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OmegaRacer

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  1. There is no need to believe in a personal God to be aware of a Higher Force.
  2. You must have a very narrow view on life. Your loss.
  3. Wow, what a story. Ask the 711 if they can provide you with their CCTV footage. Would be an awesome memory to have.
  4. Sorry, I didn't know I had to introduce myself to you first and that I needed your permission to reply. ????????
  5. I just had a strong episode of deja vu. ????????
  6. 1981 Moto Guzzi G5 (my beloved) 1973 Tecnomoto Special (50cc Street legal racer) 1968 Moto Morini Corsarino Scrambler (50cc 4stroke) 70s? Suzuki K125 80s Honda Cela (family heirloom) 90s Yamaha SR400 (forever young) 90s Kawasaki AR80 custom racer (wild!)
  7. You know what even more pathetic? People who clearly have reading comprehension difficulties while trying to find a scapegoat to vent their frustrations. Please find me one sentence where I condoned Russia's actions. Just one. I remember explicitly saying the opposite.
  8. So instead of promoting open discourse, you guys prefer to go on ad hominem attacks, questioning morals and values of a person without knowing anything about him, instead of arguing his points? Whatever, you drama queens can debate among yourselves. I have better things to do. ta taaa
  9. Oh if the world were all just black and white, wouldn't that be nice... ????
  10. Knee jerk reactions, lack of understanding, jumping to conclusions is exactly what got us in this situation in the first place. Seems you have more in common with Mr Putin than you'd like to admit.
  11. The one who's unhinged is you if you think I'm condoning what's going on.
  12. So, I should get all emotional about it like you. Anything else means one doesn't care, right? What have you changed so far by watching TV and being indignant? Are we in kindergarten or what?
  13. What do you suggest I should be doing then? Assault Russian holidaymakers in Pattaya? Just to show em who's boss? Would that make you feel better?
  14. I'm not going into details about my family history. And I'm neither a patriot or even less a nationalist. I love my homeland with all my heart...not the country it got annexed to, though. I want to make it clear that I don't condone Russia's actions in the slightest. I do however try to understand the background and motivations for the actions. And you can do that only by keeping a clear head and not get carried away in emotional reactions.
  15. Tell that to my family....no biggie. You have no idea. And bringing the Queen's family to support your point makes you look very dim indeed.
  16. I may have used the wrong word "banned", but fact is that an ultra-nationalistic wave introduced measures to undermine the cultural identity of the Russian minority in Ukraine. My homeland had the same issues. We were annexed to another country (100 years ago) and at first we were prohibited to use our language in public offices, then forbidden to attend school in our language, then "gently encouraged" to change our names and family names so they would sound "better". Our culture and traditions were curtailed at every chance. It took 30 years of fighting to have our rights as a minority reinstated. What you consider a small matter is actually a big matter for them.
  17. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR3Gp1llVyhtkALXQyv7UGt-wwVWZ8TB2VkBoOxiuPJeJbk8nevlJyQzcmQ LANGUAGE LAWS “[Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk] also made a personal appeal to Russian-speaking Ukrainians, pledging to support…a special status to the Russian language.”—US Secretary of State John Kerry, April 24, 2014 Ukraine is extraordinarily multilingual: In addition to the millions of Russian-speaking eastern Ukrainians, there are areas where Hungarian, Romanian, and other tongues are prevalent. These languages were protected by a 2012 regional-language law. The post-Maidan government alarmed Russian-speaking Ukrainians by attempting to annul that law.
  18. Talking to an intelligent person who has eyes and ears on the inside is in my opinion worth more than 10 pages of forum chatter by clueless people. It doesn't matter if the article is 3 years old. The language laws have not changed in this time. Have you even read that part?
  19. For one, I've talked to a very good Russian friend of mine who is currently in Moscow and has many family members in Ukraine. He confirmed this. Here is a pretty good article about the (alleged) motivations for Putin's invasion. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/making-sense-of-vladimir-putin?fbclid=IwAR3RZXOtws-kmb6Hk1cQb99ZEHj3u6Rl2GnXkUDU3_LoBVlVpewztPtJmlQ Towards the end of this article you'll find the language laws: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR3Gp1llVyhtkALXQyv7UGt-wwVWZ8TB2VkBoOxiuPJeJbk8nevlJyQzcmQ
  20. There are other reasons (like defending the 17% of Russians in Ukraine, which were not allowed to speak their mother tongue and follow their culture, as well as growing NATO military presence in the buffer zone countries). This doesn't mean that your assumptions are incorrect however, it just means there is always more than what meets the eye.
  21. Hmm I don't remember all these condemnations when another big country invaded a small country under false pretenses and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. There must be some kind of unknown law deciding which country can invade and which one can't....
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