Russian invasion of Ukraine

[MCMLXXXII]

I guess denying the Holocaust or the Killing fields is okay on this forums. Probably will get me banned again, unlike people actually doing this.

[Kaleredar]

Wait...did you check the year on that?

Surely 8 years is enough for their to be formal investigations following this incident, no? You used to be better at this, Shalcker.

It’s because he used to be able operate on levels of vague unknowability that Russia prefers to operate in, with a big dose of moral relativism heaped on top to create this sort of cycle of whataboutism that let him prattle on about an awful little for an awful long time.

But this? This is shit Russia is doing or failing at that’s on blast to the world, that the world has come out unequivocally against. He can’t pretend it didn’t happen, or that there’s any moral grayness here, at any level where anyone buys what he’s saying. Russias word is dirt, and he takes his info from Russia so we know his word is dirt by extension.

So he’s had to start taking actual stances on things… which generally go poorly, and which generally get him banned when the mask slips too much.

We’re only a few steps removed from seeing his “war crimes denial” shift to “war crimes justification”

[jonnysensible]

I guess denying the Holocaust or the Killing fields is okay on this forums. Probably will get me banned again, unlike people actually doing this.

very hard not to flame someone whos jaw you would take off if they said this shit to your face

[Rozz]

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[Finlandia WOAT]

Taiwan is part of China though, clearly retaking it will not be "war of conquest"... doesn't mean West isn't going to protest very much over it though - like it currently does over Solomon Islands even though "every country has right to choose their alliances".

Then why would they need a war to control it?

[Flarelaine]

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[Gabriel]

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Maybe you should bring up the issue in your next decennial meeting with the site owners, and maybe like, change the rules so you can actually permaban known trolls even if they don't directly do something otherwise perma-bannable?

[Makabreska]

Ukraine is nothing compared to the amount of support Taiwan would get during aggression. And hopefully it will never happen.

[Gaidax]

Ukraine is nothing compared to the amount of support Taiwan would get during aggression. And hopefully it will never happen.

Taiwan would be MUCH harder to reinforce. And I bet China will go for it in next 2 decades or so.

[Gabriel]

Imagine being so fucking dumb you tag the house of the civilians you steal from with your social media handle.

[Edge-]

Imagine being so fucking dumb you tag the house of the civilians you steal from with your social media handle.

Gotta get them internet points! That's how you win the war.

[Vorkreist]

West is feeding into their false sense of superiority and delusions of Ukrainian grandeur.

Supplies getting low at the troll farm. They are expecting to go to Heaven soon after watching that tv segment.

Also Shilcker why dress up prisoners of war for that looney may 9 parade ? In your delusions of Russian grandeur what would you say is the reason for such a deranged act ?

[Iphie]

Taiwan would be MUCH harder to reinforce. And I bet China will go for it in next 2 decades or so.

Taiwan is very much a Xi Jinping thing, he's not immortal and he's also getting up there in years. So either earlier or not at all is my guess.

edit: as in Xi is the most vocal about it in my memory.

[zealo]

Then why would they need a war to control it?

Because Taiwan has been de-facto independent from the PRoC since about 1950.

Other countries pretends they aren’t de jure because the CCP gets their panties in a twist over Taiwan formally being treated as such, but the practical situation is a wholly independent country.

[Crispin]

Sorry, wasn't my question clear? I want link to official communications of respective international agencies. Ones doing actual investigations.

Press releases, investigation results, something official.

If any of your news articles contain it please kindly provide it here directly.

Oh, but 2 pictures of some trucks and then switch to lines of bread, is proof that trucks to fry dead Russian soldiers, were ovens for bread?

You're unaware of it, but all you're accomplishing here, is proving what many people think. That the average Russian is completely brainwashed. Your little mission of "poor Russia victim/RUSSIA STRONK", is as much of a failure, as Putins pathetic war in Ukraine.

[ABEEnr2]

Something interesting

NEW: Putin has apologised after his foreign minister said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had "Jewish blood", Israel says.

Putin made the apology in a call with Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, his office said in a statement. — BBC

Yet according to some people they are saying on Russian news Putin did not apologize.

[Vorkreist]

Ukraine is nothing compared to the amount of support Taiwan would get during aggression. And hopefully it will never happen.

From all the hints and more or less veiled messaging I think its clear US would go to open war with China if Taiwan was attacked.
Its a way too valuable piece to let go of so easily.

[Belize]

Taiwan would be MUCH harder to reinforce. And I bet China will go for it in next 2 decades or so.

Taiwan is also much harder to invade than Ukraine. It doesn't share hundreds of miles of land boarders with hostile nations.

[ABEEnr2]

Sorry, wasn't my question clear? I want link to official communications of respective international agencies. Ones doing actual investigations.

Press releases, investigation results, something official.

If any of your news articles contain it please kindly provide it here directly.

Even if an agency do report on it you still won't believe it. I mean u still deny that MH17 was downed by Russia. So no matter that outcome ( i mean everyone know it was Russia who did the bucha massacre) is you won't believe it.

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Taiwan is also much harder to invade than Ukraine. It doesn't share hundreds of miles of land boarders with hostile nations.

Seeing how Russian 3 days invasions have been going i doubt China in an better position than Russia when it comes to their military. So it might go far far worse for them.

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Supplies getting low at the troll farm. They are expecting to go to Heaven soon after watching that tv segment.

Also Shilcker why dress up prisoners of war for that looney may 9 parade ? In your delusions of Russian grandeur what would you say is the reason for such a deranged act ?

I mean their troll farm have been slowing down because some of them are getting drafted.

[Makabreska]

Seeing how Russian 3 days invasions have been going i doubt China in an better position than Russia when it comes to their military. So it might go far far worse for them.

Pretty sure China army is superior to Russian. But they are still not really tested. And that place is an island.