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Huh, interesting. That’s one way to defend yourself when you’re losing an information war, I suppose.
by jcadam 5y ago
Huh, interesting. That’s one way to defend yourself when you’re losing an information war, I suppose.
- nikolay 5y ago
- chockchocschoir 5y agoWhile Mir and UnionPay was already popular-ish in Russia, I don't think "Visa & MasterCard cut off Russia" is true. They merely separated the networks so Visa cards from outside Russia won't work inside, and vice-versa. But I haven't physically verified this myself.
- def_true_false 5y ago
- Mo3 5y agoTo be honest my adolescence would’ve been 1000x better without Russians in Counterstrike
- nikolay 5y agoYou know nothing about me to curse me. How about we wait and see, huh?
- dang 5y agoBreaking the site guidelines like that will get you banned here. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- NicoJuicy 5y agoThat's all known information. Not sure why you would need a subscription for that.
- nikolay 5y agoBecause I don't want people to push their narraive onto me - I want to eyewitness things myself. So far, Russian TV has less narrative than CNN! P.S. We all had to learn Russian when I was a student; I can't speak it smoothly, but I understand it perfectly.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoGet some help before it's too late. Here some realism: https://youtu.be/LD_4Y2TQotA https://youtu.be/LD_4Y2TQotA Here's how: https://youtu.be/nknYtlOvaQ0 https://youtu.be/nknYtlOvaQ0
- nikolay 5y agoLook, I do live in the real world - Russia doesn't want Ukraine in NATO, meanwhile, America wants it (and has been wanting it for decades) to degrade Russia from a global to a regional power. One have to be a complete idiot to believe that Russia want infiltrate Ukraine - the same way America has, for example. By the way, the treatment of these people and purposely putting them on display harmed would have been reacted to differently if those were, let's say, Ukrainian spies caught in Russia.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoThose countries want to be in the NATO because Putin has been threatening for many years/decades and is being a bully. That isn't Europe's fault, but Russia's. NATO has been reluctant to accept Ukraine even, but Ukraine added it in their law that they want to join Europe/Nato. That isn't Europe or US their fault either. It's because of Russia threatening democracy in Ukraine ( once again). Also, gas was found in Crimea which seems to be the main cause for Russia invading and taking Crimea immediately. The resource was so big, that it was possible to use that for European supply within a couple of years if Russia wouldn't have invaded. If you look at the facts, a lot of Europe has actually bought more gas at premium prices. This is reversing now, rightfully so. And NATO is now also increasing military spending, which they were cautious about before. Do you think that's also a "new threat" to Russia? It's full within their right after literally seeing Russia starting a war. We shouldn't have increased buying Russian gas, so much is clear by now. Outside of that. Russia is taking every opportunity to violate the Geneva convention and is actively shelling when civilians want to flee. That's just immoral. What Russia says and does are 2 different things.
- Mo3 5y agoLol realism, some Christian cardinal is on Russian state television and talking about how the Ukrainians are forced to endure homosexuality parades or get executed What’s your plan now that you’re getting firewalled in mate? Or do you have.. special privileges
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoGotta keep that facade on.
- jcadam 5y agoChina. China wins.
- dang 5y agoWould you please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar? You've been doing it repeatedly lately. That's not ok, especially now. ;https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html