[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Sure, here's the proposal:

  1. Definitive military defeat of the ruzzian invaders and restoration of Ukraine borders
  2. Allow them to sell stuff again, but as part of their capitulation agreement, make them keep 10% of profits, and use the other 90% for the restoration of the damage caused by them in Ukraine. Keep that in place until an agreed amount is paid off
[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Here's a method. When facing a choice where all options seem to be good, pick a random one. As an extension, if, after picking, you don't like the selection, eliminate it and pick another random.

Repeat until good enough, otherwise again pick a random one, but this time final.

Since they all are ok, there no wrong choice, thus a random is still ok and better than no choice.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Straightforward. Nazis and soviets had a military pact, jointly invaded and divided Poland, thus starting the ww2.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Lol, so the soviets did not have a pact with Nazis and didn't invade Poland just two weeks after the Nazis?

My friend, I understand your desire to see Soviet Union as some sort of dualistic opponent of the imperialist US (which the latter is), and use that to declare as the good side, but I'm afraid the USSR was just as imperialist and as terrible, just differently.

It was way more like two mafia gangs fighting each other. And the one that won is now finally showing its true colours.

The fundamental approach to equality in the early Soviet Union was via killing all those "not equal". Lenin was very adamant about using extreme violence to "convince" the population. So was Stalin. The following ones were a little less blood thirsty, but simply because their predecessors did a great job killing millions.

Sorry, Soviet Union was a tyrannical oligarchy, as far from socialism as its great opponent the US of A.

By the way, your argument that you don't know but I also cannot know because I was late to the party (pun intended) is... a very naive one. But I agree with you - you don't know and fight rather hard to retain your faith.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 44 points 9 months ago

They were expecting big slow drones that would take hours flying from Ukraine. Instead they got many small ones that took 18 months to arrive but were invisible until the last minute. A surprise zerg rush, when they were expecting and preparing against ultralisks.

(My analogies are very weak today)

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 39 points 9 months ago

Ah, sweet. I believe Finland joined Nazis after the winter war. Fascinatingly enough, during the winter war, the country that was on the side of Nazis was ... Soviet Union!

I'm still fascinated that soviets managed to play a victim card in a war that they started themselves.

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By degrading a near-peer adversary’s military capability, gaining unprecedented battlefield intelligence, and accelerating the testing and development of advanced weapons systems, the U.S. is realizing a Return on Strategic Investment (ROSI) of 321% to 797%

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 46 points 11 months ago

If we were to take over the entire connectivity capacity for Ukraine and all the citizens, — we wouldn't be able to do that.

Luckily, that's not needed. Let's start with covering 50% of the frontline needs.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

US' help was critical so far and when it was paused for six months Ukraine noticed.

On the other hand, when it was paused, Ukraine noticed, but didn't immediately fail. On top of that there were recent reports that Ukraine has enough supplies until summer. On top of that there Zelensky's statement that Ukraine is now producing up to 30% of what it needs in the battlefield. And on top of that, while US help was significant, the contributions from other countries were also nontrivial and many of them invested into increasing production.

So all in all, US' help was and stays important (even if it was quite often a little too late), but if it stops, I believe Ukraine can still win, but that will be quite bad for the States as Trump will not be able to claim this victory and also the military industry will lose quite a lot of advertisement when Ukraine wins with Owen, German, French, Korean or any other weapons.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago

And do it begins. Musk wants to become the new Hitler.

How soon till we start making time travel films about going back to stop him?

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

So now they're going to conscript him?

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2.5 years to halve the reserves, the spend cannot be linear and I also don't think they need to get to zero to have a collapse.

... The economy is being funded by the cash reserves, which increases inflation, which leads to another round of interest rate hikes to combat inflation, which makes it harder to borrow money, which is necessary for economic growth. Eventually, the cash reserves will run out. It took 2.5 years to deplete half the Russian reserves. Russia withdrew $37 billion to cover deficits in December 2022. It withdrew $20 billion to cover deficits in December 2023. It only has $54 billion left.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago

Yes.

On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to "help with extremism investigations".

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-russia-ban-lift-messaging-app-encryption-download-a9573181.html

Which means KGB has full access to all messages.

[-] doo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 years ago

the answer is - it doesn't matter. the biggest learning from the nazi germany was that you don't need the entire population of a country to be homicidal psychopaths. all you need is a small group of those psychopaths, control or media, propaganda and you get a perfectly functioning system where normal everyday folks go to their normal everyday jobs.

just those jobs are in gestapo. or in maintenance of gas chambers. or making food for the equally confused soldiers.

of course, we should avoid civilian casualties as much as we can (but apparently russian army is not required) but the system needs to be stopped.

russia has cancer. chemoterapy is not a pleasant procedure that affects both ill and healthy cells. the alternative is, unfortunately, to allow that cancer to spread to the entire planet.

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If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

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In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.

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So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery

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