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by yks 4y ago
If anything your examples show that aggressors don't care about diplomatic compromises as long as they believe in their total military victory. > The Russians are not going to invade NATO countries. Depending on how US elections go,
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by yks 4y ago
The West have their own interests surely but this war is fought by Ukrainians on their own collective volition. Negotiation is therefore also should happen on their own volition. Even with the slowly trickling and insufficient Western milit
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by yks 4y ago
Appeasing the aggressors by giving up territories is not going to stop the war long term until there is nothing to give up. Not only history shows it again and again, but the basic psychology behind this is clear after a first encounter wit
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by yks 4y ago
> don't apply to independent journalists What a naïveté. Independent journalists are even more beholden to their audiences, if they start talking up something those audiences don’t like, their incomes dwindle. I’ve yet to see a prom
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by yks 4y ago
> What makes anyone on this platform believe that Ukraine has any chance of victory? Quite interesting question with the timing of this great summary of Russian information operations [1]. An excerpt: > Russia uses the narrative that
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by yks 4y ago
That is true, but Russia in particular had practically unlimited money to buy off both the US elites and their opposition, due to the rich natural resources and lack of need to support the high standards of living for the Russian population
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by yks 4y ago
> When people agree that Ukraine loses multiple times as many people for every Russian that dies Sure, if you listen to the Russian propagandists and ignore the common sense in the simplest of questions, Ukraine doesn't have any cha
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by yks 4y ago
The US itself is in the state of being always a few years away from taken over by a crowd very sympathetic to the Putin's cause and Putin personally. Prolonging this conflict is therefore also quite risky to the current establishment o
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by yks 4y ago
Russia is yet again proving that destroying standards of living in a dictatorship does not threaten the rulers which is the only thing that matters. CCP survived Mao’s policies and so they will survive the changes in GDP per capita whicheve
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by yks 4y ago
Daily reminder that not only Americans have agency in this world. Even Putin had agency to not start the war. And Ukrainians have agency to pursue whatever means available to free themselves from Russian influence.
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by yks 4y ago
Noob question: why did they stow away landing gear so early and did not wait at least until some altitude gain?
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by yks 4y ago
All Ukrainians I know are paying for Starlinks and the fee have been recently increased.
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by yks 4y ago
Same guy fueling proof-of-work cryptocurrency mania? It is not entirely clear to me which direction his contribution to the carbon levels is going to end up at.
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by yks 4y ago
Certain individuals like Elon might have acquired a not completely unfounded belief that “rule of law” in fact does not apply to them personally.
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> a regime controlled by neonazis Current approved position is that they are "satanists", didn't you hear?
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looks like you complain that the media is not working for the rich and powerful, i.e. Putin?
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by yks 4y ago
It would be interesting when we invent an AGI and it will tell us that ~ism is a dead end and only ~ism is a way forward. Not sure how well humanity will cope. And even worse, when an AGI declares a ~world religion~ complete BS.
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by yks 4y ago
For Russian apologists the hearsay “evidence” of some non-expansion guarantees said in private is rock solid but the Budapest Memorandum, which Russia is a signing party of is a non-consequential piece of paper, funny how that works.
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by yks 4y ago
But Mexico neither needs nor plans to, despite even having wars with the US in the past. This alone might tell you something. Surprisingly there exist countries whose neighbors do not run into defensive alliances excluding their neighbors a
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by yks 4y ago
People of the wrong political orientation are now cheerleading the Russians in their invasion of Ukraine, so they are bad regardless of their current position on Iraq of 2002. Wrong/bad because of the suffering brought to the world.
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by yks 4y ago
What were the twitter roadblocks exactly?
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by yks 4y ago
It should be pretty clear in 2022 that wars can be started despite the negative economic gain, so whether China is interested in Taiwan industry or not can bear very little weight for the decision makers.
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by yks 4y ago
I think "no managers" approach can work only for tiny organizations. Rigorously hiring self-motivated people might delay the need for managers somewhat but at some point they are inevitable. Once managerial layer is in place, it i
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by yks 4y ago
Musk’s thing is an ability to say things that are kinda common sense and evident to most low-level techies but which the modern corporate culture prohibits to say aloud, e.g. “lots of managers is actually bad”. Musk says that and everyone i
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by yks 4y ago
Current Russian practice shows that there is no difference, thousands of newly mobilized men have already died and their society doesn't care, mothers just blame Ukraine.
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"70%" number is effectively meaningless, it might be 30 or 90, but it is a fact that the war is supported by Russian society. They may not _like_ it but they _support_ it. If Putin says the war is over now, Russians would support
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by yks 4y ago
While the US had no business invading Iraq, they were not doing genocide there, they were not explicitly bombing civilians far away from the frontlines, and also not annexing territory, so those invasions are wildly different.
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Yep, serfdom was abolished in England in 1574 and in Russia in 1861, almost three hundred years later.
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Ukraine has been a pain in Germany's neck, Nord Streams are the most visible result of that but then there are also anecdotes of Merkel ignoring Yushchenko, German delegations not attending Ukrainian independence parades and so on. Eve
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by yks 4y ago
Imagine Burning Man but on meth

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