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Post by kingedmund on Apr 5, 2022 19:46:18 GMT
Somehow I doubt they have access to much of anything that’s not approved by the kremlin.
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Apr 5, 2022 21:10:26 GMT
Post by JoeP on Apr 5, 2022 21:10:26 GMT
I wonder. I suspect the Russian public opinion might be turning against him, as they see their sons being killed. No more so than Americans turned against Trump, who killed far more Americans by denying covid. The 2020 election was still frighteningly close, and Putin has much better control over Russia.
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Apr 5, 2022 23:36:16 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Apr 5, 2022 23:36:16 GMT
Somehow, I'm not surprised.
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Apr 6, 2022 0:30:23 GMT
Post by Moose on Apr 6, 2022 0:30:23 GMT
I did not know about it either. The only Russians I have spoken to recently were a couple on travian. They are convinced that they've done nothing wrong and the world is against them.
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Apr 6, 2022 22:55:47 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Apr 6, 2022 22:55:47 GMT
I wondered how that turned out with Russians on Travian. I have a few friends that live in Russia. They tell me they have to be quiet because people have a tendency to disappear over there that have a difference of opinion.
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Apr 7, 2022 9:19:55 GMT
Post by tangent on Apr 7, 2022 9:19:55 GMT
I spotted a couple of guys spouting Russian propaganda on Facebook. One had taken over (hacked into) a company director's username who had been inactive for the past three years. I challenged him, using local information that only the company director might know, and he stopped posting.
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Apr 7, 2022 14:41:04 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Apr 7, 2022 14:41:04 GMT
Yeah....I came face to F*******k with a Russian troll. It was about day three, and I had made a positive comment about the 'Grey Ghost of Kyiv' rumor when "Pete Middleton" was all over my comment with nasty statements about all the Nazis running Ukraine and how the Grey Ghost was a specious construct of the Ukraini military. I responded by noting that his claims were bullshit and that he was most likely a Russian troll. There was no denial. I went to "Pete Middleton's" page, only to find a barebones page that just reinforced my suspicions. I confronted his frothing rants there, noting how his claims were easily dismissed with just common sense....He blocked me. Surprise! NoT.
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Apr 7, 2022 18:24:03 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Apr 7, 2022 18:24:03 GMT
Had to be from Russia on that.
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Apr 8, 2022 1:07:50 GMT
Post by Moose on Apr 8, 2022 1:07:50 GMT
Amazing that facebook will block people for virtually nothing but this sort of thing is perfectly acceptable to them.
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Apr 11, 2022 13:12:37 GMT
Post by kingedmund on Apr 11, 2022 13:12:37 GMT
I heard the Finland and Sweden were considering NATO membership. Russia has warned against this. Is this true? Surely seems to me russia have further plans.
Nothing surprises me about Facebook.
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Apr 11, 2022 16:39:14 GMT
Post by JoeP on Apr 11, 2022 16:39:14 GMT
Yes, Russia has warned against. But its actions have shown how dangerous its and thus made Finland and Sweden much more likely to join - if the people support it, because they will do it democratically or not at all.
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Apr 11, 2022 22:21:56 GMT
Post by tangent on Apr 11, 2022 22:21:56 GMT
In the other hand, I think Moldova is unlikely to join NATO because the break-away Transnistria territory actively wants to be part of Russia.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 13, 2022 1:08:41 GMT
In the other hand, I think Moldova is unlikely to join NATO because the break-away Transnistria territory actively wants to be part of Russia. My inadequate understanding of Moldova is that the majority population is more Romanian than Ukraini or Rooski, and if given the opportunity, would prolly choose to join Romania, but the Transnistrians (east of the Dnieper River) are claiming a desire to reunify with Russia. When the Russians were controlling the Warsaw Pact as the animating power of the Soviet Union, they moved lots of ethnic Russians into places where were, before that, not Russian. The millions of native Ukraini lost in the Holodomor were replaced with ethnic Russians on Ukraine/Moldova/Belarus land. That is how there came to be a Russian exclave snug in between Poland and Lithuania...Kaliningrad, where the Russian Baltic Fleet is based. This is the same reason there is an active pro-Russian 'separatist' movement in the Donbas, the southeast protrusion of Ukraine territory into western Russia, north of the Black Sea, snug up to the Sea of Azov.
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