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by nickpp 5y ago
There are ways to protest without risking arrest: walkouts and silent vigils. Nobody will arrest people simply walking on the streets in silence. Imagine the power of rivers of people covering the Russian city streets at the same time, simp
962.
by nickpp 5y ago
I totally sympathize and agree it doesn't sound fair but you will see more and more embargos and boycotts directed at Russia and Russians the more this Ukrainian murderous invasion continues...
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by nickpp 5y ago
No one wants any harm to the Russian people, but they too must do something to stop their madman. I know it is much more dangerous for them than for us keyboard pundits, but it is their responsibility. Think how much more dangerous it is fo
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by nickpp 5y ago
> Or just because there are bored You just contradicted your entire first 3 sentences :)
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by nickpp 5y ago
But China is watching what happens in Ukraine and may become a stronger and bolder foe as a result.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Don't you think conflicts and wars also have an ideological/cultural component? Freedom vs dictatorship, communism vs capitalism, democracy vs authoritarianism?
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by nickpp 5y ago
If Putin wins, I think we'll get an even higher chance of nuclear or cyber war. He has no reason to stop at Ukraine and has no moral issue with using whatever weapon he can get his hands on to win.
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by nickpp 5y ago
What if China's future moves in Taiwan are being determined by the Ukrainian outcome? A Russian victory (I think) will show a weakened, divided West and will embolden China.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Here are Garry Kasparov's suggestions. None of them imply boots on the ground: https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/1496865471995523080?s=... Kasparov wrote the book "Winter is Coming" back in 2015
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by nickpp 5y ago
> to educate some girls Oh, now I get you.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Right now, for better or worse, Ukraine is fighting for the whole of Europe and maybe for the world's future. The fact that they are alone and we aren't doing anything to help them will hunt Western (and NATO) countries forever.
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by nickpp 5y ago
You are underreacting. I would suggest a cup of hot beverage with a new friend from Ukraine. Careful with the friend though, if he's Russian the beverage might contain polonium...
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by nickpp 5y ago
After which: who cares about the Baltics? Then who cares about Hungary? Then who cares about Germany? Then France? When are you gonna start caring? When Putin's knife will be at your jugular? It will be too late by then.
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by nickpp 5y ago
> those 90s kids are having second thoughts on the EU&West Only the ones unable to succeed in modern times. Which is a quite incredible feat considering the astonishing wealth of opportunities the EU opening offered the Eastern Block
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by nickpp 5y ago
Are you seriously saying that Afghanistan is better under the Taliban?!
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by nickpp 5y ago
Balkan wars had a historical tendency to spread to the rest of Europe, so nipping that one in the bud can be seen as a defensive move.
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by nickpp 5y ago
> Opinion on life during communism is very much a mixed bag Only if you were part of the Nomenklatura or the Secret Police. The rest hated communism quite uniformly.
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by nickpp 5y ago
But we may be able to topple Putin in a year if we stopped buying Russian fossil fuels immediately - the Russian economy would crash rather quickly.
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by nickpp 5y ago
No. Mearsheimer is a Putin apologist and people like him are a large part the reason for the mess we are in right now. The West should've stopped Putin (and other madmen like him) a long time ago instead of appeasing him.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Please reread the post I originally replied to: > Putin warned the West that he wouldn't hesitate to conduct a nuclear strike if they try to meddle. I maintain he never said that and that interpreting the word nuclear which indeed a
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by nickpp 5y ago
Actually PG and JL live in the U.K. currently. And I am no HN founder, but I live in Eastern Europe. NATO planes and helicopters kept flying overhead all day and my house doesn’t even have a basement. So I bet we are closer to the danger th
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by nickpp 5y ago
Again, please point out the word nuclear in that transcript. It was an empty threat. And, sadly, the West fell for it and now the Ukrainians are paying the price.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Exactly. That is why he never actually threatened with a nuclear strike, just some vague "retaliation". But that was sadly enough for cowardly politicians to abandon Ukraine all over again…
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by nickpp 5y ago
Please highlight the word nuclear in that transcript.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Watch those again. He never pronounced the word nuclear . It was just a (more or less empty) threat in the poker game he is playing to keep cowardly politicians from helping an independent nation being invaded. Looks like it worked. I wond
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by nickpp 5y ago
Source? He never said that.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Hell no I hate every kind of war but I am sure that I need to be ready to fight if I want to be left alone. Putin took control of Chernobyl tonight, you know. How do you think he thinks about this stuff?
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by nickpp 5y ago
Not exactly. But I’ll let someone smarter and who thought more about this stuff to propose his ideas: Garry Kasparov https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/1496865471995523080?s=...
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by nickpp 5y ago
I’d ask my friend in Kiev if he feels I am being hyperbolic but for some reason he’s not answering his messages right now.
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by nickpp 5y ago
That makes him that much more dangerous and stopping him that much more essential and urgent.

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