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by trasz 4y ago
>Keep hard authoritarian and totalitarian countries poorer. That's done with multiple countries right now, like North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. It's also not done in multiple other countries which don't happen to be US
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by trasz 4y ago
Except that those aren't really US goals anymore, those are wins for the entire western world. Still, what matters is who invaded. Russia did. And of course what _really_ matters is who ends up being the loser, and again, it's q
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by trasz 4y ago
I'd say Ukraine is dealing with Russia through force quite directly, without any proxies. (The context here is that Russians like to pretend they are fighting against NATO; this is of course not true, they are fighting against Ukraine
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by trasz 4y ago
I envision it exactly the same way it's already been going for the past six months: Russia has lost about half of their armed forces. The road ends the same way it ended last time, 30 years ago - in adjustment of Russian borders. Unles
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by trasz 4y ago
>What you're describing is basically why Kissinger et al lobbied to kick out Taiwan from the UN As much as I hate Kissinger, this is not what happened at all. This wasn't about "kicking Taiwan out", it was about ackn
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by trasz 4y ago
One logical solution is to make sure Russia is no longer an useful asset, by splitting off its colonies.
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by trasz 4y ago
Europe has already been blackmailed by Russia - when they invaded Ukraine last time, in 2014. That's how we know Russia can only be dealt with by force: because we've tried to do it the other way and it failed terribly.
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by trasz 4y ago
Yup, that's what we need: more plutonium manufactured in Russia :-/
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by trasz 4y ago
I'd expect every self-respecting intelligence service in the world to have at least one operative among those... what, seven thousand people?
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Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID Relief(themarshallproject.org)
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by trasz 4y ago
>It’s perfectly fine to think prostitution is a bad thing that shouldn’t be encouraged There are two problems here. First is that US has a long history of trying to handle the problem by prosecuting the victims (sex workers) instead of
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by trasz 4y ago
Is it just me, or does that website is surprisingly well aligned with Russian government when it comes to ideas on ruling a country?
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by trasz 4y ago
It did collapse Russian economy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/09/12/bad-r... Just because Russians can tolerate low living standards doesn’t mean they are not affected.
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Send your message to the Russian Invaders(signmyrocket.com)
3 points by trasz 4y ago|0 comments
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A 300-Year-Old Dictionary Birthed China’s Comic Sans(sixthtone.com)
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by trasz 4y ago
A nuke, assuming it works, would probably mean the end of Russia as a nation. It’s highly unprobable.
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by trasz 4y ago
This is a fantastically badly timed article, given how the Russian “second army in the world” is literally fleeing in masses as we speak. Which means, Russian gas might soon became unprecedentedly cheap.
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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Looks Like a ‘Failure,’ CIA Director Says(nytimes.com)
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by trasz 4y ago
The difference is, Russia is not USA. It’s not even USSR; Russia’s economy is (or was) comparable with that of Italy. Russia already lost about half of its tank forces. They can’t start mobilization, because they are running out of offic
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by trasz 4y ago
>assistance for a country that supported the unmerited killing of Ukrainian civilians Let me guess - you believe this is some kind of civil war, and Russia is the peacekeeping force. So - well, please do some reading. What it is, is an
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by trasz 4y ago
You do realise that to Russia EU is still a more beneficial customer than India or China? Sure, would be nice if they also officially joined, but complaining this way about their current choice is hypocrisy.
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by trasz 4y ago
No. In politics, might makes right. Like it or not, US is a superpower, and Russia isn't. No reason to use "equal rules" here.
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by trasz 4y ago
That war has already ended. US wasn't punished, because it's a superpower. There is no reason not to punish Russia.
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by trasz 4y ago
How else do you expect to convince Russia to leave Ukraine's territory and pay reparations? Or are you suggesting that we should just allow Russia to invade other countries with impunity and give it parts of Ukraine as a ransom? We&#x
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Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses(al.com)
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On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (2021) [pdf](ris.utwente.nl)
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by trasz 4y ago
>Do they have undue influence in the U.S.? Probably not. Facebook can arbitrarily decide what millions of people will see. And no reason not to use it whenever convenient.
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by trasz 4y ago
I wonder what the exchange rate going to be, and how much it will hurt Russia - even before the war they were reportedly selling to China at cost.
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by trasz 4y ago
I’ve just discovered that site, and somewhere in the middle of reading through https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010347/queering-the-chinese-... I’ve realized that what they describe sounds less oppressive than the
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How China’s YouTube Became a Rare Safe Space for LGBT Streamers(sixthtone.com)
1 points by trasz 4y ago|1 comments

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