So, the war in Ukraine is a proxy war between North Korea and USA?

I think this post would do good having a small text telling what it’s point is. It is apparently here to tell that its map shows Crimea as part of the Russia?

They are the locals. They are indigenous New Zealanders and they are doing something that is customary in their culture in the kind of situation they were in during that session.

The New Zealand lawmakers were trying to pass a bill that would have severely reduced the rights of the locals, and this reaction is part of how the local culture demands people to act.

Tabasco’s owners have been supporting the Russia in its war of genocide.

A company doing that is no way “good dudes”.

Uh, the Russia is doing that on every possible platform. Why would ours be an exception? What makes Lemmy so special?

Mathematics and languages have different rules.

In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don’t. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that’s just fine.

If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that’s how it goes in that language.

I’ve got autocorrect switched off, but these kinds of corrections have lately started happening.

Anyway, corrected “need” to “mean”.

A puppet is someone whose actions are fully steered from the outside.

Putin is a person chosen by KGB/FSB because he makes decisions that are very useful its leaders, but he retains a large amount of autonomy.

Yup. He had a cancer and mostly healed from it.

Happens.

Defending from something doesn’t really mean opposing something in this sense.

Most importantly, it takes rewriting their school books… The Russian school books on mathematics and on Russian language rant about Russian supremacy.

And I hope Putin outlives the Russian Federation.

…and dies as soon as possible, anyway. Preferably before April.

He won’t plant anyone as long as his legacy isn’t flawless. It will never be.

For now, anyone who could became the next vladelets (🤮) is seen as a threat by Putin, and handled accordingly.

But… Putin was planted by KGB, and KGB/FSB does have a plan for whom to plant.

Thay was Zelenskyj’s original suggestion that Trump twisted into this monstrosity.

Still useful, though. It has made Trump show his true intentions much more clearly, rallying civilized countries more firmly behind Ukraine.

I spent two months in 2015 in Ukraine, then hitchhiked some weeks in the Russia. Almost all drivers kept telling me how Ukraine is a failing state, how their roads are full of bandits, how Ukrainians hate speakers of Russian language and torture them or how Ukraine “has been bombing Donetsk”. And when I told them I had spent that long in Ukraine because I found love there and that my Ukrainian girlfriend’s mother tongue was Russian and our sole language of communication both between each other and with the society around was Russian they kept saying the same:

" The Ukrainians only showed you what they wanted you to see". To me telling that I had been spending plenty of time alone doing shopping or whatever, and hitchhiked all around the western third of Ukraine, they tended to say “clearly they still didn’t show you their true self”.

It’s not something they were saying against their real knowledge. It was very clearly what they “knew” to be true.

They do a seriously big effort to actively maintain an illusion in their head that their country is in the right, and they are truly supportive of its actions. It’s not all of Russians, but it is 90 % of them. Or at least 70 % even according to the research most good-looking for them. It is a nation gone mad. If you read their study books for mathematics or Russian language and see how full they are of propaganda about Russian history, it’s clear where that comes from.

If they went to Russian school, their brain is rotten for good. Unless they are an exceptional personality. In which case they have already emigrated.

They were people who either were in support of the genocide of Ukrainians or angry that the attempt to conquer Ukraine was done in a manner far bloodier than they had hoped for.

There are Russians who aren’t in either of those two groups, but they are very few – among the ones I know, about 5%. Those who aren’t in those two groups cannot stand the rest of the Russians and would definitely choose a submarine ride where they are the only Russian.

In other words: since they were many Russians in the submarine, and not people from a lot of various countries with one or two Russians among them, they were definitely actively or passively supporting a war of genocide.

I would not accept hating all Russian citizens, because I do have a couple of very good friends that are Russian citizens and are absolutely unambigously against what the Russia is doing. But, those are a very surprisingly tiny minority among the people of the Russia 😢

China doesn’t need to push the transitioning. Juat like you said, the previous time that push was done by the west. The same west can do the same push again.

Why for the EU?

It’s much easier to produce military hardware than to set up a large trading network.

Remember, we only need to have enough to decisively stop the Russia. We don’t need to become another US military power.

I would be surprised if Donald hadn’t done precisely that in its childhood.

The original life-size mechanical t-rex from the first Jurassic Park movie.