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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by cbg0 on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:12AM (#39396503)
How exactly will Russia start "riots" in NATO countries?
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by KingOfCoders on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:35AM (#39396786)
The same way as in Transnistra, Georgia and Ukraine. Soviet Russia colonized these areas with Russians to control access to the baltic sea/coal production/... and today these Russians lead a "Back to Mother Russia" campaigns.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by The_Colonel on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:20AM (#39396612)
With the large Russian minority living there. Just like it started in Donbas.
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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by The_Colonel on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:50AM (#39397773)
Wasn't all of this in Crimea / Donbas? It did not seem to help there.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by thriftwy on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:13PM (#39400803)
Ukraine was busy closing Russian language schools all across country, including Donbass.

The inconvenient truth is that such a policy didn't get any serious reversal during the reign of "pro-Russian, Donbass choice" Yanukovich. Nevertheless, Donbass only really went ballistic when the first action of post-Yanukovich Rada was to repeal the "language law" which half-assedly permitted the things I have mentioned in my previous comment.

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by ImPostingOnHN on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:24PM (#39404393)
> Ukraine was busy closing Russian language schools all across country, including Donbass.

russia is closing Ukrainian-language schools across Ukraine. Bad or Good?

What % of schools in russia are Ukrainian-language and are not closed?

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by thriftwy on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:31AM (#39407577)
They are mostly in place. You can get "Ukrainian as native tongue" lessons in these "new regions". Not sure about LDNR as there's some stigma, plus the fact that all those regions are predominantly Russian speaking.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by ImPostingOnHN on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:41AM (#39409809)
Unfortunately, no, they are not mostly in place where russia controls, because russia is closing Ukrainian-language schools across Ukraine, in addition to russia :( When you do eventually find the percentage, you will find it is very low compared to russian-speaking schools, because russia considers Ukrainians non-humans :(

You seem to be saying that this is bad when Ukraine does it, but good when russia does it. I don't understand this logic. Maybe you aren't saying so, and you ignored my "good or bad" question by accident. If so, here is where you can answer: good or bad that russia is closing Ukrainian language schools in not only russia, but Ukraine as well?

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by thriftwy on Saturday February 17, 2024 @11:41AM (#39411036)
> because russia considers Ukrainians non-humans

Are you five years old?

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by wouldbecouldbe on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:39AM (#39397621)
Making it about US, main concern is Baltics
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by sach1 on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:13AM (#39398085)
I think the links there are less about 'wow look at how this disruption playbook worked in the US' and more about'look you can cause instability without inviting open warfare with NATO'.

Or are the Baltics and her people immune to propaganda?

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by wouldbecouldbe on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:01PM (#39402204)
Activating Russian communities is something different from promoting polarity in the US.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by ceejayoz on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:00PM (#39402902)
Sure, but they do the "promoting polarity" thing outside the US plenty. It's a useful tactic; pick wedge issues like gay people or immigrants, spread false or out-of-context news, etc.

For a nice Baltic example, Lithuania: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-baltic-elves-taking-on-pro...

> Facebook is where the light skirmishes take place; the mortal combat is reserved for the comment sections of Lithuanian news articles, where the trolls loose a constant drizzle of falsehoods and complaints, each comment helping to construct an alternate reality version of life in this Baltic country of 3 million. Rather than a thriving and patriotic post-Soviet success story, which it is, the image the trolls cultivate is that of a demoralized and angry society whose people are ready for regime change, be it through internal democratic mechanisms or through “liberation” by a friendly neighboring army.

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by ceejayoz on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:59AM (#39397903)
A playbook is made up of repeatable tactics.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by Paradigma11 on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:34PM (#39400210)
There are significant Russian minorities left in the baltic states from the SU.

Russia will support and radicalize those.

If the Baltics dont react it will lead to unrest and Russia is forced to intervene and "protect" their fellow Russians.

If the states react this will be seen as suppressing the Russian minorities and Russia will be forced to intervene and "protect" their fellow Russians.

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by riku_iki on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:22PM (#39404372)
Baltic is part of NATO, it means NATO direct military response.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by Paradigma11 on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:03AM (#39407444)
True, Putin would need to wait for Trump to make it clear that he wouldnt come to their defense and/or Orban/Fico have done enough damage to the Organization to make this viable.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by the_why_of_y on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:08PM (#39402990)
The same way they already did in Estonia in 2007?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xq2XrCHv8