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by redisman 5y ago
His analysis of Russian expansion is also interesting https://nvo-ng-ru.translate.goog/realty/2021-12-16/3_1170_dr...
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by redisman 5y ago
Free and fair elections in Russia are maybe less likely than Putin getting assassinated
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by redisman 5y ago
Hah
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by redisman 5y ago
It sounds like any steel smelting operation can start capturing the fumes and pull out the neon. If it was lucrative others would start doing it
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by redisman 5y ago
Putin believes in the old Russian nationalist philosophy of “gathering the Russian lands”. Basically to reform large parts of the ex-USSR into a Russian empire. Because of reasons - he wrote a long article on it but the Kremlin website is b
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by redisman 5y ago
I don’t think the Finns feel too bad about that “loss”. They got to keep their independence and 99% of their land against a orders of magnitude more powerful foe. If Ukraine fares as well I’ll be a happy man.
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by redisman 5y ago
Where has modern China fought though? What battles have they won?
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by redisman 5y ago
In Ukraine. I just saw it here : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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by redisman 5y ago
BTC value could be sanctioned too. It’s price is very much like a leveraged stock market fund already. If they kill let’s say 5 of the biggest exchanges in the world then BTC will be worth $1 again
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by redisman 5y ago
If they buy more time they’re getting thousands of anti armor and anti air weapons very soon.
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by redisman 5y ago
They also reportedly destroyed every rail line leading to Moscow which is very impressive given that they’re surrounded
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by redisman 5y ago
Russia had said a lot of things. If you take everything at face value you’ll simply be conquered.
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by redisman 5y ago
Battles inside a city is still armored vehicles and men on foot. Things haven’t changed all that much. Rifles and improvised bombs go a long way.
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by redisman 5y ago
If they flatten Kiyv.. I don’t know. I would want my country to send in troops.
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by redisman 5y ago
Yeah I used to listen to every episode but now I pretty much have stopped. Same with Rogan. I just keep getting dejavú. Didn’t I hear this exact line of conversation already 5 times? Camus is really cool and Twitter would be better with mor
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by redisman 5y ago
They literally state that every few months. Lavrov just said it in December.
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by redisman 5y ago
Heat pumps? Resistive heaters?
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by redisman 5y ago
China is very different philosophically. Hide your strength, bide your time. Their economy has also had a meteoric rise unlike Russia which is a flatlined raw resource economy. I mean Russia did for about 8 years but China is going for mult
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by redisman 5y ago
Germany shut down their nuclear plants and built a expensive pipeline from Russia to use nat gas instead. Why?! This mistake could be one of the biggest in EU in the 2020s
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by redisman 5y ago
Go for it
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by redisman 5y ago
What about my brand new Lada!
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by redisman 5y ago
Extract wheat in Ukraine in… February. Sure
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by redisman 5y ago
Huge problem with US news sources (and most others too). Almost all of them have an overarching editorial “narrative” that colors their every decision.
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by redisman 5y ago
I had a very similar experience. I try to focus on my “circle of control”. Great for lowering your general background stress and anxiety.
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by redisman 5y ago
Wikipedia current events page is your friend. It has a executive summary of about the last week or two and then a daily breakdown if you want more detail
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by redisman 5y ago
Most web based news is not any better. Just because someone wrote it down doesn’t make the analysis any deeper
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by redisman 5y ago
Often the followers seem to self select. If someone’s advice was crap/didn’t work for you at all, you stop paying attention to them - if it worked you might think they’re a genius
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by redisman 5y ago
Napkin math: 20,000 calories is 36 Big Mac burgers In vegetable oil it would be about 4.8lbs of oil - that’s probably not at all plausible for digestion or bowel control
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by redisman 5y ago
Oh I thought you meant it would replace black bars with random not blurred text lol
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by redisman 5y ago
Most social movements of the last 5 years haven’t been all that organized though. Usually there’s no clear leadership. It’s all memes

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