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Re:Zig's Comptime Is Bonkers Good on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:12AM (#42623172)
Thanks
Almost everywhere in the former Yugoslavia is more safe than in the West. But it is not only safe, you will very easily make friends as people are much more open to forming friendships. Belgrade is one of my favourite cities. Never been to Nis
Although it is a general concern that governments are constantly encroaching on our private conversations I cannot help but wonder why Serbia is singled out. There are much more authoritarian examples of survailence technology and draconian laws in the West, examples being Australia UK Spain, etc
infringing on copyright is like stealing from the rich

infringing on copyleft is like stealing from the poor

its the difference between robin hood and government corruption

im honoured you write to me on the first day of the new year :)

you accused me of being a tankie in support of putin or russia or whatever. my influence on world events is completely insignificant so even if i hold these positions you shouldnt really waste this much time on me

however what you fail to realize is that the ukranian government has allowed itself to be THE useful idiot for US interests with extremely deadly consequences. this is why i do not support the Ukranian government and its war effort. moreover i am extremely against their conscription drive. i find it disgusting

i really am morally against putins war on ukraine. i also dont like putin as a politician. but again this is inconsequential. however what i can also say about it is that it was completely predictable and expected.

again i am completely convinced that the US is using ukranians as cannon fodder for its own interests. in fact i even suspect that alot of western politicians are privately enjoying the fact that two biggest slavic nations in europe are killing eachother

you can call things i point out whataboutism, i see them as examples of prevailing hypocricy. it is important to ask these questions because the US and its propaganda arm always talk about rules based order international law etc while carring for none of that when it comes to its own interests. and this war is 100% between US and Russia with the Ukranian government acting as useful idiot for the US and ukranian prople caught in the middle of everything. it is very sad

finally ... i find it quite curious that there are few of you determined to keep this exchange going with me and you are all using quite the same terminology and manner of communicating. are you the same person?

Just admit to yourself that you are a hypocrite with double standards and an agenda
your comments betray some aged guy who hasnt lived, definitely has no children, and compensates by trying to be cool and provocative by having trivially controversial opinions. but even in your post-nuclear world, lisp and emacs still survive :)
no you really are :)
you are an idiot
the war in bosnia is generally thought to have started due to an illegal independence referendum held at the start of march 1992. if you are ukranian think crimea. also it wasnt a bosnian-serbian war. bosnian is not the same as bosniak. a bosnian is a person from a bosnian region (sometimes also incorrectly referring to people from herzegovina) and not a side in the conflict. you can more correctly say that the war was about bosnians killing bosnians. a bosniak is a nationality, historically slavic muslim, from the region of former yugoslavia. also it was a bosniak/croatian/serbian war, a three side war. moreover it wasnt really a Serbia vs Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Croatia war, as in state vs state, but a civil war faught by people living in bosnia and herzegovina. today bosnia and herzegovina has 3 constituent nationalities: bosniaks, croats, serbs
oh boy you want to sound confident but really you have no idea what you are talking about. lol at the sds snipers being cause of war. war in yugoslavia was already one year in by the time it started happening in bosnia. for objectivity reasons when talking about catalysts for the war you should also read about the wedding attack in sarajavo that happened several weeks prior to the sniper event. anyway if you are ukranian, pray that the peace agreement your country signs doesnt result in a type of governing system that bosnia has

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_wedding_attack

you replied within minutes of me posting after saying you wouldnt. chill

> Says medo-bear, which supports Russia and their imperialist affairs

not supports but explains. like dont pat a dog from above or else it might bite you. or dont try to bring a sworn enemy to the doorstep of your more powerful neighbour or else it might invade you

haha what a bunch of words

> I support the US and NATO when they deserve my support.

that is the difference between you and me. i would never support any imperialist group: russia/usa/nato/israel including their proxies like the current government of ukraine

but tbh at the rate you are going you will start dreaming about MEDO-BEAR

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> This is your claim that this justifies an invasion

'explains' is the word you are looking for, which is what you asked for

> it is not evidence

evidence of what?

Can you please hook me up with your dealer
Ukraine wanted to bring Russia's number one security concern (NATO alliance and its eastward expansion) to Russia's doorstep, Russia reacted, and Ukraine is paying dearly for it. What else do you need?
:)

> You instead use it as a "it's fine because the West did it before".

actually mainly im saying that this is all expected as it is part of the rules of the game set by the West

anyway lets be honnest, you obviously support the US and NATO, and you are simply having a tantrum because someone has an opposite view. what else is the point of this exchange? your guys do so much crap to the world and answer to no one. israel (your side) killed 4x more civilians in a year than russia in 3 years. your lads litteraly think it is their god given right to rule the world. true, i think they are a bigger threat to world peace than Russia, but i would never say that Russia is 'right' or that i support Russian imperialism, but I do think that right now maybe they are less wrong in some sense. if Ukraine had a true independence movement, one that wasnt a lackey for another world power (for example like viet cong, plo, yugoslav partizans, polish resistance) I would support Ukraine completely. unfortunately it does not

as for africa, what on earth do you think uk france and US do there? also ukraine seems to be arming islamists there. what do you think about that?

You mean the same Africa that the West enslaved and colonized?

Everyone needs a vent, but you called me out personally whilst i dont care to remember who you are.

Funny enough seeing my previous engagements it is always the same people arguing the US story, pretending to be Ukranians

To you envidence doesnt make sense and so you naturally call it nonsense. Kind of like a flat-earther. In the part of EU where I live a solid majority feel sorry for Ukranians because it is common knowledge that only idiots dont see that this is a war being faught for foreign interests. And no we are not pro Putin. But sometimes it is useful to see things how the other side sees things, at least as a sobering effect. We have no interest in further wars and strongly believe this can be resolved diplomatically. Unfortunatelly (ie not something that pleases us) the harsh reality is that Ukraine will have to make huge political sacrifices because it allowed itself to be dictated by interests of island countries
No, evidence is everywhere. Your job not to see it is a different matter, bordering on obsession
mate europe (the people living in it) doesnt want a war. most of the eastern countries except those on the north dont want a war and see this very much so as a us provocation
> This is textbook whataboutism

Try hypocrisy

> nothing to do with the topic at hand

im saying that all imperialist powers are essentially the same and equally bad. including the us (the only country to date to have used nuclear weapons). if you want something closer to the point at hand see Iran Air Flight 655

> Russia was not provoked in any sense

as an imperialist power it was provoked in every sense. the US knew they were provoking russia. maybe they thought russia wouldnt go to war. but its obvious they were provoked

you seem to be proactively campaigning here on russia issues. why? this is a tech forum. i bet some of things i say stings your entrenched world view because they are completely obvious
correct but since we live on the same planet at the same time i demand for ukraine to never join nato or any other armed alliance, for ukraine to outlaw bandera nazis, for palestine and israel to be one democratic state of equal citizens regardless of ethnicity within historic palestine, for kosovo to be recognised again by the us and satelites as part of serbia (like ukraine does) etc
So according to you Ukraine is doing such a fine job the EU has nothing to fear
NATO is the Red Cross ?
It makes more sense than the US going into Vietnam to stop the rise of communism at home. Unfprtunately this is what imperialist powers do, and in this sense Russia was provoked. More importabtly, given the strategic importance of Ukraine as a buffer to Russia, this is also how world wars happen. But many people seem to have this illusion that Russians are stupid orks arriving in zomby like waves with nothing but shovels
completely opposed to it, yes. im an ex refugee. i hate war and especially conscription. and super especially a pointless war that destroys the whole country and sets it back for generations to come.

ive also seen what western interefernce looks like when the west wants there to be a war. for example compare this to boris johnson torpedoing the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in 2022

   On 18 March 1992, all three sides signed the agreement; Alija Izetbegović for the Bosniaks, Radovan Karadžić for the Bosnian Serbs and Mate Boban for the Bosnian Croats. The plan had assigned each of the 109 municipalities to be divided amongst the three ethnic sides. The allocation of the municipalities was mostly based off the results of the 1991 population census that was completed a year before the signing of the agreement. The agreement had stipulated that the Bosniak and Serb cantons would each have covered 44% of the country's territory, with the Croat canton covering the remaining 12%.[3]

   On 28 March 1992, after a meeting with US ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann in Sarajevo, Izetbegović withdrew his signature and declared his opposition to any division of Bosnia. What was said and by whom remains unclear. Zimmermann denied that he told Izetbegović that if he withdrew his signature, the United States would grant recognition to Bosnia as an independent state. What is indisputable is that on the same day, Izetbegović withdrew his signature and renounced the agreement.[4][5] 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_plans_proposed_before_...

Ukranians should take note that the Bosniak side came out even worse after that war, while the Serbian side today controls half of the country in a defacto almost independent state

dude you remembered my name on a random internet forum. cant even remember last time i discussed russia on this
Unfortunately I cant make sense of what you wrote

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