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781.
by T-A 5y ago
Rapid deployment , not victory.
782.
by T-A 5y ago
I think February was unusually mild. Temperatures have been mostly above freezing for weeks in Kyiv: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/ukraine/kyiv/historic
783.
by T-A 5y ago
My guess at the time was that with the international coalition keeping Saddam contained faltering, they decided it was better to finish him sooner rather than later, after he'd managed to rebuild his military.
784.
by T-A 5y ago
If they are still alive.
785.
by T-A 5y ago
No. That government was overthrown by the Soviet Union in 1979. The US started supplying weapons to the insurgents after that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#Paki...
786.
by T-A 5y ago
Not parent, but the cause is obvious to everybody in the field: existing fundamental theory (general relativity from 1915 and Standard Model, completed by the mid-70s) while manifestly incomplete, is consistent with all available experiment
787.
by T-A 5y ago
Two of these then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-killing_device#Flyswatter The fly gun looks like fun too.
788.
by T-A 5y ago
https://www.aljazeera.com/videos/2019/12/2/power-of-siberia-...
789.
by T-A 5y ago
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17796241/vladimir-putin-botox-...
790.
Wargaming stands by Kyiv studio and pledges $1M to Ukrainian Red Cross(gamereactor.eu)
4 points by T-A 5y ago|0 comments
791.
by T-A 5y ago
Gloves?
792.
by T-A 5y ago
Yes, the same kind of person who would say that the thought process behind committing mass murder to "demonstrate" what everybody already knows "can be defended".
793.
by T-A 5y ago
> a demonstration of what would happen to Western population centers Because nobody has seen the photos from Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Anyone claiming the need for such a "demonstration" is clearly irrational and needs to be deal
794.
by T-A 5y ago
> The thought process behind nuking Stockholm can be defended. How?
795.
by T-A 5y ago
> Wow, I am surprised that 30% of Ukrainians supported Russian use of military force to stop them from joining NATO 13%. 17% didn't know, 70% said no.
796.
by T-A 5y ago
No idea, but here's a plausible train of thought: "Somebody" just proved himself willing and able to hurl nukes at large population centers for no rational reason. Do we cower, pray and hope his psychosis won't target us
797.
by T-A 5y ago
The fact that said citizen of Saudi Arabia was based in Afghanistan and protected by the country's Taliban rulers may have had something to do with that...
798.
by T-A 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-bans-forex-transf...
799.
by T-A 5y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-28/eu-could-...
800.
Finnish NATO referendum goes on parliamentary agenda(yle.fi)
18 points by T-A 5y ago|0 comments
801.
Belarus Hackers Allegedly Disrupted Trains to Thwart Russia(bloomberg.com)
5 points by T-A 5y ago|2 comments
802.
by T-A 5y ago
That's the intended effect.
803.
by T-A 5y ago
> It's a former Soviet state fighting Russia. It's a former Soviet state defending itself from a Russian invasion.
804.
by T-A 5y ago
> Russia is not fighting this war to annihilate Ukraine https://www.firstpost.com/world/ukraine-not-a-real-country-h... > If Russia was in fact waging some kind of imperialist war, wouldn't they have annexed
805.
by T-A 5y ago
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/weather-is-clearly-a...
806.
by T-A 5y ago
> If you look at the past hour on Hacker News, there are mostly only new anti-Russia posts. The same is true across all media platforms. To me it looks like the Ukraine(and her allies) has intensified a censorship campaign against Russia
807.
by T-A 5y ago
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/italy-could-revive-c...
808.
by T-A 5y ago
The mention of physical health reminded me of this story, which briefly flared up a couple of years ago: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/6/kremlin-spokesman-d... Even common painkillers can have b
809.
by T-A 5y ago
They are also surrounded by enemies, and this ranking "utilizes over 50 individual factors to determine a given nation's PowerIndex ('PwrIndx') score with categories ranging from military might and financials to logistic
810.
by T-A 5y ago
> Belarus, Finland, or any of Russia's other non-NATO neighbours are probably pretty nervous right now The Russian forces in Chernobyl came from Belarus... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State

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