khokhol

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by khokhol 3y ago
Beginning in 2019, Ukraine went full-press on seeking NATO membership. We've gone through this already. Yes, Ukraine wanted to join NATO - but the bigger fact was that Europe was against it. So it wasn't going to happen. If o
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by khokhol 3y ago
Destroying Hamas is not helpful for the goal of destroying Hamas? What's the point of not objecting in theory, if you object to any instance in practice? Unfortunately it appears that you're either grossly misreading what I&#x
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by khokhol 3y ago
While others think that if Ukraine makes "peace" with Russia it will simply set the stage for another invasion attempt and/or a nuclear exchange later.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Name any private individual who has done more for the defense of Ukraine then Musk. Irrelevant to the fact he went on to also blatantly dick the Ukrainians over in late 2023.
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by khokhol 3y ago
The benefit of being a part of the actual human world, where real people live. Where not essentially everyone is obsessed with their careers and/or comparative wealth. That sort of thing.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Good advice overall, and definitely an improvement over the usual interview boilerplate that candidates have to trod through. However, in some places it seems to be too cavalier -- in the sense that it suggests we now have a magic prism wit
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by khokhol 3y ago
Whiny, no. The war is insanely stupid, and costly, and against Russia's interests by every objective measure. So what else are we supposed this willingness to throw huge numbers of human lives at it?
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by khokhol 3y ago
https://archive.md/5l6OM
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In Ukraine, Russia Is Inching Forward Death by Death(nytimes.com)
8 points by khokhol 3y ago|5 comments
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by khokhol 3y ago
America has very little leverage over Israel. This couldn't further from the truth. The U.S. has enormous leverage over Israel, via the massive foreign assistance it has provided since 1948. Its politicians may be too spineless, too
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by khokhol 3y ago
Whereas the nonsense you're providing us here is not hallucinated (by you), but rather cut-and-pasted from the usual pro-Russian sources. Putin gave an "explicit warning that Russia perceived NATO's eastward expansion as a t
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by khokhol 3y ago
No one starts a war for bullshit reasons. The point is that the stated reasons are bullshit - in the sense that they are very different from the aggressor's real "reasons".
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by khokhol 3y ago
[Link to an academic analysis from April 2022] Very problematic it is to suggest that the above analysis (being limited enough in its own scope) has much, if any, extrapolation to the situation now 2 years later -- when so many things hav
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by khokhol 3y ago
It is for the donors more than the Ukrainians to decide, You're losing focus here. When I said "It's up to them to decide", this was clearly in reference to the question of whether worse off, by this point, for having
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by khokhol 3y ago
American military junta massacring 5% of Iraqs population in 2003. Even outside estimates of total "excess deaths" in the entire Iraq war -- regardless of cause or party directly responsible -- don't amount to 5 percent of
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by khokhol 3y ago
This is pretty much the backlash everyone said Google would be getting if their model isn't literally perfect on release, no? No. A better analogy would be: You've bought a shiny new car, presented as being a major advancement o
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Musk steps in after California bakery jolted by cancelled Tesla order(theguardian.com)
3 points by khokhol 3y ago|2 comments
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by khokhol 3y ago
Americans need a fucking muzzle. If you fucking say so, I guess. But in no way do the operations detailed in the article amount to "complicity in starting this conflict".
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by khokhol 3y ago
If America drops a bomb, it is only because it failed at diplomacy. This suggests a belief that diplomacy is always sufficient to prevent war. Which runs counter to all of observed human history.
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by khokhol 3y ago
Ukraine sadly appears to be worse off today by the choice they made to engage instead of finding a peaceful solution. I'd say that's for Ukrainians to decide. They might just have more information on the costs and risks (and in
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by khokhol 3y ago
They are taking issue with the actions necessary to eliminate Hamas. It's not, as you seem to be insinuating, the very idea of there being some kind of military response to October 7 that they take issue with. Rather - they don'
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by khokhol 3y ago
Judea and Samaria are historical names Right, but that doesn't make them internationally recognized. If you can't use valid jurisdiction names, there's nothing to talk about here.
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by khokhol 3y ago
"Can't", no. It all hangs on the U.S. at the moment, which could absolutely make enough shells for Ukraine if the funding authorization comes through. What's holding that up is politics, not limits in productive capaci
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by khokhol 3y ago
Now when it's forced to go there, everybody is crying "how dare you!". Truly, damned if you do, damned if you don't. This is a gross (and bizarre) distortion of why people are taking issue with the current operation in
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by khokhol 3y ago
Ukraine lost the minute they refused to take Putin's early offer to eschew NATO membership. Putin's demand list at the time was clearly stated, and went well beyond simply requiring that Ukraine eschew NATO membership. And no,
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by khokhol 3y ago
Do jewish people have right of self determination in judea and samaria? The international community does not recognize "Judea and Samaria" as a jurisdiction. So the question is moot. Further, what you're getting at is a qu
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by khokhol 3y ago
In 1967 it was [occupied by Israel] and Jordan renounced it's rights to this territory in 1980 or 1988. Which by no means conveys any rights to Israel, as Jordan's occupation of the territory was also illegal and unrecognized fr
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by khokhol 3y ago
Do jewish people have right of self determination? In the sense that all peoples have the right of self-determination - of course, unquestionably. As to whether that applies to the self-determination in the sense of a viable community w
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by khokhol 3y ago
And yet - the Soviet Union has an even greater advantage in resources and manpower over Afghanistan. But what eventually happened there?
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by khokhol 3y ago
Indeed. What's striking to me about this fiasco is (aside from the obvious haste with which this thing was shoved into production) that apparently the only way these geniuses can think of to de-bias these systems - is to throw more bi

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