• Skua@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    If buying stuff from the other side is your yardstick, NATO clearly wasn’t a threat to Russia. Germany, Italy, France, and America were all some of Russia’s largest import sources in 2021.

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      9 months ago

      which all sounds really dumb if russia was that big of an aggressor in the first place. either that or you know, they werent.

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          9 months ago

          Those paratroopers were there to peacefully take the airport too

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        9 months ago

        Oh cool, then neither is aggressor. Since they were both doing business with each other. Because apparently that’s how it works.

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          9 months ago

          Then whats the fucking problem. Why provoke this useless war with russia?

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            9 months ago

            Functionally illiterate troll does not understand “your argument is self-defeating nonsense” unless it’s spelled out.

            And I’m putting a lot of faith in the implication you understand it even now.

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                9 months ago

                I’m sorry I misplaced that faith.

                I am using your argument… to point out… your argument makes no god-damn sense. I don’t believe your argument. I am highlighting how, if you believed your argument, you’d find it fucks up your conclusion. But you don’t care.

                You’re just making mouth noises to justify a conclusion you picked well before any argument-shaped sentences.

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                  9 months ago

                  im straight up telling you what made me come to my conclusion and repeating it back to me doesnt make much sense to me if your goal is to convincing me otherwise.