No doubt. Russia placed too much faith in the OSCE and France and Germany approaching the process in good faith. Merkel later came out and said that the Minsk process was just a time-buying exercise so that NATO could arm Ukraine as a proxy against Russia.
Ukraine, of course, knew that it was being armed and trained and had the carrot of NATO and EU membership dangled before it. Circling back to the original point, the fact that Ukraine was being armed and trained at such a rate is good evidence that Ukraine absolutely knew what was about to happen.
I’m not sure if you’re calling Putin a stupid man that is easily manipulated or incompetent. No politician ever in their lives did anything in good faith, Putin included. You must be very naive to think that.
Very cool that the argument boils down to “of course we were going to trick you, you are stupid for being tricked.” I guess the lesson the world should learn is to never trust a Euroid and to respond to European peace overtures with uncompromising force.
As a LLM (Leninist Language Model), I am programmed to parrot Russian propaganda at all times from the basement of the FSB Building in Lubyanka Square.
The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.
And yet Yanks will mock China for struggling to build a 3nm chip while their own country struggles to build a pier. As if one isn’t cutting edge high tech and the other isn’t maritime technology that’s been “solved” for two hundred years.
Denormalize recording and streaming people in public. Especially if you’re trying to get people onto public transportation, many potential riders are going to be put off by the idea of being photographed and recorded.
I’d be much more inclined to throw some critical support France’s way if they weren’t also violently cracking down on indigenous rights in New Caledonia at this very moment.
Author definitely isn’t mad that China mediated the Saudi-Iranian normalization while the US has been pushing for Saudi-Israeli normalization without success.
“Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait of her from an exhibition by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira....
Denmark Will Allow Ukraine To Fly Its F-16s Into Russia Proper (simpleflying.com)
Ukraine will be able to use Danish and Dutch F-16s to strike into Russia, while Belgium is saying only for use in 1991-border Ukraine....
In case you wanted to visualize the inefficiency of US military/contractors: Upper image is what the US built in Gaza for $320 million. Lower image is what China built in Guandong for $220 million. (hexbear.net)
The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.
No for real what's up with those people (hexbear.net)
Being an adult is so fun
The military industrial complex at its finest (hexbear.net)
…almayadeen.net/…/-320-million-us-naval-pier-coll…...
China Watcher don't be creepy about children CHALLENGE (hexbear.net)
x.com/wentisung/status/1793895169957507228...
Capitalism breeds innovation (hexbear.net)
Incredible things are happening in China (and Westoids are mad) (hexbear.net)
Found this because there’s a Westoid translation account that somehow thinks that this is a dunk on China....
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 (hexbear.net)
Number go down? No, number go up anyway (hexbear.net)
18+ (CW sexism) Yo BigHaas apparently this is a whole thing. (hexbear.net)
Context: hexbear.net/post/2574782
me learning france supports the icc arresting bibi (hexbear.net)
China is burning all its bridges with Israel (asia.nikkei.com)
When supporters of le genocidal settler colony… are reactionary? (hexbear.net)
Sure is a wonder why Israel has so many friends from the likes of Bolsonaro and Milei supporters....
Mining heiress demands National Gallery of australia remove unflattering portrait #girlboss (hexbear.net)
“Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait of her from an exhibition by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira....
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