re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Where do the other 19% sit?

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Staying out of prison by not saying the wrong thing

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I disagree, and Eurocrat’s post shows it.

We seem to apply American viewpoints and sentimentalism to other countries, where it is wholly not applicable.

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And people forget about the War in Iraq. While most of my family was for it, I was against it, didn’t buy the WMD lies, and was wondering what the frick this had to do with 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden. People fall for propaganda and need to be constantly vigilant on the lookout for it.

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58 percent of Russians support the invasion 

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If I were a Russian that received a phone call asking my opinion, I would probably tow the government line.

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And people forget about the War in Iraq. While most of my family was for it, I was against it, didn’t buy the WMD lies, and was wondering what the frick this had to do with 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden. People fall for propaganda and need to be constantly vigilant on the lookout for it.

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let me guess, watched a lot of daily show when you were 16

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let me guess, watched a lot of daily show when you were 16

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That being said I was still right.

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Russia wouldn’t waste time calling though. They would just make shite up.

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We seem to apply American viewpoints and sentimentalism to other countries, where it is wholly not applicable.

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It would be interesting to see those viewpoints with adequate access to information and the luxury of being able to process it.

I've read stories where Russians with family in Ukraine who have refused to believe war is even being waged, even when presented by their own family with first hand accounts, photos, and video. They say it is Ukrainian propaganda and that the Ukrainians are bombing their own cities.

Life under a dictator who has absolute control of information has so many parallels to life in a cult that it is just unreal.

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People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.

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I understand why he's saying it, but Zelenskyy needs to chill out with the incessant whining about a no-fly zone. It ain't happening. No one wants to risk WW3 over a no-fly zone in Ukraine.

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This will probably turn out to the equivalent of Afghanistan for Putin. The masses will get tired of poverty and their own coming back in caskets.

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War is a game of “attrition”.

The question isn’t whether the Russian citizens will turn on him, but whether the western nations’ citizens cry “uncle” first.

I'd like to see how many Russians support the war now they can't get a big Mac meal to soak up that vodka hangover.