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Ramboxious t1_j6nhtbo wrote

Reply to comment by frostygrin in Brazil's Lula cold-shoulders Germany's Scholz on Ukraine support by Available_Hamster_44

>You could say the same about Zelensky's preconditions - give us what we want, then we'll have peace talks.

But Zelensky's preconditions are reasonable, to respect the sovereignty of their country, while Russia's aren't.

>Ukraine did intend to join NATO, specific plans don't take much time to make, and MAD surely never prevented tensions between countries. See: Cuban missile crisis.

Ukraine did want to join NATO, but their membership action plan was declined in 2008 in Bucharest. Joining NATO is a long process and is not guaranteed, look at Sweden and Finland.

Cuban missile crisis is not analogous, since Russia sent nukes to US borders. There were no plans to do this in Ukraine, if NATO wanted to put nukes at Russia's borders, they could do it already in the Baltic countries.

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frostygrin t1_j6nhq1a wrote

Reply to comment by Postcocious in Brazil's Lula cold-shoulders Germany's Scholz on Ukraine support by Available_Hamster_44

> Like every province, Crimeans voted on that exact question in a fair and open election. A majority voted to be part of Ukraine.

No, that didn't happen. The referendum was on the fate of the USSR. They weren't given a choice between being part of independent Ukraine and part of independent Russia. Since then there is a history of Crimea trying to get some form of independence or autonomy from Ukraine, and Ukraine suppressing it. Even before Putin became Russian president.

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Saffra9 t1_j6nhmxi wrote

Reply to comment by Bosco_is_a_prick in Major milestone for EU energy: Wind and solar produced more electricity than gas in 2022 by Zomaarwat

The intermittent nature of wind and solar is a real problem but not one that would stop them from giving a good average power output for the year. It instead means we still need a large capacity of energy generation with load following, which Europe had with oil and coal. A good baseline also helps which Europe has in some places with nuclear.

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Postcocious t1_j6nh2x7 wrote

Reply to comment by frostygrin in Brazil's Lula cold-shoulders Germany's Scholz on Ukraine support by Available_Hamster_44

>What if many Crimeans don't want to be part of Ukraine?

Like every province, Crimeans voted on that exact question in a fair and open election. A majority voted to be part of Ukraine.

Russia reneged on its sworn obligation to respect the borders that resulted from that election. Instead of honoring the borders chosen by the people of Crimea (Donbas, etc) they launched a war of aggression to steal the land for themselves.

When a schoolyard bully reoratedly beats up on a smaller, weaker kid and refuses to stop, standing by because "neutrality" is just moral cowardice.

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GreenNatureR t1_j6ngv24 wrote

Reply to comment by grapehelium in Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975

Detailed article in Jan 2021

>It’s been 2½ years since Qiu and Cheng were removed from the lab. It’s been a year since they were actually fired, in January 2021. And yet they have yet to be formally accused of anything, and it’s not known if they have retained legal counsel.

It's 3 and a half years now.

another article by BBC in 2020

>A tweet with more than 12,000 retweets and 13,000 likes - claimed without evidence that Dr Qiu and her husband were a "spy team", had sent "pathogens to the Wuhan facility", and that her husband "specialised in coronavirus research".
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>None of the three claims in the tweet can be found in the two CBC reports and the terms "coronavirus" and "spy" do not appear even once in either.
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>CBC has since reported that these claims are baseless.

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onlyfacts2000 t1_j6ngof5 wrote

Reply to comment by disasterbot in Netanyahu hints at displeasure with Russia’s military ties to Iran by RandomForks

  • 2,000 helmets and 500 bulletproof vests in April 2022.
  • 1,500 helmets
  • 1,500 sets of body armour
  • 1000 gas masks
  • "hundreds" of mine protection suits
  • "dozens" of hazmat filtration systems
  • According to reports published in September 2022, Israeli 'anti drone systems' were delivered by an Israeli defence contractor to Ukraine indirectly through Poland, and the United States. Israel has also provided intel regarding drones used by Russian forces.
  • 100 tons of humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, water purification equipment, tents, blankets and warm clothing.
  • 40 doctors and paramedics from United Hatzalah of Israel, with medical and humanitarian equipment, at the Moldova–Ukraine border to assist refugees,.
  • A 66-bed field hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Mostyska operated by 60 Israeli medical personnel.
  • Flight and medical treatment in Israel for the wounded, including soldiers.
  • 25,000 ration packs sent to the city of Kharkiv.

Added to the pile:

Yesterday armored ambulances, massive attacks in Syria and Iran to help stop weapons production and deliveries, and who knows whatever intellegence or deals are done behind closed doors.

So which is it, were you just completely ignorant or lying?

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frostygrin t1_j6nge6r wrote

Reply to comment by Ramboxious in Brazil's Lula cold-shoulders Germany's Scholz on Ukraine support by Available_Hamster_44

> He wouldn't have allowed democratic elections to occur, right?

He might have done the same thing as the US did in Iraq. Clear the field, then allow democratic (?) elections among what's left.

> Plus, I'm pretty sure he would've annexed parts of Ukraine that are currently being fought over.

He probably would have left it to referendums. I don't think he actually wanted to control a territory that's largely hostile to him.

> Russia said that Ukraine must acknowledge annexed territory as Russian, so they are not willing to negotiate.

You could say the same about Zelensky's preconditions - give us what we want, then we'll have peace talks.

> Ukraine was nowhere near to joining NATO, there were no plans of putting military bases in Crimea, and NATO wasn't going to attack Russia due to MAD.

Ukraine did intend to join NATO, specific plans don't take much time to make, and MAD surely never prevented tensions between countries. See: Cuban missile crisis.

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mmm__donuts t1_j6nftxv wrote

Reply to comment by REOreddit in Haavisto: Finland has patience to wait for Nato membership — with Sweden. by parandroidfinn

If NATO decided to intervene in Ukraine, would Sweden be willing to take the risk of participating in the fighting even after NATO wouldn't have them? What if the war was over Russia's invasion of Turkey? If Finland is in NATO, there are a whole bunch of reasons they might end up at war with Russia besides an attack on Finland, and mutual defense pacts don't cover those.

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