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Richi

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    Richi reacted to kraze in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    And just to finally end this pointless back and forth topic of misunderstanding - I want to clarify what I want to all people crying "omg you want genocide". I want russian empire to cease existing, ideally, baring that I want a big wall between us and Russia for at least the next century, until they repaid us all the reparations and made sure we rebuilt everything, until this war is just a bunch of pictures in the books to our grand-grandchildren - and if Russia falls down and disintegrates during this time - then I want a big bucket of popcorn and a front seat atop that wall. That's it. I certainly don't want Ukrainians to bloody our hands any more than how it already is. Our lives are too precious for revenge wars.
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    Richi reacted to Aragorn2002 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I agree. The West has to go all in with regard to the delivery of weapons. Even if that means weakening our own armed forces to a critical level. We can kick Iwan's *** any time and anywhere we feel like it. We never get an opportunity to make Putin bleed like this again.
    Are we going to back down because of nuclear bluff by a criminal maffia thug? 
    NO!!
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    Richi reacted to chuckdyke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Common Sense.
     
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    Richi reacted to Butschi in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Ok, I kind of disagree with #1. I said so earlier but let me elaborate.
    We, or Ukraine for that matter, should consider the "why?". My point may be academic because I can't look into the heads of those who decide and the net result is the same, anyway.
    So, going back to 1991, meaning retaking Crimea and the Donbas.
    Is it, as you put it, about returning to 1991 borders, i.e. taking a map from that time and saying "look here, those lines belong here instead of there"? I deliberately make it sound a trivial matter because lines on maps are just an abstract concept. I am very happy that in this day and age we are far less inclined to go to war just in order to shift lines on maps. Hell, nations are a somewhat abstract concept for that matter. If it is only about that, no I don't agree with that goal.
    Now, if it means liberating Ukrainians having to live under Russias yoke, that is a different and very legitimate matter. But. We've had a good number of pages now filled with discussions about whether the majority of people in the Donbas or on Crimea actually want to be liberated. I won't speculate on that because I simply lack the knowledge. I'll say that we should try to avoid double standards here and grant regions the right to secede from countries we don't like (Taiwan and China anyone?) and don't when it is from country we are more aligned with.
    Goes into the same direction: Preventing Russian war crimes. Yes, of course!
    Preventing Russia from blocking Ukrainian access the black sea. Also fine.
    Retaking the lost territory just to discourage Russia (or other imperialists out there) from trying to invade other countries - a good reason too.
    So, there, IMO, there are good, bad and somewhat mixed reasons and I can't agree with all of them. As I said my thinking here may be academic. Probably the reason for wanting to go back to 1991 borders is a mix of some or all of the above points.
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    Richi reacted to BlackMoria in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I always think of this quote, in moments like this.
    "The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.  No one know the shape of that future ...or where it will take us.  We know only, that it is always born... in pain."
    G'Kar
    Za'ha'dum, Babylon 5
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    Richi reacted to The_MonkeyKing in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    Richi reacted to Huba in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Agree completely. Just replace "russians" with " 1942 Germans" and think if any of your issues with kraze's rhetoric are still problematic. Yes, there's a lot collectively wrong with russians, ultimately it is their culture ( understood anthropologically) that time and again is enabling aggression and genocide, same as was the case with imperial/ Nazi Germany and imperial Japan (and many other). There's nothing racist in pointing that out.
    Even outside the Ukraine itself, West's strategy now is to inflict pain and costs on Russia as a whole, which means first and foremost on your average "innocent" russian. Yeah, it's ugly, and yeah, that's how war between nation states works and there's no way around that. If anything, Ukrainians are showing a remarkable restraint so far, refraining from indiscriminately shelling Belgorod for example. 
    To be honest, I personally don't feel fine with both of these notions on emotional level, but this is a problem of our sensibilities, which are just not compatible with situation of open war. I hate the fact that I have to deal with this emotional burden, but I 100% blame it on the russians.
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    Richi got a reaction from SlowMotion in The state of CMSF2   
    Completely agree with above statement.
    QB feature alone I would pay for.
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    Richi reacted to Sakai007 in The state of CMSF2   
    Honestly I am so grateful for the reduced price for previous owners of the game. $35 to bring the who deal up to engine 4 is not a bad deal, I mean we're getting on board regular/vehicle mounted mortars and the updated QB force selection. That right there is worth the money to me. It's also the kind of stuff that keeps me coming back, and getting new stuff whenever I can.
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