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Originally posted by AURaptor:

I've had a long time interest in accents, dialects and figuring out from where people come , just by how they speak.

Most don't peg me from where I come correctly, however.

Words can betray people, and reveal their country of origin.

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Further, I don't mind poking you SIG a bit once in a while for fun, but to those who continually post back and forth with you again I will ask why. Why do you feel the need to argue with those who are posting only lies and propaganda? Why not create substantive threads if you have the desire to converse? You have the power to sublative their platform of spreading lies".

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
You're quite right. I am missing the significance of the " Russian trolls " meme.

I've stayed out of that nonsense, as I feel it's a rabbit hole which serves no purpose to climb into.

I was commenting on the English being spoken in the given videos. Nothing more.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Geezer, the broadcast is Ukrainian, not Russian. The woman is a Ukrainian reporter "on the scene" in Mariupol. The soldier that she questioned was dressed in Ukrainian fatigues; so there would be no reason or way to pick him out specifically. Kiev has no interest in dubbing-in an English-speaking soldier. And finally, if Kiev found out that its news broadcast was manipulated in some way, they could always disavow it after-the-fact. The idea that this was dubbed in for nefarious reasons is nonsense.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm assuming they're mercs, "private security forces" like Academi, not members of any nation's armed forces.

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Ahhhhh, I should have known. Must be today's marching orders for Russian Trolls: Ukrainian army is not Ukraine, they are made up of foreign legion, they are in fact a "Nato Legion."

http://www.1tv.ru/news/polit/276473

3:30-ish - same vid footage as the one Siggy posted.

Hey, if it's on Russian state run tv and Putin says it, it must be so! Da!

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
So, I haven't been following these threads much because, well, it's not worth much but occasional mocking. But I take it that it's come to light that sig had family ties to Mother Russia? Or something? If so, I'm not at all surprised.

Again, it would explain so much.

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Just more mystery really - she said she had/has a Polish father who had a harrowing experience in that part of the world, escaped imprisonment. Why he imparted a love of Russia on his daughter is not clear to me.

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Originally posted by G:
Is there anything he can't do???? Russian Soooooouuuuullll Train.... I dare you to watch the whole thing.

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Originally posted by G:
East coast, and Aussie for sure. Or New Zealand for sure. And I definitely saw Obama in the background in the second one.

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The US suuuuuuuucks!!!!

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:


Once again, siggy proves that she doesn't hear a thing anyone is saying, except Russian ditto-heads.

1) No one denies that in many ways the US sucks. This is well documented, though you choose not to see it.
2) The US sucking does not mean that Russia does not suck.
3) Discussion of the ways that Russian sucks is not a statement of the US's perfection, though you seem to take it as such.
4) Any attempt to discuss Russia with you turns immediately to "WAAAAH the US SUUUUCKS!" Inevitable conclusion: your hatred of the US is what you use to stay in denial of anything critical of your Beloved Mother Russia and Precious Pappa Putin.

QED. For the thousandth time LOL!

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Originally posted by G:


Maybe South African?

"Outta my face" is not common slang in the US with the exception of the East Coast, and there I would say it's not modern day use, more in older films and tv. Maybe this guy was a Soprano's fan?

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Most unbelievable though, is you don't think Russia is capable of playing dirty to protect their own self-interests - amazing, total, purposeful ignorance. You have zero credibility when you show zero objectivity

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Since you weren't at any of these events, I can assume that we shouldn't take anything you say seriously?-SIGNY

Of course! That's why I mainly post information, quotes, stories from journalists/reporters/citizens who are actually THERE.-G

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an obvious Putin suck-up piece

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BTW, we didn't choose to destroy Afghanistan or Iraq. We DID manage to turn them, and Sudan, and Libya, into failed states are are working mightily hard on Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and Iran. Also, looking back a bit, we did break Yugoslavia apart. That's quite a record! One which you choose to ignore over and over and over... you manage to forget just a few more times than it happened!-G

This is too funny. Here's a quote I posted from a Russian professor who became nauseous when he went back to Russia, because of how it had changed and how people there were so consumed with Anti-Americanism.
BTW - when I posted it you ignored it, several times. (*see below).

But it gets better - here's what he said:

"...Almost everyone is infected, to various degrees, by this anti-Americanism," he says. "Surprisingly, even those who understand the inadmissibility of what Putin is doing in Ukraine don't miss an opportunity to recall the mistakes of U.S. administrations -- the bombing of Yugoslavia, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and so on and so forth -- and say that America's crimes are much worse and more dangerous that Putin's mistakes."

It's you! You just did that! -G

Siggy: "BTW, we (the US) didn't choose to destroy Afghanistan or Iraq. We DID manage to turn them, and Sudan, and Libya, into failed states are are working mightily hard on Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and Iran. Also, looking back a bit, we did break Yugoslavia apart. That's quite a record! "

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Most unbelievable though, is you don't think Russia is capable of playing dirty to protect their own self-interests - amazing, total, purposeful ignorance. You have zero credibility when you show zero objectivity -G

Of course I'm aware that Russia can also play dirty tricks to further its interests. Did you not read the post which describes how Russia is using "war fervor" to re-nationalize all of its major holdings, and its banks, and remove western-leaning oligarchs from power, putting economic control back in the hands of the state? At some future date, when I'm more sure of what's going on, I'll tell you how I think Russia (and China) are trying to destroy the petrodollar. -SIGNY

I'm glad to see you being aware that Russia can be just a shifty as the USA. That's possible progress.-G

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You said you didn't necessarily agree with their opinion, but you can't really call that being critical.-G

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I have ALSO provided at least a half-dozen times by now the list of aid that Russia is providing the separatists. I've done it so often I'm NOT going to bother repeating it, if you've been paying just the slightest bit of attention you should have it memorized by now. I also said that Russia has been very careful not to put Russian troops under Russian command in Ukraine. That seems to correlate very well what the commanding general of the Ukraine army said: No Russian troops, but individuals. I think my objectivity far outweighs yours. HOWEVER, Russia simply does not have the resources to bomb, invade, drone, and manipulate nearly every single nation on the planet. Sheer Russian resource limitations alone make the USA far and away the greater offender in that regard.-SIGNY

"No Russian troops, but individuals." Classic Russian double speak.-G

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You would do well to pay more attention to what I'm posting, instead of ignoring whatever doesn't fit with your preconceived notions of what "should" and "shouldn't" happen.-SIGNY

Right back 'attcha. I responded to the first of those posts you said I missed - perhaps you missed it because you were ignoring whatever didn't fit with your preconceived notions of what "should" and "shouldn't" happen.
* (from above) You ignore a lot of what's posted in any Russia discussion in fact, I suspect much of it on purpose.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I have to say - Russia re-nationalizing business and industry - what a concept!

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Most people are doing much better, though the rich are not quite as rich. If you only care about rich people, I suppose you could say it hasn't worked well.

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