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The article is about Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine, and senior Russian politicians are threatening several countries with nuclear annihilation. Rather than i

The article is about Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine, and senior Russian politicians are threatening several countries with nuclear annihilation. Rather than improving infrastructure and social care[0], and helping regions affected by natural disasters[1], the regime is singularly focused on weapons production. This is dangerous, and it's for the Russian people to put a stop to their leaders' ambitions. [0] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/10/total-disgrace-anger-frustration-as-mass-heating-failures-across-russia-leave-thousands-in-the-cold-a83676 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/10/total-disgrace-ang... [1] https://apnews.com/article/russia-kazakhstan-floods-evacuation-349121d4cdf68db32153475b7dadf14d https://apnews.com/article/russia-kazakhstan-floods-evacuati...

protomolecule 3y ago
Thank you, your concern about our well-being is very touching. The collective West could try putting more sanctions on Russia to win hearts and minds of Russian people.
- fractallyte 3y ago
  So what is your solution? The ruling regime in Russia has already neutralized all opposition politicians, stifled free speech, streams endless propaganda to its population, and continues to send thousands of men to die in another country, in a war that it started. How should the world react to that? More to the point, how should Russians react?
  - protomolecule 3y ago
    "How should the world react to that?" The world? Let me quote Cambridge study from October 2022 [0]: "75% of respondents in South Asia, 68% in Francophone Africa, 62% in Southeast Asia continue to view the country [Russia] positively in spite of the events of this year." Here is some analysis of the reasons why it is the case. [1] As an illustration you can look how the countries of the world voted on the Russia's resolution on "Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance"[2]: Yes: 118 | No: 49 The 49 countries who voted 'No' are the Ukraine (obviously), the US, the EU and NATO members, and some countries that depend on the US and the EU. [0] https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/a-world-divided/ https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/a-world-... [1] https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/5-reasons-why-much-of-the-global-south-isnt-automatically-supporting-the-west-in-ukraine/ https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/5-reasons-why-much-of-th... [2] https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4030705?ln=en https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4030705?ln=en
    - fractallyte 3y ago
      You're only showing that a large number of countries don't have the moral backbone to condemn Russian aggression. This is not about the "Global South" or the "collective West". Ukraine was invaded by a nuclear "superpower" - a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Its people are subjected to forced deportations and genocide. Russia's actions are those of a terrorist nation, and I expect you and everyone else to condemn it without reservation. I hope that is clear.
      - protomolecule 3y ago
        That's again a frivolous use of the words 'terrorist' and 'genocide'.
        fractallyte 2y ago
        https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2023-07-27-1 https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2023-07-27-1 [Updated Report on Russia's Commission of Genocide in Ukraine] Which organization is the author of this report? "The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights is a unique international consortium of parliamentarians, scholars, jurists, human rights defenders, NGOs, and students united in the pursuit of justice, inspired by and anchored in Raoul Wallenberg’s humanitarian legacy – how one person with the compassion to care and the courage to act can confront evil, prevail, and transform history."
        protomolecule 2y ago
        "Principal Author Professor Kristina Hook is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development <...> She previously served as a U.S. Department of State policy adviser for mass atrocity prevention, as a nonresident research fellow at the Marine Corps University, and as a U.S. Presidential Management Fellow. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center." I've read the bit about “We Can Do It Again”, if Ms. Hook resorts to direct lies from the start it gives me serious doubts that the rest of the report is any more truthful. But I could tell that from her affiliations alone.
  - protomolecule 3y ago
    "So what is your solution?" Both Russia and the West swallow their pride, drop the arrogance and come up with the new security arrangement in the Europe that addresses the security concerns of Russia and of the countries that feel threatened by Russia.
    - mopsi 2y ago
      That says very little. Given the dynamics of military balance in Europe since 1991 due to the massive reduction of forces on the European side, what would the contents of such arrangement be and what would guarantee that Russia adheres to the arrangement more than they did to the previous one signed in 1975? Unless you propose a major militarization of Europe (which no-one here is interested in, frankly), I don't see how this could mean anything less than a demilitarization of Russia, including almost total destruction of nuclear arsenal, to ensure a balance and equal footing with Europe, to correct the mistake made in 1991 when Russia was left with the huge Soviet arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons.
      - protomolecule 2y ago
        "demilitarization of Russia, including almost total destruction of nuclear arsenal" That would certainly address Russia's security concerns.
        mopsi 2y ago
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        protomolecule 2y ago
        "I'd appreciate an actual answer instead of useless diversions, if you are capable of providing one." @dang

protomolecule 3y ago

Thank you, your concern about our well-being is very touching. The collective West could try putting more sanctions on Russia to win hearts and minds of Russian people.

fractallyte 3y ago
So what is your solution? The ruling regime in Russia has already neutralized all opposition politicians, stifled free speech, streams endless propaganda to its population, and continues to send thousands of men to die in another country, in a war that it started. How should the world react to that? More to the point, how should Russians react?
- protomolecule 3y ago
  "How should the world react to that?" The world? Let me quote Cambridge study from October 2022 [0]: "75% of respondents in South Asia, 68% in Francophone Africa, 62% in Southeast Asia continue to view the country [Russia] positively in spite of the events of this year." Here is some analysis of the reasons why it is the case. [1] As an illustration you can look how the countries of the world voted on the Russia's resolution on "Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance"[2]: Yes: 118 | No: 49 The 49 countries who voted 'No' are the Ukraine (obviously), the US, the EU and NATO members, and some countries that depend on the US and the EU. [0] https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/a-world-divided/ https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/a-world-... [1] https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/5-reasons-why-much-of-the-global-south-isnt-automatically-supporting-the-west-in-ukraine/ https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/5-reasons-why-much-of-th... [2] https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4030705?ln=en https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4030705?ln=en
  - fractallyte 3y ago
    You're only showing that a large number of countries don't have the moral backbone to condemn Russian aggression. This is not about the "Global South" or the "collective West". Ukraine was invaded by a nuclear "superpower" - a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Its people are subjected to forced deportations and genocide. Russia's actions are those of a terrorist nation, and I expect you and everyone else to condemn it without reservation. I hope that is clear.
    - protomolecule 3y ago
      That's again a frivolous use of the words 'terrorist' and 'genocide'.
      - fractallyte 2y ago
        https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2023-07-27-1 https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2023-07-27-1 [Updated Report on Russia's Commission of Genocide in Ukraine] Which organization is the author of this report? "The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights is a unique international consortium of parliamentarians, scholars, jurists, human rights defenders, NGOs, and students united in the pursuit of justice, inspired by and anchored in Raoul Wallenberg’s humanitarian legacy – how one person with the compassion to care and the courage to act can confront evil, prevail, and transform history."
        protomolecule 2y ago
        "Principal Author Professor Kristina Hook is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development <...> She previously served as a U.S. Department of State policy adviser for mass atrocity prevention, as a nonresident research fellow at the Marine Corps University, and as a U.S. Presidential Management Fellow. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center." I've read the bit about “We Can Do It Again”, if Ms. Hook resorts to direct lies from the start it gives me serious doubts that the rest of the report is any more truthful. But I could tell that from her affiliations alone.
- protomolecule 3y ago
  "So what is your solution?" Both Russia and the West swallow their pride, drop the arrogance and come up with the new security arrangement in the Europe that addresses the security concerns of Russia and of the countries that feel threatened by Russia.
  - mopsi 2y ago
    That says very little. Given the dynamics of military balance in Europe since 1991 due to the massive reduction of forces on the European side, what would the contents of such arrangement be and what would guarantee that Russia adheres to the arrangement more than they did to the previous one signed in 1975? Unless you propose a major militarization of Europe (which no-one here is interested in, frankly), I don't see how this could mean anything less than a demilitarization of Russia, including almost total destruction of nuclear arsenal, to ensure a balance and equal footing with Europe, to correct the mistake made in 1991 when Russia was left with the huge Soviet arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons.
    - protomolecule 2y ago
      "demilitarization of Russia, including almost total destruction of nuclear arsenal" That would certainly address Russia's security concerns.
      - mopsi 2y ago
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        protomolecule 2y ago
        "I'd appreciate an actual answer instead of useless diversions, if you are capable of providing one." @dang