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> what is in it for the U.S. Peace and stability for about 100 million people in Central and Eastern Europe, who will in turn consume American products and services and cheaply write code for American companies instead of designing nucle
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The article you linked is from 2007. Bush did indeed express strong support for offering Ukraine and Georgia a path to NATO membership at the 2008 NATO summit, but he was overruled by other allies[1] who caved in to pressure from Russia, an
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Only two are needed to end Russia as it exists today, that's the reality of nuclear threats.
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Mearsheimer is quite literally Russian propaganda. See the title pages of his books. The books are paid by "the Valdai Discussion Club", a propaganda arm of the Russian government.
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> Baltic republics were well-represented in party structures and in Soviet elites. Name one Lithuanian or Estonian member of the Politburo in the half-century spanning 1940 to 1990. I'll save you time: there were none. Your knee-jer
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> Whose people you cite also happen to emigrate to the West or at least from Russia. Gorbachev and Yazov never emigrated. They both died in Moscow in the early 2020s. > Or very interested in not looking dumb after it turned out that t
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The idea of providing infrastructure (ports, railways, telegraph) for Africa and other colonized parts of the world is a common trope in British, French, Belgian and countless other pro-colonial narratives, used to depict the subjugation of
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Everyone of importance on the Soviet/Russian side has refuted this. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149963 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353857 Gorbachev himself said that
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It's interesting that he speaks of them as something very old, but such batteries were still widely available in Europe not too long ago. I have a pack of Duracell PowerCheck AAA batteries made in Belgium and labeled good until 03&#x2F
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> Only if you are willing to ignore the facts that don't fit into your model. Namely specific triggers for Putin's actions like 2008's NATO declaration of imminent NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine and American invol
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> ... which obviously will include large scale territorial concessions. No. That's the part you're making up. The mood has simply shifted from fighting all the way to the Russian-Ukrainian border, to forcing Russia to leave Ukr
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Germany might have built 3600 Leopard tanks since the 1970s, but as of 2025, it has only about 300 in service with the Bundeswehr, of which roughly 200 are combat-ready. France, the UK, and Italy each also have around 200 tanks in active se
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> Are you saying that if we had them, we would have given all our weapons to Ukraine? No - I am saying that this "enormous amount of modern weaponry" that you speak of doesn't exist anymore. The large Cold War era stockpil
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There simply isn't an "enormous amount of modern weaponry", otherwise it would have been given to Ukraine a long time ago. Russia’s war against Ukraine has underscored the importance of air defence, as Kyiv begs the west
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They'd fare much better. Ukraine had a large pool of conscripts, a professional cadre with combat experience from the Donbas, and deep Soviet stocks to draw from, while Western Europe abolished conscription and destroyed its Cold War s
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Three days is realistic timeframe for restoring power and rudimentary network connectivity.
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> Who went to Ukraine on behalf of USA to scuttle peace talks? There was nothing to scuttle. To this day, Russia stands by the original demands of taking over Ukraine's government, disbanding its army, and blocking foreign aid to Uk
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Previously crashed drones were found with Polish SIM-cards in their 4G modems.
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The very same UN stresses that these numbers severely undercount due to lack of access to occupied territories and mostly reflect deaths in free Ukraine. The figures from the areas where most of the fighting has taken place remain unknown.
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> Sure Russia has absolutely shit the bed in the beginning of this conflict but now they're being carried by China's massive economy and they're slowly but surely winning this conflict By what measure? All the declared obj
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Last night, I asked a LLM to produce an /etc/fstab entry for connecting to a network share with specific options. I was too lazy to look up the options from the manual. It gave me the options separated by semicolons, which is inva
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Editing error. I meant to say that even independently verified Russian losses for the 10% of Ukraine exceed comparable German figures fighting for the entire country by nearly double.
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> You should be careful with this numbers because Western media reported numbers seem to be inflated and not agree with other statistics. This is a desperate cope. Russian losses in the fight for just 10% of Ukraine now exceed even the i
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I recently tried to identify a font from a screenshot of an ad and used everything I could find, from WhatTheFont to LLMs. The LLMs were hopeless at identifying the font from the screenshot, but ChatGPT eventually led me to the correct resu
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> And yet Russia, a country that could barely hold itself together in the 90s, and is under severe sanctions, is winning. I am not aware of any group, other than internet trolls and the gullible people who fall for them, claiming that Ru
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> It's not even hard to learn about the Donetsk region's conflicts and the destruction there long before the invasion, but flooding the media and Internet with convenient narratives like "just the Russian desire to own Ukr
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As harsh as it may sound, the Wix Toolset is such a steaming pile of garbage and waste of everyone's time who have had the misfortune to work with it that their best monetization strategy would be to charge for proper documentation and
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> You mean in Ukraine, right? No. > Those words are a sure sign of serious brainwashing, Hardly. Pinning all recent human history on the CIA seems like a "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail" kind of thing.
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I'm here and I don't see it. It sounds like a kind of American provincialism to think that everything revolves around them.
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> Even if they won’t, there’s no plausible scenario in which Russia will lose this territory. Didn't the brightest minds in the Kremlin believe that the last time too? There are many plausible scenarios, such as the worsening of soc

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