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The idea that Russia were forced to invade Ukraine because a guy who ran for President twice getting less than 2% of the vote who whose political party had no seats, proposed obtaining nuclear weapons over a decade earlier is too stupid for anyone to honestly believe.


if you add:

"\nI bet this isn't going to be good enough, which is why i didn't want to do this. I have more, i just want to prove this point."

to my prior post, the sha256sum will match.

I merely asked what sort of proof you were looking for, buddy. Evidently a Ukrainian politician saying the exact words you said no Ukrainian politician said prior to 2014 isn't good enough.

here, about the party in Ukraine he's led for decades:

> The party gained increasing popularity in the late 2000s and early 2010s, winning 10.45% of the vote in the 2012 parliamentary election. Between 2009 and 2014, it was an observer member of the far-right Alliance of European National Movements. It played a role in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and Euromaidan protests but its support dropped quickly following the 2014 elections. Since then, the party has been polling below the electoral threshold, and it currently has one seat in the Verkhovna Rada.

oh look, they win parliamentary votes, and hold a seat.

also incaseyoumissedit:

> It played a role in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and Euromaidan protests

WHOOPS.

guess i'm "too stupid" :-)


I think it's pretty obvious that the fact a single individual who's ceased even trying to run for office because he can't get the votes and actively despises the actual Ukraine leadership said something 15 years ago is not "evidence" for your claim that '"we're going to acquire nukes" was the final straw'. A guy who literally has less impact on Ukrainian nuclear policy than George Galloway on that of the UK.

But yes, congratulations on predicting that nobody would be impressed by such a stupid irrelevance. The non-stupid thing would not to have posted it in the first place...


He's currently incumbent, Leader of Svoboda, in Ukraine. A politician in 2010 in Ukraine, a politician today in Ukraine.

I wonder if we can have this same argument about Freeland in Canada saying canada needs nukes to defend itself against the USA, in 15 years ;-)

ps https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1741301040.34_chrystiafreelan...




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