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by danbruc 2y ago
Sorry for overlooking your sources, but if you have to respond to a handful of threads alone, mistakes will happen, the amount of time and attention I have available is limited. "Tens of millions of our citizens and fellow-countrymen
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Are you still searching?
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I am not entirely sure what I should make out of this response. You are not attacking the position that Ukraine in NATO is a potential security threat to Russia, you are only saying that they are not acting accordingly. Does that imply that
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Why are you focusing on purely hypothetical Russian security concerns instead of the very real security concerns of countries that have been attacked many times in the past [...] I have repeatedly stated that both sides have good reasons
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by danbruc 2y ago
Instead of discussing many different points, let us focus on one. You're not referring to any primary sources here. [...] The first is evidence based - Russia is expanding. The second has the convenient property that it backwards rati
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What are you talking about? I asked a hypothetical question to point out that what is written in treaties is not some God given law that can not be broken under any circumstances.
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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, too. And I said that Ukraine has good reasons wanting to join NATO and so did and do other former Soviet Bloc countries, nobody is denying that. But that is only one side of the conflict. No matter what R
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by danbruc 2y ago
Do not get hung up on the details of the presentation and if some charts are misleading, address the core argument. Russia perceives NATO expansion as a security threat, that concern is not imaginary given the uncertainty of the future, and
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by danbruc 2y ago
How do you conclude that my view of the world comes from YouTube videos? If I am interested in a topic, I actually read the primary sources, and on the war in Ukraine I have done a fair bit of that in the beginning. In that respect I am eas
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by danbruc 2y ago
Sorry, it is too late here to continue that discussion now. If I find the time maybe tomorrow. Or you could watch this talk [1], I essentially agree with the views of John Mearsheimer, so that talk might address your points. That one predat
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by danbruc 2y ago
Forget rights, they mean nothing without the power to enforce them. Think about the actual situation. Ukraine has good reasons to join NATO. Russia has good reasons to want Ukraine not in NATO. Those are conflicting goals, you can not have
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Was Russia happy about those countries joining NATO or did it protest? Were the relationships between the East and the West better so that this was of less concern? Was Russia weaker and had less power to resist? I do not see how Russia liv
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The NATO declaration from the 2008 Bucharest Summit was that Georgia and Ukraine will eventually become NATO members, both unacceptable for Russia. Georgia was promptly invaded in 2008. Until 2014 under president Yanukovych Ukraine did not
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With all due respect, that is a really stupid argument. The official NATO position was that Ukraine will eventually become a NATO member, Bucharest summit 2008. That position remained unchanged, at least until the beginning of the Russian i
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by danbruc 2y ago
What do you mean with basically accepted that demand? Give me a source and I will stand corrected. I have stayed away from discussing this war for a long time since the outcome is pretty predictable given my point of view, so I forgot a lot
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Circumstances did not change? I am not too familiar with those treaties but I assume you are referring to the treaties in the context of Ukraine surrendering Soviet nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War, correct? At that time the Sovie
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by danbruc 2y ago
They will not get any. Let us be real, nobody really cares about Ukraine. If a country truly cared, they would have sent their own troops towards Ukraine on day one of the invasion. Nobody will agree to potentially fight in a war against a
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by danbruc 2y ago
Who said they are? The official position of NATO was that Ukraine will eventually join NATO while Russia demanded that Ukraine will not join NATO. Contrary to the western mainstream opinion, I think that is why Putin started this war, to pr
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by danbruc 2y ago
That is a very weak argument, in my opinion. What if Ukraine attacked Russia, would you still expected Russia not to step into Ukraine while fighting back? Countries pull out of and break treaties all the time when the circumstances change.
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by danbruc 2y ago
Nothing is certain. I say this because I think that the mainstream point of view - that Putin is an expansionist and will conquer whatever he can - is wrong. If I am wrong with that and the mainstream opinion is correct, than it is of cours
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by danbruc 2y ago
Most here will not like that opinion, but I think this is essentially a good thing, it will eventually end this war - at huge costs for Ukraine. The fault of the USA is not that they now pressure Ukraine towards ending this war, the fault o
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by danbruc 2y ago
Simpler and cheaper and much more visual, build yourself a cloud chamber [1] and actually see the particle zip through it. A transparent container, a flash light, some isopropanol, and some dry ice and you are good to go. Maybe one could ev
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That is the correct answer. Also there is a lot of potential nuance, like evaporation or when you take the milk out of the fridge or the specific temperatures of everything, but under realistic settings adding the milk late will get you the
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No need for thinking, that question can be found discussed and explained many times online and has almost certainly been part of the training data.
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Portable pumps used by fire fighters can deliver up to 2 m³/min at 10 bar weighing somewhere in the range of 150-200 kg. With five of those you could load 100 tons in 10 minutes which seems quick enough to me but I have no idea how qui
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As compared to transporting passengers, transporting cargo seems like a good choice when it comes to the weather, you probably have a lot more freedom in scheduling flights, being able to wait for good conditions. With the ballast, did they
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A German company had a go at this with CargoLifter [1] in the mid 90s. They wanted - as the name says - transport oversized loads that are hard to transport on road or would otherwise require an expensive transport like long detours on wate
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by danbruc 2y ago
Are there any publicly available statistics on how often undersea cables - or other infrastructure under water - get damaged in certain regions? I vaguely remember some comment claiming that there are hundreds, I think, of incidents globall
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by danbruc 2y ago
IEC 60617, the standard for electrotechnical symbols, gets that one right - the XOR gate gets labeled with =1 , the parity gate with 2k + 1 . But when you use circuit design software for PCBs or FPGAs you can still sometimes get bitten be
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What do you mean when you say a number does or does not exist?

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