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New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:13:39 +0000

Manpower is no longer the main thing in war since invention of swords and shields. Money and weapons are crucial.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:10:39 +0000

>only has to beat people up

Not just that. A 1b block has to supply it with a huge constant supply of weapons and money, and intelligence, and also some manpower as well.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:09:42 +0000

NATO is involved by both weapons and money. These are main things that let a war go on. Ukraine's role is a limited and minor one: providing manpower. (NATO also provides some manpower, BTW).

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:52:42 +0000

So, the entire NATO is proud to loose land to Russia slowly?

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:51:59 +0000

So Russia has catastrophic losses yet there's no mobilization. Ukraine is said to loose very few men, yet they have to beat people on streets to mobilize them. Meanwhile, Russian borders are open.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:50:41 +0000

1. Ukraine is merely a manforce provider. NATO does everything else. 2. Loosing land is pure math. About 500 sq.km per month, often more. Ukrainian advances remain to be an illusion.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:09:48 +0000

If Russia looses 35000 a month, why does Ukraine: a) Loose land and cities constantly b) Mobilize people brutally on streets c) Keep its bordera closed for men

No, in such situation it should be reversed.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:11:29 +0000

The Western block is indeed fighting with Russia using Ukraine as a proxy/protectorate. Whats more, the Western block also openly states that.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:54:08 +0000

An easy way to dismiss an opinion you do not like. Why exactly are you calling me a troll?

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:42:41 +0000

They were aided and funded as much as the NATO block could and still can do that.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:11:22 +0000

Let me remind you of three things: 1) This weaker neighbor is aided and funded by a block of countries with a total population of 1b, 6 times that of Russia. 2) The same block is doing all it can to crash the Russian economy. 3) Nevertheless, this union of a weak neighbor + 1b block is steadily loosing land.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lena by qntm (2021)"

sedan_baklazhan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:41:20 +0000

This is a bad explanation (or a non-explanation).

1. Why exactly life is attempting to build complex structures? 2. Why exactly life is evolving from primitive replicative molecules to more complex structures (which molecules on themselves are very complicated?) 3. Why and how did these extremely complicated replicative molecules form at all, from much more simple structures, to begin with?

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Lena by qntm (2021)"

sedan_baklazhan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:29:16 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if in (n hundreds/thousands years) we find out that copying consciousness if fundamentally impossible (just like it's fundamentally impossible to copy an elementary particle).

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

sedan_baklazhan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:45:26 +0000

"Rules-based international world order" consists of just two rules:

1. The Western countries (basically meaning USA makes the decision) may attack any country.

2. Other countries may not defend themselves nor attack any country.

Iraq, Iraq (several separate agressions on Iraq, that is not a typo), Afghanistan, Cuba, Serbia, Libya, Sirya, Venezuela... the list goes on, Venezuela is of no particular significance here.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

sedan_baklazhan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:12:03 +0000

Well, "Venezuela has stolen American oil which is in Venezuela".

Isn't that a justification?!

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

sedan_baklazhan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:00:39 +0000

That easily makes a Nobel Peace Prize. An attack on Iran will make it into the world's first Double Nobel Peace Prize.

Now, it's also very important to even further unite the entire world against Russian agressive war.

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

sedan_baklazhan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:47:44 +0000

Actually Trump has stated very clearly that Venezuela has "stolen American oil which resides in Venezuela".

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

sedan_baklazhan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:38:38 +0000

It is definitely not Russia unprovokenly and illegibly attacking its neighbor, so why even care?

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash"

sedan_baklazhan — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:35:42 +0000

I would guess that all people who ever lived on Earth have traveled many light years already on their bare feet. What use is this "statistics" for?

New comment by sedan_baklazhan in "German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins"

sedan_baklazhan — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:49:02 +0000

Was there any good reason to respect German soldier graves?