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Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

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Post by Johnny555 »

rdtsc wrote: post #69
xwdv wrote: post #28

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> Where is the best place to invest money as the market falls? No sense in letting a crisis go to waste. There is an invasion with innocent people in the the line fire and you’re worried where to be invest to profit from it. Kinda hoping it was sarcasm, but suspect it wasn’t…

While he may be looking for profit, there are many people that are just trying to preserve retirement nest eggs.

It's a valid concern, but probably no point in asking here since there's no guaranteed safe haven.

Re: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

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cglan wrote: post #3

It’s sad but my father always told me that the good times we’ve had are unprecedented and they can end faster than we think. I never believed him growing up, institutions and America seemed infallible. It’s sad to say but I think with global warming, covid, and the general decline of American soft power we’ll see more and more global turmoil My heart goes out to Ukraine and its people

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Re: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

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Post by dang »

MattGaiser wrote: post #4

I await the Russian trolls to tell us that this is all Western propaganda.

Please don't take HN threads further into hellish flamewar. This is the last thing we need here, and with comments like this one, what chance is there to avoid it?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

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Post by k41da »

dealforager wrote: post #8

I've worked at tech companies that despise helping the US military. Please understand that the world is complex and although all superpowers have done terrible things, helping the US is the only way our children will live in a peaceful world. This isn't about democrats or republicans, the future of humanity will be decided in the next decade.

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Re: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

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Post by evilyach »

NewJazz wrote: post #47
rdtsc wrote: post #37

I am curious, what do Russians think of this. Does anyone support him? Is it completely just one maniac with his friends running this. Is his propaganda that effective that Russians agree with any of it. I think if anyone can stop him, it has to be ordinary Russians. I don’t see sanctions or warnings from Biden or EU doing anything. And they will never directly step in and protect the Ukranian people.

Russians (some of them, to clarify) associate the current Ukrainian regime with Nazism/fascism. After all, far right groups were a major part of the 2014 revolution/putsch. https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-au... (note: the disinformation section is especially relevant)

Why are you saying that? Not all Russians are brainwashed by state propaganda. I think very few Russians who read Hackernews actually support what is going on right now, if any. To be honest, me and all of the people around me thought that this is too crazy to happen, but here we are.

Re: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

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Post by xwdv »

rdtsc wrote: post #69
xwdv wrote: post #28

Quoted post unavailable.

> Where is the best place to invest money as the market falls? No sense in letting a crisis go to waste. There is an invasion with innocent people in the the line fire and you’re worried where to be invest to profit from it. Kinda hoping it was sarcasm, but suspect it wasn’t…

No innocents are being maimed or killed at the moment. They are striking military targets.

Also, just because an all out war breaks out doesn’t mean life stops. Even during WW2 when Nazis were killing off Jews, people still had to wake up everyday and go to work and make a living just like always. They didn’t just sit around and wait for the war to pass. Hell they even went to parties and danced and fell in love, even as Jews rotted in concentration camps. Life doesn’t stop.

Soldiers still fought and even died on bright sunny days perfect for going to the beach.

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Post by logicalmonster »

icedistilled wrote: post #34
refurb wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would argue the US needs to batten down the hatches and become more isolationist. Let Europe deal with European problems. It's clear from the last 70 years, since WW2, that the US meddling in others' affairs only leads to death, destruction and more negative sentiment against the US. If LBJ stuck to his promise, we could have avoid a ton of mess in Vietnam: "We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousa…

A similar sentiment was expressed in the 1930s.

History doesn’t start in 1930.

Many have argued that it was US intervention in WWI that created the economic and political situations that allowed such a bad outcome to take place in WWII.

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