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> is just a Cold War 2.0 rhetoric

During Cold War Russia hadn't annexed parts of European countries or left the radioactive trails all across town after assassinating their 'enemy of the state'.

Just the reminder - most (if not all) Bellingcat investigations about MH-17 proved to be true.

So 'armchair' investigators apparently beat thousands of 'professional' Russian FSB/DoD investigators.

> July 2014 Malaysia Airlines attack, who knew Putin had flown over the area in a near identical near looking aircraft before hand?

"near identical looking"? Because, you know, either AA missiles are based on visual recognition AI or they're manned by special breed of operators who can distinguish fine details on planes 10 kilometers up in the sky.

Just the reminder - Soviet Union entered WW2 on _Hitler's_ side.

So, they were preparing for war - but for the offensive one.

> for Russia, the military doesn't care that their chips had frequency measured in kilohertz, and had sizes measured in square sentimetres

Well, if your chips are bigger and slower, you will need more chips and mounts/packaging to place them. If you need more chips then the weight of missile/plane/tank will be increased and available space decreased.

So at the end, the 'uncaring' military will receive a weapon which is worse than competition.

All thanks to an outdated chip.

> 'Life and Fate' depicts Communism and Fascism as ideological mirror-images, two quarreling heads on one great monster.

I'm really worried that Grossman's definition is pretty unpopular now, because ignoring that may lead to similar monstrosities in the future.

You should check the rate per number of motor vehicles.

Because if you're looking at car crashes, there's a direct correlation between number of cars and number of crashes.

Otherwise one can think that India is a much safer place, but it's way worse in reality.

> insane amount of money pumped by capitalists into destroying East Germany

Can you please elaborate a little? I'm wondering about 'destroying' part.

I think he's relating to infamous briefing, where Russian DoD presented quite a lot of fakes trying to shift the blame to Ukraine.

One of the fakes were exactly that claim - that the video with Russian Buk was a fake.

Well, the fact that Russia arranged "we're just two guys (wink, wink) observing church spires" TV conference for them, shows that they're not just low-level thugs.

> Every other major country had it's infrastructure bombed and shattered.

Spain? Portugal? Brasil? Australia?

> your armed superiority is a joke.

Ah, comrade, I understood now. Check the score of recent clash with your "Wagner" mercs. How many US lost? Yes, zero.

Please tell me, what countries had their parts annexed by USA in last century?

They already had a warm deep water port there before Sevastopol.

Any other "exposures"?

> They took it because not having it exposed them militarily

Ok, I'll bait - it exposed them to what?

> The polls are not rigged, and people are not afraid to speak freely: Russians love Putin.

Amen, comrade!

> Snowden taught a generation to have a moral compass.

And then hid with the government that definitely wasn't adhering to the law.

I'd say it's not a good example of a moral compass.

> Statistics that selects only the data that happens to support what you would like to show is dishonest at best.

This. This applies to your post as well, don't you think?

> Let's not even mention the story of how the US was made - with guns, by individuals as well as the state.

Let's not, since I don't think there's a country in Europe (bigger than Monaco/Lichtenstein, ofc) or even in the whole world, that wasn't made "on guns".

> huge part of entertainment in movies, shows and games made/consumed in the US is about violence horror, and/or the end of society or even the world (oh and "heroes" of course - always coupled with violence). That is not a global phenomenon

It is a global phenomenon. Chinese 'Three-body problem' and wuxia/xanxia flicks. Japanese films and animes. Also numerous books and films from France, England, Russia, Australia...

> I can't imagine the same scenario in Europe, at least not on the same dystopian level.

Well, two most bloody wars in past century were in Europe... and they were pretty dystopian.

Please note, that no theft was admitted by Naftogaz (outside usual Russian circle of propaganda).

And your quote actually stated that promises were _not_ made there, author just tried to bring concerns of some anonymous 'multiple national leaders' as a confirmation.

Why? So far Russia invaded only neighbors which weren't in NATO, so apparently joining NATO was (and still is) right way to protect your country from Russian aggression.

> tried to expand NATO into Georgia and Ukraine, two critical security frontiers for Moscow (even as they said they wouldn't do it [1]).

There's _nothing_ about NATO expansion into Georgia and Ukraine in that link.

That was actually a promise about NATO expansion to _East Germany_ and it was to a President of USSR, who was deposed in couple of years.

And not surprisingly, you've decided to quote something from a collection of blogs owned by Soviet immigrant (involved in Communist ideological games back in USSR).

> They don't want to see an alien military alliance straddle their borderlands.

And all countries that bordered Russia don't want to see Russian military straddle their borderlands.

So... the obvious solution - counterbalance.

> That's somewhat debatable, if you mean 'expansionist' like Russia would like to rebuild the USSR or a new Russian Empire.

It's not debatable, Putin said in the recent press-conference that "they're lost Ukraine and other Soviet republics", effectively claiming other countries as "runaway" parts of Russia.

And as for NATO "expansion" - Russians can blame themselves for attacking Baltic states in 90s or messing things up in Moldova, trying to be a 'peacekeepers' there.

You were jailed as a spy and you can escape it via exit behind the wine barrel in the basement?

Those failed to protect Russian base in Syria even against low-quality homemade drones.

Exposing contents of DB without even any SQL injections... I think they have no idea about network monitoring. They _have_ an idea about console, since they're logging stuff there extensively.

> being like the USSR which drove itself into the ground by spending everyone's money (trying to keep up with the US)

So US will spend their money on trying to keep up with... China? Russia? Japan? India?

My main concern about that - I'm not 100% sure that Google will not discontinue that in couple of years.

And for example: recently they've announced that 'Save to Google' extension will be discontinued in nearest weeks, without easy ways to exporting saved stuff.