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by yks 4y ago
This war has also weaponized civilian nuclear tech, e.g. Russians use a huge nuclear plant as a weapon depot [1] while at the same time torturing personnel [2]. What could go wrong. Humanity haven't really dealt yet with the terrorist
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by yks 4y ago
Nuclear weapons will 100% be used again. All it takes is one sociopathic dictator who thinks everyone else is weak, and we know that the power is a magnet for sociopaths and any country can be turned into dictatorship within a decade give o
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by yks 4y ago
> a treaty that designates the United States as the guarantor of Ukrainian independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... > there's at least a dozen other conflicts around the w
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by yks 4y ago
Putin himself tells everyone that his goal is conquering territories, Eastern Europeans tell everyone that Russian goal is conquering territories, yet people on the internet are still parroting "NATO's fault". I wish everyone
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by yks 4y ago
You either accept a moral responsibility to protect sovereign nations from elimination, and elimination at this point was stated by Russian officials and media as a goal numerous times, or you accept the Russian position of "lands and
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by yks 4y ago
The line of engagement barely moved in 3 months all the while Ukraine is hopelessly outgunned, Russians are doing quite well indeed /s. In reality UAF wasn't even a really modern army, just more modern than Russia, and all their &
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by yks 4y ago
Nuclear powers lost wars before, nuclear powers lost proxy wars before, and yet we are not living in the Fallout world.
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by yks 4y ago
What is the wall there? Pre-Feb 24 status quo? Why does Putin need to commit suicide in that case? He didn't need to commit suicide before February.
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by yks 4y ago
You're arguing my point! Which is that people knew about this invasion, US intelligence knew, Ukrainians were preparing as well despite the rosy rhetoric of Zelensky.
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by yks 4y ago
What do you expect him to say, "Putin bring it on?". In some random interviews he said Ukraine is prepared [1]. And yes, no one was sure that this Feb military build up results in war cause there was already a build up in April be
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by yks 4y ago
Invasion started in 2014, when diplomacy was okay. Russia kept rotating their knife in Ukrainian back all this time, you can't with a straight face victim blame Ukraine here.
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by yks 4y ago
First, letting Putin run over Ukraine is a guaranteed destruction of Ukrainian culture and identity, or at least a setback for several decades or centuries until Russia collapses again. Another generation of poets, writers, citizen sent to
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by yks 4y ago
> This is exactly what everyone said about Putin invading Ukraine. First, not everyone, Ukrainians knew. Second, after the end of WW2 we lived (wanted to live) under a spell that conquering whole countries with some opportunistic genocid
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by yks 4y ago
> Russia wins this war no matter what As they say, citation needed.
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by yks 4y ago
Even if true, it's just not smart cause the Biden administration will be voted out due to consequences of the drawn out conflict.
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by yks 4y ago
He's not unhinged, he's essentially a boss of a drug cartel, flaunting his strength and cruelty but respecting the power of others. There is no real value for him to launch nukes unless he thinks the West is absolutely weak and I&
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by yks 4y ago
The West could've ended this war by now if they just went all in on sending howitzers, MLRS and other heavy equipment into Ukraine but they keep slow dripping it, or just doing nothing like Germany. The most powerful societies in the w
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by yks 4y ago
You can send money to any Ukrainian bank account via SWIFT. This includes all personal bank accounts. A recipient needs to lookup the bank's SWIFT code and IBAN which can be non-obvious but working with crypto is also non-obvious. Fees
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by yks 4y ago
> he has actually significantly changed the landscape for global warming Oh yes, by shilling proof-of-work cryptocurrencies he definitely made a contribution. I'm not even sure if his Tesla venture would offset this damage long term
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by yks 4y ago
It's a soundbite to spurt the idea that pro-Ukrainian position or any conclusion that Ukrainians have successes on the battlefield is simply a "propaganda".
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by yks 5y ago
You are correct in some immediate sense but this war is a bit different because it is actually revealing what using nukes or threatening to use nukes means in the context of war of conquest/genocide in 21st century. If the US completel
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by yks 5y ago
Their war equipment is not "last-gen", they basically keep upgrading whatever was left of the USSR and they do sit on the huge stocks of non-modernized Soviet equipment, but eventually they will be left with a useless old and vuln
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by yks 5y ago
Their current war is based on the propaganda of Russian superiority over Ukrainians, military superiority specifically since Russians built their whole modern ideology on winning WWII. Admitting that Ukrainians are capable of anything is th
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by yks 5y ago
Well, essentially they are given carte blanche for war crimes, because if they become prisoners of war, they won't be tried as a regular criminal anyway so it does not matter how many civilians they torture beforehand
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by yks 5y ago
But then individual soldiers from the attacking side are granted "protection" against mistreatment as prisoners of war, even when that war itself is a crime (against peace) and even when those soldiers themselves commit all war cr
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by yks 5y ago
When people say they will never trust official/conventional sources again, usually that's a code phrase that signals them trusting egregiously untrustworthy sources. It's a generalization of course but unfortunately works lik
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by yks 5y ago
Please do not donate to Red Cross! They spend money on bureaucracy and photo ops of their leadership with Russian officials and are all around ineffective, e.g. bringing a truck full of water to a well functioning and protected Ukrainian ci
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by yks 5y ago
They don't control the government but they love it, and, frankly, russians also love that they don't have the control cause then they don't have to bear any responsibility for anything.
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by yks 5y ago
War of conquest became taboo after WW2, written down in the UN chapter. The concept of "crimes against peace" itself was ironically invented by Soviets.
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by yks 5y ago
He does not have balls to sit close to his top generals and cronies.

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