First time I see "_ has died" on the first page on HN without black bar (since it was introduced).
Alexei Navalny has died
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Martyrdom. Navalny calculated that this process would be watched and documented through to the very end. He hoped that might be significant, perhaps even sufficient.
He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West. Do you remember the guy who flew over Belarus and his plane was redirected to seize him? Any news? I do not even remember his name. Going back to Russia was a stupid move, he could have had much more visibility from the EU.
Matthias Rust?
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#613RIP.
After all the attacks and humiliation going back and opposing the evil lord is testimony for having skin in the game (BTW, Snowden still in Moscow?).
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#615So in latest news, last opposition figure in Russia dies together with any hope for regime change while Russia's war effort is starting to get some traction with it's overwhelming man power and Ukraine is forced to cede more territory all while west is busy either with it's in-fighting or comparing each others superior GDP and how Russia will crumble just any day now (TM). Man, are we in for a ride next decade in Eur…
Hoping for regime change in Russia? Am I insane, or are the supporters of the ongoing holdout of the Ukrainian government literally dreaming for WW3? Why the hell does anyone here give a shit who rules eastern Ukraine? Why are we sleepwalking into a geopolitical firestorm?
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#616So in latest news, last opposition figure in Russia dies together with any hope for regime change while Russia's war effort is starting to get some traction with it's overwhelming man power and Ukraine is forced to cede more territory all while west is busy either with it's in-fighting or comparing each others superior GDP and how Russia will crumble just any day now (TM). Man, are we in for a ride next decade in Eur…
I always assumed Russia will win beside the small event when prigoschin marched to Moscow.
The question to me was more what happens after? Terrorism inside Russia for years? Low bip for decades?
Nato setting a clear border
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Not sure about the US providing more funding (especially not by a large margin): This chart shows EU outspending the US. https://www.statista.com/chart/28489/ukrainian-military-huma... .
Total aid, yes. Military spending no. In fact this war has highlighted that NO ONE was ready for the fight that came about. Skip the money for a moment. Ukraine right now is marginally fucked for one reason: 155mm artillery shells. There isnt enough global production to have a war. The US is far and away the largest producer. EU can not keep up and did not bring on anywhere near enough capacity to defend itself in a…
Ukraine is fucked in the long term by demographics and economics, not by the lack of any particular weapon or munition. Now that the war has settled into an attritional phase, it's a question of who will run out of fighting men and war materiel first. The answer is unfortunately clear.
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I have held the exact same question. I don't say this lightly. His decision was stupid. He would've been much more effective as a critic with a Twitter account. You can't criticize the government when you're not free to do so.
Have you heard the metaphor of the chicken and the pig at breakfast time? I could probably stand in the Krasnaya Ploshchad and yell "Vladimir Zelenskiy Sucks!" without repercussion, but that wouldn't make it effective criticism.
Why didn't you say Red Square instead of, in an English sentence, dropping in a Russian adjective and Russian noun?
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> It's a case of mass inheritable PTSD About 8% of the world suffers from PTSD symptoms. There was a recent study done in Poland that said over 15% of population has symptoms. It is generational PTSD from WW2.
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Well if the Soviets fucked up Poland in ways taking multiple pairs of decades to reverse (pollution is an obvious example, among countless others), isn't that "generational", since a generation is supposed to be roughly 20 years?
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It happened 15 years ago. Half of the town knew that, all the police knew that. In fact the police tortures people themselves, it's not news for them. This thread is in the midst of discussion of a public person tortured for 3 years and murdered and the whole country knows that. What authorities are you talking about? It's criminals upon criminals.
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What are example simple things you can and must do?