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by jacknews 2y ago
I mean the fact that the US is dictating what can and cannot happen in the war makes is a proxy war almost by definitiion.
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So you're saying the spy-saboteur ships have been hanging around, or en route to sensitive areas for weeks, waiting for this to drop? But only now are they being very publicly outed and moved on?
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"Imho, the biggest mistake in the West's approach to the entire war has been its failure to proactively announce military aid changes and the conditions that would trigger them." Yes, exactly. Everything is justified post-hoc
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"I'd first reject the use of the term "red line" entirely" No doubt, but the fact is the US told Ukraine they couldn't use ATACMS to target Russia, and now, they can. And it's really more than an increment
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nitpick. It exactly states that Biden might be stirring things up in anticipation of Trump sueing for a freeze.
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Indeed, you are right, and I apologize. I took your comment to be a dismissive 'Russia should just retreat' directive. Ain't gonna happen. And The problem is, Ukraine really is not just a simple country that got invaded. It r
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by jacknews 2y ago
So what, would you say, triggered the US to cross their own red line, and a rather obvious principle of proxy warfare? And, backtracking, how aware have you been about the situation in Ukraine, or baltic sea infrastructure, in the past few
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by jacknews 2y ago
no. And no-one has been 'getting anything across to me', inferring that I'm 'not getting it'. They've been throwing incomplete or irrational arguments, like yours, or simply downvoting. Sure there have been &#x
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by jacknews 2y ago
Ukraine is very clearly a proxy war between NATO and Russia, merely framed as a plucky country defending it's sovereignty, though it is that too, of course. With all the backlash here, I feel like some kind of radical, but here is a BB
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A fair point, but described by who? And was this just a post-hoc justification, or had the western powers declared that they would retaliate if Russia involved other armies? In any case, surely the 'punishment' should be directed
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No, you are wrong. Russia are at war with Ukraine, so they are bombing them. Ukraine have every right to reply with their own long range weapons too, and that would indeed not be an escalation in the fighting itself. But, the west clearly p
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by jacknews 2y ago
none-the-less, it is a clear escalation ON THE INVOLVEMENT OF EUROPE AND THE US in the war. It is not that Ukraine are escalating the war by using long-range missiles. Of course Russia have been using them all along. But it is a clear escal
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by jacknews 2y ago
That's beside the point. It is a very clear escalation in US/European involvement. Ukraine were prohibited from using long-range western weapons to attack targets inside Russia up until now. I'm not saying if it's right
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So how long ago were US long-range missiles used to attack Russia? Because that's what seems to be claimed here, that Russia are retaliating for that. How long does it take a ship to travel to a 'suspicious' site like this? v
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by jacknews 2y ago
I couched it tentatively, but it doesn't just 'seem' clear to me, it's plainly obvious that things are different this week compared to a couple of weeks ago wrt US-Ukraine. And HN are some of the smartest people online,
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Yes, it's a possible reading of events and makes more sense than Russia bothering with such insignificant targets, if they even have that capability. Escalate the Ukraine war by allowing use of long range missiles to attack Russia, the
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by jacknews 2y ago
Of course, who else has a recent abundance of gas they wish to sell. Irrespective of actual contracts, where will the gas come from?
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So easy to say, and an assumption that the Russian people are merely oppressed.
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Except this will never happen with Putin in charge, or even many other replacements. So what to do?
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So there's clearly a lot of reading between the lines to be done in recent days, since the US escalated the Ukraine war by allowing strikes into Russia with US missiles. Along with Trump's blow and bluster on the issue - don'
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by jacknews 2y ago
Sure, both major gas producers. Why did Europe need Russian gas at all, when there's clearly so much right under-foot? Obviously the 'invisible hand' of the market will fetch the gas from where it's fracked. And lol, I d
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by jacknews 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow the logic, unless absolutely all the inputs are under tariff. But in any case, where there's an incentive, there's a way. Alternative inputs will be sought.
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Of course. Prices will go up. Consumers will start to look for alternatives that don't carry the tariff. That's what tariffs are designed to do.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Yes, "Ian's secure knot". "Ian's knot" is just the regular shoelace, done wrong - starting with a left-over-right twist, instead of right-over-left. So that knot will twist to vertical and self-loosen.
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by jacknews 2y ago
"There’s not a lot of movies made about the heroes who got 20% of the cost out of a car, but let me tell you, there should be.” Of course. You start by designing a car to be cheap, not slimming down an expensive one.
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Yes, if you do the initial cross-over right-over-left, then a normal 'bunny' knot, with the 'passive loop' on the right, it's secure. They have to match. From all the "you're doing it wrong" posts and
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by jacknews 2y ago
Matt is also doing the 'trefoil' left-over-right. What's wrong with you people!!!! That's why your laces keep coming undone!!! The trefoil should be right-over-left. lol But it does look magical, I'll have to try it
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There's also this: https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes and several other copycat videos on youtube. Simply tie the 'bunny knot' the other way (start with a loop on the left instea
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by jacknews 2y ago
Theory #5, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct is 'looking up' the next moves with a chess engine.
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by jacknews 2y ago
He made 100s millions specifically from libeling the SH families? Or his entire lifetime earnings were 100s millions? The point is the law has been used (imho totally disproportionately) to bankrupt someone for things they said, and therefo

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