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New comment by drran in "Russia produces first set of Poseidon super torpedoes"

drran — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:23:18 +0000

Ukraine did not pay $15 million to relatives of victims of the crash, because court decided that the Ukrainian rocket did not hit the plane. Final decision was in 2013.

New comment by drran in "TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation"

drran — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:49:02 +0000

> False. As per historical findings, the current scientific consensus is that the origins of the Rus people (who ruled Kyiv/Kiev/Kievan Rus') are traced back to Norsemen from modern Sweden.

Before Plague of Justinian, original Russia (Русся) lived in the town of Russia. After the start of plague, they abandoned their town and spread over large territory, from Caspian Sea to Spain, so, after 541, original Russians can be traced back to a lot of places.

> Also false. Existing historical and linguistic evidence do not support it

Typical Russian style of discussion. Here is the evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Vasseur_de_Beaupl...

> ВКРАИНА, рж. Див. Украйна. XVI. Ино тими рази на вкраинахь оть татар многим таковая ся пригода и шкода пригожаєть Арх. ЮЗР. VIII, IV, 172 (1501). – (an approximate translation) «on those occasions at fringes (borderlands / edges – «вкраинахь») will be becoming useful and [шкода] will become useful (?)». The context is incomplete, therefore it is difficult to make sense out of it. The reference dates back to 1501.

I'm the native speaker. You are just lying there. It's clearly written, "Vkraine, See Ukraine. ...".

Also, your attempts to convince that native speakers don't know the meaning of the word are pathetic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian

New comment by drran in "TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation"

drran — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:50:23 +0000

> Ukraine and Russia share a common, ethnic, linguistic and cultural heritage.

Ukraine is the mix of Slavs and historic Russians (русичи) (from the town of Russia, now Old Russa, on Russia river, now Porussia river). "Russians" from Russian Federations are members of Russian orthodox church or citizens of Russian Federation. There was a split between "Polish" (Catholics) and "Russian" (Eastern Orthodox) members in Ukraine a few centuries ago.

> They also share a common political heritage with the name of the country meaning borderland (of Russia).

Nope. Ukraine is the original Russia, now called Kievan Rus by RF. "Ukraine" share same word root with such words as "ukryttia" (shelter), "ukriplennia" (reinforced structure). Modern equivalent world for "ukraine" is "ukripraion" (reinforced area of defense). Poland built multiple areas of defense ("ukraines") on their eastern border, so the whole area got name "Ukraine".

> In fact Ukraine was no more an independent country than Wales until about 30 years ago.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was Hetman of Ukraine since 1654, almost century before Russian Empire was created in 1721.

New comment by drran in "TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation"

drran — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:24:24 +0000

Yes and no. For example, production of Soviet-compatible ammunition is restored in some NATO countries. However, production rate is not high enough to have parity with RF. IMHO, Ukraine should capture Russian stocks in Transnistria to match RF stocks. Taiwan has no such option. Moreover, Taiwan sea routes can be easily interrupted with sea mines. If the war will start this year, then it's too late to bump up weapon production.

New comment by drran in "TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation"

drran — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:08:26 +0000

People in Ukraine had reasons to break out of Jail of Nations, but I see no single reason to join RF instead of EU and NATO. Most Slavic nations are already in EU, except Ukraine and Belarus. Why Ukraine should join former Golden Horde?

New comment by drran in "Why Germany is struggling to stomach the idea of sending tanks to Ukraine"

drran — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:24:06 +0000

Yes, RF started preparation to war with Ukraine in 2008. I was attacked by Russians in December 2008, so I'm at war for 14 years. However, it was clear from the first day of the fall of Soviet Union that Russian will try to recapture Ukraine, because a) Ukraine is THE historical state of Russia, while Russian Federation contains no territory named "Russia", b) Russian killed 7 million adult Ukrainians in 1932-1934 (officially confirmed number by RF) and 23 million children (not accepted by RF), c) Soviet Union planted about 20 000 agents all over Ukraine for this exact scenario: to bring Ukraine back to Soviet Union when Ukraine break out.

New comment by drran in "Russia produces first set of Poseidon super torpedoes"

drran — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 03:08:29 +0000

Russia shot the plane and paid nothing, but you blame Ukraine instead because Ukraine helped.

FYI, Ukraine continues to pay money to victims of Russian attacks. This makes Ukraine responsible for Russian attacks in your eyes, right?

New comment by drran in "Russia produces first set of Poseidon super torpedoes"

drran — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:54:49 +0000

Because it was not clear, from the beginning, who shot the plane.

New comment by drran in "Russia produces first set of Poseidon super torpedoes"

drran — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 02:48:11 +0000

Tu-154 was hit by S300 rocket filled with TNT, not by S200 rocket filled by hexogen. Ukraine had no S300. End of story.

Yeah, it's the classic example of Russian propaganda machine: Russia blamed somebody else for their own error, then no evidence found for that blame, but it is too late to change opinion of peoples.

New comment by drran in "Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan (2020)"

drran — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:12:20 +0000

You can find good videos from reputable agencies, such as DW, on YouTube with evidence, but you don't want to watch them.

Artillery killed several Ukrainian civilians in Russia-occupied Donetsk because Russia occupied Donetsk.

New comment by drran in "Russia produces first set of Poseidon super torpedoes"

drran — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:57:30 +0000

No evidence was found that a Ukrainian (or another) S200 missile hit the plane.

20 years passed - no evidence found. Moreover, now we know the name of Russian officer of air defense who ordered to shut the plane, we know that he did that because transponder was turned off on the plane, because the plane was on mission to gather intel about air defense in EU, but you still insist on replaying Russian propaganda?

New comment by drran in "Russia produces first set of Poseidon super torpedoes"

drran — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:32:37 +0000

Tu-154 was shot by Russian Air Defense, but RF blamed Ukraine instead. Please, update Wikipedia with materials from multiple courts.

New comment by drran in "Less Than Nine Percent of Western Firms Have Divested from Russia"

drran — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:53:43 +0000

Who invaded Ukraine, created these fake DNR and LNR, then annexed them?

New comment by drran in "Canadian house listing will only sell to buyers of a certain ethnic background"

drran — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:59:22 +0000

> having lost 4 million to genocide in the 1930's

Officially accepted number by Russian Federation is 7 million[1], but those are adults only. 23 million children are not counted.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20161210154419/http://duma.consu...

New comment by drran in "Less Than Nine Percent of Western Firms Have Divested from Russia"

drran — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:44:02 +0000

Yeah, its Ukraine invaded Ukraine, captured Crimea and killed over 10 thousand Ukrainians. Who else it can be?

New comment by drran in "How can a software engineer help the war in Ukraine?"

drran — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:07:04 +0000

Please, help to replace English text or Russian translations of software with Ukrainian translation, e.g. by binary patching.

New comment by drran in "Will the war in Ukraine spell the end of Transnistria?"

drran — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:34:59 +0000

RF will happily trade Transnistria for Zakarpatie when Ukraine will be crushed.

New comment by drran in "Will the war in Ukraine spell the end of Transnistria?"

drran — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 05:11:46 +0000

Ukraine will stand idly, because Ukrainian aggression against the part of Moldova will cause troubles for Ukraine with EU and NATO. The only solution I see is to promise something valuable for Moldova to take the risk. IMHO, Ukraine can promise Königsberg for Moldova in exchange for Transnistria. Seaports on two seas can make Moldova a rich country.

New comment by drran in "The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck"

drran — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:36:38 +0000

Königsberg was part of Germany when annexed by Soviet Union. I see no page about Königsberg in Czech language at Wikipedia at all. Anyway, Germans were expelled, so Königsberg is populated by Russians now, which makes it similar to Transnistria, Crimea, etc.

New comment by drran in "The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck"

drran — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:41:08 +0000

Russian 14th army may strike from the back to support the main army, so they should be made toothless before the second wave of invasion, but Ukraine cannot attack 14th army without breaking relationships with Moldova, EU, UN, and NATO. However, Ukraine can exchange this problem (Transnistria) for another problem (Königsberg) to negate them both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_presence_in_T...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobasna_ammunition_depot