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by gdy 4y ago
Because the Ukraine signed the Minsk agreements in bad faith with no intention of implementing them. "it is public knowledge" I suggest you read Wikipedia about anti-Maidan unrest in the Eastern Ukraine. https://en.wiki
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by gdy 4y ago
That's not how the life is in Crimea. Ukraine was 'saving' Crimeans by cutting water and electricity supply. As for DNR and LNR, it's as meaningful as saying that Russia is saving people in Ukraine from being burned aliv
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by gdy 4y ago
"How depressing it must be to have lived through the collapse of the soviet union" Unless you were among millions who simply died in the 'democratic' 90s [0]. "Mortality increased substantially after the economic cr
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by gdy 4y ago
"russia can fuck off from Ukraine any time it wants and the war will be over immediately" You mean leaving the people of the Crimea, DNR and LNR to the mercy of nationalistic Ukraine?
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by gdy 4y ago
I'm Russian living in Russia and it is really true.
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by gdy 4y ago
"(to Russia, of course, where you most probably will be jailed in no time)" Only if you publicly protest against the war. "and you can’t go out" Really? Lots of opposition figures emigrated from Russia since the war star
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by gdy 4y ago
Who are 'we'?
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by gdy 4y ago
You forgot something: * One has to know Khruschev had been the head of the Ukrainian communist party before he became the head of the USSR "Russian revanchist" So the position that the Ukraine has to take Crimea back is 'Ukra
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by gdy 4y ago
What I meant is that if this draft becomes a law, you'd have even worse law than what we have in Russia now. The sad fact is that in the present day United States proposing such a law is not a political suicide.
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by gdy 4y ago
Yeah, the law sounds similar to what we've got in Russia. Don't go this road, guys. Update: Read the article a bit further and it says they could criminalize the use of VPN. Even here in Russia we don't have this. At least fo
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by gdy 4y ago
I understand, but my point is that most people don't need it -- they either use proxy for that or already accept startup-level risks. So bankruptcy of a startup due to poor bank choice is just one of many failure modes for startups. &q
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by gdy 4y ago
Interesting. What makes ACH special?
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by gdy 4y ago
When I cared about stability I picked a big employer from which one would expect prudency. When I worked at a small company, I expected it to get ruined at any moment and planned accordingly. Since I became self-employed, I care a great dea
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by gdy 4y ago
"very little reason to care" Maybe they should care. Why shouldn't an employee care about financial stability of their employer?
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by gdy 4y ago
"People who take risks should bear the responsibility." Exactly. In Russia we had people who'd serially deposit money into the shadiest of banks offering highest returns. Deposits are ensured upto some amount, so they'd
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by gdy 4y ago
In Russia money transfers are mostly instant. What stops american banks from using new software and new payment protocols?
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by gdy 4y ago
'Solving' the 'problem' of words only makes you feel good about yourself and gives you the feeling that you are helping somehow while actually doing nothing.
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by gdy 4y ago
The problem is that you let your friend starve, not that you used a wrong word. The humanity allocates too little money to medical research.
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by gdy 4y ago
26 millions of Soviet citizens died in the World War 2. Unless you think that Untermensch aren't people.
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by gdy 4y ago
Gaslighting again. "Україна виплатила сім'ям загиблих моральну компенсацію ex gratia в розмірі $200 000 на кожного загиблого." https://web.archive.org/web/20200507122206/http://www.istpra..
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by gdy 4y ago
'because Ukraine helped' Ukraine didn't 'help', it paid compensation to the families of Israeli and Russian passengers [0]. 'Ukraine continues to pay money to victims of Russian attacks' Who are Ukrainian
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by gdy 4y ago
And paying millions of dollars is what people do when something is not clear.
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by gdy 4y ago
And why did Ukrainian MoD paid 15 million dollars to the victims' families exactly?
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by gdy 4y ago
Ukrainian Ministry of Defense paid $15 mln to the victims, but then lawsuits followed demanding more money and the Ukraine suddenly started to deny its guilt. Classic story.
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by gdy 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukr...
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by gdy 4y ago
Gaslighting much?
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by gdy 4y ago
Sure, see the 'Casualties and losses' section. I was wrong a bit, the number includes Russian volunteer fighters and with covert Russian military is estimated to be about 14400. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
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by gdy 4y ago
It was the Ukraine who was trying to regain control of DNR and LNR. 14000 is the total number of Ukrainian citizens, both civilians and fighters, who died on both sides, not counting Russians who overtly or covertly helped rebels. In 90s a
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by gdy 4y ago
Or like the Ukraine shooting down Russian passenger jet flying from Israel [0]. Or like the US shooting down Iranian passenger jet and later giving medals to the crew that did it [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by gdy 4y ago
As much as I disgusted by Western propaganda and hypocrisy, I must say that most of them died in 2014 and 2015. Following Zelensky's election about a dozen or two civilians died on both sides per year in the Eastern Ukraine and mostly

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