A startlingly prescient Guardian article from 2017.
The demonisation of Russia risks paving the way for war | Seumas Milne
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Neville Chamberlain would be pleased.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 22 Dec 2022, 9:41,
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if only we were nice to hitler he wouldn't have annexed the sudetenland
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Dec 2022, 3:20,
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If only Jeremy Corbyn hadn't been cheated out of the stolen elections that he rightfully won,
none of this bad stuff would have happened. Not even Covid.
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I think people who voted for the tories seem to put an extrordinary effort into painting some alternate hypothetical nightmare under corbyn
The worse things get in reality, the bigger the bogeyman corbyn becomes.in this imagined corbyn-led britain
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 24 Dec 2022, 1:37,
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Golly I think you're on to something
The Corbyn haters here will surely have input on this
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 25 Dec 2022, 7:38,
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I never thought much of him
But he’s seem to have become a drunk Mel Gibson Stalin instead of the Aldi Bernie sanders in some eyes
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 25 Dec 2022, 19:58,
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A startlingly pro-Russian comment piece in The Guardian from 2017
Most thoroughly dismantled BTL.
Most notably though, Sovereign states voluntarily joining a defensive alliance when they have a nakedly aggressive neighbour really can’t be described as that alliance marching Eastward. To do so requires either some spectacular logical gymnastics, or outright intellectual dishonesty.
I don’t hear anyone claiming that Finland and Sweden joining is an act of provocation. Outside of the Kremlin anyway.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Dec 2022, 10:30,
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a man so permanently wrong that he must be a /links poster
Which one of you lot is Seumas Milne?
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It reads like a slightly less ignorant Swagatha Penis, IMO.
Less ignorant in that the writer had obviously heard of Ukraine before sharing his opinions about it. Not less wrong.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 22 Dec 2022, 14:11,
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those two challenge Owen Jones in the 'hilariously permawrong' stakes.
Which TBF is something of an achievement, so at least there's that.
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Two?
I'm convinced they're one person. Why do you think they might be two?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 22 Dec 2022, 14:28,
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you're familiar with The Quantity Theory of Insanity, yes?
Well, if those two accounts were run by the one person there would simply be such a massive concentration of spastication in one place that there wouldn't be any available elsewhere. And when you consider the brainwrong quotient among /links it's clear that there has to be sufficient spastication elsewhere, otherwise the Theory would need to be re-examined.
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Your very bad language aside,
your theory seems a little bit bollocks.
Two Scottish island dwelling proto-fascists with the same use of spelling, punctuation, grammar, the same logical and emotional blind spots, the same bigotries, making the same arguments on the same unpopular website?
They are two cheeks of the same arse.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 22 Dec 2022, 19:09,
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You really need to get a life.
Seriously, though. You've been analysing the spelling, punctuation and grammar of myself and Mr Penis' posts? As some sort of exercise in self soothing? To put your mind to rest that you aren't being completely mental?
Deary me.
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Have I mentioned my nationality that much? You have it in your notes, so I must have at some point. I suppose these similarities in language might be down to a relatively close geographical proximity.
Again, it's fair to say that I haven't been quite as intrigued by Swaggy's post history as you seem to be, but I don't recall taking particular exception to anything that he's posted, and I'll be the first to admit that I'm definitely not aligned to the radical left ideologies that you subscribe to. I suspect when you're that far-left that everything outside of your narrative seems awfully right-wing.
I assume by the 'unpopular website' thing, that you're suggesting the likelihood of two people with views opposing your own appearing on /links is massively unlikely. I've been a member here since back when b3ta was a relatively popular site. Michael Jackson had already been dead three years before you discovered the place, so that somewhat rubbishes that theory, no?
Also, why bother making a sockpuppet in the first place? I don't have the insecurities that plague SC or Tony and historically, my posts have had little problem gathering a response, so I can't say that I've ever been so inclined to fabricate spurious replies to my own submissions.
I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to discredit your theory, really. Perhaps subconsciously (or knowingly) I'm aware that making a case against your speculations will simply serve to bolster your belief that there's some great conspiracy taking place. Maybe this whole thing has been a ploy to destabilise your apparently fragile mental state. It seems to have pushed that nonce cunt Benny over the edge already.
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Smacks of being deliberately contrarian.
This time from the left, for a change.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 22 Dec 2022, 16:40,
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Hitchens in 2005
www.youtube.com/watch?v=83OY6De6Ob4&t=382s
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2kindsofherring, Thu 22 Dec 2022, 18:56,
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Very much so.
I think the clue is in the KGB agent bit (since joining at a young age).
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 22 Dec 2022, 19:11,
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And much more than in Soviet times, the campaign is personal. It’s all about Putin. The Russian president is an expansionist dictator who has launched a “shameless aggression”. He is the epitome of “political depravity”, “carving up” his neighbours as he crushes dissent at home
It's the opposite of prescient. Seamus uses quotes to suggest claims are false and exagerated that have since been proven chillingly accurate. I mean, they were also accurate at the time of this article, I should add. This was after Putin had annexed the Crimea, launched a full invasion of Georgia to establish russian zones, also making laughable false justification, that time "protecting against georgian genocide" instead of "denazification", none of which had anything to do with insulting him or Nato
In short, those who seamus criticises for alarmism against russia where the ones who should have been listened to, not fuckwit apologists like seamus, or b3ta's resident quisling swagatha who baffling is still try to justify russian aggression and chemical ali level bullshit in 2022
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Dec 2022, 3:32,
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Er, I read the post’s title as dripping in sarcasm. Have I got the wrong end of the stick?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 23 Dec 2022, 20:43,
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i think that would be the obvious take
but unless he's had some road to damascas moment or it's some ambitious year-long troll, I'm afraid Swagatha is being earnest
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Dec 2022, 22:40,
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