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by csee 5y ago
A few questions and comments: - Ukraine was the one asking for NATO membership. Don't they have a right to decide? In all these discussions, people speak as if they have no sovereignty. Ukraine was well aware of the risk of invasion if
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by csee 5y ago
He said he wasn't going to invade. He said he'd respect Ukraine's borders in a 2014 signed agreement. He denies poisoning his opponents in London and Salisbury. Assume everything he says is gaslighting or some kind of decepti
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by csee 5y ago
Explanation != justification. And a partial explanation at best.
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by csee 5y ago
70k not 0.70.
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by csee 5y ago
You asked if Syria was at war with the US and I responded that they are at war by proxy. Also, I don't like the framing of "Syria is the enemy". Assad's regime is the enemy of the US-backed group who are also Syrians.
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by csee 5y ago
Assad (backed by Putin who is barrel bombing civilians in Syria) is in a war against US backed forces, so yes, via proxy.
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by csee 5y ago
Nothing will substitute that well because these are prestige luxury goods. Xi wants to send his daughter to Harvard, not to a university in Moscow. Abramovich wants to sail in Europe, not China. It was the case in the Soviet Union too that
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by csee 5y ago
I wouldn't make any decisions on the thought that they won't work. Even if 90% of their currently deployed nukes don't work, that's still 160 deployed nukes that work, which is enough (not for outright extinction, but st
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by csee 5y ago
> Ballistic missile defense doesn’t have to actually work. It just needs to be credible to the opponent. How does this resolve the problem of the arms race described above?
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by csee 5y ago
The people who would use them don't care about the Geneva Protocol.
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by csee 5y ago
Russia used them extensively in Syria quite recently, so the concerns are valid.
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by csee 5y ago
If it's against Russians who are invading Ukraine . > "We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement."
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by csee 5y ago
At the beginning of the article: > "We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement."
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by csee 5y ago
Why the downvotes? Putin said as much in his invasion speech. Lukashenko's invasion map literally had Moldova as the next invasion target. Wake up people.
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by csee 5y ago
Then what's a better alternative to resolving the question "should Ukraine join Russia?" if not by some kind of democratic solution (either direct democracy or an elected representative deciding)?
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by csee 5y ago
A very small minority wanted to return to Russian rule on the eve of the invasion according to polling of Ukrainian people. And even if they did want to return to Russian rule (which they didn't), the just thing would've been to h
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by csee 5y ago
Even without air, can they even do that given the number of Man-portable air-defense systems that Ukraine has?
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by csee 5y ago
How can you say this is not their method of war after Chechnya and Aleppo? You simply haven't been paying attention at all. It is their only method of war if it starts to drag out and they need to break will. They have been doing it
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by csee 5y ago
The skies are still contested according to UK's MoD today. Most of the Ukraine air force is still in tact according to the US today.
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by csee 5y ago
There's a lot more to Putin's motivations than just Ukrain's membership of NATO. Both according to his own words as well as what makes sense given Russia's geostrategic and economic interests.
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by csee 5y ago
See molten salt reactors. There are automatic mechanisms that are supposed to prevent worst case situations.
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by csee 5y ago
This is an old power plant. Do your concerns hold true for newer designs?
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by csee 5y ago
What about Russia's previous failure in Afghanistan, though? They weren't trying to install a democracy there.
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by csee 5y ago
It could be for psychological reasons. Threatening nuclear war has been part of Putin's strategy and this reinforces that message. It is also a very visual way to drive the message home that they have leverage over Ukraine's power
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by csee 5y ago
This powers 1/4 of Ukraine. Holding the plant will give them a lot of leverage.
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by csee 5y ago
Breaking: Firefighters gain access to nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an administrative building is on fire.
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by csee 5y ago
Nuclear war can be many things. There are small nukes not designed to level cities.
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by csee 5y ago
A Ukrainian official told the AP this about 15 minutes ago. Not fully confirmed yet.
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Ask HN: Where can I find info about the 2nd round of negoations?
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by csee 5y ago
Ideally we find the number that still effectively guarantees MAD but is currently smaller than what we have now, so at least it won't cause extinction but will have the same deterrence capability. Do we really need 1500 nukes on either

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