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India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir

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Post by PedroBatista »

anticodon wrote: post #344
hshdhdhj4444 wrote: post #333

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The competition to Putin entering Ukraine is obviously ridiculous. Putin had already attacked multiple countries before. Georgia, Chechnya, and leads a vast network of para militaries that are fighting all over Africa as well. Heck, Putin had literally attacked and conquered a whole area of Ukraine itself not even a decade ago. Anyone who was saying Putin would not attack Ukraine either had no knowledge at all about…

> Putin had already attacked multiple countries before. Georgia, Chechnya As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw, there was never a separate country called "Ukraine" before 1991 - you can easily find that even in Western history books, although I'm sure they'll be rewritten in some way soon, if…

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PedroBatista wrote: post #371
anticodon wrote: post #344

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> Putin had already attacked multiple countries before. Georgia, Chechnya As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw, there was never a separate country called "Ukraine" before 1991 - you can easily find that even in Western history books, although I'm sure they'll be rewritten in some way soon, if…

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Post by saagarjha »

unmole wrote: post #274
buyucu wrote: post #259

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you basically described India.

So, a country where the incumbent party loses its parliamentary majority and has to rely on smaller regional parties is fascist?

Fascism is the actions you take, not how much of a majority you have.

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Post by saagarjha »

madaxe_again wrote: post #268
abhiyerra wrote: post #251

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I was in India recently and randomly ended up talking to a lot of millennials while traveling. It is an understatement for how quickly the American economy would grind to a halt if anything major happened. ADP, loan processing, healthcare insurance processing, support centers. On one hand corporate America exported all its manufacturing to China. On the other hand it exported all its back office services to India.

All of these roles will be replaced with AI pretty imminently - this kind of rote grinding of data, scripted call trees, is the low-hanging fruit. Right now an Indian is still cheaper than a model, but that won’t be the case for long, particularly if the cost of an Indian goes up due to a decrease in supply due to a shooting war.

I would think that a war would make the average Indian poorer and willing to work for less.

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Post by anticodon »

saagarjha wrote: post #349
anticodon wrote: post #344

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> Putin had already attacked multiple countries before. Georgia, Chechnya As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw, there was never a separate country called "Ukraine" before 1991 - you can easily find that even in Western history books, although I'm sure they'll be rewritten in some way soon, if…

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So, what is my mistake? When and where existed "Ukraine" before 1991?

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Post by lazide »

enugu wrote: post #369
nblgbg wrote: post #61

I believe it's mostly overstated. Pakistan is not economically strong enough to participate in a war, and India is not interested either. However, the Modi government wants to project strength. They were unable to locate the terrorists even after two or three weeks and needed a distraction. So, they targeted some areas in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). In response, Pakistan claimed to have shot down four Indian air…

> They were unable to locate the terrorists even after two or three weeks and needed a distraction. This does not make sense. When France attacked Daesh in 2015 after the terrorist attacks in Paris or when the US attacked Afghanistan after 9/11, the objective wasn't to target the exact people who carried out the attacks, but the organization behind the attacks. People can always be found as long as the organization r…

1) Pakistan is a lot less stable right now than 2019 (as is the world).

2) The putative organization is in Pakistan, and likely supported by the military.

The biggest threat India is doing (IMO) is threatening the water supply. That is getting everyone in Pakistan’s attention.

These strikes are more about managing the local political situation in India, which requires some degree of obvious violent retribution.

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Post by lostlogin »

dmos62 wrote: post #300
sofixa wrote: post #219

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> Putin is a particularly deranged type of fascist though, much like Bush, who is okay making the poor calculation of a Ukrainian invasion for the benefit of a wartime economy While Putin is undoubtedly deranged, I think his goals with invading had much more to do with delusions of grandeur and trying to rebuild the Russian/Soviet empire than wanting the "benefit" of a "wartime economy". Russia was drastically unprep…

There's as many theories about why Putin and Kremlin did what they did as there are war analyst books on it. Some of them are more right than others, but at the end of the day, if I'm honest, I'm as confused as I was in 2014. Which is a problem not only for my curiosity: if Western policymakers are as confused as me, it's difficult to craft a good policy: we're effectively playing half-court tennis (to quote Sarah C.…

> it's difficult to craft a good policy

This is a choice though. The decisions aren’t as hard as leaders are making them. Pulling support or giving support would end the war. Neither has actually occurred and support has been drip fed, bleeding both countries.

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Post by saagarjha »

anticodon wrote: post #377
saagarjha wrote: post #349

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So, what is my mistake? When and where existed "Ukraine" before 1991?

Hacker News should just ban your account. After all you didn't have it before 2014, so I guess the natural state of the site is not having you around.
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