I mean, they are the experts.
Actually, question here: how many wars has Russia won that they actually started?
Afghanistan was a shit show as per usual. Russo-Japanese war was a loss, though I believe the Japanese started that one.
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how many wars has Russia won that they actually started?
We can play this game, but we're required to do the US next.
Almost as though starting a war is consistently a bad idea for your country.
Russia is happy US made the same mistake as them.
"Mistake"
Russia's operative in office was given explicit instructions to start this war.
Yes, and now both countries started a war they expected to easily win and now looks like they made the same mistake. There are an endless amount of differences between these two wars but it not going as easy as hoped is one very clear similarity.
Do you think there might be a reason people convinced you that the Cold War is still going on, decades after it ended?
I think you misspelled Israel.
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Funny, even mentioning Ukraine in a post title starts a tankie fest. Fellas working overtime, I see
Seriously. It's like someone spilled tankie chum on the carpet, or something.
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Wouldn't be surprised if there is some program that sources places to comment for these bots. Russia would be a logical keyword in that case.
Yeah, they are in overdrive recently. Had one calling me an imperial pig for saying that the Iranian regime, a theocratic dictatorship, are not the best of guys.
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Is no one considering that Russia has a uniquely qualified perspective when it comes to failure? Game recognize game...
Pots and kettles...
Russia also mocked the EU for not joining this war and not helping the USA.
I don't get it, is Iran their ally or not? Why would they want Europe to attack Iran? Oh right, they need a distraction from Ukraine and they don't give a fuck about a single ally.
I guess the new allies are Russia and the USA.
"Russia"'s allies are not other coutries, it's other elites. No country is allied with any country. It's just that the elites agree on what they should do to get away with more shit.
It's always an alliance of convenience amongst authoritarian states.
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Misery loves company.
irans war greatly benefited RUSSia, IN THAT THEY CAN recover the money they lost on the ukraine invasion since the oil prices are so high right now.
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it takes one to know one
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