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The Ruble Has Bounced Back. What Does That Mean?(nytimes.com)
3 points by ailef 5y ago|5 comments
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by ailef 5y ago
This is apparently the tweet for which he was banned (from his Telegram channel): https://i.imgur.com/4OnVvpK.png
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Scott Ritter account suspended from Twitter(twitter.com)
7 points by ailef 5y ago|5 comments
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by ailef 5y ago
The Pentagon includes the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world. They also are providing military intelligence to Ukraine that, according to many sources, has proven to be very valuable in countering the Russians. But they have n
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by ailef 5y ago
The Pentagon cannot confirm the atrocities, yet you already know both what happened and who did it.
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by ailef 5y ago
They are basically saying "we don't know". Instead, it seems, most people are already sure of what happened before an official independent investigation. Hell, even calling for such an investigation gets you labeled a Putin p
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by ailef 5y ago
Comments like that, even though he's just asking legitimate questions, are often downvoted into oblivion very quickly. Given the amount of lies circulated by Ukraine's and Russian authorities, I'm always wary of accepting any
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by ailef 5y ago
This conversation is the perfect example of why it's impossible to have a rational conversation about this topic, even with a demographic (HN) which one could consider "more rational" than others. Even when you point out fact
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by ailef 5y ago
Yanukovich was democratically elected as well, but, of course, you are using the adjective only when referring to Zelensky. The fact that you don't like his policies doesn't make it less democratic.
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by ailef 5y ago
You are conveniently ignoring that a democratically elected government was violently overthrown in Ukraine, with the involvement of the US, and not everyone was okay with it. After that , those who dissented ended up protesting, and later
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by ailef 5y ago
Unless you don't agree on the definition of "stable", there's not much to say. You simply cannot define a country with an 8 years long conflict as "stable", whichever the reasons for this conflict are. > Rus
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by ailef 5y ago
A couple of days ago there was a similar discussion on Italian television and one of the politicians there was asking questions similar to yours. Incredibly enough, the TV host interrupted him and said "but they (the Ukraininans) are
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by ailef 5y ago
I'm not sure if you're serious promoting such a characterization of Ukraine. Stable is especially egregious, given there's an ongoing war in eastern Ukraine since 2014. Also, sovereignty is in no way tied to the government sy
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by ailef 5y ago
Do you believe there's a real risk of Russia invading and occupying other countries in Europe?
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Russia has killed civilians in Ukraine. Kyiv’s defense tactics add to the danger(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ailef 5y ago|0 comments
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by ailef 5y ago
It's not just Azov, there are plenty of other neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine. One of them, for example, is Right Sector. If you're claiming that these groups do not have an outsized influence on Ukraininan politics/institutions,
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by ailef 5y ago
> US, UK and 29 other nations invaded Iraq. It wasn't unilateral. Russia's invasion is. Just because all the bullies invaded, instead of just one, doesn't make it more ok.
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by ailef 5y ago
And it's also well known that innocent people are those who eventually end up paying the highest price for the sanctions.
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by ailef 5y ago
If you also allow the user to filter results with a search query then this shouldn't be a problem. If he wants to see Ukraine news he will search for that. If there are too many results, the query can always be refined by the user.
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by ailef 5y ago
It's really horrible that a lot of civilians are dying, but it doesn't seem they are being targeted deliberately. Knowing the real numbers it's impossible, but we can take the UN-provided numbers as a baseline: > From 4 a.
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by ailef 5y ago
> but the consequent deaths were incidental, not intentional. Isn't this a bit naive? According to this reasoning, Holodomor death's weren't intentional as well, while most poeple argue that, since the effect of that polic
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by ailef 5y ago
As an economy noob I would like to understand this as well. Is Russia maybe impaired in some way from propping up the ruble using USD due to the sanctions, and this would get around that somehow? Or this makes no sense?
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by ailef 5y ago
Me too. But it seems most people just believe everything they read, so I think it's important to be aware of it.
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by ailef 5y ago
> You've provided no evidence for this. It's a coup by definition. According to the Oxford dictionary: > coup: a sudden, illegal, and often violent change of government Maybe it wasn't sudden (if we consider the protest
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by ailef 5y ago
I think in this scenario it is supposed to match all div.legal elements. The styles are then applied with the highest priority, thus overriding other rules.
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by ailef 5y ago
I'm not GP, but thanks for this comment. It just shows how we just see one side of the picture in the West. > Ukraine was the one asking for NATO membership. Also, if I may add to this: according to polls in 2013[1], popular support
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by ailef 5y ago
As another commenter said it is not possible to reliably identify disinformation. They are not inspecting the content and applying some kind of advanced NLP to classify it, they are just tagging as disinformation anything coming from Russia
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by ailef 5y ago
The reason for most problems is different from the reason for a small subset of problems.
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by ailef 5y ago
I've noticed the restriction on some YouTube video as well. With one account of mine I'm able to see them though, even if I don't remember giving my credit card details or ID. I created this account a long time ago so I might
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by ailef 5y ago
"The worst thing to happen to the earth" is a "just" a bit over the top. But why wouldn't white people be "the reason for most of the problems in the US". It seems tautologically true, since majority of po

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