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They have to physically hold western Ukraine though. Once the AFU breaks, Russia will dictate terms to the west and whatever remains of Ukraine. Just look at how things unfolded over the past three years with the frontline remaining relatively static until recently. Attrition does not require making territorial gains.

oh yeah didn’t notice, I saw there was a new attack will try to find an article about the new one

I love how they’ve tried to bomb Yemen into submission for like a decade now, and Ansar Allah has only gotten stronger in that time.

I find it’s actually better at this point because it just gives results without AI summaries and ads, also I find it’s just straight up better at actually finding what you’re looking for

it takes a lot of credulity to continue believing that in face of all evidence

Don’t worry once they annex Greenland, that’s all anybody is going to talk about.

They still don’t need to take over all of Ukraine though. They will break the AFU fighting capacity, and then leave western Ukraine to become Europe’s problem I imagine. At that point, Europe is gonna be stuck with a non viable state that will require billions to prop up, and if they don’t do that then they’re gonna have a huge refugee crisis on their hands. Millions of Ukrainian nationalists, who will feel betrayed, flooding in is really the worst possible case scenario for Europe.

I think that’s exactly what it is, Trump is banking on peeling Russia away from China based on “christian values” or some shit. He’s going to be sorely disappointed.

It’s basically a wildlife preserve at this point https://theconversation.com/chernobyl-has-become-a-refuge-for-wildlife-33-years-after-the-nuclear-accident-116303

at what point would you say that was the case? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

It’s frankly incredible to watch how some people are simply unable to learn from past experience.

almost certainly

The whole point of ActivityPub is that you don’t need multiple accounts on different servers. You can use your Lemmy account to talk to people on Mastodon, browse PixelFed, watch PeerTube. Yes, there is sometimes lag in content propagating, and so on, but it’s clearly not a show stopper. My experience using Lemmy and Mastodon is the opposite of terrible.

Seems unlikely given that western Ukraine has a lot of anti-Russian sentiment. The most plausible scenario is that Russia will absorb parts of Ukraine that are pro Russian or neutral, and the rest will be gobbled up by Poland and Romania.

think you misspelled occupying there

It’s no more confusing than using email, and everybody managed to figure that out. You don’t need to know how the nitty gritty of it works. The network effects is a far bigger issue, as you point out, centralized platforms simply have far more content on them.

The betrayal narrative is very much gaining ground in Ukraine right now. Also worth noting how huge amounts of weapons have gone to the black market. One investigation found that only 30-40% of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination. The nazis in Ukraine have established lots of connections with far right cells across Europe, and that’s likely where a lot of these weapons ended up now.

The territory Russia occupies has been trying to separate from Ukraine for the past 8 years now, there isn’t going to be any insurgency there.

You’re right, the chip they leveraged isn’t actually that old. The key part is that we’re seeing a lot of optimizations happening in software space now that allows to use existing chips more efficiently.