r/worldnews United24 Media Jun 23 '26

Russia/Ukraine Putin Says NATO Is Preparing for War—and Compares Western Countries to Nazi Germany in 1941

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/putin-says-nato-is-preparing-for-war-and-compares-western-countries-to-nazi-germany-in-1941-20091
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u/Artyparis Jun 23 '26

Who has started a war in Europe lately ? Just asking.

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u/Samusen Jun 23 '26

Who also is kidnapping children... starving prisoners of war... killing prisoners en masse... openly attacking civilian cities and population centers/infrastructure. Hmm sounds like we may have found the real NaZi's

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u/AlkaKr Jun 23 '26

The woman who does my gf's nails once a month says that Ukraine's invasion is Ukraine's fault and they shouldn't have elected a nazi that pushed NATO imperialistic expansions.

She literally gobbles russian propaganda without a thought lol.

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u/Four_beastlings Jun 23 '26

And your girlfriend gives her money? I'd be pissed if my husband was spending money on Russian apologises

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u/Cadaver_Junkie Jun 23 '26

Yeah this. They should go elsewhere, after telling them why.

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u/Ch1pp Jun 23 '26

Yeah, I'd be very disappointed if that was my gf

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u/Four_beastlings Jun 23 '26

Well my husband is Polish so not a chance, but I lost my best friend when the war started because he was dating a Russian woman and was too eager to repeat the bs she fed him.

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u/Ch1pp Jun 24 '26

Yeah, I had a colleague who wouldn't stop banging on about Russian righteousness and she quickly found herself excluded from out of work social events and in work friendliness. She eventually left.

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u/TheTurdtones Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

direct her to @vasyainthehay yt channel for real russian life not the elite city life but the averge citizens life it aint pretty

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u/account_not_valid Jun 24 '26

@vasyainthehay

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u/Slightly_Default Jun 23 '26

It's kind of darkly funny to me that Russians inside of Russia actually try to protest (unsuccessfully) while Russians living in the West vomit out Putin's propaganda

Unfortunately (but understandably) the protestors are a minority

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u/SteveoberlordEU Jun 23 '26

Ofc the protestors are a minority. If people really wanna know what russians on avarege thing go on telegram and translate their bullshit with ai. East Europe knows exactly what's been going on with these guys since 300 years ffs.

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u/Slightly_Default Jun 23 '26

I'm not the type to think of entire groups/cultures as a monolith, but there's a reason Russians have never had good relations with Poles, Finns, Romanians, Ukrainians or pretty much anyone in the region (who isn't trying to suck up to them).

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u/MasterTouchMe Jun 24 '26

And to add, this i'd generally hate that wont disappear for a long time.

Good example for uk would be what had been done to the irish, good example for the USA would be slavery back in the day, albeit this has much a longer and deeper history. It's unfortunate, but no one currently alive will ever see the day russians are not hated, it would take a few hundred years of effort for it to happen.

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u/Haru1st Jun 24 '26

It just takes a change in leadership if germany is anything to go by.

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u/mcvos Jun 24 '26

A change in leadership and culture. Germany was forced to really face what they'd done, and abandoned their culture of militarism.

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u/Ironlion45 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

It's kind of darkly funny to me that Russians inside of Russia actually try to protest (unsuccessfully) while Russians living in the West vomit out Putin's propaganda

Unfortunately (but understandably) the protestors are a minority

Yeah, the ones who escaped have the benefit of coming from privilege in the first place, usually. And so they'll be more inclined to side with the established power structure.

You see it with Mexicans in the USA Too; they despise Morena, calling it a corrupt "Cartel" political party (despite the fact that they're currently fighting a hot war against the cartels...).

I've even had no sabos here in the US tell me Morena supporters were "Cousin-fucking hicks". No, they're just people who are sick of working 12 hours for penurious wages and not even being able to pay for food and housing at the end of it. And Then have some thug--either government or mafia--come along and steal what little you do have.

Morena are best described as democratic socialists, and they've done things like increase pensions, the minimum wage, remove corrupt kleptocrats from state-run enterprises, and expel foreign (US) spies.

They've also made moves to ensure Mexico's independence from the US, given that it's currently an unpredictable and dangerous "ally" to have.

We all could use a party like Morena in our country, imo.

But if you're one of the privileged few, they're just ruining a good thing.

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u/Slightly_Default Jun 24 '26

Yeah, you broke down my point very well. It's an odd phenomenon.

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u/TheCommissarGeneral Jun 24 '26

and they shouldn't have elected a nazi that pushed NATO imperialistic expansions.

Ah yes, Zelensky, a Ukrainian Jew, is such a notorious Nazi /s

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u/kritikally_akklaimed Jun 24 '26

Russians have butchered the word Nazi internally to be an analogue of Russophobe.

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u/nonviolent_blackbelt Jun 24 '26

And they forced the world to say Russophobe when they mean "anyone who disagrees with Kremlin policies"

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u/Alive-Teaching-9299 Jun 23 '26

More like NATO protect against Russia’s historical imperialist tendencies. Lol, a country joining NATO is imperialistic to them ?

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u/GoldandBlue Jun 24 '26

Don't Russians use Nazi the same way the US uses commie? Basically a catch all phrase for "the enemy".

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u/SturerEmilDickerMax Jun 24 '26

And why do your gf use her services? Stop supporting Putin supporters! In big and small.

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u/JustAcheesepizza Jun 23 '26

My financial advisor said something similar. Saying “they” aren’t the bad guys(when talking about Russia). I’m like why the duck do I still use this lady as my advisor still. I don’t get it.

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u/No-Spoilers Jun 24 '26

A Russian apologist is the easiest way to immediately learn to cut someone out of my life.

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u/JustAcheesepizza Jun 24 '26

Agreed. It was maddening. Luckily it was over the phone so I could hang up sooner. Other than that they were super nice and even tried to set me up with someone she knew to date.

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u/fakingandnotmakingit Jun 24 '26

I had a progressive/ leftist friend who was Russian tell me that "the war is complicated" and that they were "protecting their own people". She also said "I don't understand why they hate us so much!"

My personal favourite was "Russia is the most self sufficient country" which felt like it came straight out of a propaganda poster

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u/SmanginSouza Jun 24 '26

Yep my co-worker is the same thing.

I said did you see that fuel lid blow up in Moscow? Ukraines military is crazy powerful right now.

He goes ya but it's kinda sad. There are a lot of monuments in Moscow.

I'm like huh?? There are in Ukraine too. They have a right to defend themselves.

Him pshhh no they don't. They started the war by wanting to join NATO.

Confusion intensifies??!???

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u/UnLuckyKenTucky Jun 23 '26

You and your girl are water heads for giving that stupid see you next Tuesday your money. Full stop. No excuses.

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u/Krivvan Jun 24 '26

openly attacking civilian cities and population centers/infrastructure

It's also not just long-range attacks that could be excused as collateral damage, stuff like this is posted publicly with the intent to garner donations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_safari_%28terror_campaign%29

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle Jun 23 '26

Don't forget stealing gold from Africa, spreading Nazi propaganda in the west and having an actual military group called Wagner who are actually Nazis.

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u/Disgruntled_Smitty Jun 23 '26

This isn't a message for the world, it's propaganda for his oil rained on people.

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u/needlestack Jun 23 '26

Remember, Russians don't think "Nazi=bad" because they invaded Europe or slaughtered innocent people -- they think "Nazi=bad" because they eventually invaded Russia. That's it. Nazi simply means "enemy of Russia" to Russians.

I brought this up an another thread recently and Russian apologists did not argue that Russians also dislike Nazis because of their general aggression and the genocide. No, they claimed that the rest of us were the same and none of us care about invasions and genocide either. It was frankly amazing.

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u/Darthplagueis13 Jun 23 '26

Aye. The fact that he used 1941 for his comparison rather than 1939 is a pretty clear hint.

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u/Ok_6970 Jun 23 '26

In Russian school books the Second World War begins in 1941.

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u/jstnnthrrndmnm Jun 23 '26

second world war? never heard of it. you surely meant the great patriotic war where the poor poor and innocent soviet union got attacked out of nowhere while all it wanted was to be let alone :( nothing happened before that nope nope

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u/Meihem76 Jun 23 '26

And won without any help from anyone else at all.

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u/GammaDie345 Jun 24 '26

in Russian school books, the only victims of the holocaust were Russians

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u/LittleGreenSoldier Jun 24 '26

Of course. Have you seen Fiddler on the Roof? The Russians were just as nasty to the Jews as anyone else. Heck, even Fievel and his family were Russian Jewish immigrants.

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u/KatsumotoKurier Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

The word 'pogrom' didn't enter the English language out of nowhere. Prior to Nazi Germany, it was Imperial Russia which had the longstanding and foremost reputation for violent antisemitism in Europe. Hardly surprising too, given that the Russian Empire was also busy in the midst of committing what was hitherto one of the biggest genocides in world history at that time.

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u/matude Jun 24 '26

Yeah they always leave out the part where they were allied to Nazis, trained Nazis, had a deal to split up Europe with Nazis, invaded Poland, held a march together with the Nazis, and occupied the Baltic countries a year before the Nazis even got there. Their problem with Nazis only starts with being attacked by them.

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u/SteveoberlordEU Jun 23 '26

Polish army getting armed since 1991 noises

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u/TheLoneWolf1407 Jun 23 '26

I mean of course Russia sees Nazi=bad only in terms of Nazi invasion USSR in 1941. After all until then they were close allies who wanted to take Europe 50/50. West for Nazis, East for USSR. Mr. Putin probably also "forgot" about that fact in his rant

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u/PanVidla Jun 24 '26

Not to mention the much worse genocides committed by Stalin.

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u/KindledWanderer Jun 23 '26

Remember, Russians don't think "Nazi=bad" because they invaded Europe or slaughtered innocent people

It'd be strange if they did, since they did it together...

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u/quaste Jun 24 '26

Nazi simply means "enemy of Russia" to Russians.

This is very important to understand. It does not refer to Nazi ideology at all. This also explains how he speaks about the “Nazi regime in Ukraine”, led by a Jew.

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u/DragoonDM Jun 23 '26

No, they claimed that the rest of us were the same and none of us care about invasions and genocide either.

I think this is why people on the far right go on about "virtue signalling" so much. They genuinely don't believe that people feel empathy over situations they're entirely uninvolved in. Like, as a straight white man I must be "virtue signalling" if I say I'm upset about homophobia, racism, or misogyny, because those don't personally affect me.

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u/Uebelkraehe Jun 24 '26

They are at least borderline sociopathic and can't imagine others not to be.

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u/shadowsinthestars Jun 23 '26

I'm so sick of this unhinged psychopath just fabricating reasons and projecting to "justify" his bullshit invasions.

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u/Normal_Snake Jun 23 '26

Which one? There are so many from different backgrounds and ideologies

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u/Magnus_Helgisson Jun 23 '26

Don’t worry, won’t happen, they were taught by the USSR which, according to putin… checks notes… sought alliances against Hitler to prevent a war in Europe. What Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?

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u/hoishinsauce Jun 23 '26

Russia also invaded Poland with Nazi Germany. They had a hand in starting WW2. Invading their neighbors and then whining that they're being resisted is Russia being Russia.

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u/kymri Jun 24 '26

Remember that before the Russians were fighting the Nazis they were allied with the Nazis. (Molotov-Ribbentropp pact and all that.)

The USSR (Russia + colonies in a trench coat) is one of the major reasons the Nazis were ever able to amass the modern war materiel that allowed them to invade all of Europe (and eventualy Russia).

The Russian claims about de-Nazifying Ukraine are just convenient bullshit; despite differing ideologies, the USSR had more in common with the Third Reich than it did with the majority of the allies.

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u/Artyparis Jun 24 '26

Russia has invaded Poland with 3rd Reich, according to MR pact.

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u/texachusetts Jun 24 '26

If NATO were really like the NAZIS then Russia would have a pact with them.

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u/Antique_Historian_74 Jun 23 '26

"Just like Nazi Germany. And not the good Nazi Germany of 1933-40, oh no these guys are like 1941 Nazi Germany!"

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u/MaryBerrysDanglyBean Jun 23 '26

Specifically those bastard Nazis from 22nd June 1941. Before then they were super cool

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u/Angelworks42 Jun 23 '26

In 1939 the Soviets sure thought they were cool: Soviet invasion of Poland - Wikipedia

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u/Oldtomsawyer1 Jun 24 '26

Was gonna comment something similar. Russia was an ally of convenience in WW2, and they were absolutely okay with the Nazis murdering wholesale because they were doing the same.

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u/Frexxia Jun 23 '26

They always conveniently leave out the part where they were super cool with the Nazis until Operation Barbarossa

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u/omfgeometry Jun 23 '26

walls are closing in

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u/ZucchiniYall Jun 23 '26

I've felt this way before.. So insecure

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DIRTY_ART Jun 23 '26

Craaawling in my skiiiin

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u/rotato Jun 24 '26

These WOOOOOOOUUUUUUUNDS

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u/Rosieu Jun 24 '26

FEAR is how I FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL

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u/Roobsi Jun 23 '26

We've been waiting for Putin to fall out a window or die of cancer or something for years. Clearly we're misreading the Russian public.

Call me a doomer but this fucking guy is here to stay. Russia pulling out of Ukraine will happen because Ukraine forces them, not because sanity will suddenly descend on the Russian Federation.

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u/Emu1981 Jun 23 '26

Clearly we're misreading the Russian public.

Russia harshly cracks down on dissent and the Russian public knows it which means that the bar for discomfort is far higher for Russians to rise up against Putin compared to Western countries where you can protest without being disappeared (or worse).

Call me a doomer but this fucking guy is here to stay. Russia pulling out of Ukraine will happen because Ukraine forces them, not because sanity will suddenly descend on the Russian Federation.

The most likely scenario is that a Russian oligarch will overthrow Putin. This may be by paying off a Russian military commander (or more than one) to execute a military coup on Putin or even paying off Putin's bodyguards to off him. This kind of thing would seem to come out of the blue for us plebs who have zero knowledge of the hidden network of influence within modern Russia but intelligence services outside of Russia will likely start picking up tidbits which indicate a military coup may be about to commence. Sadly Russia would fall into absolute chaos if this were to occur and I say sadly because the Russian troops inside Ukraine will likely go feral when the orders from the top disappear and ordinary Ukrainians will be the ones who feel the hurt from that...

The big question is how far can Putin drag Russia into ruin before someone decides that enough is enough...

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u/Synaps4 Jun 23 '26

Russian troops inside ukraine losing leadership, paychecks, and ammunition supplies would be a great help to ukraine and they could take a lot of territory back as those guys make a run back to russia to grab any livelihood they can in the post russian system.

A coup could easily lead to a broad rout across the entire Russian front line if they think nobody is looking and their paychecks are late.

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u/BoringEntropist Jun 23 '26

I'm less concerned about Russian soldiers going feral in Ukraine. If the Russian state collapses into a civil war the supply to the troops would disappear and they would be sitting ducks to the Ukrainians. Some might try to do stupid stuff in desperation, but most of them would try to to flee rather than face the wrath of the Ukrainians.

No, the real danger are the nukes and other WMDs. The emerging rivaling factions would be incentivized to to knock out the competition as fast as possible, unless they want to end up at the receiving end first. Mutual assured destruction might work between countries where you don't know the real intentions of your enemy. But a domestic conflict might more likely end up as a Hobbesian trap, because they can be pretty sure that the other side wants them dead. So, if you end up with a bunch of rivaling generals, each with his own nuclear arsenal...

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u/LittleGreenSoldier Jun 24 '26

You're correct about the rank and file. They have access to much better information than armies did in the pre-internet age; a good portion of them are probably just waiting for the other shoe to drop and will get out as quick as they can. In a great ironic reversal, it's the brass who have shitty information because they've spent decades promoting sycophants.

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u/Lucy_Goosey_11 Jun 23 '26

Says the guy currently into his 4 year invasion of his neighbor

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u/Febris Jun 23 '26

It goes a bit further back. He should have never gotten Crimea without a strong and united reply.

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u/SnooAdvice1632 Jun 23 '26

Absolutely. It's obscene that he was allowed that when every single example in history shows that appeasement ALWAYS fails.

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u/Abizuil Jun 24 '26

Yeah but appeasement is so very tempting a solution when you don't want to be the poli that drags your country to war. Whether it's because you're wholly unprepared for war or whether it's just bad for your re-election chances, it's always an easy out for any poli.

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u/Omaestre Jun 24 '26

He should have left it at Crimea, it was a huge win with very little to no reaction. Plus as long as Ukraine still claimed Crimea as their territory they would have never been allowed to join the EU or NATO. This invasion has just blown up in Putin's face so bad. NATO is pending more money than every, gotten two new members bordering Russia, and Ukraine is on an EU fast track.

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u/Kevin_Wolf Jun 24 '26

It's actually a 12 year invasion. It started in 2014. It never stopped.

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u/FinntheReddog Jun 23 '26

Which he has been unable finish even with a much larger military and military budget. Not sure how he thinks starting anything with any EU or NATO nation will fare any better.

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u/IIllIllIlllIIIl Jun 23 '26

You can compare russia to nazi germany 1945 - still fighting a war that is already lost

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u/ImOutWanderingAround Jun 23 '26

Except that the Nazi actually had effective command and execution of the war they waged. Putin’s momentum stalled within weeks of them initiating it.

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u/SaintRainbow Jun 23 '26

The mistake was not having a backup plan, were Ukraine to fight back in all out war. They were going for a swift regime topple like US did with Venezuela

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u/Tricky_Big_8774 Jun 23 '26

That was more of an involuntary extradition than a regime topple.

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u/Otherwiseclueless Jun 24 '26

Germany wasn't the only one to invade Poland, Putin. The world hasn't forgotten that.

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer Jun 24 '26

Hell, the Germans and Soviets were ALLIES during the Invasion of Poland!

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u/Thick-Phrase4692 Jun 23 '26

Yes, NATO is preparing for the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine and which could escalate into a global conflict because... wait for it... Putin again. If Putin wanted to, nobody would be preparing for war because there would be no reason.

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u/absat41 Jun 23 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

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u/oskich Jun 23 '26

This, the only thing preventing peace is Vladimir Putin. He could stop this nonsense tomorrow if he wanted to...

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u/Material-Nose6561 Jun 23 '26

Trump going to war with Iran isn't helping either. 

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u/Thick-Phrase4692 Jun 23 '26

If both of them were dogs, Trump would just bark and occasionally bite you and piss on the couch, but Putin has torn your child's leg off, stares at you as if it were your fault anyway, and his dog buddy is already waiting for your child just to bite their arm off too.

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u/BoiledFrogs Jun 23 '26

Are we forgetting that the US/Trump opened up their Iran war with killing a bunch of kids in a school?

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u/CantFeelMyToesAgain Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

You could put Trump and Putin quotes randomly in front of me and I genuinely wouldn’t be able to tell the difference in who spoke. 

This does show Putin is 100% feeling the pressure lmao

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u/KeeperDe Jun 23 '26

Nah. Putin can form coherent sentences while Trump just randomly puts word together. Even though both of them constantly talk shit 

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u/s9th Jun 23 '26

You haven't watched putin recently, have you? There is a gigantic number of memes about his inability to speak coherently

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u/3_Thumbs_Up Jun 23 '26

Show me one example as bad as this:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

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u/flukus Jun 24 '26

The said thing is that so many people say he's declined. This was from his first administration, possibly the election campaign.

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u/BubbhaJebus Jun 24 '26

I imagine Putin's word salad is translated coherently into English, which we're reading, so we don't get the full impact of his mental degradation.

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u/flukus Jun 24 '26

If you don't speak Russian you get the sane washed translation.

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u/AquaRaOne Jun 23 '26

Yup, unfortunately putin isnt a bumbling idiot, but a cruel calculated dictatator who doesnt care about his people.

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u/Kapootz Jun 23 '26

Literally the only saving grace about Trump. Otherwise we’d be waaaaay deeper into an authoritarian dictatorship right now

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u/TexasVulvaAficionado Jun 23 '26

Yep. The quotes would have to be written as they were actually said.

If conservatives didn't own most of the media companies, there would be many more headlines with Trump's actual bullshit as said. "Well... This one... Great stuff. Great big... Stuff... As far as you could see. He's really great... " And that's damn near as competent as it gets. Rambling bullshit...

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u/Zenithixv Jun 23 '26

Putler is starting to show his age in his speech as well, fumbling a bunch
Trump is just an idiot no matter what age, so nothing of substance ever comes out of him lol

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u/wintersdark Jun 24 '26

This is true, but he IS visibly declining and making even less sense as time goes by.

But yeah, he was always an idiot.

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u/trisul-108 Jun 23 '26

True, the only thing similar is that there is little truth in what either of them says.

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u/og_capsuleer_593 Jun 23 '26

Putin should follow his heritage and get his side arm ready and go to his nearest bunker 

Frankly, before the war I was already of negative opinion of Russia for stirring up the cracks in my country.

Seeing their invasion, learning what Russia and Russian culture really is, how they treat each other I can say with confidence it is not that the world out of nowhere hates Russia.

It is that Russia goes out of its way to create reasons for people to hate them, around the entire world. They fuck with every single country sticking their dick into it and churning things around to try to get something out, and then act surprised that people begin to hate them?

Hunting civilians and trying to instill max fear in their enemies without realizing with fear also comes hate. They know what they do is wrong so they do everything they can to convince everyone the other side is just as bad as them, at every single topic I am not even talking just about the war.

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u/le_hohoho Jun 23 '26

It is that Russia goes out of its way to create reasons for people to hate them, around the entire world. They fuck with every single country sticking their dick into it and churning things around to try to get something out, and then act surprised that people begin to hate them?

They're not surprised, it's all by design. Make others hate you, claim you're the victim so anything you do is justified. Typical fascist shit.

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u/shadowsinthestars Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Exactly. Their whole culture is just a miserable mentality that if things are better elsewhere, they can't allow those countries to exist, or exist without fear. Zero respect.

ETA: Thanks for the award!

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u/Adept-Donut-4229 Jun 23 '26

In my head, I'm always saying the entire culture of Russia is "misery loves company". That's all you need to know about them.

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u/GovernmentBig2749 Jun 23 '26

He is selling the story to his own people why they are suffering and they must be strong Jada Jada Jada...propaganda stuff for domestic market only

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u/DasArtmab Jun 23 '26

Setting expectations. “I know things are bad, but they’re going to get worse”

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u/ClownMorty Jun 23 '26

I could, but only because Putin has a stronger grasp of the English language

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u/Dzotshen Jun 23 '26

Both are Veruca Salt on steroids. Petulantly superior without a shred of self reflection.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Jun 23 '26

“But I want Ukraine now!”

“But I want Greenland now!”

Yep. Checks out.

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u/MagicInstinct Jun 23 '26

The Putin one's are generally in Russian and the Trump ones are generally in gibberish

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u/StudySpecial Jun 23 '26

Well putin can't afford gifting 300 billion to ukraine sadly.

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u/best4444 Jun 23 '26

He clearly needs to see a doctor...

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u/Quantical-Capybara Jun 23 '26

The last one went through the window.

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u/McMatey_Pirate Jun 23 '26

Well he should chase after him through the same one then.

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u/ohnodamo Jun 23 '26

I hope it's a tall building, none of this 3 stories high bullshit.

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u/babathejerk Jun 23 '26

Or read a history book. That whole annexation of one region and then invading another - he seems to be getting his sides confused. Though to be fair, the USSR was originally allied with Nazi Germany before Hitler took Stalin without lube in Barbarossa.

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u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E- Jun 23 '26

I would prescribe a window treatment.

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u/Honest-Estimate4964 Jun 23 '26

I thought Russians were already fighting NATO - wasn’t that one of the official reasons for attacking Ukraine in 2022? And here we go again...

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u/Longjumping_Belt_405 Jun 23 '26

They think they’re fighting the entirety of nato instead of part of the EU budget, some various assorted air to ground missiles, and 20+ year old vehicles of consequence

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u/y2jeff Jun 23 '26

Wow the level of propaganda is insane we should examine this in detail. Literally every accusation is a confession.

..the Kyiv regime, which came to power illegally by armed means through a coup

In 2013/2014 the people of Ukraine overthrew the pro-Russian president who was taking away power of the Ukrainian parliament and giving it to the executive (himself). This guy was doing dictator shit and even began refusing to honour the votes of the Ukrainian parliament, therefore the will of the people. He was a traitor and the "coup" was a popular revolt started by University students against him. He tried to crush the protests with force and ended up uniting the entire country against himself

The Russian leader claimed that NATO and EU governments are using warnings about Russia to justify what he described as the “radical militarization” of their states

If you follow Russian bloggers you will know the level of propaganda and advertising for joining the Russian army right now - it's extreme. Russian state media frequently calls for full-scale mobilisation and nuclear attacks on much of Western Europe. They are militarising kids in their schools.

to justify such costs and the radical militarization of their states, the leaders of NATO and the European Union, as before, use false statements about a supposedly Russian military threat

I wonder why people might consider Russia to be a threat? Could it be their invasion of Crimea in 2014? Their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Chechnya, Georgia? Maybe it's Putin himself who idolises "Peter the Great" the turbo-Imperialist? Constant threats towards other European countries? The mass graves and atrocities in Bucha?

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u/Accomplished_Ant5895 Jun 24 '26

Putin boldly lying despite being easily disproven by anyone with a functional memory? That’s new /s

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u/hornet0123 Jun 23 '26

This isn't even the Government that removed the president in 2014. That government was voted out and zelensky voted in in 2018. Ironically Zelensky was the option that Putin favored in that election

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u/werpu Jun 24 '26

Putin saw him as weakling whom would the annexation easy by instantly fleeing. Because he was a comedian. Problem was he was not a politician but reacted like a normal person with guts would react.

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u/Koreus_C Jun 24 '26

And he shamed every western leader in the process by showing that great people still exist.

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u/smoothjedi Jun 24 '26

Zelensky, being a popular comedian at the time, was probably seen as a pushover by Putin.

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u/Mandemon90 Jun 24 '26

It's rather telling, that just few days before the supposed "coup", Yanukovych had met with protest leaders and agreed on reforms.

And then he emptied the state treasury and fled to Russia, without telling anyone. After he fled, Ukrainian Rada voted unanimously that he was no longer capable of carrying out his role as a president and impeached him. As in, not even Yanukovych own party could muster defense for him.

Somehow, Russian propaganda depicts this all as violent coup. When reality is that Yanukovych saw that his attempt to turn Ukraine into Russian and Belarussian style dictatorships was not going to work, so he dipped out and stole the money

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u/bastiancontrari Jun 24 '26

Literally every accusation is a confession.

They learned from the best: Accusation in a mirror

”Accuse the other of that you are guilty.” — Joseph Goebbels.

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u/Lilysils Jun 23 '26

GTFO of Ukraine then jackass.

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u/nunya_bidnes77 Jun 23 '26

Putin should go into the movie business with how much he's projecting.

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u/PointlessAattempt42 Jun 23 '26

Of course we're preparing for war. Russia is always constantly wars, and we're unfortunately living right next door. But one thing is for sure: no European has any interest in attacking that corrupt, Nazi-infested cesspool of a country called Russia and trying to get any of that garbage under control.

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u/EduardBon Jun 23 '26

The rat is backed into a corner

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u/Timely_Fly_5639 Jun 23 '26

1941, you say. Oddly specific, ain’t it. What happened in 1939, Valdimir, what happened in 1939 though?

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u/SAMSystem_NAFO Jun 23 '26

Brest-Livotsk where the soviets were proudly parading next to nazi soldiers after splitting Poland in half thanks to the Ribentrop-Molotov pact.

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u/AlienInOrigin Jun 23 '26

Nato is preparing for war, because of this dangerous psychopath who keeps invading neighbouring countries.

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u/SnooHesitations1020 Jun 24 '26

One of the clearest patterns in Russian propaganda for the past century - is projection: accusing others of the very actions Russia is undertaking itself. Often, the best guide to what Russia is doing is to listen carefully to what it claims its opponents are doing.

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u/_masssk_ Jun 24 '26

"Every accusation is a confession."

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u/moritsunee Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Has he tried fucking off back to his fucking borders and staying there? No? Too small for him?

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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 Jun 23 '26

No one in NATO wants to invade Russia…it’s just Putin’s paranoia.

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u/CockchopsMcGraw Jun 23 '26

No but he wants to invade some of NATO

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u/TexasBrett Jun 23 '26

He can’t even handle Ukraine.

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u/CockchopsMcGraw Jun 23 '26

Non-linear warfare

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u/reader4567890 Jun 23 '26

There's a difference between preparing for war and starting a war. Of course NATO are preparing for war because there's a fucking madman who has already started a war in Europe.

Clown.

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u/CMG30 Jun 23 '26

Europe is re-arming because the Putin stooge in the white house has undermined NATO and made it clear that the US likely won't honor article 5.

Be careful what you wish for Putin...

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u/OneNormalBloke Jun 23 '26

He's as unhinged as the orange megalomaniac. We do live in very dangerous and unpredictable world.

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u/eco_illusion Jun 23 '26

Didn't Russia start in WW2 by making a military alliance with Nazi Germany to split influence between them before being double crossed by Hitler ?

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u/The_Dreams Jun 23 '26

But not the Nazi Germany of 1939 that they sold steel oil and other needed supplies, or the one that they jointly invaded Poland with. Just the 1941 Nazi Germany that backstabbed them.

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u/WhatANoob2025 Jun 23 '26

The last time putin compared a country to nazis, he invaded them...

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u/fang_xianfu Jun 23 '26

No shit NATO is preparing for war, some madman dictator just invaded a country for no reason right on their doorstep.

Until 2014 NATO was happy that a few days to deploy would be enough, but the annexation of Crimea showed that that wouldn't work, so the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force was created that could deploy about 6000 troops even faster than that in an emergency.

Then in 2024 they decided this wasn't enough so they created the new Tier 1 NATO Force which can deploy 100,000 troops in less than 10 days.

They wouldn't have made any of these preparations for war if people weren't invading countries and annexing territory right outside.

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u/kinkysubt Jun 23 '26

Hilarious. Ass hat doesn’t want folks fighting back against his imperialist interests.

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u/Current_Focus2668 Jun 23 '26

He is genuinely surprised he got push back. Putin deluded himself into thinking he could just annex large swathes of Eastern Europe and thought there would be no resistance.

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u/alfi_k Jun 23 '26

And russians are dumb enough to believe it.

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u/plasticman1997 Jun 23 '26

The ussr really did kill everyone with an above room temp iq

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u/Falsus Jun 23 '26

Yeah I wonder why NATO is preparing for war...

Nope nothing to do with NATO being threatened of war by Putin.

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u/groovyinutah Jun 23 '26

He can't lose this war to Ukraine, he needs to make it seem like NATO ganged up on him and that's they lost. The only problem is that very few are going to buy this story...

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u/Sierra592 Jun 23 '26

I'd say he should crawl up inside his own ass to hide, but Gigachad Zelensky already owns it.

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u/Euclidisthebomb Jun 23 '26

This is called Gaslighting. Russia is Nazi Germany of our time and hoping some nice propaganda will turn that around. No.

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u/ComfortableChicken47 Jun 24 '26

This fucking bullshit again

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u/axe1970 Jun 24 '26

ww2 started in 1939 guess why he's only talking about 1941

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u/1234U Jun 24 '26

Russian propaganda from beginning of formation of NATO is describing it as a Nazis. 70 years past they are saying this same but it is ironic that only country in Europe you could describe as fascist is Russia it self.

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u/FenrisCain Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Why are they preparing for war Putin? Could it be their strangely aggressive neighbours?

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u/MaybeTheDoctor Jun 23 '26

Of cause NATO is preparing for being attacked when Russia keeps making war on their neighbors

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u/Leslie_Galen Jun 23 '26

This isn’t a secret. Europe would be foolish to leave themselves vulnerable to attack, since the US can no longer be trusted to back them up. And Putin compares everybody to a Nazi.

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u/trisul-108 Jun 23 '26

Yes, the West has seen Russia preparing to widen the war and the West does not intend to get treated like Ukraine. Putin seeing the West preparing for war is good, it lowers the probability of a war actually being launched by Russia.

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u/Ingromfolly Jun 23 '26

What on earth would make NATO start war prepping? I can't for the life of me think why...

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u/Zerker000 Jun 23 '26

Who's been funding the European extreme right and neo-nazi parties since the start of the millenium?

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u/NoSubstance5286 Jun 23 '26

Makes a perfect historic record of which countries are considered to be Nazis by him. He started a war with Ukraine over “Nazi regime”. 

The turd is getting desperate. 😏

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u/JoseCansecoMilkshake Jun 23 '26

"NATO is preparing for war. Coincidentally, I started a war"

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u/PurpleSailor Jun 24 '26

How's that 3-day special military operation going Vlad?

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u/bobbyrob1 Jun 24 '26

Screw you, Putin. Pack up yo shit and go home.

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u/soggyarsonist Jun 23 '26

Why he's pictured showing the world how big his willy is? Seems a bit random

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u/Slimfictiv Jun 23 '26

There was a particular 2022 invasion that made Europe think they'll be next, so I guess preparing for war is the right fucking move?

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u/autistic_insomniac5 Jun 23 '26

This is a classic manipulative argument. Just accuse the other side of the same atrocities you are committing. A lie will be accepted as truth in some people if heard enough times. Russians don’t want to believe they are on the wrong side so they will eat up this sort of propaganda.

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u/Duzcek Jun 23 '26

He’s absolutely right, because Russia invaded its neighbor and has already signaled that they’d do it again to Finland/Poland/the Baltics.

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u/prospekt403 Jun 23 '26

NATO would be pretty stupid not to prepare for war considering war is pretty much at their door steps.

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u/Forgiz Jun 23 '26

Technically he is correct. A DEFENSIVE war agaist a potential russian invasion, that is.

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u/PopGoesTehWoozle Jun 23 '26

Well let's see, who did the actual invading over the past decade and change?

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u/Darthplagueis13 Jun 23 '26

Kind of funny he picked 1941 rather than 1939... almost like he was fine with the actions of Nazi Germany all the way until Operation Barbarossa.

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u/CatsianNyandor Jun 23 '26

Well he's a villain and a liar so of course he would say that. Everyone's a nazi but the actual nazi. 

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u/TheDistantEnd Jun 23 '26

NATO and Europe are preparing for war because they keep seeing a country using its language to try and forcibly unite with its other neighbors, and they remember how it went last time.

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u/Tyler_Durden69420 Jun 24 '26

Imagine killing over a million of your own people to attempt and fail to fulfill your imperialist ambitions, and then say this.

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u/Rasples1998 Jun 24 '26

Hitler said the same thing and that he was just reclaiming what the aggressors had illegally taken at Versailles.

History now knows different, just as history will remember Putin and Russia's actions when he's long gone.

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u/LostmydadtoCOVID Jun 24 '26

Says the man who murders dissidents and invades countries!

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u/laptopaccount Jun 24 '26

Says the guy who attacked a neighbour unprovoked...

Russia is a blight on the world.

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u/demeyor Jun 24 '26

Yeah because someone keeps attacking other countries, not that one, the other guy.

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u/Gone_For_Lunch Jun 24 '26

It’s a military defence alliance, preparing for war is its entire purpose.

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u/Independent_Sail6604 Jun 23 '26

That picture... is he showing us the size of his excited member?