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New comment by throwawayay02 in "Swedish Armed Forces says Russian fighter jets violated Swedish airspace"

throwawayay02 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:51:00 +0000

"Swedish defence minister calls Russian violation of airspace 'unacceptable', followed by accepting it."

New comment by throwawayay02 in "What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped"

throwawayay02 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:54:48 +0000

There are counter claims that that building was being used for recruitment for the Azov battalion.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Please, delete all new places since the start of war 23th of February"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:20:45 +0000

The Soviet Union lasted for some 70 years, not everything was bad. For instance I quite like their cinema and science fiction children shows. My point being, someone raised under the Soviet Union would still be able to find a few things to look back with nostalgia.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Please, delete all new places since the start of war 23th of February"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:15:52 +0000

How is that a reliable source at all, it's just a piece of text backed by a company that wants to sell military communication equipment.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:46:31 +0000

Everything will be back to normal in 4-8 years after a cease fire, though. So sanctions just hurt the most vulnerable of a 150m people country. Congratulations. That will surely prevent future wars like seen with the treaty of Versailles...

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ask HN: Who Are Anonymous?"

throwawayay02 — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:18:03 +0000

They were coopted for political interests over a decade ago, and so any organic interest moved on. Now they are used as boogyman, as a honey pot or as a cover for cyberwarfare by the "good guys".

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ask HN: Moscow Exchange"

throwawayay02 — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:51:22 +0000

Probably just blocked outside traffic, specially from EU, US and Japan.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Russia orders block on foreign clients' bids to sell Russian securities"

throwawayay02 — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:36:34 +0000

I get it's like the freezing of ~40% of Russia's foreign reserves the US announced. So still the property of their owners - not seized - but cannot be moved either.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare"

throwawayay02 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:43:48 +0000

Would you volunteer to go?

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Advice to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv"

throwawayay02 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:39:36 +0000

I think the best advice would be to surrender and avoid pointless loss of life. You only have one life, is it really worth throwing away so your elite rules instead of your neighbors' elite?

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media"

throwawayay02 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:56:46 +0000

I do not believe you know any Russians at all, from my experience.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media"

throwawayay02 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:55:01 +0000

What a ridiculous take. Yes the Russian govmt censors a lot of things. The west also does it. And more than plain censoring, which happens mostly in China, what happens the most is just building a narrative: only show what you need to be shown, diminish opposing views, augment yours, shape the narrative by building a fake opposition. These are basic strategies done since before world war 2.

The russians by and large know very well not to trust the government. But who will work best in their interest instead, will NATO? Would the US trust Europe to fix their two-party "democracy" and lack of healthcare?

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:08:22 +0000

Besides what another commentator already said, I'd also include China. Russia and China, despite the apparently good relations right now, have actively disputed regions that the Chinese believe were stolen from them on one of the unequal treaties.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:04:12 +0000

It should be good news for everyone unless Russia makes a full-scale invasion (which seem very unlikely), no? By everyone I mean every average, civilian person. All of them should want peace, no matter if their passport says Ukraine or "X Republic of the Russian Federation".

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:13:10 +0000

I'm not sure what dashed lines are those. Are they the ones that include Mariupol in the south of Donetsk? Thank you

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:11:24 +0000

That's a quite good read. I'd like an annotated version with fact checking and commentary.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:06:32 +0000

Energy prices are near all time highs, Russia's finances should be great.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Trudeau announces intention to freeze bank accounts of protestors"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:39:10 +0000

That is quite some time away.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Trudeau announces intention to freeze bank accounts of protestors"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:38:31 +0000

No? It seems a recipe for a perfect government. Whenever X% of the population wants that much to throw down the government, that's probably a good time for a remodel.

Might not be as effective as a dictatorship or a oligarchy, sure, must a much better government to live under.

New comment by throwawayay02 in "Trudeau announces intention to freeze bank accounts of protestors"

throwawayay02 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:30:28 +0000

There is a very simple solution, the government lifts the restrictions and resigns. New elections are held and then the people decide if they want a new government that will punish protesters or not.