306comments / 21days… about 14.5 comments per day- the bulk of them come from entrenched arguments and my addiction to receiving even more downvotes and baseless insults.

i concede a point to you but i guess i’m just moving goalposts.

yes russia broke international law, but everyone and their mother knew about putin’s position and pressed it until it was determined from russian perspective that there was no alternative. by the way, international law-- why is it that the USA/israel can ignore it with impunity?

i may disagree with you but i don’t think you deserve malicious bad faith actors attempting to smear and undermine you for your beliefs… i offer dialogue, i answer questions i’m asked, i try to maintain a semblance of approachability-- i am met with insults and brigading. the type of shit i say is not in a vacuum, i don’t suppose you read any of the vitriol i am responding to when i lose my better self to slap back here and there.

isn’t it possible russia has just cause to fear nato build-up on their borders?

you may notice the “quotation marks” and the attribution. ‘revolution of dignity’ lol

i guess the many lessons one is a good start and broad edit: again someone is cycling through alt accounts and downvoting everything i’ve posted… lol, let’s hope its a bot and someone isn’t wasting their actual time to totally own me with downvotes.

https://chasfreeman.net/category/ukraine/ here are 5 speeches on ukraine.

i said ‘some weirdo’ sorry if you feel that i’m implicating you. still waiting on your sources though.

okay now that i’ve given you what you asked for and its been subsequently downvoted, maybe you’d like to share some of your wonderful and trustworthy sources?

edit: lol, second time some weirdo has gone through my entire comment history and downvoted everything i’ve posted in the last days. stay classy!

i consider chas freeman to be my most reliable western source, but i’m sure there are others.

another thing you can be confidently incorrect about.

"In 2014, after a well-prepared[3] US-sponsored anti-Russian coup in Kyiv, Ukrainian ultranationalists banned the official use of Russian and other minority languages in their country and, at the same time, affirmed Ukraine’s intention to become part of NATO. Among other consequences, Ukrainian membership in NATO would place Russia’s 250-year-old naval base in the Crimean city of Sebastopol under NATO and hence U.S. control. Crimea was Russian-speaking and had several times voted not to be part of Ukraine. So, citing the precedent of NATO’S violent intervention to separate Kosovo from Serbia, Russia organized a referendum in Crimea that endorsed its reincorporation in the Russian Federation. The results were consistent with previous votes on the issue.

Meanwhile, in response to Ukraine’s banning of the use of Russian in government offices and education, predominantly Russian-speaking areas in the country’s Donbas region attempted to secede. Kyiv sent forces to suppress the rebellion. Moscow responded by backing Ukrainian Russian speakers’ demands for the minority rights guaranteed to them by both the pre-coup Ukrainian constitution and the principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). NATO backed Kyiv against Moscow. An escalating civil war among Ukrainians ensued. This soon evolved into an intensifying proxy war in Ukraine between the United States, NATO, and Russia."

from former ambassador chas freeman. you know what came after this ? a brokered peace agreement by osce france and germany in which various terms were settled which neither france, nor germany, nor ukraine were intending to uphold. this is the minsk agreement.

there’s a lot you like to leave out, and i’m sure you’ll deign to forget this history, too.

edit: to the one user who upvoted me: i see you, bless your heart and open mind- more than makes up for the dozens upon dozens of salty idealogues

that is because zelensky and europe don’t want peace.

reddit is promoting divisive conservative rhetoric? that could just be conservatives being conservatives. this is a moment of strength for them and their cause. they could be rallying in awe of what is taking place-- you don’t have to like it but maybe stop trying to push everything you don’t like or agree with out of every corner of the internet and learn to promote your own rhetoric better. it probably didn’t occur to you that they (conservatives) do make up a large percentage of the population of this country.

uhh, were you paying attention to the zionist messaging boasting/celebrating/calling for further genocide throughout the last year?

this of course after using ai to ban 2.3 million ‘security threat’ aps.

we do hear about ‘industry plants’, however…

appreciate the consideration and i assumed it was probably industry jargon, i just found the title to be clickbait and wanted to address that in my disappointed summary after searching the article for those answers :p

“paper launch” refers to a shortage of cards available on release-- many who waited in line left with purchase vouchers instead of hardware.

article doesn’t mention who calls it that or who coined the term.