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Stumbled upon this cartoon which shows the perception gap:
And something interesting about the current EU commission head, von der Leyen and her compatriot president of Germany:
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Germany’s former defence minister from CDU, Ursula von der Leyen had a Nazi ancestry to claim both on her side and her husband’s side. But that hardly mattered when Angela Merkel assigned to her the job of running the Bundeswehr for seven years.
By the way, von der Leyen’s grandfather was a Nazi who volunteered to fight in 1940, became a staff sergeant in the Wehrmacht and led a so-called “anti-partisan” unit on the eastern Soviet front hunting down resistance groups, participated in the capture of Ukraine’s capital Kiev and took part in the barbaric September 1941 Babi Yar massacre, in which more than 33,000 Jewish inhabitants of Kiev were shot in cold blood. It’s said that “Until his death he would rant about Jews, the French and the perfidious Albion. He never left the country again and he’d be in a near panic when coming close to a border.”
Yet, von der Leyen would co-habit comfortably in the CDU-SPD grand coalition under Merkel with the then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was from SPD — the party of Willy Brandt, known as reformists and moderates! In fact, Steinmeier himself maintained — and still does as President of Germany — good personal equations with the leadership of Svoboda, the Neo-Nazi faction in Ukraine.
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Von der Leyen’s current term as the president of the EU Commission, heading the bureaucracy in Brussels, gives her a pivotal role and it runs till December 2024. The body language of her last week’s announcements regarding Ukraine and her performance at the recent Munich Security Conference betrayed that she takes a vicarious pleasure to insult Russia and its leadership, as if it is a private crusade for her to settle scores for the defeat of Nazi Germany at the hands of the Red Army.
2 days in after OP posted and seeing awful news early this morning, I get the strong sense that Putin has his sights on razing the Ukraine. So, I disagree that Russia is doing the Ukraine a favor, the days ahead are going to be full of even more pain for the Ukranian people.
I do not think a Nuclear reactor exploding while it is very dangerous is near or even close to an actual nuclear bomb exploding. Cause a bomb is designed for destruction and would be awful. A reactor exploding by accident would be bad, but it is not quite the same even though both use Nuclear tech.
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Well, the last mass murder of Ukrainians by a Russian leader was called the 'holodomor', I don't know the difference between that term and 'holocaust'.
Says who? There are a zillion fake photos and videos out there now.
Of course occasionally a missile will hit where it shouldn't.
There is a guy in US prison because he leaked some document that showed that 3 out of 4 victims of US drone attacks are civilians.
And frankly, those Nazi radicals among the Ukrainian troops will do everything to make Russia look bad, including killing a few civilians in false-flag operations.
we have live feeds from multiple sources. no way in hell you cannot watch them too.
People here don't get the scope of this situation. It is not an isolated event that popped out of nowhere because Putin is a bad guy. He isn't, at all. He had no other choice.
Nobody believes that he had no choice but to invade. You are no less selective in what you choose to believe and not to believe than anyone else. I agree that much of our information isnt reliable and that the US and Ukraine would put together false flags to escalate things. However, Putin didnt have to invade and Putin is no more a "good guy" than the people in the US and Ukraine who you accuse of preparing false flags. They all would lie and kill to achieve their goals.
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