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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by sekai on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:28AM (#39397473)
> The writing is on the wall for a while now, the only problem is that people talking about it are promptly labeled as not worthy of being listened

Exactly, did people forget Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014? Let's not be naive here.

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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by disgruntledphd2 on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:37AM (#39397579)
Yup, this was the time to arm Ukraine. (or even in 2008 with Georgia).
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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by Aerroon on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:35AM (#39398389)
The US did actually train Ukrainian troops after that. Eg https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-prepare-ukraine-soldiers-...

Could more have been done? Probably, but effort was definitely put in.

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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by disgruntledphd2 on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:08PM (#39399828)
If you compare what happened in 2022 to what happened in 2014, you could make the argument that basically nothing was done in 2014.

I had a friend who kept saying that we needed to do something back then, and kinda ignored him, and now looking back, it's depressing how right he was.

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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by unyttigfjelltol on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:18PM (#39402411)
Nah, Ukraine improved it's ability to defend itself after 2014, leaving Russia the choice of accepting defeat or outright invasion. It chose invasion.
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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by IncreasePosts on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:23PM (#39402463)
2 years before Russia invaded Ukraine, you had Obama quipping like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IWe11RWOM
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