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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell is ASB News??

The only thing that I could find is that ASB might stand for Army Science Board, but the logos don't match so not sure if they are the same entity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People can name their accounts any random thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, but if this is Harrold who likes to play armchair general, that's one thing. If it is some kind of official account, that's another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Wasn't this the same thing that Ukraine was saying in the lead-up to the invasion though? Maybe not the "join the Russians before they shoot a brother" part, but saying that the invasion wouldn't happen. It's been a year and a half, but I thought it was the US sounding the alarm bells in the run-up to the invasion, while everyone else was saying it wasn't going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That was probably done to calm the population. Because they did had mobilization when Russian troops were “exercising” near Ukrainian border that winter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I took that as more disbelief - why would our Russian neighbours agree to invade and murder us when we haven’t done anything to them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Person you're responding to is wrong. Ukraine was preparing for this since Crimea.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure Russia never understood the cultural link between Russians & Ukr.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think Ukrainians also didn't understand what they were saying. Fuck Putin.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

worlds oldest tweet?

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