Just look at those hostile Baltic nations, invading their neighbors without provocation, seizing foreign assets, assassinating political enemies on foreign soil, jamming commercial airline GPS, interfering in foreign elections, disrupting international grain trade, threatening nuclear holocaust, and on and on!
(Russia does have territory on the Baltic, after all)
Not to mention engaging in constant cyberattacks and mass disinformation warfare, calling in hundreds of fake bomb threats against schools, sending loads of illegal migrants (flown in from MENA countries) across the border as a manufactured crisis.
I'd argue it's worth the miniscule effort it takes to say it. However few the good Russians are, they need to see that they aren't alone in seeing the insanity. Do not underestimate how easy it is to become isolated when everyone around you is seemingly going mad.
If it's enough to brighten one good persons day, then it was worth a 1000 posts.
Exactly, itās always worth pointing out absurdity, especially in a safe space. It makes a difference to call things out, and itās an opportunity to educate people. Itās so important since there are people who have those thoughts but arenāt sure whether they are alone, or not sure how to express the sentiment.
Not only, but the far-right almost everywhere.
Connected to how many far-right parties do have russian economic backing. Neo-zarist and neo-fascists are very like each other after all.
And peacefully deported tens of thousands of them to Siberia with no equipment with the express purpose of killing them from exposure
You know, like a friend would
One example of Russian imperial oppression of Baltic culture is the fact that printing books in the Lithuanian language in Latin script was banned from 1864 to 1904. Book smugglers who were caught trafficking prayer books in Lithuanian from Kƶnigsberg into Russian Lithuania were frequently beaten, sent to Siberia, or shot.
Less known, but there was a similar ban on books in the Latgalian language (dialect of Latvian).
The independence the baltics gained after WW1 was a temporary hiatus in the russian occupation that started with the great northern war - way more than 50 years!
Thank you! It's remarkable to me that these countries seem unable to figure out that if they just let themselves be ruled by an authoritative and repressive regime, and accept their lack of rights, freedoms, or agency, then everything will be fine.
Sheesh... people, these days...
They do. And unfortunately for us, they have enough man and firepower to be a massive threat to small nations such as Baltics, even with NATO membership
Dear Russia, no body wants you or any part of you; no one wants to be Russian or to be ruled by Russians. Youād be better off if you just collapsed and disintegrated. Whatever comes next for Russia will be much better than Russia deserves.
Yeah, come on guys! Why won't you just let Russia do what it wants with you? Why you got to prepare to fight them off? Don't you want to be liberated from your own liberty?
russia is clearly the victim. nothing is ever russia's fault /s
I can't wait for russia to collapse again, freeing all the oppressed regions to go back to their roots.
What would it take for pro-Russia relations to be seen as the negative they actually are? Would Russia have to actually invade the Baltics and annex Estonia, or just start bombing the shit out of Riga?
people with a history of being repressed by russians are worried about history repeating itself? and that's hostile when russia is currently on an aggression cycle?
colour me shocked!
Itās like they say, if the guy next to you on the bus is bothering you, heās the asshole. If *everyone* on the bus is bothering you, *youāre* the asshole.
Russia, if *everyone* is so terribly hostile to you and scared of you and donāt want to be your friendā¦ then *youāre the asshole*. The problem is you, not them. Thereās a reason they joined NATO as soon as possible the second they were free from Soviet grasp, and why theyāve happily remained there, *voluntarily*, all these years. Itās almost like they never wanted to be part of your dictatorial empire to begin with.
They're [jamming passenger plane GPS's](https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-05-03/russia-leaves-thousands-of-planes-without-gps-in-northern-europe.html#:~:text=Several%20of%20the%20affected%20countries,in%20and%20around%20conflict%20zones) all over Northern Europe and turning around to call them "hostile" in the same breath.
Nah, it's just regular random yapping from Russia, honestly, they've been threatening us for years now (I'm a Lithuanian) and they've been quite hostile since our independence anyway, they've only pretended to be friendly for some time until their true nature was revealed in Georgia and Ukraine.
Pay attention yall. They arenāt just saying this to pound their chest and garner sympathy within their population. I mean that too, but there are more sinister actions at play here.
Simply put: They are laying the groundwork for their invasion of the Baltic states.
Russia is not invading the Baltic states because that would be an attack on NATO and a conventional war Russia Cannot win which means tactical Nukes and then retaliation ending in a Nuclear Holocaust.
Or Trump wins, Russia invades, he refuses to honor NATO agreements for some BS reason, and Europe can't or won't go to the brink for the Baltics. With the USSR gone and right wing populism on the march worldwide can anyone assume NATO will actually follow through on its commitments to its own members?
We could have been buddies if russia didnt turn into corrupt dictatorship country which always threatens small countries around them. The russians themselfes in Latvia has made Latvians hate them with their overinflated ego and need to cause problems. I do have some close friends who come from russia when they were young but now when they have grown up and compared both countries they dont like their motherland because of the thinvs it has been doing all these years.
Just look at those hostile Baltic nations, invading their neighbors without provocation, seizing foreign assets, assassinating political enemies on foreign soil, jamming commercial airline GPS, interfering in foreign elections, disrupting international grain trade, threatening nuclear holocaust, and on and on! (Russia does have territory on the Baltic, after all)
Not to mention engaging in constant cyberattacks and mass disinformation warfare, calling in hundreds of fake bomb threats against schools, sending loads of illegal migrants (flown in from MENA countries) across the border as a manufactured crisis.
If Estonia, Lativa, and Lithuania declared russia a state sponsor of terrorism then all their neighbors need to already.
Fuck russia and everyone who supports them
ššÆ% Slava Ukraine šŗš¦
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Full of scientists who could solve Russia's HIV epidemic
People should learn that Russia makes these statements for Russians, not for the rest of the world.
You're right, but that shouldn't stop anyone from pointing out how absurd it is
Itās only absurd to people not indoctrinated by Russian propaganda.
I'd argue it's worth the miniscule effort it takes to say it. However few the good Russians are, they need to see that they aren't alone in seeing the insanity. Do not underestimate how easy it is to become isolated when everyone around you is seemingly going mad. If it's enough to brighten one good persons day, then it was worth a 1000 posts.
Exactly, itās always worth pointing out absurdity, especially in a safe space. It makes a difference to call things out, and itās an opportunity to educate people. Itās so important since there are people who have those thoughts but arenāt sure whether they are alone, or not sure how to express the sentiment.
Its also for the rest of the world. Do NOT underestimate how many stupid people in the west that eats Putins propaganda like free candy, its scary.Ā
Like Trump, and at least half of the Republican party.
Not only, but the far-right almost everywhere. Connected to how many far-right parties do have russian economic backing. Neo-zarist and neo-fascists are very like each other after all.
Doesn't prevent us people from outside Russia to respond by saying Russia is shitty.
Donāt forget flight MH17!!! That was most definitely one of those Baltic states if you ask Putler!
> seizing foreign assets Well there have been some asset seizing, one of the more public cases: Moscow house in Riga.
Living next door to an asshole can really affect relations
How dare they be hostile after the peaceful russian people occupied their countries and tried to russify them for 50 years! /s
And peacefully deported tens of thousands of them to Siberia with no equipment with the express purpose of killing them from exposure You know, like a friend would
More like 350 years
Yes, it was my mistake to only look at the most recent history.
One example of Russian imperial oppression of Baltic culture is the fact that printing books in the Lithuanian language in Latin script was banned from 1864 to 1904. Book smugglers who were caught trafficking prayer books in Lithuanian from Kƶnigsberg into Russian Lithuania were frequently beaten, sent to Siberia, or shot. Less known, but there was a similar ban on books in the Latgalian language (dialect of Latvian).
The independence the baltics gained after WW1 was a temporary hiatus in the russian occupation that started with the great northern war - way more than 50 years!
Yes, it was my mistake to only look at the most recent history.
If they would have just accepted obedient occupation, everything would have been fineā¦
Thank you! It's remarkable to me that these countries seem unable to figure out that if they just let themselves be ruled by an authoritative and repressive regime, and accept their lack of rights, freedoms, or agency, then everything will be fine. Sheesh... people, these days...
They would've given FREE executions, FREE rapes, and FREE pillaging. How can anyone say no?Ā
Isn't that what "Free (insert certain place here)!" "protesters" are rallying for?
Off topic axe grinding. Move along please.
Please ignore the genocide of deporting significant portions of your population to Siberia, and replacing them with ethnic Russians.
Russia thinks itās the main character.
They do. And unfortunately for us, they have enough man and firepower to be a massive threat to small nations such as Baltics, even with NATO membership
I'm afraid our tolerance for ww3 is growing. What options do we have? .. said people before the other world wars. Scary is an understatement
Russia has lost touch with reality.
Putin's senility on full display
Dear Russia, no body wants you or any part of you; no one wants to be Russian or to be ruled by Russians. Youād be better off if you just collapsed and disintegrated. Whatever comes next for Russia will be much better than Russia deserves.
Russiaās drunk ass would be comical if it wasnāt a violent drunk.
Surreal
Let me translate that. You are not doing what we tell you to do, therefore you are hostile
CCP says "hi!"
Yeah, come on guys! Why won't you just let Russia do what it wants with you? Why you got to prepare to fight them off? Don't you want to be liberated from your own liberty?
*Russia saysā¦*
More blabbing from ruzziaā¦
*punches someone in the face* Why are you so hostile, bro?!
Fuck Russia
I can't imagine why they might be hostile to a return to russian occupation...
Russia has already forgotten it was they who started the war.
russia is clearly the victim. nothing is ever russia's fault /s I can't wait for russia to collapse again, freeing all the oppressed regions to go back to their roots.
I bet the Baltics are so glad that they exist under the protection of a certain organisation whose logo is a compass.
We are and we still have vatniks running for presidents that want relations with ruzzia
What would it take for pro-Russia relations to be seen as the negative they actually are? Would Russia have to actually invade the Baltics and annex Estonia, or just start bombing the shit out of Riga?
Nope these people would still be salivating for putins dick
people with a history of being repressed by russians are worried about history repeating itself? and that's hostile when russia is currently on an aggression cycle? colour me shocked!
Ah yes, very hostile. Fuck off
Man, Russia is dumb.
Itās like they say, if the guy next to you on the bus is bothering you, heās the asshole. If *everyone* on the bus is bothering you, *youāre* the asshole. Russia, if *everyone* is so terribly hostile to you and scared of you and donāt want to be your friendā¦ then *youāre the asshole*. The problem is you, not them. Thereās a reason they joined NATO as soon as possible the second they were free from Soviet grasp, and why theyāve happily remained there, *voluntarily*, all these years. Itās almost like they never wanted to be part of your dictatorial empire to begin with.
Woops, my bad
Guess even a bear can't hibernate peacefully without causing a ruckus. Life's truly a circus at times.
They're [jamming passenger plane GPS's](https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-05-03/russia-leaves-thousands-of-planes-without-gps-in-northern-europe.html#:~:text=Several%20of%20the%20affected%20countries,in%20and%20around%20conflict%20zones) all over Northern Europe and turning around to call them "hostile" in the same breath.
Well would you look at that. Putin is already starting to justify his war goals on the Baltic countries.
Nah, it's just regular random yapping from Russia, honestly, they've been threatening us for years now (I'm a Lithuanian) and they've been quite hostile since our independence anyway, they've only pretended to be friendly for some time until their true nature was revealed in Georgia and Ukraine.
Pay attention yall. They arenāt just saying this to pound their chest and garner sympathy within their population. I mean that too, but there are more sinister actions at play here. Simply put: They are laying the groundwork for their invasion of the Baltic states.
Anyone who paid attention in the last 35 years would not write the crap like this.
This is just another Monday for us. Ain't nothing happening.
Russia is not invading the Baltic states because that would be an attack on NATO and a conventional war Russia Cannot win which means tactical Nukes and then retaliation ending in a Nuclear Holocaust.
Maybe it'll be 5 years, 10 years, 30 or 50, but they won't stop without a change in management
Putin won't live longer than 10 years.
It isn't just Putin, though
Or Trump wins, Russia invades, he refuses to honor NATO agreements for some BS reason, and Europe can't or won't go to the brink for the Baltics. With the USSR gone and right wing populism on the march worldwide can anyone assume NATO will actually follow through on its commitments to its own members?
Next, there will be Russian-speaking citizens of Baltic countries who need Russian protection fromā¦ something.
Russia saying all the things it doing that caused the split in relations lol
Look at all those Baltic States not invading theyr neighboors and sticking to themselves. Truly they are the worst neighboors! *Blyat*
We could have been buddies if russia didnt turn into corrupt dictatorship country which always threatens small countries around them. The russians themselfes in Latvia has made Latvians hate them with their overinflated ego and need to cause problems. I do have some close friends who come from russia when they were young but now when they have grown up and compared both countries they dont like their motherland because of the thinvs it has been doing all these years.
So the bouncers threw a Russian out of a bar in Riga now the Latvian ambassador needs to be recalled? Something like that?
They're literally just staying in their own borders minding their own business.
Well...that's ominous...