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Not even just in the past 3 days, I've seen a staggering number of people on HN who apparently don't know the USSR ended in 1989 or that Putin openly dislikes c
by antifa 5y ago
Not even just in the past 3 days, I've seen a staggering number of people on HN who apparently don't know the USSR ended in 1989 or that Putin openly dislikes communism, among the plethora of other stereotypes of American arrogance and hubris, so yes, probably unlike the user "rayiner".
- jacquesm 5y agoHaving seen the whole thing from up close and having lots of contacts in Eastern Europe - former USSR countries and also in Russia I have a bit of a home court advantage here but still it boggles the mind how short sighted and detached from reality some of this is. Weirder still how exactly those people are accusing others of not knowing how the world works. The world is a messy, extremely interconnected hairball with several major fraction lines running through it each of which has the power to reduce our population problems in a heartbeat. To ignore that - or to try to live as though these problems do not exist - has to be the ultimate in being willfully blind. It probably is just some kind of fear response, like being told that your safe little haven isn't really safe. But as long as nuclear weapons are armed and ready to go - on all sides - there are no safe places, and any conflict that involves a nuclear power has the potential to spiral completely out of control, more so when autocrats and dictators are involved.