Russia-Ukraine War

TekNiKo

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I was just watching this, highly informative video about why Russia is the way it is:



TL;DR Russia is basically the successor to the Mongol Empire in spirit (highly authoritarian).

Ukraine is essentially a proxy war between Western civilization (Europe) vs Sino-Russian (Mongol) civilization. I think in the very distant future Russia and China will merge.

When Putin hammers on about denazification, perhaps he is talking about Ukrainian hostility to Asia.


:hmm:
You hit the nail on the head, Imagine if RUssia had a hostile China breathing down its southern border? it would be a nightmare scenario, Russia has to choose one front with NATO otherwise its game over.
 

Abdalla

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I am so pissed. When we fight they show the most dehumanizing images. I wanna see the human rights violations, the humanization of the so called white people with bleu eyes, the famine. Not bunch of breakings news twitter feeds
 

Apollo

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The difference is that russians do this because they see ukrainians as their slavic brethren. That is why dont see any massacres or crimes against humanity.

I can't stand these idiotic hot takes comparing Russia invading Ukraine to Russia invading Afghanistan or America invading Iraq.

Apples and oranges.
 

Molotoff

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Any somalis here wanting to join the Ukrainian "Foreign Legion" this is how!
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Good luck! :salute:
Somalia Battalion (Russian: Батальон «Сомали») is one of the military units of the Donetsk People's Republic in Ukraine which participates in the ongoing War in Donbas against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The battalion's full name is 1st Separate Tank Battalion Somalia (previously 1st Separate Tactical Battalion Group Somalia).[1] The battalion took the name "Somalia" because, according to its former commander Mikhail Tolstykh alias Givi, its members are as fearless as Somalis.[2] According to Givi, 70% of the battalions personnel previously fought in the 1st Slavyansk Brigade.[3]


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Apollo

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Is it true that Russian is more understandable to South Slavs because of Old Church Slavonic influence in it compared to Ukrainian (less intelligible to South Slavs)?

PS. Russian is the best sounding Slavic language in my opinion. Polish the worst one. :lol:
 

Molotoff

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Is it true that Russian is more understandable to South Slavs because of Old Church Slavonic influence in it compared to Ukrainian (less intelligible to South Slavs)?

PS. Russian is the best sounding Slavic language in my opinion. Polish the worst one. :lol:

Yes. I myself understand Russian much better than Ukrainian. Some would argue Ukrainian is an artifical language created just to differentiate from Russian and to move Ukraine further from Russia.

Some would even argue that Ukraine has no historical basis to exist, that it is a Western (primarily German) creation to weaken Russia. An Anti-Russia.
 

Molotoff

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Lol, just listened to samples of each and I changed my mind.

Best sounding:

1. Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian
2. Russian

Worst sounding:

1. Czech
2. Polish

South Slavic (Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) is the most smooth of them all. Russian sounds harsh. I believe russians understand South Slavic much better than the opposite.

Polish is just a bunch of combined cz-sounds.

South Slavic, West Slavic and East Slavic after all stem from one proto-slavic language.

P.S Most of Ukraine speaks Russian. Russians generally dont understand Ukrainian that well. Ukrainian is pretty much spoken in Western Ukraine only. Suzhyk is somekind of pidgin Russo-Ukrainian.
 

Apollo

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first time i agreed with Bolsonaro.

Many of the rightwing populist parties in Europe are neutral on Russia.

It would be funny if Muslims across Northern and Western Europe are forced to vote for rightwing populist parties as ''ain't nobody got time for World War III''.
 
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