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New comment by selivanovp in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

selivanovp — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:01:53 +0000

Quite contrary, I'm pretty sure that USA is well aware of what Israel is doing and both are acting in coordinated way. Both do not want any settlement in a region, they need more chaos and global supply interruptions. If it wasn't the case, USA could've stop weapons supply to Israel long ago.

New comment by selivanovp in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

selivanovp — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:59:03 +0000

Stop spreading propaganda.

- Ukrainians are the second largest ethnicity in Russia.

- The majority of people living on a currently contested territories of Ukraine used to be USSR citizens.

- Russia got the majority of Ukrainian refugees since the start of a war if we count per country.

- Pretty much all the former Ukraine citizens got Russian passports and a citizens of Russia now.

- And yes, if Ukraine is using cities as fortresses and do not evacuate civilians from there, high chances are that after weeks and months long battles those civilians end up in graves with nasty wounds on their bodies.

New comment by selivanovp in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

selivanovp — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:20:32 +0000

Yeah, sure. That's why half of my MIPT faculty in early 00's was Ukrainians from Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk that were sent there to study physics and math and rocket engines for three years, and after that they were sent back to write diploma after practice on the soviet era facilities in mentioned cities. It was the normal procedure since soviet times.

New comment by selivanovp in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

selivanovp — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:03:53 +0000

It's a false analogy. Ukraine was no such source. It's just happened after WW2, that as a part or rebuilding a devastated territory, plus a better climate, resulted in USSR relocating several of its best aero/space and in general military institutions to what is now known as Ukraine. For example, their space engines engineers were educated in Russia till 2008 at least, maybe even longer.

New comment by selivanovp in "Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine"

selivanovp — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:33:30 +0000

Ukraine war has never been about more land or resources for Russia. It was all about NATO expansion by overthrowing governments in post soviet countries and installing hostile regimes there. For Russia an independent Ukraine was fine as long as it doesn't join a hostile military block, and that's exactly what was planned to do since the coup in Kiev in 2014. So we have war.

New comment by selivanovp in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

selivanovp — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:15:46 +0000

>He has even stated publicly it has nothing to do with NATO.

That's not true. It has always been about NATO absorbing Ukraine that is unacceptable to Russia. Putin warned about it since his Munich speech in 2007, that Georgia and Ukraine has to stay a military neutral countries or it'll result in a war with Russia. USA just decided that they may ignore it and do whatever they want anyway, pushing NATO in, after organizing "revolutions".

New comment by selivanovp in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

selivanovp — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:08:25 +0000

>It feels similar to Putin invading Ukraine because he didn't like the example of an EU-aligned country prospering next door and the populace starting to ask difficult questions.

Ukraine was a much poorer state and is a much poorer state than Russia. Putin's invasion has nothing to do with "EU-aligning prosperity" that never happened, but with USA and EU overthrowing Ukrainian government and placing a puppet regime that turned Ukraine from a friendly-to-neutral state into an hostile one to Russia.

New comment by selivanovp in "Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia"

selivanovp — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:16:41 +0000

It's ironic that Economist keeps pushing this propaganda year after year, but it's UK that has worse and worse performing PM's, but every single one of them keep dreaming not about their own country and economy, but how to topple Putin.

New comment by selivanovp in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

selivanovp — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:24:16 +0000

I still use my iPad mini 2 I bought in 2014 to read books. The only problem with it is that reading books is one of the very few things I can do with it these days as Safari is no longer capable of rendering most websites, most apps are not supported, and generally iOS 12 ate most of the memory device has. So yeah, it's my bookreader still, but nothing more.

New comment by selivanovp in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"

selivanovp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:27:09 +0000

Yeah, like pretending that they don’t see an elephant in the room, but Putin in every shadow.

New comment by selivanovp in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

selivanovp — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:20:43 +0000

>Musk repeats verbatim Russian talking points about Ukraine.

Have it crossed your mind that they're just closer to truth than what Western propaganda spreads about Ukraine conflict and why it started and keep going?

New comment by selivanovp in "Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army"

selivanovp — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:33:43 +0000

Wrong.

1 country in the world won't make you safe from wars. There's a reason why military was and is separated from police. Just think what's going to happen when your soldiers start to kill citizens.

1 country in the world tend to degrade to dystopian regime, and it was researched by multiple books authors, and actually a modern day USA is a good example of a regime on the path to dystopia.

New comment by selivanovp in "Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army"

selivanovp — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:22:35 +0000

Yep. This is the type of a psycho, that start all the wars.

If history teaches us anything, as soon as some country gets a superior war tech, it immediately leads to them using it to destroy whoever they see as their enemies. And what really stops wars is when their main adversaries have the same power to destroy if being attacked.

Mutual deterrence is what was keeping us from WW3 for several decades. But the recent and growing idea of USA that they can break from this stalemate and crush anyone with overwhelming strength is what makes WW3 closer and closer by the day.

New comment by selivanovp in "Guide to Ukraine's Long Range Attack Drones"

selivanovp — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:23:24 +0000

It helps them to stay "under radar", but their effectiveness is limited to something flammable. Pretty much any hit besides some oil refinery is mostly a PR, without real damage.

New comment by selivanovp in "SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly"

selivanovp — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:12:31 +0000

It looks like a fuel tank had a leak.

New comment by selivanovp in "Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices"

selivanovp — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:25:45 +0000

If Meta is compliant, there’s no point t believe that any other USA based corp is any better.

New comment by selivanovp in "Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices"

selivanovp — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:20:49 +0000

It’s a lie. Russia Ukraine war demonstrated clearly that everything you write in whatsapp, your location, any photo etc are easily accessible and monitored in real time by USA government and their three letter agencies.

New comment by selivanovp in "[Dennis Yurichev] was forcefully draften/enrolled to Ukraine army"

selivanovp — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:43:49 +0000

I don't think we have a totally verified number up to this day. It's definitely several thousands as Ukrainian army actively prevented civilians to leave the city, so significant number died under collapsed buildings.

Overall, according to UN "More than 12,654 civilian men, women, girls, and boys have been killed, and over 29,392 injured since 24 February 2022, as verified by HRMMU."

https://ukraine.un.org/en/289667-civilian-harm-and-human-rig...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293409/civilian-deaths-...

With the May of 2025 the total casualties are claimed as 13341:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293492/ukraine-war-casu...

New comment by selivanovp in "Israel said Iran racing toward a nuclear weapon. US Intel says it was years away"

selivanovp — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:18:01 +0000

That's exactly what's going on. Bibi just uses a window of opportunity and forces USA to join in an attempt to regime change in Iran.

New comment by selivanovp in "[Dennis Yurichev] was forcefully draften/enrolled to Ukraine army"

selivanovp — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:53:51 +0000

>Radio Free Europe is a really solid outlet that has maintained a balanced and consistent coverage of Russia for many years

Lmao. I guess you're their employee?

>this seems to piss off Russian

Yes, that's the only thing they're good at. Pissing off Russian citizens as the level of lies they keep producing for years is just unbelievable.