Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by shard972 on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:14PM
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I mean, those are talking points but it doesn't change the fact geopolitics is more complicated then "Putin invaded Ukraine"
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by kafkaesq on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:10PM
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Actually it's not that complicated in this case. Except for the small matter of nearly 10,000 people needlessly killed.
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by Mikeb85 on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:35PM
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I don't know if you know this, there's never not been Russian troops in Sevastopol...
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by kafkaesq on Monday October 17, 2016 @08:25PM
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Actually the Russians are relative newcomers, having just arrived in 1783. Before that time it was controlled by the Crimean Tatars (you know, the people Stalin deported en masse in 1944). And before that, by Khazars, Bulgars, Huns, Goths, Scythians, Romans, Greeks (most significantly), and scads of others.
Either way -- the main point is (and presumably you do know this), the leased military base at Sevastopol != the Crimean peninsula.
Right -- the several thousand army and special forces troops that Putin has since openly acknowledged sending there to size buildings and other strategic checkpoints were just out on vacation.