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(DIR) Post #AXgNDF1DeKWjOWZdHU by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-07-14T10:39:43.644191Z
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Commenting on #Ukraine membership in #NATO, #Putin said “Ukraine has right to ensure its security, but not by creating threats to #Russia”[^1], a statement which on its face value sounds absurd, granted that it’s Russia that in the first place materialised the largest threat in the last half century for Ukraine and Europe.But behind that statement there’s a certain logic of Russian elites, and since this postulate was and will be picked up by the Putinverstehers of the world, I think it requires a clarification.Russians wholeheartedly believe they have a moral right to Ukraine and Eastern Europe. This “right” is not based on, or directly contravenes all kind of international agreements and obligations signed by Russia but it doesn’t matter, because Russia treats all laws in the same way as explained by Simonyan in the context of Wagner mutiny - they are “made for humans” and can be applied selectively, as necessary.[^2]Because of the above, they also believe they have a moral right to intervene, either covertly, as they did all the time before 2014, or directly, using military force, as they did starting from 2014. These interventions form the core of “security of Russian interests” frequently mentioned by Putin and others.This vague “moral right” to interventions of their liking was precisely what drove not only annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas, but also numerous GRU assassinations in Europe, explosions in Vrbětice etc. And, to be honest, lukewarm reaction of the international community was perceived by them as a kind of approving nod.Now, once we established how these interventions in “their zone of influence” (once again, having no legal base) are considered as their sacred right, any defensive actions or countermeasures undertaken by the target countries are naturally described by Russia as “violation of their security”.This is exactly how air defense “Patriot” batteries located in #Poland were described by Russians as “threat to their security”, and this is exactly how Ukrainian static lines of fortifications in Donbas were also described as “offensive”. Of course, you can’t invade another country with static trenches 20 km from their border, but dialectically these fortifications reduced options for Russian invasion, thus limiting their “sacred right” to invade. 🤷♂️This kind of dialectics has a long tradition in Russia: during and after WW2, Soviets many times labelled as “Nazis” anyone who fought against Soviet influences even if they also fought against German invasion. Which led to absurd arguments, where people like Poland’s Witold Pilecki, who tirelessly fought against Nazis from 1939, when USSR was German ally, was at the end of the war sentenced to death as “Nazi collaborator” because he also opposed Soviet occupation.[^3][^1]: https://tass.com/world/1646611[^2]: https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AX56Nlajrdw8qiex4S[^3]: https://write.as/arcadian/on-the-kremlins-ideas-of-denazification-and-russophobia
(DIR) Post #AXgTJfxazfvsPmKXc8 by DrGeraintLlanfrancheta@mastodon.coffee
2023-07-14T11:41:10Z
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@kravietz thank you. Solid. Therefore we should tackle the problem by its root. #FreeTheB52s
(DIR) Post #AXgTUZ2Z3tyq8eqXZY by vitaminsludge@mastodon.ie
2023-07-14T11:37:17Z
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@kravietz Who gives a fuck what that gopnik dictator says?
(DIR) Post #AXgTUZoQByGGX5ElAO by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-07-14T11:50:12.254885Z
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@vitaminsludgeLarge part of world's political elites do, unfortunately. Often, this is because they take Putin's words as if they meant what these words usually mean in the West, but Putin uses them in a completely different semantic framework.
(DIR) Post #AXgTYI523sD6hCmGzQ by xs4me2@mastodon.social
2023-07-14T11:31:35Z
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@kravietz Great analysis, worth a good read.The only threat to Russia is Putin and the clan he carefully raised in the past 20 plus years… For lasting peace the only solution is rooting out this toxic regime…
(DIR) Post #AXgTc3B7PMWVdYPvKC by aureliuspublius@mastodon.social
2023-07-14T11:02:22Z
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@kravietz fantastic post worth sharing
(DIR) Post #AXgY7sqRlL3QfiBOt6 by vitaminsludge@mastodon.ie
2023-07-14T11:51:26Z
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@kravietz I lived under Putin and Xi and now Orban. This dictatorship bullshit is being tolerated by the rest.
(DIR) Post #AXgYopLgdXl0HTGw9w by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-07-14T12:49:46.932634Z
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@vitaminsludgeAbsolutely, I can understand a hard realistic calculation, like you wouldn't for example enforce your right of way on a bicycle against a truck. And even that only when you're certain it's not a fake truck made of paper. But I have no respect for people who justify these despots, especially using syllogisms like "Ci doesn't like US, and I don't like US, so I shall like Xi", which is what Chomskys of this world do routinely.
(DIR) Post #AXgduzs2veo6QFAZ2O by vitaminsludge@mastodon.ie
2023-07-14T13:39:30Z
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@kravietz it’s fairly easy to intellectualise dictators when you’re a few countries away and don’t have to deal with them
(DIR) Post #AXiE9wxJq8VhEX1cBs by templarknight@ieji.de
2023-07-15T04:52:44Z
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@kravietz can you tell me how you could have so many words in the toot?
(DIR) Post #AXiEA0llf1eB3reRk0 by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-07-15T08:07:41.609876Z
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@templarknight Fediverse as a network based on ActivityPub protocol has no hard message length limit - but individual instances can impose such limit, which is likely what your server does. In general Mastodon instances tend to impose relatively small limits, like 500 characters, which can be annoying - but you can easily find instances that allow much longer messages. I run my own instance on Pleroma and I think the limit I’ve set is 100’000 characters because I know how annoying it is when it’s too small :)
(DIR) Post #AXisQBlsWKCZyyyJu4 by templarknight@ieji.de
2023-07-15T12:39:51Z
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@kravietz Got it. Thanks very much for the detail explaination!