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by fsloth 5y ago
As living in a country neighbouring Russia (Finland) I find very little at fault with the article. I don't think your critique opposes the article as such - you provide the background information that generally Economist excpects it&#x
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by fsloth 5y ago
"fear porn scaremongering throughout the pandemic with microchips in the vaccines," Any of the algorithmic timelines are generally horrible, agreed. I follow only people who tweet and retweet reasonable things. I use the timeline
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by fsloth 5y ago
"but what exactly is Twitter?" It's like a watercooler around which a huge bunch of people with interesting takes and things to say on lots of different interesting things have gathered. It takes a while to find the informati
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by fsloth 5y ago
"he could easily build a much better rival with different values." Steretypically of social media - I see Twitters greatest asset being it's current network of influencers, analysts, thinkers, artists and colleagues. All the
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by fsloth 5y ago
"in comparison to steam turbines, the technology presented here does absolutely nothing in terms of decarbonising the grid, as claimed" I understood the claim to be that this would have close to no moving parts. That sounds it&#x2
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by fsloth 5y ago
Have you been depressed? I can tell from experience that a depressed mind is quite active. In a bad way - constantly hurting itself with dark thoughts and hence reinforcing the bad stuff constantly. You can't exercise depression away.
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by fsloth 5y ago
Self-defence has nothing to do with Russias invasion. This was not a war for survival but a war for subjugation. Nobody outside of ex-Soviet Union countrys hated Russians before the war. If you really want to invoke and analogue from US his
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by fsloth 5y ago
UN has a specific definition of genocide: it's "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/
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by fsloth 5y ago
Is this a common law thing? Whatever was done in the past, is something you have to allow everyone else to do? Surely you see how that is morally untenable? Errors of the past do not need to be repeated or allowed . (Even though they li
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by fsloth 5y ago
Would EU countries waste their nukes in attrition of RU troops on aligned soil? There aren't that many (by official figures). I'm guessing most countries would prefer not to escalate to nukes unless their own territory was threate
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by fsloth 5y ago
"It would be helpful if everyone stopped this lying and just said it how it is. Russia wants weak buffer states around its borders that it can abuse however it wants." This 100%
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by fsloth 5y ago
I believe the most prescient military analysis we can make is that Ukraine got invaded because it was not in NATO. Until Russia invades any NATO country I have a hard time to dismiss this analysis. If NATO fails to defend any of it'
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by fsloth 5y ago
Well, Finland was basically Sweden's shield, and Finland was yielding to Kremlin, so there was very little risk of conflict. Now Russia has more or less proclaimed it's "back to the empire" agenda which implies subjugati
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by fsloth 5y ago
ghostwriter does seem to repeat all of the well known Kremlin talk points. If anyone is unsure what Putinist propaganda specifically is like just read through his messages in this discussion, he is iterating on the familiar themes. Whatabou
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by fsloth 5y ago
Russia is bullshitting - they are not afraid NATO would invade them. The balance of fear due to nuclear weapons if nothing else guarantees this. Russia is opposed to the fact it can't bully it's weaker neighbours on a whim if they
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by fsloth 5y ago
The kowtowing to Kremlin/Beijing would not be due to direct military pressure, but from lack of capital sources elsewhere. It's a plausible scenario, but not a sure one. Finland is capital poor country, it needs foreign investment
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by fsloth 5y ago
Unless he's a baby octopus. And years after ... oh dear ... "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
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by fsloth 5y ago
Except unless he's really tiny and cuddly. Like a baby hamster.
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by fsloth 5y ago
"the open society of the Panama and Pandora papers [1][2]. Two consecutive presidents that can't help themselves from being anti-autocracy." Western institutions stand firm. The fact that you have even heard of panama papers
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by fsloth 5y ago
"I'm just trying to get to the truth instead of blindly following the media narrative." The simple truth is that Russia is currently engaged in a genocidal war with the intent of erasing Ukrainian people, which utilizes inten
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by fsloth 5y ago
"3-6 months from now, some of them may have a lot more impact than they're having by now." The problem is, 3-6 months of Russia heavy bombing of civilian targets would likely level several major cities in Finland (most smalle
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by fsloth 5y ago
I think your sense of history is quite misguided. "we brought them to stalemate" In the continuation war of Finland and Germany against Soviet Union, German troops formed a large part of the front. "had enough deterrent to st
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"This is a valuable insight for everyone who claims that Ukraine is a democratic state." First. I think my words matter very little. What matters is the unquestionable sacrifice, dedication and love the Ukrainians are showing to t
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Of course EU needs to have the actual countries it is constituted of engaged in it.Ideologically the projecthas many predecessors. But the current EU started after the second world war. The entity considered the progenitor of EU is the Euro
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"the only reason Finland would find themselves in conflict is if they joined NATO." No, Russia does not want to engage in conflict with a NATO country. If Finland joins NATO then Finland will be at piece for the next century, guar
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Regarding Finland. It's complex. There has been a pretty strong anti-US sentiment in the left leaning parts of the political establishment. Partly due to the same reasons communism enticed global intelligenzia, and partly due to the li
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by fsloth 5y ago
"some undefined group of people decided to coup" Not undefined. Ukrainians. Some of whom died for their convictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
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100% This is not about NATO. This is about Russia attempting a genocide of the Ukrainian people. This is not the first time Russian state attempted such a thing. Holodomor was an engineered famine with the intent of destroying Ukraine. And
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As a Finn I agree with everything he posts in twitter. As a prime minister he was perhaps a bit too young and inexperienced, but I agree with his current analysis completely.
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"Finland would be in more danger if it joined NATO, not less." What nonsense is this. Russians respect force. The more the better. NATO gives Finnish Defense Forces enough credibility to deter any Russian aggression specifically t

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