Kilt
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I'm still waiting for these game-changing sanctions the US and EU promised
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8 hours ago, Nonoka said:
...For me now, the question is how far Putin is willing to go to see his security demands fulfilled. I highly doubt that even if Ukraine would let go of these separatist territories (and NATO accepts), that Russia would stop there and withdraw its forces. Putin seemed quite unhinged to me in his speech yesterday - talking about how the creation of independent Ukraine should have never happened (so basically denying the legitimacy of Ukrainian state) and that Ukraine could quickly build nuclear weapons to challenge Russia (which is an absolutely outlandish claim, according to pretty much any analysis I've read).
I'm sorry, but no matter how big the historic heritage Ukraine shares with Russia, his rhetoric yesterday against the country was totally unacceptable and definitely had the tone of war in it. And I don't think Putin has much right to complain how the Ukrainian government is a NATO puppet regime, illegitimate etc. - given that he just recently propped up the dictatorship in Belarus and help them beat down huge protests by society (did people here forget about that?).
And he didn't just stop at Ukraine - he explicitly talked about how allowing the former Soviet republics to break away was a 'historic mistake' (even though they did so out of free will - ask any Estonian for example what they think about their country's "membership" in the Soviet Union).
To clarify - I'm under no illusion that NATO, and within them particularly the US, are these big moral defenders of freedom and sovereignty as they like to portray themselves. But the Russian regime under Putin definitely isn't interested in letting its former partner states have an independent future either, that much he made clear yesterday. And whether Russia likes it or not, the majority of Ukrainians today (but also e.g. Georgians, Moldavians) do see their future as part of the EU and NATO (check this out or this) - they do not want to live under a Russian sphere of influence as Belarussians for example are forced to. (Oh and by the way: the claim by Putin that Russia is being 'surrounded' by NATO is highly exaggerated anyway - not even 10 percent of Russia borders on NATO countries, see here).
I don't know where this is going to end, but again, speaking as a Hungarian-Romanian, I am quite happy atm that both countries are inside NATO and EU and with that, somewhat safe and sound from an economic and security perspective...I don't see this conflict de-escalating anytime soon.
Multumesc
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1 hour ago, CzarnaWisnia said:
Most Westerners know NOTHING about Ukraine, not the first thing (let alone picking it out on a worldmap), but they have these opinions about it. They figure Ukraine is a peaceful, united country. Well it's not. There's a civil war that's been going on for years. Recognizing the sovereignty of other nations (that is, populations who democratically affirmed their self-determination) is not against international law.
You mean the self-determination of Donbass and Lugansk regions fueled and enabled by the Kremlin and FSB puppeteers?
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7 hours ago, elijah said:
Hmmmm. But he is trying to prevent it. Unfortunately Putin has such demands that he knows won’t be accepted. Biden popularity would suffer even greater if a war in Ukraine starts. Putin needs this war, because last time he got Cremea in 2014 and that cemented him in the power. Now, as the covid is taking a toll on the Russians, he d attempt another land grab to bounce back in the good graces of the Russians.
moreover Putin wants to reinstate the spheres of interest/domination prior to the Cold War. That's why he wants to strike the iron while it's still hot, but at what cost?!
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with English translation
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9 hours ago, LSD said:
#lifegoals
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2 minutes ago, karbatal said:
Wtf?
George Floyd must be rolling in his grave
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8 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:
It has just been reported, she has died at the hospital.
She died for Trump. Absolutely useless death. She should have known better, but didn't.
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Seriously, the National Guard couldn't handle these hillbillies?
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I'm positive Trump will be prosecuted for instigating this interference and his party fellow men will abandon him as fast as they can.
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15 hours ago, Junior said:
Was this clown involved in this mess?
He could have taken his shirt off to flaunt his 6-pack
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Why is the National Guard sleeping? Why aren't these protesters stopped? This can create a very well dangerous precedent.
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On 11/1/2020 at 4:18 AM, Nikki said:
I know the church often does ceremonies for people who died months and years later, but we've only done this to our grandparents who were very catholic. so I'll look into that.
it's hard, especially considering his personality.. he was so outgoing, so social and eccentric. knowing he was so afraid to die, how even just this wednesday he expressed so much sadness about not seeing me grow older and how i wanted to avoid talking about it.. I knew he was dying, but not that day. it's gut wrenching indeed
the coming weeks will be hard.
thanks for your kind words
Huge hugs !!!
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Go Michigan!!!!
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Reminds me of 9/11, when American radio banned songs from airplay that had lyrics about plane crashes, like Alanis's Ironic
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34 minutes ago, dario said:
So she didn't really has a record company that send her songs on radio, so how she's going to have a hit there..maybe GMAYL was only a deal with the Superbowl people....pretty sure they are very powerful and owns lots of stations in the US...She accept the superbowl for free and they have to promote the single through their stations....Still she made a song called Turn on the radio but they don't put her new music... the irony there....
She will never have another hit until she signs with other record company who really push her songs on radio...I only hear her Warner songs every time I go to the mall...I only heard once GMAYL at Cinemark, like couple of years ago..So it does not matter which song will be first or second single
Radio will not touch her songs, regardless how catchy and good are they. Make peace with it.
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No. It would have had the same American Life effect.
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Russians have bigger fish to fry than eliminate LGBT people. That country is going down the shits at an alarming pace with increasing poverty rates and disproportionate inequalities between regions.
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Such a random release
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1 year ago we all took a TRIP

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On 4/8/2020 at 2:44 PM, justinian said:
Rertofuture...Futurenostalgia...well...me I’m really looking for something in music...like he was once able to surprise me so much with (their) music...and not only...
i really enjoyed this and entire album
She could've squeezed in the Mirwais produced version of Keep The Trance on COADF between Future Lovers and ILNY. What a wasted opportunity
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2 hours ago, Suedehead said:
Boris Johnson has been moved to the intensive care unit.
When will Trump?
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On 3/9/2020 at 10:47 AM, Plaything said:
Agreed. I mean it’s no coincidence that the Mirwais-produced tracks fill the first half of Madame X..because they set the tone, are sonically interesting and are different to anything that’s out there. I wish he had co-produced the entire album. At the same time I can’t with some of the production choices. Dark Ballet needed more time to breathe and would have worked better as a 6 minutes epic. The vocals effects on Batuka will never not be annoying..which is a real shame because otherwise it’s a great song.
For DB, after the Tchaikovsky breakdown, i expected the song to pick up in a way similar to the Nobody Knows Me instrumental outro part, but with more punch and drama.
New war in Europe, courtesy of Putin
in Politics and World Events
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The Kiev Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Defense bombed.