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"Putins opinion on the war he started" undersells the issue that Russia has actively been undermining, killing, and sabotaging in western countries.
by lawn 2y ago
"Putins opinion on the war he started" undersells the issue that Russia has actively been undermining, killing, and sabotaging in western countries.
- codr7 2y ago[flagged]
- drivingmenuts 2y agoWait ... Western countries killing in Russia? What?! As part of the Cold War, sure, but that's the nature spying; we do it, they do it, everybody does it. Seems like you're implying armed forces level killing in Russia, though. Care to explain that?
- codr7 2y ago[flagged]
- budududuroiu 2y agoSo?
- codr7 2y agoSo pointing fingers and demonizing isn't very constructive.
- Spooky23 2y agoLet the Russians banish western developers from working on Russian projects.
- homebrewer 2y ago[flagged]
- sobellian 2y agoWell, what do you propose? We're obviously far past the point of diplomacy. The sanctions are not designed to change hearts and minds. They're designed to make Russia's war efforts more difficult. The sorry state of affairs is that Russia's government has made itself a huge problem and there are no good solutions.
- 4bpp 2y agoI doubt this particular move will complicate Russia's war efforts in any appreciable way. There is no non-fanciful way in which the named, well-established and closely watched kernel maintainers could have leveraged their status for it, and the tech scene has been one of the remaining bastions of pro-Western sentiment in Russian society. How many young programmers will be disenchanted with the West after hearing of this, and finally relent and answer their government's call to go write software for military drones or whatever?
- sobellian 2y agoWell, this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932923) seems to indicate that Russian military industrial companies seem to get some use out of contributing to the kernel. As to your question, I cannot answer it to any degree of accuracy and I believe you cannot either.
- Wytwwww 2y agoBecause appeasement generally always works out long-term?
- elzbardico 2y ago[flagged]
- FredPret 2y agoIf America isn’t perfect, does that mean its enemies must be? Surely you don’t live in so simple a world? Anyway, us encroaching on Russian interests (debatable) is hardly an excuse for them to go blowing up a country full of innovent civilians.
- elzbardico 2y ago[flagged]
- lawn 2y ago[flagged]
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- lawn 2y ago[flagged]
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- Wytwwww 2y agoThat certainly absolves Sadam of the tens of thousands of murders committed by his government. That's a perfectly reasonable and sane take. Hitler himself faced quite a few false accusations (e.g. even for crimes actually committed by the Soviets). Certainly that would mean that he did nothing wrong according to a troll like yourself?