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One of those 'revelations', picturing rockets descending on Florida, was a Russian TV clip from 2007. Link (in Russian): https://tvrain.ru/articles/grafiku_iz_filma_2007_goda_na_nej...

Well, at least media don't play the Russian-proposed "we were heroic defenders" tune, like it was with Georgia in 2008.

Are you implying that US or NATO put their bases and ICBMs in Ukraine?

What was the original reason? Sending supplies to Whites when there was no Whites?

Did you read that Wiki article? War materials were given to support Tsarist Russia in WW1.

J-20 downed zero aircraft as well, as far I as I know.

> China has never been expansionist

Why they've attacked Vietham then?

They've provided troops and supplies to _guard the war materials_.

So, what's the difference with "the ORGANIZATION’s monthly budget for Project Lakhta submitted to CONCORD exceeded 73 million Russian rubles (over 1,250,000 U.S. dollars)" ?

Why is that statement false?

So, the only verified facts are that US troops were securing the materials and defending against Bolshevik attackers.

> So when 538 writes "The indictment alleges that an organization called the Internet Research Agency had a monthly budget of approximately $1.25 million toward interference efforts by September 2016" this is simply false

Why? You're basically confirmed their assessment.

Besides, why did you said "only $2 millions" before, if there was $1.5 millions _monthly_?

Lenin's prodrazvyorstka led to famine. Tsarist razvyorstka - didn't.

Major difference.

And why you think that Russia would have been the loser in WW1, is beyond me.

> due to civil war that the US participated in by providing troops and resources

US didn't provide any troops or resources to Russian Civil War. A few clashes with pro-Bolshevik bandits were from Japanese forces.

Wow. Looks like you're actively try to downplay this fact.

> like a native driver.

Considering the amount of traffic-related deaths in Russia... They'd better handle it like non-native driver.

> The so-called “troll factory” is pretty old news

Why it's old news if they're still trolling?

> Either the Russians are exponentially better at advertising than the best minds in the DNC

No, just their labour is exponentially cheaper.

Don't think so, those trolls are working on Brexit, Germany, Ukraine and other areas as well.

I'd say if Russia wasn't messing with other countries (either by hacking, invading or trying to overthrow governments[0]) blaming something on them will be indeed a problem.

But now they're reaping what they sow.

[0] - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/18/russias-deadly-pl...

One of the early blatant examples - when they've killed their competitor (DR-DOS) by altering Windows 3.1 to work in MS-DOS only.

At least Russia now is ready to flung their new technologies to anyone who can pay for them (selling S-400 to Turkey for example).

So that _nations_ can have access to pretty advanced technologies.

I will address only one line from your post:

> Whereas Austria, which Russia had occupied but which did not go remilitarize and join NATO, was withdrawn from by Russia, just like Russia pulled out of Iran and a number of other places as agreed.

Russia "overstayed" their occupation in Austria (although they left without issues).

But they've definitely overstayed their forces in Persia and tried to create a separatist republic there.

It took a complaint to UN (and as rumours say, nuclear threat from US) for Persia to get rid of Russian forces.

So no, they definitely didn't "pull out of Iran and a number of other places as agreed"

So what caused 'mild traumatic brain injuries'? Mass hysteria?

> US, as a return favor, shared their intel on the MH17 incident too.

As I can remember US told the world that it MH-17 was shot by a missile (not Ukrainian jet, as Russia tried to imply for months) and most probably Russian missile - and all of it almost immediately after the tragedy.

As I said they were afraid that North Korea or Iran will snatch their scientists.

So they paid Russians to develop an ISS module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/element...

And they paid them to develop RD-180 engine: https://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac201/index.html

Yes, those engines (and ISS parts) were specifically ordered by US to keep Soviet rocket production busy and to avoid their migration to North Korea or Iran.

> The original point being disputed was that SU and Soviet people "never achieved much"

But they didn't achieve much in reality. That's why they have to copy most of their technologies from other countries during all their 70 years.

3 scientists from country with population ~200 million and during 70 years period?

Are you suggesting that US is scientifically losing to most countries?

Assume? There's tons of info on Russian troll factories, even from insiders who took part in pushing 'Russkiy mir' agenda around.

> 1984 is based on WW2 and immediate post-war Britain

and Stalin's USSR.