia and Volhynia and crush a Ukrainian attempt at self-determination in the disputed territories east of the Curzon Line, which contained a significant Polish minority. On 7 February 1919, Piłsudski spoke on the subject of Poland's future frontiers:
"At the moment Poland is essentially without borders and all that we can gain in this regard in the west depends on the Entente – on the extent to which it may wish to squeeze Germany. In the east, it's a different matter; there are doors here that open and close and it depends on who forces them open and how far".
"Closed within the boundaries of the 16th century, cut off from the Black Sea and Baltic Sea, deprived of land and mineral wealth of the South and South-east, Russia could easily move into the status of second-grade power. Poland, as the largest and strongest of the new states, could easily establish a sphere of influence stretching from Finland to the Caucasus".
The USSR returned the territory that Poland grabbed in the 1920. And I must remind you that just a year earlier Germany, Hungary and Poland jointly dismembered Czechoslovakia[1]:
Germany had started a low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938. <...> This was followed by Polish and Hungarian territorial demands brought on 21 and 22 September, respectively. <...> Poland grouped its army units near its common border with Czechoslovakia and conducted an unsuccessful probing offensive on 23 September. Hungary moved its troops towards the border with Czechoslovakia, without attacking. The Soviet Union announced its willingness to come to Czechoslovakia's assistance, provided the Red Army would be able to cross Polish and Romanian territory; both countries refused.
<...>
The Munich Agreement was soon followed by the First Vienna Award on 2 November 1938, separating largely Hungarian inhabited territories in southern Slovakia and southern Subcarpathian Rus' from Czechoslovakia. On 30 November, Czechoslovakia ceded to Poland small patches of land in the Spiš and Orava regions.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#Back...
What a long-term planning
Think of Snowden and Assange, for example. They had a lot to say and show, but one big democracy didn't like it
Only neighbors? Invading a country that is not a neighbor is fine?
What I'm asking is are you consistent in your judgement?
Do you boycott companies from the US and its allies for the invasion of Iraq, bombing of Serbia and Libya, invasion of Syria, recent attack on Iran?
If you do, I have nothing but respect for you.
>The independent and free nation of Ukraine has the right to join any alliance they want and that wants them.
Sure
>If Russia considers that a provocation, that's entirely Russia's problem.
So you don't think that a country has the right to react to the expansion of a military alliance that has not long ago bombed countries that hadn't attacked it[0][1]? And likewise the members of that alliance in smaller gangs invaded other countries [2][3][4] who hadn't attacked them first either?
>I bet you won't answer.
What have you bet on that? Just curious
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_involvement_in_the_Syr...
What makes you think so?
>Previous wars with Russia were obnoxious with very bad consequences
What do you mean?
Going to the elections with the anti-war slogans is what got them banned.
Putin can't let that sentiment get broadcasted during election campaign because sadly "anti-war" currently means "let's make a temporary truce and give the West time to rearm and rebuild Ukrainian army for the next round".
Why not?
The irony
You could call it a stigma or prejudice, but until calliagnosia[0] becomes a reality, it is what it is.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liking_What_You_See:_A_Documen...
The promise of NATO membership in 2008[0] and a coup "midwifed" by the US in 2014[1] is not provocative enough for you?
>Putin has stated multiple times his desire and intention to "restore" the russian empire
Where have you read that?
[0] https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resource...