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by sidibe 5y ago
Unfortunately one of the most childish folks in all of this is at the head of Russia's space program, so medium term doesn't look great for cooperation
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by sidibe 5y ago
I've also not noticed. But this is the most common topic on HN so I probably had/have different search habits to have missed the wonderful experience of Google 10 years ago. Google meets my expectations for a search engine but may
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by sidibe 5y ago
Luckily Russia had anticipated the increased shelling months before and therefore just happened to have 180000 soldiers surrounding Ukraine before this increased shelling happened right?
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by sidibe 5y ago
Why should it? If crypto became popular there wouldn't be tax revenue
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by sidibe 5y ago
It should be pretty obvious but here are 2 reasons you maybe missed: 1. It accepts NATO as the primary cause of this war. 2. It proposes that Ukraine give Russia all of its original demands (according to the article). This despite Russia be
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by sidibe 5y ago
> With no authority that decides whether I can send money to/receive from someone. There's no technical reason fiat money doesn't have this property. But societies everywhere, democratic or authoritarian, have decided that
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by sidibe 5y ago
Russia isn't going to win the hearts and minds here, that battle is already lost. I'm sure killing civilians isn't what soldiers want to do, so they probably aren't doing it purposely but from Putin's POV being as g
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by sidibe 5y ago
Thanks for sharing, that is an incredible video. Seems like he even nailed the details. Much more impressive than Mearsheimers self-fulfilling prophecies
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by sidibe 5y ago
Ack, can't edit but will wait until this nightmare is over to continue posting here to avoid infringing further.
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by sidibe 5y ago
If you go on Russian social media sites, there's an interesting phenomenon of many of them obviously disliking Putin while buying his propaganda wholesale about the West and Ukraine's Nazi government
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by sidibe 5y ago
Persecution complex is in high gear in Russian media, they obviously aren't going to give the full context of Facebook's position. But if you are western in this site or Russian curious enough to be here, let's drop the idea
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by sidibe 5y ago
Oh come off it. The actions may be affecting Russians gravely but there is very little hate behind it from what I've seen. This is because of what's happening in Ukraine, maybe people in Russia in a bubble are misinterpreting that
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by sidibe 5y ago
And in particular in this conflict. Indian media has been going after Ukraine hard for racism based on some incidents at borders and has taken a lot of Russian propaganda at face value about Indians being held in cities as human shields. I
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by sidibe 5y ago
And then what? Or do you mean the Americans should have listened to him? Eastern Europeans can't do anything but react to the USA's prodding in Mearsheimer and the like's view, they're just pawns to be played by the USA
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by sidibe 5y ago
I'm talking about outside of Russia/Israel. And I personally do not see Israel positively wrt Palestine, but find their pretexts a lot more credible than Putin's so I understand why there's a lot more unanimity in Wester
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by sidibe 5y ago
>Every story you read now is propaganda. West is just better and more experienced in this stuff than Russia You have such a good eye for propaganda! Congrats. Thanks for the education I will make waronfakes.com my homepage. From flipping
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by sidibe 5y ago
Did you just read War and Peace or something? This was Putin's choice.
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by sidibe 5y ago
Maybe to some degree. A lot of it is that in most conflicts both sides have some credible arguments, I disagree with the degree of responses and general treatment of WB and Gaza, but Israel usually claims with some degree of truth to be res
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by sidibe 5y ago
It might halt their current invasion because Putin could claim it as victory from the complete mess he's gotten Russia into. But NATO potentially expanding to Ukraine wasn't the reason Putin attacked Ukraine.
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by sidibe 5y ago
Please look at a map. NATO already has several borders with Russia.
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by sidibe 5y ago
I think it would take less sanctions to send Chinese to the streets, so China would be more likely to try not to get sanctioned. We see locally they vent fury over economic issues quite often despite much more locked down media and a genera
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by sidibe 5y ago
Boycotting Israel hasn't put much pressure because many agree with their actions and therefore won't participate. No one agrees with Russia's actions.
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by sidibe 5y ago
I don't agree but a lot of people think Israel's justifications are valid. There are no decent arguments for Putin's war. It's even less justified than when Saddam invaded Kuwait but Saddam didn't have nukes and cou
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by sidibe 5y ago
If there was a coup it was an attempted coup by Russia to control Ukraine's government to go against the popular will. Even Yanokovych was open to EU until Putin turned him against. Putin's attempt to directly dictate Ukraine poli
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by sidibe 5y ago
What makes you think Ukraine ADS is almost dead, they seem to have shooting down aircraft pretty frequently and are being resupplied by Europe
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by sidibe 5y ago
Not good for LA's local news ratings
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by sidibe 5y ago
Euromaidan was not a coup set up by the West. From right there it's obvious you've drunk the propaganda quite easily. Putin overplayed his hand pressuring Ukraine to reject EU despite popular will and his stooge was driven out by
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by sidibe 5y ago
That ship sailed long ago in the Baltics
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by sidibe 5y ago
There is no way Ukraine accepts the same demands that Russia had at the start of the war. I think the most they'll give is recognize the territory Russia or separatists had at the start of the war, and that's only if Russia makes
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by sidibe 5y ago
These people believe that only the USA makes real decisions out of free will and everything else is only a consequence of those decisions or others uncontrollable reactions to those decisions. Apparently being an expert in geopolitics is ma

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