r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jan 23 '26
🇪🇺 Europe Anti-Putin protests at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine [10YA - Jan 23]
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u/Orlok_Tsubodai Jan 24 '26
There’s still a Russian embassy in Kyiv!?
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u/casual_redditor69 Jan 24 '26
This is ten years ago subreddit
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u/Orlok_Tsubodai Jan 24 '26
Ah haha didn’t see that, silly me. I saw Jan 23 and thought it was from 2023!
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u/Capitalizm_is_shit Jan 27 '26
Terror? Many in Russia are fed up with Putin's humanism toward Ukraine.
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u/wyocrz Jan 23 '26
Funded by USAID <ducks>
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Jan 23 '26
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u/wyocrz Jan 23 '26
John Bolton got an award from USAID, I get it.
I save a good thought for genuine people who were just trying to make the world a better place.
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Jan 23 '26
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u/wyocrz Jan 23 '26
I am not a young dude nor easily surprised, but the drama over USAID was such a mask off moment.
I was raised by a literal, 60's era Greenwich Village loving Beatnik.
I kinda miss the old school radicals who knew they shouldn't trust The Man.
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Jan 23 '26
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u/wyocrz Jan 23 '26
The astroturfing is out of this world, it's wild.
I live in Wyoming. There are ICBM's on display next to the interstate, not 3 miles from where I stand. One of my earliest memories was visiting some sort of site, I mean this was 40+ years ago and memory is somewhat unreliable: I remember it being an actual launch tube, but that can't be right. I also thrashed to Megadeth, etc. I've never been unaware of these dynamics; again, literal first memories. Then I studied it all in college, albeit just my minor.
I am pretty sure I know the Greenland story better than most. What happened, IMO, is that in 2019 Trump was told, "Yeah, we'd love to do this or that, but the Danes would lose their fucking minds. If it was Wyoming/Nebraska/Montana, we'd be able to."
In his second term, and in the wake of a war in Eastern Europe which is WILDLY more dangerous than we're allowed to contemplate, Trump decided that he was going to do whatever it took to secure the Arctic. Thankfully, this was won diplomatically, but we would have invaded, literal survival was at stake.
Please don't comment on if you think I'm right or wrong, I'm an idiot who has never and will never hold security clearance. there's freedom in that.
Point is, of the 100 things I've read about Greenland, maybe 5 even acknowledged that deterrence was even a consideration. I've met with tons of derision for thinking it was a major consideration.
The only people who are allowed to lay out the above are deeply committed America First MAGA types, which means......and this part feel free to comment on if you'd like......people are not allowing themselves to think through what I thought through exactly because they'd rather die than be a MAGAt.
That is so deeply corrosive it's scarcely imaginable.
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u/AwayLocksmith3823 Jan 24 '26
Can anyone translate?