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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, because the "referendum" was meaningless and had no effect on the peninsula's sovereignty. Which since 1991 has been and remains Ukrainian.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, it's just a meme. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481317
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Unfortunately they don't, and a great many "regular" countries today are in effect matured empires, rump versions of former empires, or local hegemonies / forced unions of other sorts. In effect, they're the succes
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Isabella Rossellini: People never talk about the freedom, the lightness of aging(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This was said at the heat of the moment. Lo and behold -- unfortunately not quite all, but certainly a lot of the provocative / uncompromising language he Palestinian side is, in essence, coming from a place of anger or other distr
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Correction - it's nothing osbcure at all, but apparently a matter of the shift that accord broadly with the L sound in Polish a few centuries ago (whereby it became "dark" and velarized), affecting a great many other words an
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by aguaviva 2y ago
[delayed]
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's even deeper than that. In essence, the view is that Ukraine as such never really existed as a coherent society or country, anyway. So how can it have the agency to decide the integrate with the EU, or to form other alliances? See
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'd rephrase it as "Europe has already quietly started a (world) war". Apparently you would, even though there's absolutely no reason to believe the line of causality ("Europe did X, which started the war") t
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The main reason for the invasion is that Putin believes independent Ukraine shouldn't exist, and that it all belongs to Russia for historical reasons. It's obvious if you actually listen Putin's speeches. Synder goes furthe
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by aguaviva 2y ago
"Regarding genocide, here is zero evidence of that." The actual section of the WP article you're referring to comes to no conclusions on the matter. It's just a giant hatchet job, a mishmash of conflicting opinions.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I don’t think Russia is low on foreign currencies. It's definitely "low" on the $327B or so in its sovereign foreign assets that were seized Brussels shortly after the 2022 invasion -- apparently about half its total (of $6
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The sabotage happened after a simple political decision had been made to turn it off (more accurately to "suspend its certification", as it had yet to actually enter service). So there was never any "need" for sabotage.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not a Russian-specific thing by any stretch. This happens all the time when names and loanwords get dragged across linguistic boundaries. Sometimes it results from an attempt to "simplify" the respective spelling and&#x
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Then they probably should have picked a qualifier besides "real". It just leads to garbled thinking, this kind of random sloshing-of-words-around.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.md/kPgao Ist das Putin-Video manipuliert? [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvGxvEX9Do
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Putin's Near Motionless Hands Reignite Health Rumors(newsweek.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Who needs truth, when you can just ask Claude?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Of course at least establishing a clear precedent was a huge achievement. Glass half-full, is what I'm saying.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's noting how once your argument has been invalidated, you raise a new argument incompatible with the previous one. Well I don't see it that way, and it seems you're reading a dynamic into the situation that just isn&#x27
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except it's not the "dog" that you're interacting with. But rather, the dog's owner. You know, the man behind the curtain.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Actually the ad hominem resides in your weird, baiting language ("See how you're just escalating ..."). For which you were provided some helpful feedback.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Your prediction was quite prescient.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
We know which side you're cheering for. If every response to what you say is considered an "escalation", then that's your mindset, I suppose.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
More like how the aggressor says it "feels". Whether you accept its statements at face value is up to you.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But there's no benefit to me from partnering with -you-. Defending you is charity, and considered as charity, it is frankly terrible. I don't believe in charity for wealthy, entitled, smug, thankless people. The extent to which
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'll cop to (a), but only out of laziness, not for any of the broader motives you are attempting to impute. And definitely not to (b), which definitely does not follow from what you (falsely) think to be my position, at all. Frankly -
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by aguaviva 2y ago
[BAD] “The team needs clearer priorities.” [GOOD] “The team made amazing progress when we all focused on the website update last month. It might help to have one or two clear priorities for the team this month that everyone can rally beh
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by aguaviva 2y ago
About the creator: Leaflet was created 11yrs ago by Vladimir Agafonkin, a Ukrainian citizen in Kyiv - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30551006
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Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens had different burial practices(archaeologymag.com)
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