• anachronist@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    Russia is so terrified of Nato encroachment that they stripped their defenses along the Finnish boarder shortly after Finland joined Nato, and they’ve moved all the defenses at this point (first weapons, now troops) out of Kaliningrad.

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        3 months ago

        There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos

        That’s a rude way to describe Saint Petersburg.

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            3 months ago

            Ok I get it now. You guys are living (or LARPing in) a fantasy world where the Soviet Union still exists and Russia isn’t a right-wing revanchist kleptocratic dictatorship.

            • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              3 months ago

              A swing and a miss. You asked a dumb question so somebody else asked you a dumb question. You’re being made fun of.

              Why is it that you liberals consistently cannot understand when they’re being made fun of? It’s pathological.

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              3 months ago

              Nobody here is confusing contemporary capitalist Russia with communist Russia. And this war isn’t about revanchism, it’s about a decade of ethnic cleaning in eastern Ukraine and two and a half decades of US/NATO military expansion toward Russia’s borders.