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by cmurf 5y ago
It was out of the ashes of dead civilians that the Charter and Geneva Conventions were born, even before all the dead had been buried. You are an unserious person to talk of the only product humanity produced, that is intended to prevent wo
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by cmurf 5y ago
Isn't the central problem with Truth Social that it's full of trolls, and none of the people the trolls want to troll are on it? Conversely, the supreme troll of all time has pulled off another grift of his own supporters.
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by cmurf 5y ago
The crime of aggression is a war of conquest expressly to expand borders and/or subjugate people. And it is the supreme international crime because it is the genesis of all the evils that follow. That is the judgement from Nuremberg. T
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by cmurf 5y ago
This is nonsense. Decapitation is not a legal mechanism, it's WW3. The individual regions lack the capacity to function without Moscow. The state borders were designed by USSR planners to make it extremely expensive (high likelihood of
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by cmurf 5y ago
The legal mechanism to split up Russia is in the UN Charter. But the two problems that make it impossible, near as I can tell, (a) it would require a massive military intervention and occupation to do it. It would take a decade to deprogram
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by cmurf 5y ago
The UK declared war on Nazi Germany for its invasion of Poland. This time we're standing back, worried of nuclear war. In effect nuclear weapons may have protected Ukraine, and in hindsight the Budapest memorandum may have been a bad d
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by cmurf 5y ago
Patriarch Kirill, leading the Russian Orthodox Church, is complicit in the war, having called for Ukraine's complete destruction. The ROC is now a pariah among the other Christian Orthodox Churches. There is a growing contingent in the
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by cmurf 5y ago
Liberalism is better than illiberalism, unless you happen to like or depend on the subjugation of others. Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect o
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by cmurf 5y ago
>we've learned that nothing good comes of politicians and corporations mingling They do much more than mingle, and more than scratch each other's backs. And yes we have learned this, quite a long time ago. The problem is the re
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Unless democracies defend themselves, the forces of autocracy will destroy them(theatlantic.com)
97 points by cmurf 5y ago|56 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
There is a technology component not yet discussed. Agriculture mainly still use flood (a.k.a. furrow) irrigation. Colorado is semi-arid, so the evaporation loss is much worse than in the Midwest. And even worse evaporation happens with spra
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by cmurf 5y ago
>This paradigm never left us, you (and I) are just on the team with the most might at the moment. It is contrary to the international legal system. And it's thoroughly argued against by Socrates versus Thracymachus. >Again, on wh
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by cmurf 5y ago
No. But the 2003 war was not an aggressive war. That has specific meaning. And aggressive wars are worse. The 2003 invasion didn't happen in a vacuum. Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. That too was an aggressive war to expand its borders. H
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by cmurf 5y ago
Comparing either Ukraine to Iraq or U.S. to Russia is specious. US, UK and 29 other nations invaded Iraq. It wasn't unilateral. Russia's invasion is. Invading Iraq wasn't about territorial expansion or subjugation. Russia&#x2
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by cmurf 5y ago
The world is precariously close to returning to "might makes right". That is the recipe for world wars. Not "he cannot remain" comments. The two world wars are in the vicinity of 100 million deaths, direct and indirect.
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US Should Use Force If Putin Uses WMDs in Ukraine, Former US Ambassador Warns(businessinsider.com)
5 points by cmurf 5y ago|1 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
Let's not forget that NATO had a "flexible response" policy 40 years ago. This is of course public, that's how deterrence works. Because Russia had a conventional force advantage over NATO at that time, flexible response
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by cmurf 5y ago
>absolutely doesn't care what any other country does as long as it doesn't directly affect them Taken literally, it means they are only an impediment to the U.N. Security Council's obligation to uphold the Charter. China r
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by cmurf 5y ago
https://archive.ph/XPXci
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by cmurf 5y ago
This is nonsense. 190,000 troops cannot hold a non-compliant population of 42 million. Strategically Russia has completely lost any ability to achieve their goals. All they can do now is punish the civilian population, and that is what they
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by cmurf 5y ago
> What do China or India have to win by choosing a side? China already chose a side. They are a party to the Budapest memorandum, they acknowledged Ukraine is a sovereign country, with its 1994 borders. China and India are parties to the
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by cmurf 5y ago
>The international community isn't good at stopping wars conducted by major powers. It's not designed to be. The IC isn't good at it when members dilute the agreements they're a party to, like China and India are doin
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by cmurf 5y ago
This looks like low hanging fruit https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/russian-asset-tracker/en/ There are also a lot of loopholes to work around the sanctions that folks have been uncovering. https://w
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VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation(moonbaseotago.github.io)
154 points by cmurf 5y ago|130 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
I consider this "neutrality" position both specious and pernicious. This is a clear cut case of aggressive war, a war of conquest to expand borders, what Nuremberg trials judged as the supreme international crime. Countries claimi
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by cmurf 5y ago
archive: https://archive.ph/Lf0aW
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Only NATO Can Save Putin(theatlantic.com)
3 points by cmurf 5y ago|4 comments
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by cmurf 5y ago
The thesis of the article is that Russians have a long standing fear from the USSR days that the border would one day be closed, and then they couldn't get out of Russia. That fear followed by the recent airspace closures, has led to s
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by cmurf 5y ago
No chance. I know two people who want to be 30 minutes offset from UTC and they could give zero shits about UTC. As a pilot, I'm attached to UTC and really don't want to deal with any non-zero minutes offset. Everything in aviatio
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by cmurf 5y ago
I suspect it will take a long time before a stalemate is clearly reached. Putin has no incentive to negotiate in good faith until there is one - and even then he could renege right after signing, so why trust him? Ukraine needs to take the

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