Durov is an absolute scumbag though. Russian Elon Musk.

Telegram shouldnt even be in the conversation when there are alternatives like Signal.

I’d be thoroughly shocked if the FSB didn’t have a backdoor for telegram.

I’m guessing you don’t seed then.

So if I was just repeating Russian “talking points” you’d have no problem with that?

How to be popular:

• Use a loophole to run for a third term of presidency by becoming prime minister.
• Rewrite the constitution during your third term to remove your term limit.
• Jail your political opponents.
• Assassinate critics.
• Only allow approved opposition to run.
• Brutally crush any democratic protests.
• Force government employees to vote for you.
• Start a war to rally support for yourself.
• Take lots of weird, shirtless, old-man photos.

Yeah, fifth term and 88% of the vote.

Totally legitimate. Definitely not dictator for life.

I haven’t expressed any support for the US or NATO.

How can you call yourself a socialist when you support a fascist dictator (Putin) running a failing hyper-capitalist petro-state (Russia) conducting an imperialist war of aggression in Ukraine?

Sounds like you’re a liberal just wearing a tattered old Soviet hat. You’re the same as Americans cheering on their imperialist adventures.

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I don’t think a fascist dictator can legitimately accuse anyone of a coup.

You don’t know what we hope[1][2].

Is word salad still on the menu?

Russian “imperialist aggression” isn’t what this was in the first place[3][4][5][6].

This is what I’m talking about.

When presented with two truths, you’ll accept the pro-Russian one without criticism as it’s what you want to believe.

Your logic is:

West = bad
Russia is anti-west
Russia = good

For example, I bet you believe every dubious claim made about genocide in Donbass from pro-Russian sources, but you probably believe Bucha and Mariupol are false flag attacks made by “Ukrainian Nazis”

Not because it’s the truth, but because it fits your worldview.

Unsourced my ass:

Thank you, why couldn’t the article have actually linked this instead of a reddit thread??

Also how relevant are cold war documents to today’s situation? Ukraine was part of the Soviet union when this document was created. Do you really believe the KGB wasn’t producing similar documents? Look at the “Foundations of Geopolitics” a book that is actually still influencing Putin’s decision-making today.

“A negotiated end to the war” probably doesn’t mean “surrender unconditionally” as many .ml residents hope.

Ending the war without rock solid security guarantees just leaves Ukraine open to further Russian imperialist aggression in the future.

And as a side note, can I also confirm if the bar for evidence is so low in this instance that unsourced grainy scans of documents posted on tankie Reddit subs are considered authoritative?