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Spin is a meaningless concept where lies are the norm. He will simply invent a lie that suits him and the propaganda apparatus will amplify it as needed.
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I don't understand german, what is the left connection to the police actions described in the tweet?
It says that it's a political decision by the SPD and Die Linke. No idea what they mean by that. Also no idea why they confiscated the flag, but given there are plenty of Ukrainian flags left unmolested in that video, I guess it has something to do with the size? Again, no idea what that has to do with the "German left".
The police seem to be enforcing what's been described in this post:
Though judging by all the regular sized Ukrainian flags that are still around they don't seem to be too strict about it. Maybe the other one was too big and too clear a political statement to look the other way.
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What's happening here is related to what was discussed earlier in the thread, see the posts below. I suppose Berlin is governed by SPD and Die Linke.
I wouldnt be surprised if Russian command allowed this to happen, or put them in harms way in order to save future embarrassment.
This isn't exactly about laws as such - the City council made a ruling that the memorial for the end of WW2 shouldn't be mixed with statements about the current war and therefore limited the use of all flags there. A different City council majority might not have made this decision and therefore the police might not have needed to act.
One way or the other banning flags from sites is always a highly political decision. I don't know whose responsibility it was officially, but you can be sure that one way or the other the politicians had their say.
If that's true, then they can all burn in the deepest circle of hell.
We're still waiting for Joe...
Won’t happen for a while.
Yes, I understand. I am not saying it is easy, it is very hard, it is a dictatorship. However, if one million people protested in Moscow, things would be very different today. It never came close to that. How many Russian soldiers have died? Perhaps 20 thousand? How many Russian protesters have died? Sure, I know they aren't comparable situations, but I expected that we'd see clashes between protesters and Putin's police. I expected to see widespread revolt. Nothing like that happened. A few thousand people care about this war, but millions do not care.
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Majority of Russia's population do support Putin in this war. Even most of those citizens who left Russia after Feb 24 and moved to other former USSR states did so because they care about their businesses and/or are unwilling to join the army. None of those that are spoke to expressed any disagreement to what Putin has done to Ukraine.
cnut being a cnut again. Rogo-ruscist-zin.
And this is exactly why a general mobilization is unlikely, and if it happens would be extremely stupid. What you describe is almost like 1917, when general mobilisation made it possible to overthrow the Tsar.
The big problem in Russia is that the people have no prior experience of democracy whatsoever. Throughout its history Russia has always been ruled by an autocratic dictator of one kind or another, sustained by the myth that only a strong leader can hold the country together and fend off invaders. And many Russians today have been led to equate democracy with chaos.
Yes, what you are saying is true. However, people in Ukraine did not have any experience in democracy, either. And many protesters died during the Euromaidan. I was expecting to see something similar in Moscow, a Russian Euromaidan. But nothing like that ever happened. Not even close. (Moscow is a European city in many aspects, and their citizens are educated and have contact with the West. )
Yawn. We get it, you have nukes, same applies the other way round.
Yes and they would get it back in a similar amount of time…MAD.
Yes, but Ukraine is much further geographically west than Russia (closer to the rest of Europe, and so more part of western culture) and doesn't span 11 different time zones. This is also why even Byelorussia is far more likely to see another uprising than Russia.
I disagree. The best possible scenario would be a collapse of the Russian Federation and a breakup into smaller states that aren't a threat on their own and where some at least might have a chance to become democracies. A bit like what happened when the SU collapsed and the Baltic States oriented themselves towards the West.
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I didn't say "the best possible scenario", I said the best we can probably hope for (i.e. being more realistic).Of course you're scenario would be better.
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Then we have to agree to disagree, as I think my scenario is more realistic. I just don't see a better (from our point of view) potential successor to Putin on the horizon.
I'm not saying that I do either, because I've no idea who would likely take over if Putin took a bullet to the back of his head. But I do think that someone taking over is more likely - more realistic - than is the notion of a breakup of Russia into separate nations, although I'd like to see that happen.
I understand what you are saying but I wasn't talking about the whole of Russia. I was talking about Moscow only. It has a population of over 12 million people and used to have more Western stores than Kiev. A revolt in Moscow does not depend on what people in Vladivostok think.
