Of course, the people of the Donbas were just sitting there peacefully doing nothing when all of a sudden the Ukranians started shelling them. That was the start of the military action, silly me. Good thing all those vacationing Russian soldiers happened to be there a the time to defend them.
I wish the AFU had the courage to not waste the lives of their soldiers and come to the negotiating table so that no more lives are senselessly wasted
What’s to negotiate? Russia has seized Ukrainian territory. Ukraine wants it back. There’s nothing for Ukraine to concede.
The only side “wasting” lives here is Russia, if they’d just go home the war would be over. Ukraine’s not going to try seizing any Russian territory.
Anyone that “knows” they will completely overpower Ukraine apparently stopped paying attention to reality many years ago. They’ve been proven to be incapable of it.
Russians, without any double meanings that Russian sympathizers could jump in and say “aha, racists!” or “aha, russophobes!” over.
It’s not surprising, but IMO the shutdown is still worthwhile. It’s shaking people loose to start looking for alternatives, and giving those alternatives opportunity to shake themselves down too. We’re not quite ready for a Digg-style implosion yet. It may come more gradually this time.
I’m in Canada and a few weeks back I was leafleting neighborhoods in smoke like this, literally spent all day walking outside in it. I wore a big cartridge-filter mask and that made it fine, but I was baffled by how many people were baffled by the mask. They thought I was making some kind of statement about Covid. I had to gesture vaguely at the sullen orange sky and remind them that there was smoke in the air. I’m sure PPE like that mask would have been mandatory if I’d been working inside a building with air like that.
On the one hand, this is going to cause terrible long-term damage and cost a fortune to repair.
On the other hand, the Russians wouldn’t have done this if they thought they were going to be able to hold the occupied territories long-term. So it’s kind of a good sign, I guess.
Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.