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by foverzar 4y ago
> The correct response would have been an immediate complete embargo of Russia Non-implementable > boots on the ground support in Ukraine Somehow I feel that these are implied to be someone else's boots, but definitely not yours.
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by foverzar 4y ago
Mutual restraining deterrent that isn't limited to "end game for everyone" button. We saw what had happened when the SU had collapsed and the only remaining unopposed empire had started wreaking havoc all over the world. I wo
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by foverzar 4y ago
> See bit about all working age men in LNR/DNR being thrown poorly equipped into battle That's not deathcamps. Same argument could be made for Ukrainian conscripts being thrown into battle just as poorly equipped. And it still
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by foverzar 4y ago
No one tells you how to feel, it's just hard to take you seriously.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Would you rather be a slave with all your relatives in a deathcamp or fight the occupier to death? That's not the real question at hand. There are no deathcamps or slavery IRL and everyone who is not exulted by propaganda and actu
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Extremely sad to see this blunt rethoric here. Extremely sad to see how everyone has gone so deep into post-truth and magical thinking of "if I don't think about it won't be real", that a cool-headed assessment of f
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Is the assumption that once Russia mobilises its population, they'll all go "sir, yes, sir" and go storm Ukraine? Russia has like 150 mil in population and they currently plan to mobilize 300k. That's a fraction of
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by foverzar 4y ago
Why did you ommit "relevant experience" and "military specialty" part? My military specialty is "computer operator", lol. Also, 24 months is something from two decades ago.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> it is widely expected By whom?
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by foverzar 4y ago
Which Putin uses as a yet another example of west's lack of credibility in his rhetoric, which even seems to have some response in Africa and central and eastern Eurasia (basically everywhere non-west) Plus it's easy internal prop
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by foverzar 4y ago
> and replacing their dead laptop costs a year’s wages You don't really realise what you're talking about, or did you confuse Russia with Australia?
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by foverzar 4y ago
> As a Russian, I'd love them to have a way more severe impact, as I would happily endure great hardships if this would weaken Putin's fascist regime. As a Russian, I remember being trolled by the following joke, very popular a
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by foverzar 4y ago
> People who vote for them. And why would we care about them, at least in context of this specific discussion? > You have zero evidence that the regiment follows a neonazi agenda. The evidence is plenty, although might feel inaccessab
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by foverzar 4y ago
> racist jokes in talk shows It's a slippery slope to judge a foreign culture by what is acceptable in their jokes. One would think that things like race-hate crimes, lynching, segregation and apartheid, or at least access education
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Since it's a political organization with stated political goals Who cares about it's recent political pivoting? Why are you trying to stir the discussion away from the fact that Azov first and foremost in its recent origin is
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by foverzar 4y ago
Instagram wasn't much different back when it was a new thing. I don't remember Facebooks launch that good, but somehow I have an impression that it was just as addictive, until people got used to it and got bored.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> But Google and Meta have also not captivated the attention economy of people the same way as TikTok has. You go after the worst offenders and it is clear that TikTok is the worst offender before you include the foreign aspect. How is i
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by foverzar 4y ago
I remember some years ago I saw the same rhetoric on Meta's (Facebook) services in Russia. Meta ended getting restricted in Russia and branded as "extremist" due to some ugly story with moderation rules and hate-speach. All t
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by foverzar 4y ago
> You can fact check it by going to the website of the people you are calling neonazis (Azov) and find a neonazi agenda. Why would one be that willfully superficial to look only at a recently crafted public image, instead of... I dunno..
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by foverzar 4y ago
...do you? You've randomly thrown out some random article on BBC, totally unrelated to the context of previous discussion. What "point" were you expecting exactly? (: You aren't really giving me much substance to work wi
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by foverzar 4y ago
> It's not virtue signaling to want to run as fast as possible from the supply of a known aggressor that won't stop trying to invade But it is hardly a point of principle, given how OK everyone had been with the supply of all t
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by foverzar 4y ago
Russia hoping for European economic collapse would be just as stupid as Europe hoping for Russia's economic collapse. They are too entangled at this point for either to survive the collapse of another.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Except of course Ukrainians are paying for it with their lives, sacrificing themselves for the safety of the rest of the world. You meant that they are conscripted/mobilized and sent for slaughter for the safety of establishment&#
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by foverzar 4y ago
A real-time map of cyber-attacks is actually nonsense. You might visualize a small slice of DDoS attacks and similar routine automatically detectable botnet stuff, but nothing actually serious or interesting.
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by foverzar 4y ago
Well, there IS a cyberwar happening right now.
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by foverzar 4y ago
That you have linked a propaganda state media, instead of an actual UN report :D Srsly though, you clearly aren't dumber than an average journalist, so why not cut the middleman and read UN reports by yourself? You'd be surprised
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by foverzar 4y ago
Maaaan, I just love reading what people think of my country on western-centric states. All those vague and generalist statement, it just really shows the level of insight and competence of foreign cultures. Always talking points and slogans
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by foverzar 4y ago
Influenza had never caused such a shock for healthcare system and for the way that the society functions. Claiming that some metrics is good because it has been used for something else is incorrect. These are different entities and the cond
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by foverzar 4y ago
I've probably already seen hundreds of map-styled infographics and somehow they all look almost exactly the same: "Western" world is OK/Great Scandinavia is awesome Eastern Europe and Asia always bad, except for a few &q
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by foverzar 4y ago
> That would result in an all out nuclear war. Says who? Just as you don't expect an immediate all out nuclear armageddon as a response to your attempts to "bomb shit out of Russia", there won't be an "armageddon

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