Are you sure that's the reason? NATO bombed the wrong people if you ask me.

Look at the Hashim Thaçi, the commander of the most powerful faction of so called "Kosovo Liberation Army" and then the first prime minister and later the president of Kosovo, who is now under trial:

"On 24 April 2020, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office located in The Hague filed a ten-count Indictment for the Court’s consideration, charging Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli and others for crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution, and torture. The indictment charges the suspects with approximately 100 murders of Kosovo Albanians, Serbs, Roma, and political opponents." [0]

Too bad he seem to get away with trafficing organs of Serbs:

A report to the Council of Europe, written by Dick Marty, issued on 15 December 2010 states that Hacim Thaçi was the leader of the "Drenica Group" in charge of trafficking organs taken from Serbian prisoners. [1]

An EU Report released in 2014 concluded that organ theft and trafficking took place but "on a very limited scale with a few individuals involved".[2]

Many witnesses of KLA crimes were murdered or intimidated.[3]

Here is Thaci posting happy photo of him and "old friend" Joe Biden long after the accusations became public[4]. I find it hard to believe that CIA and other Western agencies were unaware of the nature of gangs NATO was helping.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_Tha%C3%A7i#Resignation_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_Tha%C3%A7i#Controversie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt:_Me_and_the_War_Crimi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War_crimes_witness_inti...

[4] https://x.com/HashimThaciRKS/status/914137831739678721

That's a very interesting turn of conversation. I think you are missing a bit from that story when presenting Poland as a victim[0]:

According to Aviel Roshwald, (Piłsudski) "hoped to incorporate most of the territories of the defunct Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into the future Polish state by structuring it as the Polish-led, multinational federation." Piłsudski had wanted to break up the Russian Empire and set up the Intermarium federation of various different states: Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and other Central and East European countries that emerged from the crumbling empires after World War I. In Piłsudski's vision, Poland would replace a truncated and vastly reduced Russia as the great power of Eastern Europe. His plan excluded negotiations prior to military victory. <...>

He used military force to expand the Polish borders in Galicia and Volhynia and crush a Ukrainian attempt at self-determination in the disputed territories east of the Curzon Line, which contained a significant Polish minority. On 7 February 1919, Piłsudski spoke on the subject of Poland's future frontiers:

    "At the moment Poland is essentially without borders and all that we can gain in this regard in the west depends on the Entente – on the extent to which it may wish to squeeze Germany. In the east, it's a different matter; there are doors here that open and close and it depends on who forces them open and how far".

    "Closed within the boundaries of the 16th century, cut off from the Black Sea and Baltic Sea, deprived of land and mineral wealth of the South and South-east, Russia could easily move into the status of second-grade power. Poland, as the largest and strongest of the new states, could easily establish a sphere of influence stretching from Finland to the Caucasus".

The USSR returned the territory that Poland grabbed in the 1920. And I must remind you that just a year earlier Germany, Hungary and Poland jointly dismembered Czechoslovakia[1]:

Germany had started a low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938. <...> This was followed by Polish and Hungarian territorial demands brought on 21 and 22 September, respectively. <...> Poland grouped its army units near its common border with Czechoslovakia and conducted an unsuccessful probing offensive on 23 September. Hungary moved its troops towards the border with Czechoslovakia, without attacking. The Soviet Union announced its willingness to come to Czechoslovakia's assistance, provided the Red Army would be able to cross Polish and Romanian territory; both countries refused.

<...>

The Munich Agreement was soon followed by the First Vienna Award on 2 November 1938, separating largely Hungarian inhabited territories in southern Slovakia and southern Subcarpathian Rus' from Czechoslovakia. On 30 November, Czechoslovakia ceded to Poland small patches of land in the Spiš and Orava regions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#Back...

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

What a long-term planning

Think of Snowden and Assange, for example. They had a lot to say and show, but one big democracy didn't like it

Only neighbors? Invading a country that is not a neighbor is fine?

What I'm asking is are you consistent in your judgement?

Do you boycott companies from the US and its allies for the invasion of Iraq, bombing of Serbia and Libya, invasion of Syria, recent attack on Iran?

If you do, I have nothing but respect for you.

>The independent and free nation of Ukraine has the right to join any alliance they want and that wants them.

Sure

>If Russia considers that a provocation, that's entirely Russia's problem.

So you don't think that a country has the right to react to the expansion of a military alliance that has not long ago bombed countries that hadn't attacked it[0][1]? And likewise the members of that alliance in smaller gangs invaded other countries [2][3][4] who hadn't attacked them first either?

>I bet you won't answer.

What have you bet on that? Just curious

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_involvement_in_the_Syr...

What makes you think so?

>Previous wars with Russia were obnoxious with very bad consequences

What do you mean?

Going to the elections with the anti-war slogans is what got them banned.

Putin can't let that sentiment get broadcasted during election campaign because sadly "anti-war" currently means "let's make a temporary truce and give the West time to rearm and rebuild Ukrainian army for the next round".

Why not?

The irony

You could call it a stigma or prejudice, but until calliagnosia[0] becomes a reality, it is what it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liking_What_You_See:_A_Documen...

The promise of NATO membership in 2008[0] and a coup "midwifed" by the US in 2014[1] is not provocative enough for you?

>Putin has stated multiple times his desire and intention to "restore" the russian empire

Where have you read that?

[0] https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resource...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

>See `std::thread::scope` in the standard library, or `rayon::scope` if you want an implementation based on thread pools.

These seem to be about multu-threaded code if I got it right, but how does async work?

The inherently violent nature of war means that exaggeration and invention of atrocities often becomes the main staple of propaganda."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

It's not a surprise for you, you used you passport when registering the domain name and if you planned to do something Kremlin wouldn't like you could've registered it via a foreign registrar and used foreign hosting.

Contrarily, when you have to install Kremlin's root certificate to access your bank, you are unwittingly allowing Kremlin to quietly MitM any connection you make (without them specifically targeting you) and to avoid that you need:

- to be aware of the problem,

- to install those certs in a separate browser or on a separate device which you'd use only to visit your bank and state services

Yeah, right

Could you elaborate on this?