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This war makes me sick and very sad. It reminds me of the pale blue dot quote by Sagan : "Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperor

• queuebert 5y ago
  I feel like humanity has gotten nowhere in my lifetime. I grew up watching Star Trek and was very optimistic about the future, but that has been dashed.
  • MathMonkeyMan 5y ago
    We have yet to discover intelligent life as we know it, or something like warp drive (which probably doesn't exist). A lot of the futurist premise of Star Trek will not apply until humanity faces something like that.
  • gpt5 5y ago
    Humanity has lived through one of its most peaceful period in your lifetime, even when including the current war in Ukraine (which is much smaller than other active conflicts).
  • tim333 5y ago
    The news tends to focus on the bad stuff and ignore the progress that is made. Like back in the 60s third world poverty was a big thing and they've become way richer now and also have smartphones not that dissimilar to Star Trek communicators. In fact better in some ways - you couldn't watch Tik Tok or catch Pokemon on a communicator.
• deutschewelle 5y ago
  • matkoniecz 5y ago
    > The reason being, purely from a military strategic thinking: Moscow simply cannot afford to have a vulnerable flank from the wide open fields of Ukraine and Belarus. Are you sure? What is the source of that belief? Russians? The same Russians that repeatedly claimed that Ukraine will not be invaded? They have nukes. Even if Germany would get back to WW II levels of aggression and army size then invading Russia would work even less than in WW II.
    • jesusofnazarath 5y ago
  • skrebbel 5y ago
    > The reason being, purely from a military strategic thinking: Moscow simply cannot afford to have a vulnerable flank from the wide open fields of Ukraine and Belarus. I don't know, my country has vulnerable flanks from wide open fields on all sides that aren't sea. Only if you start with the assumption that everybody not under your influence wants to destroy you, then your argument makes sense. But that assumption is insane. Russia had plenty time and encouragement to move the narrative from military talk to trade talk but unilaterally refused.
  • berkes 5y ago
    Strange strategy. To take a country, essentially swapping one border of a poorly functioning state with six new borders. Borders with countries that are EU members, NATO members and in most cases much stronger. Why exchange one weak border with six much stronger ones?
    • deutschewelle 5y ago
      its tough to have discussion on this topic because HN users were triggered and flagging all of my comments without allowing me to explain through logic and call for calm. its outright censorship, which to me is the biggest irony of it all. An open society is no more privy to censorship than closed ones, the only difference is that you all pat yourself on the back for being 'right' or whatever it is you are being fed by the media and your political nest