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by sras-me 470 days ago
>Some of us have been following European politics for a long time, friend.

Oh yea, here is one guy that does exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_KEFpuIro

Transcript:

https://singjupost.com/transcript-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-geopo...

>Not for Crimea. Not for the Donbas. Nothing like that. This idea that Putin is reconstructing the Russian empire, this is childish propaganda. Excuse me.

>If anyone knows the day-to-day and year-to-year history, this is childish stuff. Childish stuff seems to work better than adult stuff. So no designs at all. The United States decided this man must be overthrown. It’s called a regime change operation.
2 comments
eitland 470 days ago
Stop peddling russian propaganda.

Just because you can dig up three YouTube links that supports the russian side doesn't mean we should belive them.

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artem2471 470 days ago
Sachs is lying about Maidan. Absolute majority of Ukrainians in Western and Central Ukraine supported it, like 80-90%. Millions participated, hundreds of thousands took active part, trying to be at the protests almost every day.the protests lasted for four months, from November to February, which is fairly cold in Ukraine. I was there at the time, yet Sachs just casually drops “I’ve been told they are all paid”, without any evidence.

That is propaganda

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sras-me 470 days ago
>I’ve been told they are all paid

Surely he didn't mean all the people present there are paid. As far as I understand, when you want some initiate a political change, you pay influencers, and they actually go an convince/gaslight the masses about the need for change.

So all the people who were present there might not be paid, but a lot of prime movers and the require infrastructure might be paid by the interested party.

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artem2471 470 days ago
And the masses are so stupid to do just as they told.

I don’t know what he “meant”, that’s what he said. There was a very clear external event that triggered Maidan, there was another event that made it massive.

The payment of influencers is just as a massive contribution into protests is just a speculation

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