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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

522 points · 391 comments · marjancek

flossly · 1790757977 · focus · HN ↗
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1. Germanioum · 1790758782 · focus · HN ↗
  No the west did not want a confrontation with Russia/Putin. Merkel tried to reign in Putin with Gas.
  Putin wanted the confrontation and started to attack Ukraine, killing people for no other reason than his ego.
  US has expensive fuel and not the right one and also still trades its oil internationally and facing a huge price increase for millions, it also has to pay a lot more money for fertilizers.
  The oil of venezuela is the wrong kind of oil and can't just be bought and processed by the USA with a snip of a finger. They have to build/change their refineries for it.
  Minsconstrued in the media? Russia will not attack Europe because Putin knows he is gone the moment he starts attacking Nato.
  Yeah lets have a PROPER discussion and not some right-wing telegram magic group thinking wanna be intelligence experts. After Ukraine, Moldovoa, Belarus and others would have fallen.
  This proxy war is a realltive good outcome especially after what russia was doing the last 15 years: Propaganda manipulation in the west and killing of people with toxins and intervening / playing armsdealer to Africa with conflicts against France.
  1. flossly · 1790759332 · focus · HN ↗
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    hintbits · 1790760310 · focus · HN ↗
    > I think the Odessa Union house arson clearly shows that Ukraine is not protecting it's ethnic-Russian population. Also Ukrain and the baltics trying to ban Russian as al language is a big indicator to me (does not fit a free-democracy with freedom of speech).
    There is no ban or ban attempt on speaking Russian in those countries, you can hear spoken Russian on the streets of Riga, Tallinn or Kyiv. Also, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes, nothing to do with Russian ethnicity or language.
    flossly · 1790760620 · focus · HN ↗
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    hintbits · 1790778429 · focus · HN ↗
    > So why did the right sector burn down a house with people in it?
    It's such a loaded question. You have to give us some credible evidences of that. At least the wikipedia article you've linked directly contradicts this statement.
    flossly · 1791033930 · focus · HN ↗
    See the belligerents on the WP page. RS is there.

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