It’s still kinda hard to understand that mindset for me. Like, if I were to become a public person - I’d probably care a lot about, for example, Wikipedia article about me.
Even ~10 years ago, while being a uni student, I declined some really good job offers, because that’d have me script bots for online gambling sites. That’d help my financial situation a lot, but I just said “nah, I’m fine”.
We just don’t cancel people enough and it shows. 🌝
I wouldn’t necessarily agree with all that, but one thing’s still clear - I’d rather not have nuclear power in country with that monkey with grenade of a neighbour that is Russia.
We also have most of our thermal power firebombed by ruskies, so biggest part of our energy generation is nuclear and renewables now. Yay ecology!
It’s a bit different as Russian indifference is also what made this war be possible in the first place.
I mean, back in '22 Russian opposition mostly had to flee abroad, but broadcasted news of Russian war crimes, commenting that Russian citizens should know the truth.
Now we know they know. It’s just that nobody cares until it affects them personally.
The document states that in the event of the external power lines to the plant being disconnected from Ukraine “a procedure for voltage transmission … from the unified power system of Russia” had “been developed”.
Considering that it’s easier to find water on Mars than in Donetsk right now, and Pushilin’s explanation as to why there’s no water and sewage there was “Ukraine didn’t repair the pipes” - I wouldn’t really count on Russian infrastructural development to save the day, especially if that’s not a propaganda project like Kerch bridge.
So yeah, start panicking.
If he was meth addict instead of an alcoholic - it’d be much funnier for him to complain about fat people.
As it was seen in previous crisises (dot-com bubble being the perfect somewhat recent example) - after hype hits its peak - reality of diminishing returns kicks in, and and then it’s up to human nature to start panic, and that will just wreck valuation of companies along the board.
Economy ain’t gonna cease existing, but it will absolutely hurt, when massive amounts of money will just instantly vaporize.
Russia’s one of most popular talking mouths Solovyov wrote a book on Mussolini, sometimes even expressing admiration for the man. This same guy is one of the main sound emitters calling for Ukraine to be “denazified”.
This is how much audacity modern fascists have.
Kinda yes to both variants.
Russia inflates battlefield gains after a costly summer offensive
It’s kinda been the thing at least since Soviet times where the tendency to report higher efficiency overcame any logic, and it wasn’t just production plans in with those famous “5 year plans”, it also creeped in into military, where there’d be, for example, tank hangar overseer reporting 50% of machines being battle ready to his commander, his commander would report 60, then up next it becomes 70, and like that until defence minister gets “we’ve got entire 100% machines ready”.
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Russia doesn’t act logically and there’s a positive feedback loop in the command - where each commander reports situation to his commander as better than it actually is, so what Putin hears from his yesmen, may as well be something like:
So yeah, it may be that they’re just all bark no bite now, but after enough time doing that there’ll be real question “are we actually gonna do it or chicken out?” and that will be solely a question of leaders fragile ego.
Russia isn’t planning to invade Ukraine
Thank you.
Many folks fail to realize that it absolutely doesn’t hurt Putin to send another one or two million of his people to die for his delusions of grandeur. It’s not like he’s gonna have to start selling his mansions because Russia goes through economic hardships or that his own kids gonna get drafted.
If Russia did things that are logical - they wouldn’t invade Ukraine in the first place, not to mention that their invasion and annexations are illegal even by Russian laws and constitution that Putin can rewrite at his whim, but absolutely nobody cares. So expecting a country that breaks its own laws while being an autocracy to follow logic is foolish at best.
They just recently got into big beef with Azerbaijan because they shot down Azerbaijani civilian airliner and instead of apologizing and offering compensations to victim’s families - they just got “wait did you expect flying in here?”.
So yeah, not like any decisions now gonna change anything since their practice of being terrorists who shoot down civilian aircraft dates back to at least 2014.
It comes down to realization that despite Ukrainian politicians seeking those “security guarantees” from allies it’s actually the other way around - Ukraine is the security guarantee of Europe, and right now Russians do such bold shit, because they think that Ukraine’s defense is about to crumble, so they are already preparing to move further.
So folks being afraid to shoot down Russians who violate their borders simply because they can - is an expected consequence of “we can’t help Ukraine, because it’ll lead to escalation”, while there’s just one side doing the escalation, and it’s not Ukraine.
Ah, come on, people “busy defending their homeland” still had plenty of time to invade Iran, and grab all the Baltics in “liberation efforts” (and no, Baltics weren’t part of Axis like, for example, Romania or Hungary).
But anyway - losing that many people is an absolutely valid point for why not to send forces, but my comment was about refusal to cooperate with allies at all - not lending airfields, detaining allied pilots doing emergency landings (they were detained until war ended too).
Soviets did eventually march in Japan, to grab some land for themselves (not that I condemn it, Japan was part of big bad after all), but before that for some time question wasn’t even about them directly joining the war as about letting allies use Soviet logistic hubs to launch offensives from far east, circumventing Pacific theater.
Fun fact: USSR dragged its tail until WW2 almost ended before entering war against Japan.
Term “Great Patriotic War” that Russians use to describe WW2 doesn’t just exclude pre-1941 events, but also war in Pacific.
And Soviets were the opposite of helping in Pacific front - denying requests to use their airfields, detaining pilots doing emergency landings in there etc. etc.
Stalin even wrote to Roosevelt that USSR is not obligated to help allies in Pacific because USSR isn’t at war with Japan. 🌝
Most tech execs we know of are the reason why today’s capitalism doesn’t work even by capitalist standards - bunch of execs stuffing director boards with their cronies and awarding massive benefits for themselves at the expense of everyone and everything else - workers, growth funds, even goddamn shareholders.
These people aren’t just not doing a good job, they’re doing the opposite of it, but for some reason they’re asked their opinions about things.
Eh, there’s no opposition, there’s “opposition”. DDR school - 1 ruling party and 3 clown parties acting as opposition, and everyone else blocked from participating.
Except in Russia even main party is clown party - partially stuffed with celebrities to make populi happy, with only small part of people actually making the decisions.
Okay, let’s rationalize his shooting. He was a:
Conclusion: RIP Bozo, you won’t be missed. Being a thought leader with large following, who supports genocides is the same as being complicit in genocides for me. In normal world he should’ve been tried in Hague.
If we look at any Israeli pro-government influencer or media - they basically compare that peace proposal to agreeing to be genocided themselves.
So there’s no way Bibi gonna agree to that while pumping up that propaganda campaign.
If not for massacre in Gaza - it’d be quite humorous for Orange Moron to accidentally do the right thing and cut aid to Israel.