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Post by adrianc on May 14, 2024 9:19:18 GMT
Seems like a lot of self-determination going on there. Oh, wait a minute... "But not like that."
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Post by adrianc on May 14, 2024 8:23:28 GMT
I take that to mean not happy with what happened on the dissolution of the Soviet Union ? That very much appears to be the intent, but the wording is ambiguous. Of course nothing happened to Russia's historical lands on the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia stayed Russia. After all, the Soviet Union was, theoretically, a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On the other hand, there are of course quite a lot of people that are unhappy about what did happen to their actual historical lands, and themselves, under the Soviet Union. A few that come to mind are Ukraine itself, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania..... Which is precisely why, when given the chance they left the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics pretty much as fast as they could. Parts of Russia were transferred by the Soviets for various reasons, but mainly because the Communists did not believe in national identities/boundaries. It would be a bit like the European Union giving parts of Germany away to other countries for political reasons and then when the EU collapses Germany wanting those territories back: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_Soviet_Union#:~:text=In%201954%2C%20the%20Presidium%20of,of%20Russia%20and%20Ukraine%20Tercentenary. Pick your historical starting point to suit your preferred endpoint. "For just over two decades after 1991, Russia did not dispute the Ukrainian administration in Crimea"Also... "During the existence of the Soviet Union, different governments existed within the Crimean Peninsula. From 1921 to 1936, the government in the Crimea was known as the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR); from 1936 to 1945, the name was slightly altered to the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. As a result of alleged collaboration of Crimean Tatars with Nazi Germany during World War II, all Crimean Tatars were deported by the Soviet regime and the peninsula was resettled with other peoples, mainly Russians and Ukrainians. The autonomous republic was thus left without its titular nationality and was downgraded to an oblast within the Russian SFSR on 30 June 1945. It was subsequently transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. As a result of a state-sanctioned referendum in 1991, it became again an autonomous republic within the Ukrainian SSR, and then within independent Ukraine after 1992."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea_in_the_Soviet_Unionand... "In 1783, the Russian Empire annexed Crimea after an earlier war with Turkey. Crimea's strategic position led to the 1854 Crimean War and many short lived regimes following the 1917 Russian Revolution. When the Bolsheviks secured Crimea, it became an autonomous soviet republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was occupied by Germany during World War II. When the Soviets retook it in 1944, Crimean Tatars were ethnically cleansed and deported under the orders of Joseph Stalin, in what has been described as a cultural genocide. Crimea was downgraded to an oblast in 1945. In 1954, the USSR transferred the oblast to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on the 300th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Treaty in 1654."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimeaSo, yes, you can choose to say "but 1954" - forgetting conveniently that that was the end of a status that had lasted for precisely NINE years. Before that, it'd been autonomous (Nazi occupation obvs excluded).
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 22:12:44 GMT
We are definitely starting to see the consequences domestically: The fact that conscription can even be discussed. The PM of the UK talking about greatest chance of nuclear war and also that the next 5 years will involve more change than the last 30. Conscription has been discussed by a certain swathe of the population since it was binned. "Bring back national service! In my day..."The much vaunted "citizen army" guff from the head of the army was shot down in seconds flat by the MoD, and he was given a right royal bollocking by all his seniors. He's the same one that told the Army in 2022 that they'd have to fight in Europe, too. That doesn't seem to have come to pass. The nuclear war guff was just a way of trying to tie Corbyn to Starmer's neck. The "next five years" guff wasn't even talking about security, but about things like generative AI being some massive opportunity for the UK. Whatevs. Convenient figure, five years. One parliamentary term. Vote for me. PLEASE.
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 17:22:57 GMT
If the 40%+ that support Trump aren't quite barking enough, there's 10% that support Kennedy...
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 17:20:23 GMT
Sunak warns 'world closer to nuclear escalation than at any point since Cuban missile crisis'And to think I was accused of scare mongering a few pages ago. Actually there's quite an irony as it seems to me Sunak's administration is actually more gung ho than even the USs. Look at us regularly being first to p i s s the bears off such as the latest announcement that the us is British weapons to attack virgin Russia is fine and also the statements regarding supplying arms to Israel as evidence. So we draw a massive target on our back and then start to prepare the population for possible nuclear war in case they don't re-elect Sunak again.... Sunak warns "vote for me, please, because I'm really quite desperate to keep my job and will sink to any depths..."
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 11:21:20 GMT
That would be Donald "Bonespurs" Trump would it? or the Donald Trump who cancelled a visit to the US war cemetery near Paris because it was raining, and he was worried it would mess up his hair. Bravery of the highest order. And anyway he thought there was no point going as it was "filled with losers". The real reasons for his refusal to participate in the centenary visit are still unknown, with the claims heavily disputed by Trump's aides (unsurprisingly), but the wider story - and umpteen similar ones - certainly does him no favours, and suggests that there may well be a lot of truth. The official reason was that the weather wasn't good enough for his helicopter, yet various other national leaders managed to get there quite happily by car... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/murky-facts-about-trumps-failure-visit-american-war-dead-near-paris/
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 10:51:37 GMT
The only reality Trump is interested in is what's in his own personal best interest - and (assuming you mean JFK) if he thought he could get away with assassinating rivals, he'd be RIGHT THERE.
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 10:07:03 GMT
We all know that Putin's attempting to label all western-leaning Ukrainians with the "neonazi" banner of a very small minority.
(There is, of course, a rather huge irony in somebody who supports Trump so wholeheartedly suggesting that neonazis might be a bad thing, given a sizable swathe of his domestic support, especially the 6th Jan shenanigans)
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Post by adrianc on May 13, 2024 9:02:37 GMT
I believe if Ukraine agree not to allow themselves to be used by anti-russian western forces to threaten Russia militarily, clamp down on Anti-Russian Banderite extremists and make land concessions to Russia they can end this conflict and start to rebuild their country. You mean if Ukraine agrees to be Vlad's special fwiend, agreeing to hand over the keys to whichever bits of itself he wants for his own... Yeh. As for "banderite"... "In propaganda the term has been used by Soviets after 1942 as a pejorative term for Ukrainians, especially western Ukrainians, or Ukrainian speakers; under Vladimir Putin-ruled Russia the term was used by state media as a pejorative for Euromaidan activists and Ukrainians who support sovereignty from Russia."Thank you for confirming exactly where you're coming from on this.
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Post by adrianc on May 12, 2024 19:47:00 GMT
There's only two ways Trumplethinskin will end the Ukraine war. One is by giving Ukraine straight to Vlad. The other is by blowing the entire world up. Betting is currently about evens on which of the two is more likely. Anyways... Putin is giving a sideways promotion to his old mate, the defence secretary since 2012... It might just be me, but I don't think that's the action of a man happy with the way things are going. www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/putin-to-remove-sergei-shoigu-as-russias-defence-minister
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Post by adrianc on May 9, 2024 13:40:02 GMT
NATO has pushed to the edges of Russian territories since 1989 - when NATO should have been disbanded just like the Warsaw Pact did. When you're in a hole... (Is it true what Patton is alleged to have said about getting the other dumb barstool to do all the fighting/dying? How apt a description of our times and NATO's alleged role in fighting Russia from behind a curtain.) 'course, there's the minor issue that all of NATO's (official...) joint military ops have occurred since 1989. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operationsNo, they might not have all been perfect, but the world was a better place for the shared interventions and peacekeeping.
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Post by adrianc on May 8, 2024 22:26:39 GMT
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Post by adrianc on May 8, 2024 22:23:23 GMT
Is the used car market getting more competitive? Turns out people aren't that happy to just click on unseen used cars. Who knew?
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Post by adrianc on May 8, 2024 9:50:41 GMT
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Post by adrianc on May 8, 2024 9:31:04 GMT
** Didn't make [Editor: DJT] I derived some pleasure from looking at the fixed, sullen expression on Trump's face as he listened to the precedings. I'm half-hoping that he will commit contempt of court again and be sentenced to a few days in jail. Only half?
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