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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Mar 2014

    Not in any way supporting Russia or Putin but the US doesn’t have a moral leg to stand on. The irony is worthy of The Onion.

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      2. Ionut I‏ @ionutzi 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I don’t support US either, but nowadays, who has the moral leg to stand on for #ukraine?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @ionutzi

        @ionutzi Indeed.

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      1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @JacobEthanWhite

        @JacobEthanWhite But let’s not drone on about that. See what I did there? ;)

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      2. (((Ant Miller)))‏ @meeware 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Morals are poor reasons for bellicosity. But yeah.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @meeware

        @meeware Oh, I meant to be lecturing Russia not for justifying conflict.

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      2. Mike Lemur‏ @bmf 2 Mar 2014
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        @aral Advice from lessons learned is often hypocritical and hard to deliver, but also true, and important.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @bmf

        @bmf Indeed. And yet it’s hard to concentrate on what he’s saying when the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes.

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      4. Mike Lemur‏ @bmf 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral That quote would have read a lot better if he had followed it with, "believe me."

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      2. Luke Kilpatrick‏ @lkilpatrick 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral the USA doesn't have historical standing, but the current administration hasn't invaded anyone. This is country 3 or 4 for Putin.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @lkilpatrick

        @lkilpatrick This is true, why invade when you can order drone strikes. Putin needs to catch up :)

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      4. Luke Kilpatrick‏ @lkilpatrick 2 Mar 2014
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        @aral it would be so much better if we could just solve disagreements with video games. The USA is half way there, others need to catch up

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      1. Lawrence Meckan‏ @absalomedia 2 Mar 2014
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        @aral throw in a bit of Christwire & the fundamentalists will be seeing this as the final steps towards the Rapture / Last Days / Armageddon

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      1. Luke Kilpatrick‏ @lkilpatrick 2 Mar 2014
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        @aral he invades so often I lose track. Georgia, Ukraine, and a whole bunch of other places Americans have a hard time finding on maps

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      1. Vladimir Grichina‏ @vgrichina 2 Mar 2014
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        @aral @jerolimov US has to stand on unless it ignores international treaty signed with Ukraine – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances …

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