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by mopsi 4mo ago
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, and by 2021, Ukraine and Russia were in the 8th year of the war. The Russian "multiple and continuous warnings" (aka demands and ultimatums) were taken seriously in 2008 and Ukraine was not offered
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Timeline from the article you linked does not support your argument: During the 2010 presidential election campaign, Party of Regions leader and candidate Viktor Yanukovych stated that the current level of Ukraine's cooperation wit
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Because they thought that everything would be over in three days and business would continue as usual, as it did after 2014.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Millions of Leave voters have died in the decade since the referendum. Graph: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/202... Article: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-
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by mopsi 4mo ago
And yet, the US seems much closer to absolute monarchy than Belgium with their actual king.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Vehicles, not only tanks. For instance, the mobility of the Red Army relied on Studebaker trucks. The US delivered about 115 000 of them. In total, including other types of vehicles like Jeeps, the USSR received about 400 000 vehicles. Roug
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by mopsi 4mo ago
People in arts and engineering can easily fill terabytes upon terabytes. RAW photos, uncompressed audio, 3D laser scans etc consume gigabytes like they're nothing, especially if you store many intermediary files of the same thing.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Осия 8:7.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Andrei Soldatov is not merely "one russian journalist". Since 2000, he has been operating agentura.ru, which publishes information about Russian security services. He is well-connected and widely considered one of the most serious
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by mopsi 4mo ago
> that is an unsubstantiated claim that's actually false and doesn't even preclude the right of any group of people in sufficient majority to exercise self-govern, by their mere will and manifestation, There was no maj
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by mopsi 4mo ago
> there isn't really a clear definition of what constitutes "a people". It's true that the wording is open to interpretation, but not in the case of Ukraine. Nobody considers the Ukrainians and Russians living
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> that ruling completely disregards the right of donbas to self-determination Because there are no grounds for it. The right to self-determination is the right of an ethnicity to self-govern. The people of Donbas are not a disti
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by mopsi 4mo ago
This is an utterly naive take. Russia would in that case forcibly conscript from Ukraine's population for further westward invasions, which serves the purpose of exterminating the local male population to suppress resistance and make r
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by mopsi 4mo ago
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has established that there was no genuine separatism in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. From the get-go, these were operatives of Russian military and special services, or people under their direct control
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by mopsi 4mo ago
I fail to see how absorption into Russian Federation would do anything other than significantly worsen the human rights situation in Donbas, given that freedom rankings place Russia near North Korea, Somalia and Iran.
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by mopsi 5mo ago
There's a way to end it all in a single phone call. Putin picks up a phone, calls Belousov and orders the withdrawal from Ukraine.
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by mopsi 5mo ago
1600+ schools have been damaged in Ukraine and several hundred have been completely destroyed. Outrage? This is not even news anymore. People, too, die every day under Russian attacks. Hundreds of thousands are permanently disabled or dead.
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by mopsi 5mo ago
> By the way, nowhere I see a report on the very recent ukranian attack on the school in Starobelsk which left 10 (known for now) adolescents killed. It's everywhere: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles&#
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by mopsi 5mo ago
Yes. He will definitely find more ways to make things worse for Russia in 2026 as well.
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by mopsi 5mo ago
Zeihan is a strange guy who seems to take a lot of his information from online discourse, which is a poor substitute for first-hand knowledge. The ground truth is very blunt: Russia has not bothered to install even a chain-link fence along
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by mopsi 5mo ago
What do you mean by "that far back"? Russian territorial expansion and eradication of the native populace are on-going events, not distant history.
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by mopsi 5mo ago
> My point is that when we compare the two, one is vastly more megalomaniac and expansionist. The one that grew through conquest and oppression from a small city-state to the largest country on the planet that spans 11 timezones and stil
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by mopsi 5mo ago
This is an intimidation tactic and not a real threat. If the vague threat is enough to prevent something from happening, then it has served its purpose. If not, then the vagueness gives an exit to do nothing. Pretty much every country that
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by mopsi 5mo ago
> Russia stated that Ukraine joining NATO would start a war. The US began that process knowing Russia's reaction. Russia did what it said it would do. This has nothing to do with reality. Ukraine wanted to join NATO in 2008
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That leads to absurd situations where three brothers born in the same maternity ward, one year apart, are listed as having been born in the "Republic of Estonia" (1939), the "Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union&q
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by mopsi 5mo ago
> If some force occupies and renames your country for 40+ years, seems fair to use that name in wikipedia when talking about this period "Estonia" is a distinct geographic and cultural region, the same way "Norway&
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They don't "actually understand Russians" and I don't need to study them to see through it. I was born in the USSR. Lived experience makes most foreign "Russia experts" look like the nerds who are very into Jap
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by mopsi 5mo ago
You listed joke sources. Merkel, in particular, has been utterly discredited for her naivety toward Russia. Her sucking on Russian gas left Germany lagging in the transition to renewables and EVs, and the German economy is now paying a doub
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> Russia's paranoia about the west is really strong, well founded and well documented. It's an act, and everyone in Russia knows that it's an act. Acting this way gets the dumber kind of Western politicians to care
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by mopsi 6mo ago
Questions like this show the incredible disconnect between HN and the widely deployed tech that the world depends on. The use case for Windows Server is running a centrally managed office: from operating your own certificate authority and d

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