Oh off you go again wittering on to the void
The Russian-Ukrainian War Thread
I was replying to you not anyone else, basic comprehension, you should try it
personaldesas
Active Member
I think often the framing aroudn this issue misses an important distinction. NATO did not expand by invading countries and forcing them to join. Those countries actively sought membership because of their own security concerns and historical experience.
You can still criticize NATO for accepting them. But then the agency of Poland, the Baltics, Romania, etc. has to be part of the argument too.
Equating voluntary accession to an alliance with Russia imposing its will by force on neighboring countries, as some here do, is just not a strong argument.
You have no clue at all about American politics, do you? Yes, she is propaganda.
God damn. Learn about the world. Get out of your shell.
My country (Indonesia) is supposed to be a friend of yours (Russia) but holy shit either you're dumb or you think we here at defencetalk are dumb.
Nonsense!
An invasion isn't "partial" if it isn't intended to occupy the whole country. Napoleon invaded Russia: he didn't intend to conquer it, just force it to change its policies & alliances. He invaded Austria with no intention of conquering it. Saddam Hussein didn't intend to conquer Iran (he wasn't that stupid). Bismarck neither wished nor tried to conquer France when he invaded in 1870, & he won the victory he wanted . India successfully invaded Pakistan in 1971, achieving all its war aims & a complete victory - & only occupied about 15% of the country (though it had over half of the population). And so on . . . . . None of these is considered to have been a mere partial invasion.
Remember, I'm qualified to teach this language. I'm being very generous here, giving you free lessons.
you was replying to me off the response i gave someone else, basic intelligence, why is it hard for you to understand
Mr clue, well done, i see you. whether it's propaganda or not, it's coming from high ranking US official. you can conclude what you like.
I am not Russian, am British. because of my views you have concluded very quickly that i am Russian. how dumb are you? i am ready to prove my identity any time, just to show you how dumb you are, thinking am Russian
rsemmes
Active Member
Of course not! That's why I used partial and “invasion”. The Sino-Soviet War or border conflict, was a “war”, but not an “invasion” (just troops inside another country without invitation); but it was after 1941.
In Georgia, Russia set the trap but Georgia (choosing what words to use) “started the war”, that does not overrides everything else.
Agents provocateurs? There was nothing going on in Donbas? There was no “conflict” in Crimea? There was no “issue” with the Hungarian minority in Ukraine? What about the Russian minority? (The Catholic minority in NI?).
No, Hungary did not invade Ukraine. (It would have been interesting to see EU/NATO sanctions against Hungary and weapons supplies for Ukraine.) On the other hand, conflicts don't surge by “spontaneous generation”, who fired the first shot does not overrides everything else; it's just politics by other means.
Generous and kindly reminding us about your generosity. And yes, I used "partial" as agent provocateur, I could have used your "overrides" instead. The point was about simplistic storylines.
Actually, I think a majority of Ukrainians do speak Russian.
But many of them speak it as a second language, & of those for who it is their first language, many identify as Ukrainian, not Russian, e.g. Volodymyr Zelensky.
I think a majority speak Ukrainian at home, & a large majority describe it as their mother tongue. Unsurprisingly, the number who habitually use Russian is reported to have dropped after 2014, & dropped a lot more since 2022. Zelensky's reported to speak much better Ukrainian than he used to.
personaldesas
Active Member
Just a tip for the future: in UK English you can’t drop the subject pronoun as freely as in Slavic or other languages. So phrases like “am British” and “thinking am Russian” kind of gives you away.
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your not a serious person at all, you too, want to teach me English, ok. so because of what you highlighted you think am Russian? you didn't see the part where i said, i am ready to prove my identity, No? i will love to prove you totally wrong so i see the next thing you guys come up with, shouldn't be hard to verify, i see some users here are also from the UK.
tip for you in the future: verify before you make silly assumptions. really, it makes you look silly.
personaldesas
Active Member
Non of that is true, I merely said you’re clearly don't write like a native-born Brit. But yeah, I’m awaiting the proof you offered. Please provide that.
If I had to guess I'd say you're a spanish (or romance) speaker.
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