Russia - threadbanned users in OP

People have fell for their nonsense for years.

Them RBB and Paul Murphy.

Bunch of muppets.

Russia was pro-western in the 1990s. I cannot recall when the situation got changed but the people say it was Putin's Munich speech in 2007. I was mostly working and was not really interested in how Russia treats the world and how the world treats Russia. What I can say is that I have no issues with earning money, buying cars, or paying mortgage. I was just a usual programmer and was not even in Moscow/St Petersburg.

The actual feeling was that the things got much better since Putin came. Now people say it is attributed to oil prices. Whatever the reason is Russian people support their President (I am talking about the majority of the people around me - it might be not the majority of ~140M country).

It is said that NATO kept expanding even when there was nothing to worry about from Russia from 1990 up to 2007. The agenda that NATO tries to encircle and somehow hurt Russia is quite popular in Russia. Partly because of Russian propaganda (what country does not have it?). It is also partly due to the fact that during its history Russia was attacked multiple times, and my grandparents and grandmother fought in WW2. It is now popular to say that Russia attacked Poland in WW2. I would say it was attacked but there were some reasons for it. How things would go if Russia did not attack Poland with Germany? Not sure, but splitting Poland makes some sense in terms of future German expansion eastward.

Whatever happens now reminds me what happened with Poland in WW2. Is Russia now Nazi Germany, or is it still Russia/Communist USSR?

Idk, but I am closely watching all media sources to understand how the situation/war is presented by different sides.

I saw a funny one last night: Russian tank appears around a distant corner of a tree lined road and stops when it sees a largish group of Ukrainians standing in the road under a fly-over, some more up on the flyover. The Ukrainians point mobile phones at the tank in the disance and amble about a bit - Russian tank, wary of the brandished phones, does a 3 point turn and rumbles back around the bend and retreats out of sight.

You're being too polite. They're much more than muppets.

No, I do not. Please enlighten me. Did she mention Wolyn's massacre conducted by Stepan Bandera's faction who is now a national hero in Ukraine and has a lot of streets named after him in Ukraine?

Russian state media accounts, as well as content linking to their sites, will now be demoted across Meta's platforms globally.

Also Mexico opting not to apply sanctions. They want to be a peacebroker.

Indeed. Civil society in her words, comprises anyone who is important or plays a non-sedentary role in society, so politicians, human rights and other outspoken lawyers, judges, active social commentators, news readers and media personalities, journalists etc, etc - all to be rounded up and gotten rid of. Anyone who makes Ukraine, uniquely Ukraine and not Russia. A complete pre-frontal labotomy of Ukranian society.

He is so much sicker and sociopathic than most people realise. He's ever bit as much of a sick fu​ck as Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler were. Incomprehensibly ruthless.

Surprised at Mexico- assumed the USA would have whipped them into line? Wouldn’t rule it out yet

Flatten cities tonight, negotiate tomorrow. Can guess the Russian bargaining stance.

I thought it was pretty clear. It's not a difficult concept. It's not a new concept either. I suppose it's just a part of Sun Tsu's concept of knowing your enemy and knowing yourself. It's basic, but the inability to even acknowledge the enemy's narrative is interesting.

True but it’s not just that- some are suspending sales to Russia completely. That’s not to do with any parts shortage. We are seeing a massive corporate exit from Russia. It’s not worth the bad PR and these multinationals very carefully sculpt their images around corporate social responsibility and the like.

Wonder will the likes of McDonald’s and Coca Cola be forced to do the same? Nothing is off the table now.

I don't think it was Nazi sympathising at all its accurately describing what people of this region think about the Russians. I don't see it saying the Nazis were nice.

People in Poland and other Eastern European countries lived under the yoke of the USSR for over 40 years. Its no wonder they all flocked to NATO to ensure they didn't become vassals of the Russians again.