Eh, it’s not to say it’s a worthy endeavour for them. But Putin doesn’t care about the dead, and there are very few signs that even the russian society at large does.
Russia may well go through another collapse after this, but that doesn’t mean they won’t cling on long enough to cripple Ukraine and/or annex parts of it. That is my concern.
Remember: Karelia still belongs to Russia, and the winter war wasn’t any less bloody for them.
Advances on land are definitely not a be-all/end-all kind of thing, but rather a metric in terms of current force ratio. If Ukraine had enough troops and supply of weapons, they wouldn’t have to give up ground. The current supply they receive is insufficient so they have to yield ground though. It’s a symptom.
Unless russia starts running out of either manpower or war supplies before Ukraine does, they are not in danger of losing. And as unpopular this opinion might be, with the current level (=limited in number and scope of use) of support Ukraine is getting, it’s far from decided that russian war effort collapses first.
Russia is still very much advancing in Kursk and Ukraine right now, it doesn’t matter if their economy is going to break five years from now.
Nice to see we’ve progressed from putting blockchain in everything to AI.
Speedrunning populism, let’s see how that goes. Cartels electing judges is my bet.
Good equipment is always nice, but as long as they have only about 6 F16s it won’t really matter much.
That’s what they call “useful idiots”. Any westerners stillin Russia are just get out of jail cards for Russian assassins and weapons traders.
It’s for conquering Crime a and parts od Ukraine. And as long as they get to keep the land, Putin will be satisfied… and the average russian will trust the propaganda they should be satisfied as well.
The feeling I get is his opposition/hate of the western world leaves him no room for nuance. Ukraine is helped by the west to defend against Russia = Ukriane has to be wrongand Russia has to be right.
Realising this also makes me question a lot about him, to be honest…
According to Chomsky, Russia is acting with restraint and moderation. He compares Russia’s way of fighting with the US’s during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, arguing that large-scale destruction of infrastructure seen in that conflict “hasn’t happened in Ukraine”.
Seems very unambiguous to me.
He died to me the day he stood with Putin and the invasion against Ukraine.
Maybe he’s still waiting in the respawn queue.
That or mailbombs.
Sure is. To give some examples, Jules Verne wrote fiction, but his vision greatly influences our world to this day. Asimov and his works are probably one of the most influential on discussions around AI and ethics of AI. Werner von Braun and Korolev were both inspired by the work of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (though I guess this was equal amount of research and speculative ideas). The list goes on…
That plane would have failed sooner or later anyhow. What the hell we the mechanics doing?
A man with a gun and a smile is more convincing than a man with a smile.
This probably surprises a very small amount of people.
Bad design. Drivers are coupled tightly with the kernel, and when component manufacturers stop releasing the binary blob for newer kernels, everyone is fucked. Google could’ve mandated requirements for releasing drivers longer or requiring open source drivers, but they did none of that… so here we are.
Rau le Crauzet from Gundam. Humanity is pretty much eating itself over pettiness and greed.
Ah yes, I forgot we’re doing the echo chamber thing here as well.