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by rainworld 2y ago
>By definition they cannot escalate As they keep saying. If they mean it, too, nukes will fly.
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by rainworld 2y ago
>trade space for defence No. The losses we have on tape—what and where—paint a clear picture: They were not prepared and paid for it. It’s true that the depth of Ukraine’s misery sometimes gets exaggerated, by Ukrainians themselves and b
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by rainworld 2y ago
Primary reason the 2000 fares better in terms of survival is because they are being extra careful with them. Likely the condition under which they were provided. But that means fewer missions, greater distance and so on.
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by rainworld 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence
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by rainworld 2y ago
>it threatened to have a color revolution leading to a viable democracy Threatened? They tried that two or three times but Ukraine never stopped being Ukraine. Always losing a couple million people between these attempts.
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by rainworld 2y ago
I think it's a mistake to assume the West can freely flout how much it's fuelling the war machine without facing consequences. Sooner or later. As Chinese FM Wang expressed today: The rest of the world is not fooled by the West’s
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by rainworld 2y ago
Yes, very different situations. If for no other reason than that in one situation every involved party had consented. Including Iran, tacitly. The reason it was “de-escalatory”: It helped Iran prove what it sought to prove: no AD in the wor
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by rainworld 2y ago
Squeeze China and soon you’ll see shiny new toys fill holes in Russia’s capabilities. This is a failure to understand the situation—China’s restraint so far. And that for the West such actions come with consequences now. China’s (again, rat
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by rainworld 2y ago
One action served to de-escalate, to keep the Israelis from actually starting a war. Which these powers would almost inevitably be dragged into. The other would almost certainly end up being called WW3, and would likely involve at least a l
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by rainworld 2y ago
No such thing as “value-neutral”. Not in architecture nor anywhere else.
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by rainworld 2y ago
>I wonder what took Ukraine so long to go for it. Yeah and then they lost 10 GW of electricity generation capacity in a week. More today, more to come. Maybe that was it. The Americans seemed to think so.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Nice little touchdown it was. But that’s all it was. At least there was some doubt and ambiguity then; these days it’s just plain parallel universes: https://x.com/chronology22/status/1776661958827151663 >not t
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by rainworld 3y ago
One FF more or less admitted, maybe two. In the later case we have the missile launch on tape. No Ukies anywhere close. Belarus a hilariously wasted opportunity. Taganrog on tape flying away the next day. So in short, 1–2 destroyed, 0/
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by rainworld 3y ago
Active Protection Systems may well turn suicide drones into a transient threat, eventually. At least for heavy armour.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Via Wikipedia for 2022: 13241 / 334623 = 0.040 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_Canada#Statistic...
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by rainworld 3y ago
https://archive.is/2024.03.16-142641/https://www.washingtonp...
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by rainworld 3y ago
Two years of proxy war. Two years of stressing the necessity of defeating Russia in Ukraine—or at least denying it victory. Two years of coming to the realization that you can’t just turn money into weapons, it takes an industry. Money that
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by rainworld 3y ago
As opposed to what, the United States of Guatemala? It’s more or less the same story everywhere in the developed world. At least China’s not seeking to replace their extant populations with foreigners. Really strange seeing people (often gl
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by rainworld 3y ago
>aggressively and quickly re-arm On top of that, there's inflation and the value-added tax, which mean that, once all the extra costs have been covered, only about €50 to €70 billion will be left over to spend on actual hardware. &
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by rainworld 3y ago
>unironically derives his understanding of the world from his consumption of Hollywood slop Granted, a widespread problem, but, in my experience, nowhere as bad as in contemporary Germany. Why is that?
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by rainworld 3y ago
I'll save you the headache: News media does not exist to inform you. In the actually existing real world that we live in, news media does not exist to inform you. But it does inform me sometimes! Cost of doing business.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Moscow uses some proxy forces from the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, but the majority of forces are from the Russian Federation. What strange talk is this. They annexed them, period. 17 months ago. If you were to remove the Russian forces
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by rainworld 3y ago
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Gun-Barrel Sorry, khikhil, zrada was baked in from the start. Link related.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Gotta hand it to the Anglos, what a smashing success the Russian Bots psyop has been. Anyway, you rationally bought the ticket, hope you’ll rationally enjoy the ride. Hope things never stop making sense to you.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Ukraine would of course be toast without arms and intelligence from the West, but neither have any interest in starting or perpetuating the war. I’m just here to correct people who are wrong. Z-enjoyers like to quip that the only true fri
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by rainworld 3y ago
https://youtu.be/eQ4e1A-LZEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_of_Intelligen... A bloody eighty-year+ history of using Ukrainian nationalism against the Soviet Union/Russia and yet pe
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by rainworld 3y ago
Probably not, no.[0][1] Thus the war shall continue. [0]: http://archive.today/2024.02.01-224034/https://www.thetimes.... [1]: https://reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-likely-reces
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by rainworld 3y ago
As he said recently [0], they would have done it earlier. And they wouldn’t have bothered with attempting coercion. [0]: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/15/7441937/
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by rainworld 3y ago
did Germany a solid Yeah, Germany is getting decoupled alright. From its industry. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-likely-recess...
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by rainworld 3y ago
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at

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